Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] that [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was irritated to find that one essential item at least was missing , and made a mental note to have someone telephone for it immediately . |
| 2 | In the first place they may want to do no more than ensure that the Constitution is not altered casually or carelessly or by subterfuge or implication ; they may want to secure that this important document is not lightly tampered with , but solemnly , with due notice and deliberation , consciously amended . |
| 3 | I think the public wants to know that all those people , and their families , who suffered in the war will be looked after for the rest of their lives . ’ |
| 4 | We want to ensure that all local taxpayers reap these benefits . |
| 5 | Attempts have been made to control parasitic bronchitis by grazing systems designed to ensure that young susceptible cattle are not exposed to large numbers of infective larvae . |
| 6 | He has to recognise that this young woman , his object of adoration , was born to a mother who had been driven to murder . |
| 7 | This is a figure included to ensure that all three methods yield identical results which , of course , they should do in principle , but which they invariably fail to do in practice because of errors and omissions which arise through imperfect data collection . |
| 8 | The fall of Thomas Cromwell the following year helped to ensure that this conservative statement of faith remained in force until Henry 's death . |
| 9 | At their recent meeting the Parish Council were disturbed to find that both these bills have increased substantially . |
| 10 | Lord Lane CJ added : [ o ] ne hesitates to suggest that different legal considerations might apply according to whether the proceedings are taking place in the civil rather than the criminal courts and we do not do so . |
| 11 | Only if the Westminster Government and its back-benchers are made to believe that this continuing insult to a noble and valuable aspect of Scotland 's heritage will cost them crucial votes will they even begin to take serious notice . |
| 12 | This is done to ensure that each local authority will reach a minimum standard of efficiency and carry out the service in accordance with the wishes of the Central Government . |
| 13 | ‘ Realistic ’ seems to mean negotiation acceptable to the FMLN and to the Salvadorean army , which would have to participate to ensure that any subsequent deal should stick . ’ |
| 14 | Among the criticisms levelled at the Nordhaus model is the assumption it contains that voters are systematically ‘ fooled ’ : they do not appear to learn that costly post-election recession follows beneficial pre-election boom . |
| 15 | It seemed to say that all this inconvenience had ended well and she , Mrs Browning , had after all gained more than she had lost . |
| 16 | And Mozart … well , suffice to say that this excellent programme makes great musical sense — and delight ! |
| 17 | I emphasise this point because popular topographical books still tend to suggest that any particular place is sited where it is for defence reasons , or because it is near a source of water . |
| 18 | I do not want to suggest that all this work fell into such simple methodological traps as that I have described above , though I suspect that much of it did . |
| 19 | They are not intended to suggest that any given product does no harm whatsoever to the environment . |
| 20 | The practice of editors varies substantially , and these points are intended to suggest that some simple changes could improve the ways in which they communicate about the process and their decisions . |
| 21 | Figure 6.1 Experiments are needed to confirm that any particular structure of behaviour pattern functions as a signal . |
| 22 | In the past , we have tended to assume that these first descriptions of blocks of land and their bounds were very close in date to the original definition of such estates or territories . |
| 23 | More recent evidence , whilst not addressing this issue directly , tends to suggest that this desired relationship is still important . |
| 24 | What is needed to ensure that some popular control can be exerted over political leadership , some governmental accountability can be enforced ? |
| 25 | The slow evolution of select committee work has helped to ensure that both these obstacles have been surmounted . |
| 26 | But as time goes on , you begin to realise that all these things do tie in . ’ |
| 27 | The word " design " , when used in common English , tends to imply that some creative activity is taking place . |
| 28 | Now if we are going to say that this rolling programme , we we do n't mean this rolling programme because it it 's all going back to committees again to be to be looked at then we are putting our at a disadvantage they will disband and the cost to us for refurbishment will increase . |
| 29 | ‘ It is more important than ever that we manage to make that little extra effort and get into the top flight . |
| 30 | It was , again , an unsatisfactory solution , and Freud began to see that these earlier conceptualizations could only be used for a limited number of problems which arose in psychoanalysis , and that a new , more fundamental conceptualization was required . |