Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] [vb infin] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , it is not general practice to confirm or deny that nuclear tests are about to take place . |
| 2 | The behaviourist theory of knowledge says that for someone , S , to know or believe that some proposition p is true is for S to be disposed to behave in some way which is supposed to be appropriate to the world 's being as p says . |
| 3 | ‘ They 're going to try and get that other door open , ’ she told me . |
| 4 | To verify or disprove that therapeutic vaccines can induce an anti-HIV immune response of such a kind that it has clinical , positive consequences ; and |
| 5 | A few Atlanticists , as one might term the doubters , decline to recognize or admit that such things exist . |
| 6 | While such large molar masses are now taken for granted , it was difficult in 1920 to believe and accept that these values were real and not just caused by the aggregation of much smaller molecules . |
| 7 | I think that there is every reason to suppose and hope that that kind of approach is what most people want and er even er Mr Bush and Mrs Thatcher and others have said that er the last thing they want is a war . |
| 8 | Amis nudged along his suburban ensemble with typically unhurried assurance , but he did n't seem to notice or care that each character spoke the same jocular bloke-in-the-pub idiom : long , broken-backed sentences that thrive on small qualifications . |
| 9 | No-one is suggesting that the forecast famine will be transformed into a flush but auctioneers anticipate prices being so strong they will be impossible to ignore and predict that reasonable numbers of finished steers and bulls will be pulled on to the market . |
| 10 | I could only sit and marvel that some things are the same the world over . |