Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christians are meant not only to believe in Jesus , but to know that we have eternal life ( 5:13 ) and it is the task of the Spirit to bring this quiet confidence home to us . |
| 2 | We like to know that we have financial security , family security and health security . |
| 3 | But it hurt , damn it , to know that anyone held that opinion of her . |
| 4 | Writing appears to demand that they use muscular movements which are not natural to them . |
| 5 | With more nitrogen , less condensed tannin and less enzyme inhibition in the young leaves of Shorea compared with Eugenia , it is not surprising to discover that they suffered more damage . |
| 6 | It was a very great shock to me to discover that I had motor neurone disease . |
| 7 | Recognising that relocation may have a worse effect on married staff than on single workers , it is not unusual to find that they receive higher allowances . |
| 8 | They stared at each other in silence for a moment , surprised to find that they shared some fragment of a common cause : the unsolved mysteries that troubled them both , though twenty years and half a world apart , were somehow one and the same . |
| 9 | She opened a small round leather box to find that it contained tiny gold collar studs and several pairs of cuff links . |
| 10 | You are likely to find that you need more fillings when you visit the dentist . |
| 11 | People like me in the past used to rail that we had commercial enterprises using the college . |
| 12 | It will be shown in a later chapter that there seems to be no evidence to indicate that he held that post before holding the kazaskerlik , while there is positive evidence that he held it after holding the kazaskerlik . |
| 13 | Owners of contaminated houses want to know if they have any comeback , those of houses which are not contaminated want the ban on their properties lifted immediately . |
| 14 | He wanted to know if I knew this George Paston . |
| 15 | ‘ Now I also want to know if you keep any sort of diary or engagement book yourself . ’ |
| 16 | Bill says it was apparently done by some lunatic for reasons unknown , but he wants to know if you have any information about it that he does n't have . ’ |
| 17 | We also wanted to know if anybody had any views on I mean it . |
| 18 | Mr Millan was pressed by Dennis Canavan ( Lab , Falkirk W ) , who wanted to know if he saw any scope in the campaign for a Scottish parliament for EC intervention on subsidiarity — devolving decision-making powers from Brussels to national governments . |
| 19 | For some reason or other , ever since the last meeting with Leon Shelly in the hotel lobby , and my introduction to Hellen Semmens , my interest in Shelly Films seemed to increase and I found several occasions on which to ring Hellen about arrangements for the further use of CBC announcers . |
| 20 | For disaster narrowly averted and for disaster to come if she showed any mercy . |
| 21 | ‘ When I bought the VF I left it completely standard because I wanted to establish if I had any talent . |
| 22 | Individuals have little incentive to innovate unless they have some way of sharing in the value which they have created . |
| 23 | It 's got to be important to the child so that he needs to know whether he means four times two-plus-one or four-times-two plus one , whichever way it is . |
| 24 | Jessica and Karen , under the eyes of Mrs Roberts , had booked a taxi , and had had to take a farewell brandy with Mr Roberts while it waited , in case he should have gone to work before they rose next morning . |
| 25 | We in the world campaign which has so far tried to stop armaments to South Africa and its nuclear build up we want to work if possible to build a common security er , arrangement in the region where peace will be everywhere if we can make it everywhere because the region has got so many weapons and arms and military expenditure is very easy to increase when you have growing number of nation states where the people really need food and development . |
| 26 | She was pleasantly surprised to see that we use real food and the only cheating is to under-cook it , sometimes brushing it with oil or water to keep it moist . |
| 27 | Closer to them , it was possible to make out individual characteristics ; to see that they had trailing leaves instead of hair and huge , reaching branches instead of arms . |
| 28 | In other words to see that they get more benefit for the effort that they put into it . |
| 29 | I promise the Hon. Gentleman that no trust hospitals will be created without those hospitals first agreeing to the totality of their obligations and without their being monitored thereafter to see that they fulfil those obligations . |
| 30 | I was moved to see that she had absolute faith in my goodwill , for she took the bag without glancing at the contents . |