Example sentences of "that a [noun sg] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For XOOX , on the other hand , the species is the only one that contains a mixture of isotopes , so that a sample made from scrambled dioxygen will give three peaks rather than four , and six peaks . |
| 2 | Polis life was further advanced there — Pindar speaks of ‘ the cities ’ of the Aleuads — and Greek inscriptions go back to earlier dates ( extant ones start c .550 , L. H. Jeffery ( 1961 ) Local Scripts of Archaic Greece , p. 98 , no. 1 , a sacred law ; and Pausanias ( x. 16 ) says that a statue dedicated by a Thessalian called Echekratidas was the first dedication ever made at Delphi ) . |
| 3 | In many cases , the community 's total landholdings were divided , so that a share known as the mensa ( " the table " ) was earmarked for the community 's maintenance , the rest being available for the lay-abbot 's management and the king 's service . |
| 4 | It is not in my view surprising that a principle enunciated in relation to the rigours of seafaring life during the Napoleonic wars should be subjected during the succeeding 180 years to a process of refinement and limitation in its application in the present day . |
| 5 | He said that a levy assessed on arrears could not work because of the problem of defining arrears and basing the levy on the amount outstanding was unfair because of the different types of debt such as an £80,000 mortgage or £100 weekly collection . |
| 6 | ( a ) he is not guilty of murder by reason only of the fact that a defence provided by s.56 ( diminished responsibility ) , 58 ( provocation ) or 59 ( use of excessive force ) applies ; or |
| 7 | We have seen that a contract made during an unsolicited visit is cancellable . |
| 8 | increase agreement reached at the end of June , 1973 , and if it be right to regard this as having been reached under a kind of duress in the form of economic pressure , then what is said in Chitty on Contracts ( 24th ed. ) , para. 442 , to which both counsel referred me , is relevant , namely that a contract entered into under duress is voidable and not void |
| 9 | is convinced that a contract signed has to be honoured . |
| 10 | It became clear , for example , that a contract signed without the artist having had independent legal advice was virtually unenforceable . |
| 11 | It suggests that a society based on meritocratic principles may not be well integrated . |
| 12 | Thus McNair , writing in the post-Charter era , asserted that a State that becomes aware that a treaty concluded between other States will impair its rights can make diplomatic protests and , if it can establish jurisdiction , commence proceedings before the International Court , or take other steps in pursuance of a peaceful settlement to the dispute . |
| 13 | The corporation may argue that a direction given to it by the National Rivers Authority to improve water is unreasonable . |
| 14 | The argument is often that a classification designed in the South ( no matter what alterations exist for Shetland ) does not take specifically local conditions and local interests into account . |
| 15 | Imagine that a razor supplied by manufacturer A in February 1989 is bought from a retailer in June 1991 and when used in July 1991 cuts the user 's face when slid sideways across it . |
| 16 | I seem to recall that a gentleman called T. Dan Smith was also involved at that time and that he was not a Conservative . |
| 17 | What he most enjoyed were the historical investigations , the satisfaction of demonstrating , as he had only last month , that a document dated 1872 was printed on paper containing chemical wood-pulp which was first used in 1874 , a discovery which had initiated a fascinating unravelling of complicated documentary fraud . |
| 18 | Our GP told me that a drug called Dexamethazone , although in no way a cure , would probably help Nigel 's state of mind by reducing the pressure of the growth on his brain . |
| 19 | The issue of standards of evidence arises now because of a case just argued before the US Supreme Court over whether data do or do not support the allegation that a drug called Bendectin , once widely prescribed to prevent morning sickness in pregnant women , causes limb deformities in newborn babies . |
| 20 | Last week The Northern Echo disclosed details of a document suggesting that a company run by TEC chairman Les Bell was hoping to pay a school leaver £29.50 for a 50 hour week . |
| 21 | It is true that ethical values are to an extent also transmitted through markets , with the effect that a company committed to profit maximisation can not afford to ignore the impact of its activities on others . |
| 22 | Will the right hon. Gentleman now acknowledge that a system based on the highest bid was always likely to undermine the quality and variety of British television ? |
| 23 | Kenneth Baker has decreed that all new cable systems must be compatible , so that a system laid in one part of the country will interface with the systems laid in other parts . |
| 24 | This interpretation has proved to be compatible with other results , including the finding that a click located near the end of a clause tends to elicit longer reaction times than a click located at the beginning of a clause ( Abrams and Bever , 1969 ) . |
| 25 | The galaxies may continue to recede from each other but , under the influence of the Universe 's own gravity , begin to slow down and then start to come towards each other again — in exactly the same way , and for exactly the same reason , that a ball thrown into the air will slow and then return to the ground . |
| 26 | Taunton J. adds the point that a release given to one of two joint contractors enures to the benefit of both . |
| 27 | In some earlier relations , notably those of the productive post-artisanal and the market professional , it indeed quite often happened that a work originated in a commission , from a bookseller or publisher . |
| 28 | If she was an innocent abroad , her parents considered that a life cocooned in an all-girls school was hardly adequate preparation for the bright lights of the big city . |
| 29 | Lord Hailsham , a former Lord Chancellor , said it was paradoxical that a Government dedicated to privatisation should produce a bill whose object was to nationalise the judiciary and the legal profession . |
| 30 | ‘ . The absence of the papers meant that a man convicted of abandoning and ill-treating a prize greyhound could not be sentenced . |