Example sentences of "[vb infin] that it [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who subscribe to this view would disagree with the proposal of the FRED that where a warrant lapses unexercised the amount previously recognised should be reported in the statement of total recognised gains and losses , since they do not consider that it represents a gain to the company . |
| 2 | If a bird is defending a territory in order to exploit as efficiently as possible the food resources on it , the bird should ensure that it defends a territory no larger than necessary . |
| 3 | With that as its dominant posture , particular schemes could fail and it would still retain and perhaps even enhance its support , if it could claim that it pursued a course which was known to be difficult but which was still the ideologically sound thing to do . |
| 4 | Now , you 'll see that it has a tendency to go all over the world wherever it is invited but whoever invites the World Council of Churches now must , in fact , be able to cope with a great number of people ! |
| 5 | If you read the report at paragraph seventy , you 'll see that it has an investment value in the region of eight million pounds , it 's only worth forty million if you kill all the tenants overnight , which is rather drastic , vacant possession in other words . |
| 6 | This mutual incomprehension could , of course , be accidental ; but I will suggest that it expresses a division between the two positions which runs deeper than the dispute we have so far considered . |
| 7 | Well as I 've just said , open land does not necessarily mean that it serves a greenbelt purpose . |
| 8 | If the hon. Gentleman just thinks about what he is saying , he will realise that it takes a Government one or two years to bring the economy round . |
| 9 | Of its contents he retained only the haziest notion ; and he explained that he would have been reluctant to contribute to such a volume — his Second Thoughts on Humanism , published a year earlier , had consisted of a devastating criticism of the editor — save that it represented a tribute to Irving Babbitt , whom he had always revered as one of his masters and about whom he felt that his early criticism had been misunderstood , not least by Babbitt himself . |
| 10 | 281 , save that it extended a principle previously confined to the husband/wife cases to a case of parents giving security for the debts of their son . |
| 11 | Can my right hon. Friend say what is the global worth of the contract , and does he agree that it represents a vote of confidence in British engineering ? |
| 12 | Sperber and Wilson would say that it conveys a range of weak implicatures recovered on the hearer 's own initiative . |
| 13 | If any further immediate description of qualification is sought , we can only say that it introduces an element which the speaker does feel to be relevant to identification of a property or an entity , but subject to the constraint that the element so introduced is not actually equivalent to the item qualified . |
| 14 | Sentence ( 10 ) tells us of a " weakness " of the " heart " , but not until ( 11 ) , where this matter is taken up again in the expression " the poor child was not robust " , do we learn that it provided a reason for the present interview : it was for this reason ( we surmise ) that the Moreens wished to engage a resident tutor . |
| 15 | Well , having talked about my interest in , in popular literature I suppose I should begin by saying I do n't much like the distinction between good literature and pulp literature but , on the other hand , I do accept that it has a function . |
| 16 | I shall argue that it creates a system of classification of children which is not defensible in terms of the facts of learning nor desirable if the goal is a common curriculum . |
| 17 | If it goes ahead with the project , it will find that it has a reward for the investment that exceeds its wildest dreams . |