Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [verb] that [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am fascinated to notice that your profession has at last started not merely to say that , but to criticise those who refuse to allow so manifest a fact to be stated in order that it may be examined . |
| 2 | Special forms of segregated sheltered housing , and ultimately the old person 's residential home , ensure that older people are taught to feel that their lives are somehow different and separate from other age-groups . |
| 3 | This second misfortune seemed to revive her memories of the earlier time when she had been carrying his child and had been given to understand that her husband had been simultaneously carrying on an affair with some young army chauffeuse . |
| 4 | We have been given to understand that our forest of Chippenham around the place called ‘ Holloway ’ is so dense that malefactors are able to lie hid in those parts , and so travellers are threatened with frequent losses , and some incur peril of lives and goods there . |
| 5 | Clearance patrols are mounted to ensure that our area is clear of the enemy . |
| 6 | I am bound to say that his personality and his voice with his Glasgow accent were a little disconcerting at first ( I felt rather as if I were being addressed by my highly educated carpenter ) , but he inspired me with such confidence as he went on that I forgot that , and of course one has to recognise that a new era in political life has dawned for England , the old aristocratic school is practically swept out of it , it is the dawn of the new " regime " . |
| 7 | More and more Conservatives , in and out of the House , are coming to believe that their chances at the election would be stronger under a different leader . |
| 8 | ‘ We are gratified to see that our approach is endorsed . |
| 9 | As I get older I am coming to believe that our lives are planned before we are born … things happen so fast sometimes as you look back … you can see the pattern plain as day , where you took some turn , or events happened that you had nothing to do with . |
| 10 | Iago 's contempt for the new breed of Renaissance soldier , necessarily more technical given the increasingly scientific development of warfare in the sixteenth century , may be intended to show that his complaint is the predictable and irrelevant grumble of the old-fashioned soldier made obsolete by new technology . |
| 11 | That woman needed the poet ; a poem had to be written to ensure that her suffering , and that of numberless others , should not be dishonoured by silence . |
| 12 | It can not be too often repeated that there is no reason whatsoever why humanity should be made to believe that its religion must have origins in the literature and man-made traditions of the remote past . |
| 13 | Instead , all her warmth , her care and indeed her regal skills will be utilised to ensure that her grandchildren will inherit the respect that she once believed would come by right to her children . |
| 14 | Customs have set new guidelines and anyone bringing in more will be asked to confirm that their goods are not for reselling . |
| 15 | To many it seemed clear that if liberal capitalism ( of the sort advocated by Disraeli ) were not to be swept away by revolution , the largely illiterate workforce must be encouraged to believe that their welfare would be protected by the new rulers — the powerful middle class . |
| 16 | Many Republicans , including Bush , opposed the bill on the grounds that in order to avoid law suits alleging discrimination employers would be forced to ensure that their workforces corresponded to the racial composition of the local community . |
| 17 | Autocrats may start well intentioned ( few stay that way ) , but none should be allowed to claim that their pursuit of good economic goals is just one way of upholding their subjects ' human rights . |
| 18 | Do n't be tempted to think that your problems are over — now come the really difficult decisions . |
| 19 | Therefore , the bill placed the burden of proof upon employers , who could be required to show that their hiring procedures were rooted in business necessity . |
| 20 | As the mother of two sons myself , I now find my childhood reaction extreme , and am led to suspect that my separation anxiety originated some time before the birth of my sister . |
| 21 | Overseas members are asked to ensure that their remittance is in the form of a sterling draft drawn on a UK bank payable to the Institute of Actuaries . |
| 22 | Teachers are asked to ensure that their entries for the new class lists are brought up to date by the end of July . |
| 23 | Though I am forced to admit that his searches , like mine , would probably have been futile . ’ |
| 24 | A fragment of the poet Alcaeus ( 50 Diehl 27 Lobel-Page ) has been taken to imply that his brother Antimenides fought against a gigantic Jew during one of the two sieges of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar . |
| 25 | Freire has been forced to admit that his practice can only really work if other conditions are also present . |
| 26 | Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG now looks as if it is right down there in the corporate basket case category : after some three years of substantial losses , Siemens AG chairman Heinrich von Pierer now says that an effort is being made to ensure that its return to profit ‘ does n't take much longer than three years ; ’ its biggest problem is that the pain of customers starting to go stone cold on mainframes has scarcely begun yet in Germany . |
| 27 | Now it is approaching completion and return to steam and every effort is being made to ensure that his locomotive is operating in steam at the works Open Day on Sunday , September 27 . |
| 28 | They then said to their Dad that although they missed their Mum very much indeed , they were beginning to see that their Dad needed them around to have people to talk to about their Mum , and so now they were asking Jesus to make sure nothing else awful happened . |
| 29 | These were perceived as tools of management , [ who ] were only interested in productivity and in milking as much as possible out of their work force and were thus responded to by a work force who were determined to ensure that their rewards were as high as possible , and thus there was a perceived necessity to fool the time and motion man . |
| 30 | Dauntless Javelot , paladin of the Order of True Valiance , had been trying to deny that his faith was dying . |