Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] that [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first place they may want to do no more than ensure that the Constitution is not altered casually or carelessly or by subterfuge or implication ; they may want to secure that this important document is not lightly tampered with , but solemnly , with due notice and deliberation , consciously amended . |
| 2 | I do not want to suggest that all this work fell into such simple methodological traps as that I have described above , though I suspect that much of it did . |
| 3 | I do remember saying that these Asian women had a lot to teach us about family life . |
| 4 | Usually career coercion will suffice to ensure that any troublesome thesis stays unpublished and out of the public eye . |
| 5 | Parents bored with the endless repetition of nursery rhymes should pause to consider that this monotonous activity may be giving their children a head start in their education . |
| 6 | however , it will suffice to note that this organizational liberty was being developed by Gregory VII and his most active supporters at the same time as Anselm , in relative isolation from ecclesiastical politics during his time at Bec , was developing his own contrasting other-worldly view of the real nature of individual liberty . |
| 7 | We thought you might have guessed that all those announcements by the terrorists were a lie and really — ‘ |
| 8 | The young turk of theoretical physics could not have guessed that this very point in classical optics , probed by Wien , was to be of importance in one of the most fundamental papers he was subsequently to write . |
| 9 | They 'll of course attempt to claim that any future cuts in schools ' budgets are down to lack of government funding . |
| 10 | Finally , however , when the chips are down , Freeman would have to claim that any true account that was incompatible with his — that makes his false or irrelevant in some sense — would be a misinterpretation of the play 's intrinsic structure , that cognitive model which really underlies it . |
| 11 | In your position , I would rethink my substrate , as perpetual gill irritation can hardly be good for the fish — though you will have to accept that some permanent damage may already have occurred . |
| 12 | The main reason why scholars have thought that the forged passages conferring the primacy were already in the documents in 1072 is that , if they were not there , Lanfranc could not have said that these papal letters were the ultimum robur of his whole case . |
| 13 | You may have noticed that this latest issue of The CompuAdd Catalogue has a new look . |
| 14 | She should have known that that stupid receptionist would inform Fernando , to save his own skin , no doubt . |
| 15 | From this point on , Flaubert must have known that any full length novel would probably take him five to seven years ; and therefore that most of his back-burner projects would inevitably boil themselves dry in the pot . |
| 16 | ‘ We do not wish to imply that all written language is autonomous and that all oral language is context-based . |
| 17 | I shall try to show that these three frames of reference are complementary rather than self-sufficient or mutually exclusive . |
| 18 | This may serve to emphasise that this long-distance trade reflects political alliances and the organisation that lay behind it , as much as geographical location . |
| 19 | By this we do not mean to imply that any old interpretation will do because , clearly , there are standards involved in any inference from the data materials to the theory , be this a substantive sociological theory or what we have referred to as an instrumental theory . |
| 20 | We will legislate to require that all pre-strike ballots are postal and subject to independent scrutiny , and that at least seven days ' notice of a strike is given after a ballot . |
| 21 | You might start complaining that all these changes are happening too rapidly for comfort . |
| 22 | I could not help feeling that this particular meeting of ours proved a milestone , at least for me ; and thereafter I found it easier to get through to him , as in after years I sometimes needed to do , on that wavelength . |