Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [verb] that [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Do n't make the mistake of thinking that any changes must be major ones , on a smaller scale it 's amazing what a few new accessories will achieve — paintings and prints , plants , perhaps a new round table with a floor-length cloth on it , a small but eye-catching rug , some concealed uplights in the corner ( see pages 37 and 39 ) . |
| 32 | The stylistic aplomb of the article may have us accepting the analogous links made between cockfighting and the totality of Balinese society without realising that these links are too fragmentary and partial to stand properly for the whole . |
| 33 | For long before 1946 , it had been customary for Parliament to preserve an oversight of such central government delegated legislation by requiring that such legislation be laid before it in some form or another . |
| 34 | Thus if a member has a sound reason for believing that some malpractice is occurring in connection with the council 's funds , he is under a public duty to inform the council . |
| 35 | However , since joint production and ( more clearly ) joint marketing is much more likely to create the undesirable anticompetitive effects which cause concern than joint R&D is , it seems reasonable to insist that firms which propose extending joint activities beyond R&D must bear the burden of proving that such extensions are in the public interest . |
| 36 | Throughout the text he puts considerable effort into emphasising that any conclusions we may arrive at about the Universe and the objects within it are only scientific theories . |
| 37 | Store bosses are taking a gamble in hoping that enough folk will go shopping to make up for huge discounts on offer . |
| 38 | As far as the social element is concerned , a government should recognise the need to promote social cohesion by securing that all citizens have a standard of living that enables them to participate in the life of the community ; governments must take care that reductions in the social element of citizenship which they may regard as necessary in the area of economic policy do not result in sections of the population being excluded from citizenship and membership of the national community . |
| 39 | One paper , the Warrington Guardian , misrepresented the situation by suggesting that these reductions would fall exclusively on Risley . |
| 40 | Religious ideas offer a way of coping with this situation by suggesting that these events occur perhaps to punish men for wrongdoing , and that the gods who cause these happenings can be placated by worship and sacrifices . |
| 41 | He even underlines the similarity by noting that such traits can be either adaptive or detrimental — i.e. lead to illness — depending on whether or not they are modified by other , more positive , qualities . |
| 42 | Most awards tend to be hundreds of pounds rather than the tens of thousands in private compensation you read about in the papers — but as Victim Support director Helen Reeves ( pictured above ) points out : ‘ Compensation is an important way of acknowledging that such crime is not acceptable . |
| 43 | That does n't seem to me to be a very satisfactory way of detecting that these systems were n't working and with such complex systems as we 've got such as the system , it would take one person quite a number of minutes , if not hours , to check all the lights so I very much recommend this system and I should I suppose declare an interest when you start to talk about bulbs |
| 44 | One way of ensuring that such misinterpretation does not occur is to adopt an approach to " experience " which is not so tied to " inwardness " . |
| 45 | A library , like any other organisation , has a limited amount of manpower and money to carry out the activities required and expected of it ; training is just one way of ensuring that these resources are used in the most effective possible manner . |
| 46 | An orthodox Muslim is expected to pray 5 times a day on a " clean spot " facing the holy city of Mecca , and a special rug is an extremely convenient way of ensuring that this directive is obeyed . |
| 47 | On June 6 the International Tropical Timber Organization ( ITTO ) , comprising 19 wood producing countries and 24 consumer countries , concluded its nine-day annual conference in the Ecuadorean capital , Quito , by reaffirming its goal of ensuring that all exports of tropical timber should come from sustainable sources by the year 2000 [ see p. 38257 ] . |
| 48 | At the very least drafting of consumer contracts which avoid the types of clauses set out in the Annex will go most of the way towards ensuring that such contracts are fair within the terms of the Directive . |
| 49 | The only occasional gripe was the random shortage of hot bathwater and the lack of understanding that some people actually prefer coffee to tea . |
| 50 | ‘ The idea of believing that all cyclist are handbag snatchers is ludicrous . |
| 51 | The lexicon notion explains the word frequency phenomenon by assuming that each entry has a threshold for recognition , and that recognition occurs only when sufficient data have been collected about the word for this threshold to be exceeded . |
| 52 | Mexico solved the problem by ensuring that any banks that tried to ride free would lose everything . |
| 53 | Applied to the human race , sexual selection allowed Darwin to account for the loss of body hair by assuming that this character had become sexually desirable among our distant ancestors . |
| 54 | We could instead scale all numeric values held in the computer by agreeing that this bit position shall represent some other positive or negative power of two . |
| 55 | In recent years much energy and ingenuity has been poured into the task of showing that such markets do in fact exist and can be made to force managers to profit-maximize . |
| 56 | We can assume it in exactly the form stated above or we can relax it to the extent of saying that any influence of A upon B must not propagate between them faster than the velocity of light . |
| 57 | It is worth spending some time in showing that this assumption is false , and why the theories that employ it should be rejected . |
| 58 | Flexibility on the Pakistani side was shown by the Pakistani Foreign Minister 's recognition of the Soviet Union 's ‘ legitimate interest in expecting that any Government in Kabul should be friendly towards it and should be mindful of its security interests ’ . |
| 59 | Since Ford would dominate the UK car market , it was hoped that the company would have a major interest in ensuring that this market was successful and that this might involve the expansion of research and development in the UK . |