Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other two cases are included primarily to emphasize that a wide variety of phenomena is contained within the Lorenz equations , although , since yet further variety can be obtained by varying r/r c and b , they can do so only by example . |
| 2 | Polls suggested that up to one in four Conservative MPs wanted her to go before the next general election : growing numbers of backbenchers were prepared openly to declare that the time had come for her to call it a day . |
| 3 | Last year , after publicity about Mead missing the English Schools Championships , the rule was amended slightly to say that a county champion could be excused missing the Inter Counties but no-one else . |
| 4 | In the course of the hearing , Bouchard was brought finally to admit that the abbot 's complaint was true . |
| 5 | Where the record is produced simply to show that a statement was made , not whether it is true . |
| 6 | All sperm is tested twice to ensure that there has not been an error in the initial testing . |
| 7 | Oliver was experienced enough to know that the promise was probably true . |
| 8 | The minister Nicholas Breton , for example , noted in 1603 that his parishioners ‘ came to service more for fashion than devotion ’ , while the preacher John Angier of Denton in Lancashire believed that his parishioners came ‘ for no other purpose but to sleep , as if the sabbath were made only to recover that sleep they have lost in the week ’ . |
| 9 | Many instructions are required just to specify that two numbers be divided . |
| 10 | It is difficult to believe that all the paraphernalia of sex is needed merely to ensure that males are not confused with females or males of another species : that could be achieved much more quickly and less colourfully . |
| 11 | Care is needed here to ensure that the interviewers ' questions do not get crossed . |
| 12 | But when one is dealing with associative use , we have to do with a binary distinction ; the adjective is introduced solely to indicate that its property , even though applicable to some other entity , is associated with the entity of its noun phrase , and here there are only two possible states — either the property is associated , in the view of the speaker , or it is not ( and of course by a slightly curious consequence of the communicational process , the state must always be the positive one , since if the property were not felt to be associated with that entity and needed for identification , then the adjective which designates that property would simply not appear ) . |