Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [to-vb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It took as its theme part of the statement made by the Labour and Socialist International with regard to national United Fronts : Past experience goes to show that such negotiations in individual countries may unfortunately only too easily be turned into manoeuvres by the Communists , with the result that they help to poison the situation and increase the mistrust in the Labour Movement instead of diminishing it .
2 Any devout follower of Sigmar is allowed a WP test to sense that this chamber is unlike the rest of the Castle , somehow more wholesome ( Cleric of Sigmar +20 , Initiate of Sigmar +10 ) .
3 He was then involved in civil defence and he took me to see a trial designed to show that air-raid shelters built to government specifications were death-traps .
4 The examples used above to demonstrate particular approaches or methods tend to suggest that each problem has a neat and unequivocal solution .
5 So , as they had done with the relations of production , Marx and Engels tried to show that this state of affairs was not inevitable , but the product of a specific historical development .
6 Wright has to realise that certain behaviour can cost a player their place . ’
7 The people who used this vile slander seemed to believe that any kind of troubled , troubling music , anything introspective or tragic , was self-indulgent wallowing .
8 However , this need not be too serious an objection , and the fact that native speakers seem to think that this transcription fits better with their feelings about the language is a good argument in its favour .
9 People are not born with a repressed set of experiences , but they acquire them , although at times Freud seems to suggest that some parts of the repressed material of earlier generations is inherited .
10 ‘ Continuing contact with interior designers and clients helps to ensure that each item is exactly produced to requirements . ’
11 In the great tradition of British travel writers , he has already sailed the Atlantic in a leather boat trying to prove that Irish monks could have reached America 1,000 years before Columbus .
12 Schools need to ensure that all pupils , irrespective of their backgrounds , have an equal opportunity to achieve the attainment targets .
13 In a statement , he said : ‘ People in the force have to appreciate that equal opportunities policies mean just that .
14 There is no reason why a child has to know that some life forms became extinct in order to be able to measure variations between living organisms , nor is there any clear difference in difficulty between these two statements .
15 Most of the companies appear to believe that further productivity increases were possible in the audit .
16 It is one of the privileges of a councillor in a council meeting to see that other members obey standing orders .
17 Reynolds seemed to realise that such objections could go on for ever , so he said , ‘ Yes .
18 The Council undertakes to ensure that future changes in these terms will be entered in theses documents , or otherwise recorded for you to refer to , within 28 days of the change .
19 Imagine his surprise when reading the article on the Benson Bf 109G in your July issue to find that this aircraft was in fact one of ‘ his ’ !
20 Further work began to suggest that palaeomagnetic data supported the model of continental drift proposed by Wegener although there were initial uncertainties over the accuracy of the technique .
21 The responsibility which parents have to ensure that sexual acts do not take place between themselves and their children is surely not confined to sexual intercourse .
22 Blacks need to realise that affirmative action can not solve their most serious problems , whites need to remember that affirmative action does not make it an advantage to be born black .
23 ‘ We work closely with the organisers of the familiarisation trips to ensure that Historic Scotland sites are featured prominently in their itineraries . ’
24 A careful division of labour within the team sought to ensure that most aspects of the programme ( with notable omissions referred to in previous chapters ) would be effectively managed .
25 On waste , the government intends to introduce a system of credits designed to ensure that local authorities get on target to meet the goal of 25 per cent recycling of household waste by 2000 .
26 1820 Alter all the labour of " obtaining pint and choppin standard measure out of Stirling castle , which have been proven & marked by the Dean of Guild of Stirling as correct , some of members of this meeting ventured to say that these jugs are composed of tin , and easily dimpled , whereas they are composed of the strongest sheet copper tinned within to prevent corrosion .
27 Gradually , however , governments came to feel that second-best considerations could not be ignored .
28 In addition , research on large lexicons seemed to imply that lexicon-based constraints could constrain the identity of a word on the basis of very little phonemic information .
29 Sometimes Althusser seems to imply that different histories may range through different modes of production , at other times it appears that they are specific to each , an effect of the overdetermination of the social formation .
30 Only a certain number of eggs can be incubated efficiently , and each female in the group tries to ensure that those eggs are hers .
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