Example sentences of "that [noun] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carver knew for a fact that Hauser had a collection of Roosevelt film clips , that he studied them to perfect the famous American president 's mannerisms . |
| 2 | From this it followed , among other things , that molecules had a shape in three-dimensional space , and the brilliant German chemist Kekule ( 1829–96 ) , in the very Victorian situation of a passenger sitting on top of a London bus in 1865 , imagined the first of the complex structural molecular models , the famous benzene ring of six carbon atoms to each of which a hydrogen atom was attached . |
| 3 | Furthermore , absence of pain during cutting ( see below ) raises the possibility that endorphins have a role in the phenomenon . |
| 4 | David Ross Stewart , the chairman of ESII , said the board had examined a number of options to ensure that shareholders received a payment to reflect the value of the company 's liquid assets , while achieving a satisfactory long-term solution in respect of the unquoted portfolio . |
| 5 | It did , however , provide that the Agency , through investigation , could help to ensure that employers promoted equality of opportunity in employment but it did not provide that employers had a duty themselves to promote equality of opportunity in employment . |
| 6 | found that employers adopt a range of recruitment strategies in which educational qualifications are combined with other attributes to varying degrees . |
| 7 | The hope that this might indeed be the case was transparent in his face — so transparent that Edouard suppressed a smile . |
| 8 | We first visited Orkney in 1952 , on a family holiday , and I suspect that experience had a lot to do with stimulating my love of islands . |
| 9 | Offences committed by groups may well occasion greater fear than offences committed by individuals , and it may also be true that groups have a tendency to do things which individuals might not do : there is a group bravado , a group pressure , which may lead to excesses . |
| 10 | Until the early sixties Khomeini spent his life in the holy city of Qom , where he taught law , philosophy and ethics , insisting that Islam had a commitment to social and political causes and that Iran had to be independent of both Eastern and Western colonialism . |
| 11 | I dismiss the popular theory that goldfish have a memory of only nine seconds ' duration . |
| 12 | It was as they left the café that Kelly noticed a Lamborghini , bearing the number plate FAY 1 , badly parked outside a chemist 's shop on the High Street . |
| 13 | To say , in the abstract , that birds have a right to fly seems to me rather foolish if it be taken as saying more than that most birds fly naturally . |
| 14 | The SD in the industrial town of Schweinfurt in Lower Franconia reported complaints in March 1941 from the poorer sections of the population that badges bearing a picture of the Führer could only be obtained through a sizeable contribution to Winter Aid collectors , and that there were too few to satisfy the demand . |
| 15 | This tells us that Potnia had a sanctuary dedicated to her in some part of the Labyrinth at Knossos , since this temple — and only this one — was referred to in antiquity as the Labyrinth , at least as far as Crete was concerned . |
| 16 | Currently the United States does not have a droit de suite , a law that mandates that artists receive a percentage of the price of a work each time it changes hands . |
| 17 | However , it is clear that calcium has a multiplicity of effects within the cell , and there are other ways in which it can affect the synaptic membrane . |
| 18 | It recognises that money has a time value by discounting future cash flows at an appropriate discount rate . |
| 19 | Protestors are claiming that proposals to enlarge a trunk road are part of plans to build a new motorway . |
| 20 | Under these circumstances it was not surprising that Masailand developed a tradition of preternaturally forceful District Officers — men as tough and independent as the Masai themselves . |
| 21 | But why should it be that Peggy gets a lift from knowing that she has ‘ beaten ’ Boris ? |
| 22 | A bail hearing later heard that Atcheson carried a UDA card stating that he was entitled to collect for Loyalists Prisoners ' Aid . |
| 23 | Belfast Crown Court heard that Atcheson rang a Newtownbreda building site from a call box demanding £5,000 for the UDA 's Loyalist Prisoner Aid in return for guaranteed safety . |
| 24 | This consists of a set of rules expressing the author 's intention that readers construct a discourse situation taking place in a non-actual reference world , and involving a " substitute speaker " and a " substitute hearer " ( Chapter 4 ) . |
| 25 | I he fact that Ferri became a member of the Fascist movement in Italy is of concern to those who regard civil liberties as a fundamental aspect of criminal law . |
| 26 | It has also been claimed recently that Proconsul lacked a tail , as do extant hominoids , and that it had a relatively larger brain than comparably sized monkeys ( Box 2 ) , and there is now little doubt that Proconsul is phylogenetically linked with the Hominoidea . |
| 27 | It is a well known fact that designers plant a line of bollards when they do not know what to do . |
| 28 | I believed then and still believe now that schools make a difference . |
| 29 | It is therefore very important that schools provide a forum for employers to express and explain their concerns . |
| 30 | This is reinforced by Handy 's view that schools have a multiplicity of purposes and these are not discriminated between or prioritised , nor do they include any reference to the management of adults . |