Example sentences of "[to-vb] that [prep] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The infant was at once created Prince of Wales , to indicate that in Jacobite eyes he was the real heir to the throne of England , and the Young Pretender was soon to become universally known as Bonnie Prince Charlie . |
| 2 | I believe , therefore , that Rousseau was right to look with apprehension on the fragmentation of society into a collection of interest groups , and to see that in such circumstances it is all too easy for the general interest , the good of the community as a whole , to be lost sight of . |
| 3 | He was astute enough to see that in some ways they shared the same experiences . |
| 4 | Of course , so few are aware of his background and he being , shall we say , a little unorthodox in his dealings with people , never seems to think of it or to realize that in some circles it might be of — of help to him . |
| 5 | We have to remember that in many cases it was , ironically , only accidental hardening by destructive fires that preserved caches of clay tablets as samples of the Minoan scripts . |
| 6 | We asked after Pop and were glad to hear that at that time he was still well . |
| 7 | The second , which has only one complete sentence out of six units bounded by full stops , very clearly does make sense ( at least it seems fair to predict that for most people it will ) . |
| 8 | One set of interviews , with the literary editors of national newspapers , was carried out using half a dozen ‘ topic headings ’ simply to ensure that at each interview I covered the ground I had decided beforehand was important for my purpose . |
| 9 | ‘ I ask you to believe that in normal circumstances he would not behave like that , but he is still not quite himself … the death of his friend , you know … ’ |
| 10 | This view could be called cynical , but my experience leads me to believe that in most situations we are preoccupied with ourselves and our own agendas . |
| 11 | One of the dangers of majoritarianism is that majorities are always apt to forget that in another context they might constitute a minority . |
| 12 | This research has been expounded at some length here to demonstrate that despite some limitations it is informed by a relatively subtle and complex analysis . |
| 13 | After all , the postclassical position recognises that variability in human criminal motivations plays a part in accounting for the prevalence of crimes : it would not be too damaging to the overall position to allow that in some cases it plays the major part ( provided that the exceptions only constitute a tiny proportion of total crime — which would certainly be the case with sexual abuse of children ) . |
| 14 | I have to confess that on many occasions I have had recourse to Hansard , of course only to check if my interpretation had conflicted with an express Parliamentary intention , but I can say that it does not take long to recall and assemble the relevant passages in which the particular section was dealt with in Parliament , nor does it take long to see if anything relevant was said . |
| 15 | ‘ If you 're going to stay with us , Antony , you 'll have to learn that in this household we do n't pay all that much attention to the courtesies . |
| 16 | I ought to explain that in this talk I am not attacking fundamentalism as such — I am in fact asking what are its strengths , weaknesses and challenges . |
| 17 | But I have to say that at that time I still did n't know , I had a good idea , that it was n't the man we were looking for but therefore he was still arrested and he was arrested on sus well for harbouring an escapee . |
| 18 | With the anti-roll bar up front , the car rolls less than it used to and has a jigglier low-speed ride , but it 's true to say that on all models I drove the quality of ride was largely good . |
| 19 | I think it is fair to say that in practical terms you are likely to get substantial life out of the tool before the original battery is spent , perhaps several years . |
| 20 | At this point I need to say that in this paper I am concentrating on the bad object relations that can exist between workers and managers . |
| 21 | Suffice it to say that in some circumstances they authorise treatment despite the objections of the patient , whether minor or adult . |
| 22 | I have to admit that at this stage I was still wondering if this was just one of those gimmicky fashions that organizations , educational as well as industrial , go through occasionally . |
| 23 | The validity of such first destination statistics as a general measure of graduate employment will be discussed in Chapter 3 , and it is important to note that in this case they did not cover the colleges/institutes of higher education , which produce significant numbers of ‘ arts ’ graduates who have relatively high unemployment rates . |