Example sentences of "[to-vb] [that] this [noun] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only within the last few years have doctors begun to realize that this microbe can cause disease . |
| 2 | Clements ( 1978 ) goes so far as to suggest that this Act may precipitate the demise of agricultural tied cottages . |
| 3 | But even if we assume that it is sound at an abstract philosophical level , it would be extremely dubious to assert that this theory can justify our present practices of punishment or anything like them . |
| 4 | The sentence reads , the Council instructs the executive committee , to take whatever steps it considers necessary to ensure that this Council shall employ at least underlined , the minimum legally required number of disabled people . |
| 5 | To suppose that this century can fix the definition of democracy or , even more arrogantly , that it is in this century that democracy has been finally and definitively realized , is to be blind not only to the probabilities of the future but also to the certainties of the past . |
| 6 | It would be only natural to suppose that this order should apply not only to the laws , but also to the conditions at the boundary of space-time that specify the initial state of the universe . |
| 7 | on , it was equally if not more dreadful to him to think that this successor might treat the emirs ‘ as superiors — as Royalties ’ , thereby incurring ‘ their astonished contempt that the King 's representative — the conquering dynasty — should so behave ’ . |
| 8 | The proposal document went on to say that this evaluation would require analysis of : |
| 9 | The Second Symphony is a work that wears well and suffice it to say that this newcomer can hold its head high in this company . |
| 10 | The surgeon was forced to admit that this operation would leave Dawn paralysed and wheelchair-bound for the rest of her life . |