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

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 They found that supplementation reduced the total cell proliferation although in contrast with our results , vitamin C did not change the upward shift of the proliferative zone .
7 At the same time he reflects the important belief that Ho Chi Minh was first and foremost a Vietnamese nationalist even though in his next sentence Moffat said ‘ He was also a communist and believed that communism offered the best hope for the Vietnamese people . ’
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 Anthropologists , in tracing the evolution of Homo sapiens from more primitive quadruped simian species , assumed that bipedalism facilitated the free use of hands from their role in locomotion .
12 The child , Beryl , was born and everybody seemed content except that gossip insisted the child was not Edwin 's . ’
13 It was to meet cases of this kind that Equity invented the great remedies of specific performance and injunction : specific performance to compel a man actually to do what he has promised — to give you the land in return for the money , to pay you the purchase money in return for the land ; injunction to forbid him to do what he has promised not to do or what he has no right to do — to forbid him to open the public house or the music-school , to forbid him to build so as to block up your light , even to compel him to pull down the objectionable wall ; the last sort of injunction is called mandatory .
14 Lukács claimed that labour became the model for any social practice .
15 It also seems likely that unemployment and other social problems contributed further to the view that Labour offered the only alternative to the failures of capitalism — no matter how illusory that viewpoint may have been .
16 An Opposition spokesman , the hon. Member for Dewsbury ( Mrs. Taylor ) , said at Labour 's party conference that Labour introduced the Clean Air Act 1956 .
17 Ruth took to Mrs Taylor the moment that lady opened the door .
18 In his address to more than 2,000 delegates , the King said that pluralism remained the only guarantee against dictatorship , adding that " there is not a single party that can claim to possess the truth " .
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 He felt that Jeopardy coaxed the best out of him .
21 It is well known that HARPY avoided the combinatorics of breadth-first search by an advantageous structuring of the search space .
22 Some would say that Habitat used the two per cent to great effect in creating a unique style of goods that appealed to the popular taste .
23 Moreover , it is also possible that management took the view that unskilled workers could be controlled more easily than skilled workers because they had less powerful union backing , and that they could be replaced more easily because there was a bigger pool of labour to draw from .
24 At the Feb. 12 enlarged politburo meeting , Jiang conveyed Deng 's remarks that reform represented the only future for socialism in China , and that there was no need to fear capitalism as some parts of it could be " useful " .
25 When Friends of the Earth researched the tapwater survey of England and Wales run in the Observer in 1989 , they found that lead exceeded the legal limit in a far larger and more widely distributed number of supplies than had previously been supposed .
26 The fact that theGovernment created the weakness in the economy , that 's the main charge of incompetence .
27 The idea that industrialization created the relatively isolated nuclear family has been very influential in the sociology of the family and has stimulated a wide range of studies , many of which have been critical .
28 We are not surprised that water became the symbol of baptism because of its associations with ordinary things like washing and refreshment .
29 Sartre never broaches the question of the other crimes committed by Stalin ( which is just as well in view of the way the argument is going ) nor does he address the obvious problem that his own identification of Stalin as the practical Marxist of specificities against Trotsky 's abstract universalism runs directly counter to the fact that Stalinism produced the most clear-cut example of a Marxism which internalized an abstract schema within itself .
30 I think that knowledge tipped the scales .
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