Example sentences of "[to-vb] that [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am happy to accept that they did not know that the payment that they stood entitled to receive was limited by the list size criterion . |
| 2 | Odd-Knut — whose English was good enough to know that he did not want us to call him ‘ Odd ’ — suggested that he could leave us near the Finnish border and we could ski or walk the last bit . |
| 3 | In GEC 's Patent , the hearing officer held that the initial onus fell on the employer to establish that he did not benefit from obtaining a patent . |
| 4 | ‘ The woman was disgusted to find that we did not have a microwave oven for her to polish , and she has a doctor 's certificate to say she can not bend down . |
| 5 | It is acknowledged , however , that in its efforts to support the capitalist system , politically and economically , the capitalist state creates and expands public and social services only to find that it does not have the required resources to meet the growing cost of the public sector . |
| 6 | If on the other hand you specify the languages in advance , you may be leaving out a language group in which there are people who want to train that you did not know of . |
| 7 | The next time it rang he was so absorbed in the problem of getting the pistol to work that he did not notice it ; nor the next time either . |
| 8 | The Bank repeated its intervention just as the New York markets opened during the European lunchtime to signal that it did not want the American markets , closed since Friday night , to push the pound down further . |
| 9 | It would be disingenuous , even for those of us who take another view , to pretend that we do not know what made an intelligent British traditionalist like Enoch Powell call for a halt to mass immigration some 20 years ago , and what made British governments of both parties follow his lead . |
| 10 | This is a great pity ; the battle between these two paradigms , that of Galton and that of Binet , is a very real one , and to pretend that it does not exist , and that there is no evidence against the paradigm adopted here , is disingenuous . |
| 11 | We have a responsibility now … to see that we do not get it wrong in the other direction . |
| 12 | It may also have been reassuring to US audiences , while America was being condemned world-wide for its barbaric acts in Vietnam , to see that they did not have the monopoly on violence , which could even be found in an English village . |
| 13 | The problem more often is to see that they do not come to rely upon them almost exclusively , as a high intake of carbohydrates can lead to obesity . |
| 14 | I hope this helps you to see that it does not matter at all whether that regression to his past life was factual or whether Barry 's subconscious had caused him to invent the whole thing in his imagination . |
| 15 | Your aim should be to see that she does not suffer long periods of loneliness and that she feels so well cared for that she can manage to endure her period of sorrow without too many crutches , until life becomes worth living again . |
| 16 | But , unless the proviso can be invoked , one must adopt the maxim that the more difficult ( short of impossibility ) is the defending advocate 's task , the more vital it is to see that he does not labour under an unfair disadvantage . |
| 17 | Section 1(4) states that the duty is : " to take such care as is reasonable in all the circumstances of the case to see that he does not suffer injury on the premises by reason of the danger concerned " . |
| 18 | In fact , there is no further mention of the chapel in the Minute Books of their Meetings for nearly three centuries , and much later they were to claim that they did not know about it until it was brought to their attention for the first time in 1846 . |
| 19 | During the third interview , he was asked to confirm that he did not want a solicitor , and he replied ‘ I have n't got a solicitor . ’ |
| 20 | The argument became heated when I refused to agree that it did not matter if the document was authentic or not . |
| 21 | I desire the reader to remember that I do not make use of the word people for the mere vulgar or mobile , but for the whole community , consisting of clergy , nobility and commons … |
| 22 | Such has been the division that to describe a sociologist as a theorist is almost to suggest that he does not engage in field studies . |
| 23 | Thus in [ 30 ] the speaker might be taken to suggest that he did not mean that his childhood days had just gone : what he really meant was that they had vanished . |
| 24 | However the argument does nothing to suggest that you do not understand the proposition that you are sitting reading a book . |
| 25 | The second subsection , by contrast , places an evidential burden on the defendant ( or the ‘ accused , ’ as the Act somewhat anachronistically refers to him ) to assert that he did not intend , and was not aware of the impact that his conduct was having or might have . |
| 26 | That is , if the prosecutor proves that the words or material were in fact threatening , abusive or insulting , and if the defendant wishes to assert that he did not realise that this was so , the onus is upon him to raise the issue . |
| 27 | But , since she had no wish to have a discussion with him about it when for all she knew he could have telephoned her hotel yesterday or the day before and been told simply that she was n't available , she chose to assume that he did not know . |
| 28 | The epistemological importance of such an exercise is evident , as is the fact that care would have to be taken to avoid circularity , to ensure that we did not make the credibility of a claim to knowledge depend upon beliefs that were not in the foundation . |
| 29 | We also need to ensure that we do not ignore the importance of talk for bilingual pupils because of our own inability to speak a particular language . |
| 30 | Well , you wo n't be able to do that until we do consider the , I mean , but , the reason I referred to page seventy-nine , is to ensure that we do not repeat ourselves , and that those of us on the sub-committee , remember what we said then , and decide whether we want to repeat that . |