Example sentences of "that [noun sg] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Glaxo has not produced any data about the effect of ranitidine on rats using Astra 's methods , but says there is no evidence that ranitidine promotes the formation of dangerous levels of gastrin at therapeutic doses .
2 If a minister clearly states the effect of a provision and there is no subsequent relevant amendment to the Bill or withdrawal of the statement it is reasonable to assume that Parliament passed the Bill on the basis that the provision would have the effect stated .
3 In my judgment there can be no doubt that , if Parliamentary privilege does not prohibit references to Hansard , the Parliamentary history shows that Parliament passed the legislation on the basis that the effect of sections 61 and 63 of the Act was to assess in-house benefits , and particularly concessionary education for teachers ' children , on the marginal cost to the employer and not on the average cost .
4 But Lord Donaldson said he did not interpret the power in the 1981 Broadcasting Act to mean that Parliament intended the home secretary to have authority either covertly to censor programmes or to require the broadcasting authorities to present news programmes other than with due impartiality and accuracy .
5 If the body exercising the power has been established especially for that purpose , the courts are likely to conclude that Parliament intended the body to act personally .
6 It is difficult to think that Parliament intended the section to operate so capriciously and I would not construe it in that sense unless clearly constrained to do so by the statutory language .
7 One hopes that reading it may have good effects , of the kind described by Wordsworth in the 1800 Preface , or more succinctly summed up by Lewis in the conclusion to An Experiment in Criticism , where he says that literature heals the wound without undermining the privilege of individuality .
8 A fresh listening to the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon debates is enough to rekindle the exaggerated sense of urgency then felt that Communism represented the wave of the future , as its adherents had prophesied .
9 Social historians tend to support the view that industrialisation destroyed the apprenticeship system .
10 There is no question that Ministry stole the show at Lollapalooza .
11 Simmel concludes this section of his Philosophy with an argument that money represents the end point of that cultural process which may be described as the reduction of quality to quantity , a line of argument which was to prove particularly influential in later traditions of Western Marxism .
12 So far , one survey has clearly suggested that smoking makes the skin wrinkle sooner , but research seems to have stopped there .
13 The child , Beryl , was born and everybody seemed content except that gossip insisted the child was not Edwin 's . ’
14 Two highly productive lines of research demonstrate that ginseng increases the efficiency both of adrenal cortical reactions to stress , and of the production of energy during exhaustive physical work .
15 Lukács claimed that labour became the model for any social practice .
16 However , if the sun were to shrink until it was only a few miles across , the bending would be so great that light leaving the sun would not get away but would be dragged back by the sun 's gravitational field .
17 M. W. Eysenck ( 1982 ) reviews 49 such studies , most of which are compatible with the idea that arousal reduces the range of cues utilized .
18 Ruth took to Mrs Taylor the moment that lady opened the door .
19 Suppose , for the sake of argument , it happened to be the case that marriage weakened the power of a priest to influence his flock , say because it occupied a large proportion of his time and attention .
20 ‘ Some people have also said that laughter helps the body release chemicals in the brain that are our own internal morphine supplies .
21 They may well limit the uses to which property may be put and hence affect its value , even to the point where owners may prefer not to allow it to be used at all ; but they do not alter the fact that ownership confers the licence to use , or not to use .
22 I think it 's an old wives ' tale that make-up ruins the skin .
23 It 's an old wives ' tale that make-up ruins the skin
24 I would like to suggest that poetry helps the writer to learn about three things .
25 It is well known that HARPY avoided the combinatorics of breadth-first search by an advantageous structuring of the search space .
26 Supporters of the NBA say that Dillons ' experiment proves nothing , their key objection being that , since there was no corresponding monitoring of a similarly promoted sample of full price titles , the finding that discounting grows the market is dubious .
27 The civil libertarians argue that testing permits the employer to delve deeply into an employee 's personal life ; a specimen can be analysed , without the subject 's knowledge , to reveal confidential medical conditions , such as epilepsy or pregnancy .
28 The twin moves by a company that previously described itself as an out-and-out , dyed-in-the-wool Unix bigot with great hopes for the MIPS RISC chip must leave the rest of the Unix community at least edgy despite the fact that Corollary says the bulk of its energies are still directed toward Unix .
29 It is sometimes claimed that stylometry enables the scholar to identify the fingerprint of an author , a stylistic criterion , or set of criteria , which can be used to determine with certainty questions of disputed authorship .
30 It is not difficult to find among them ample illustrations of Ruskin 's dictum that architecture reflects the life of the society around it .
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