Example sentences of "that [subord] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was decided in regard to the applicant Handscomb was that where the first review date predicated an equivalent determinate sentence well in excess of that which could have been imposed under established sentencing practice , there was impugnable unreasonableness . |
| 2 | And it struck me straight away that although the twentieth century as it marched on made us look more and more like Americans , we are Europeans , we always have been Europeans , our roots are there , our culture 's there and of course in the late twentieth century our economic needs , and the geographical links , the electronic links mean that we are there whether we like it or not . |
| 3 | The study now reported began with the author recognising from an examination of the name ‘ Forsey ’ that although the second syllable had obviously developed from the Anglo-Saxon haeg ( with the noun prefix ge ) and the Middle English hei/hey , meaning enclosure , it seemed unlikely that the first syllables fors and furs were descended from the same root word , and the fact that Dr Reaney had cited widely separated counties for their ( rather late ) emergence was a further slight pointer . |
| 4 | It was thought , on the contrary , that if the first car should break down — and if the people knew whom it contained — there would be a spontaneous outburst of healthy anger . |
| 5 | Is it not the case , as was pointed out at the time of the French Revolution by the Abbé Sieyes , that if the second chamber agrees with the first it is superfluous and if it disagrees it is mischievous ? |
| 6 | The basic rule is that if the second syllable of the verb contains a long vowel or diphthong , or if it ends with more than one consonant , that second syllable is stressed . |
| 7 | She argued that if the second statement in a pair contained a negative then it would be more natural for the meaning of the two statements to be different , whereas if the two statements were both affirmative it would be more natural for the two statements to have the same meaning . |
| 8 | He said that if the second stage of his fight to prosecute Dr Howe failed , he would take it to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg . |
| 9 | Of course the pace of the game will be different , the level of skills much lower , but you can bet your granny 's pension that if the second team game need a thumping tackle to be made , then Peter Winterbottom would make it . |
| 10 | He sometimes felt that if the last bomb fell , blowing to pieces all the anxious and tentative opinions and reflections of mankind , there would still be , booming on among the wreckage , his father-in-law 's assured and confident voice . |
| 11 | We have seen that since the Second World War , there have been attempts by structuralists and Marxists to make English more ‘ objective ’ : attempts which , I would suggest , have not been particularly successful in penetrating the teaching of English in higher education . |
| 12 | Now it 's true that since the second world war all wars have been limited in one sense or another , but then comes the question , if you do , in fact , succeed in defining objectives er and de in defining the means to those objectives , how can you know in fact that you possess genuine capability without putting it to the test , without actually fighting the war and then finding that you can not win it ? |
| 13 | It does seem that since the last investigation certain development work , " Minerall Adventures , " had been carried out and it is possible that this was in progress at that time . |
| 14 | He examined the problems of ‘ How Did We Get This Way — And Where Are We Going ? ’ , arguing that since the last war Britain especially has presented management with a host of entirely new problems . |
| 15 | As to the three first designs it must be recollected that while the first prize for the Foreign Office was awarded to Messrs. Coe and Hofland , yet they did not compete for the War Office again , while in the opinion of Mr. Burn and that of the assessors , Messrs. Banks and Barry stood first in merit for the Foreign Office ; yet , according to the same opinion , they were unsuccessful for the War Office , while Mr. Scott stood second both for one and the other . |
| 16 | ( b ) Where in addition there is a second charge If the former matrimonial home to be conveyed or transferred to the wife is subject to both a first and second charge it may be that whilst the first mortgagee is prepared to release the husband , upon having a direct covenant by the wife , the second mortgagee is not so agreeable . |
| 17 | They say that before the first human was born the seven celestial sisters — the Nymphs of the Pleiades — using their sarongs as wings , used to descend to a sacred pool in Bali to bathe naked in the waters of the world . |
| 18 | It was decided that before the last section of the barrier was breached , a test hole would be bored and if the gases flowed through to the men , the hole would be sealed and some other means of rescue sought . |
| 19 | Is the right hon. Gentleman prepared to say whether he thinks that before the next election these figures will improve , or will they get even worse ? |
| 20 | He argues that after the Second World War central government depended heavily on local government for the implementation of its policies on welfare . |
| 21 | In fact , the rise of separatist and ethnic agitations is partly due to the fact that , contrary to common belief , the principle of state-creation since the second world war , unlike that after the first world war , had nothing to do with Wilsonian national self-determination . |
| 22 | The Secretary of State made it clear that after the first application to the local review committee there should , before he ordered release , be a further consultation with the judges ‘ to satisfy the requirements of the section . ’ |
| 23 | It was held that when the first vehicle parked it was not done so ‘ as to cause ’ an unnecessary obstruction . |
| 24 | And Thomas and John Smith , who I 've just mentioned were actually a split family , Thomas Smith was erm so loyal that when the first round of parliament , sorry , when the first Royalist troops came into Oxford , he , as a J P prosecuted some of the citizens who tried to stop them blocking down Botley Bridge as a defence measure . |
| 25 | It will be argued that when the second source is threatened as well as the first , the power to coerce can devolve on the civil sphere in a substantive way . |
| 26 | It was obvious and natural that as the last report had dealt mostly with the more able pupils so its successor should focus upon the needs of the pupils of average and below-average ability — that 50 per cent of all pupils , in other words , who gave the Report its title , Half Our future . |