Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the life of a child can so easily hang in the balance , is there not a case for recommending that all parents attend a practical course in first aid , rather than relying on the printed page ? |
| 2 | Responsibility for seeing that these conditions are complied with post-authorisation lies in the first instance with the trustee company . |
| 3 | It is clear that as a matter of prudent management in a firm of any size one of the partners or a senior member of staff should be given overall responsibility for ensuring that all partners and employed solicitors ( whether or not held out as partners ) comply with these basic requirements of professional practice ( by keeping a check on replacement and renewal dates , collating relevant statistical information , ensuring timeous completion and posting of applications , etc ) and that the firm is spared the embarrassment of financial penalties or , even worse , an unwanted dissolution . |
| 4 | Also , the responsibility for ensuring that such planting is actually carried out is now a binding part of the clearance contract , as is the application of initial fertiliser to ensure the success of newly sown legumes . |
| 5 | Someone ( logically the senior partner ) should take personal responsibility for ensuring that this aspect of the life of the firm is kept under constant review . |
| 6 | A new Minister of State should be appointed in the Department of Health with responsibility for ensuring that national policy objectives are consistent with resources available to public authorities charged with meeting those objectives . |
| 7 | When in 1859 Charles Darwin published The Origins of Species , he had no intention of implying that random mutation of genes and natural selection could account for the emergence of life on earth ; but it was inevitable that some of his followers would try to project his hypothesis backwards , and speculate that life might somehow have been generated spontaneously in gaseous , primeval slime . |
| 8 | I have of course no intention of suggesting that this intellectual and , by implication , political revolution went on without a single hitch . |
| 9 | Wearily he said : ‘ Miss Washbrooke , you have taken the responsibility of deciding that those knives were sent by a hoaxer and not a murderer . |
| 10 | The very primitive signalling systems available and the extreme difficulty of ensuring that any order was understood and obeyed were equally important obstacles in the way of an original or aggressive admiral . |
| 11 | If a non-competition covenant appears likely to infringe Article 85(1) exemption is possible under Article 85(3) although such an exemption is unlikely to be granted in respect of restrictive covenants because of the difficulty of showing that such provisions fulfil the four requirements set out in Article 85(3) that must be satisfied if an exemption is to be available . |
| 12 | We fell into the white stereotype of assuming that Bangladeshi women would find the use of various checklists and written records foreign . |
| 13 | During the last ten years there has been considerable progress towards ensuring that thematic work is incremental , that undue repetition is avoided and that the skills , attitudes , concepts and knowledge of the integrated subjects are taught sequentially . |
| 14 | Paul Sweezy , in his book The Theory of Capitalist Development , criticised Bukharin 's equations as follows : ‘ Bukharin in his formal presentation of the expanded reproduction scheme , makes the error of assuming that capitalist consumption always remains the same … he seems incapable of imagining an increase in capitalist consumption . ’ |
| 15 | The end-of-year panic on discovering that other teachers had covered more had led to a general feeling that the quicker topics were completed the better . |
| 16 | Tawell 's counsel , Fitzroy Kelly , had already insulted the jury 's intelligence by suggesting that prussic acid found in Sara 's body was due to eating too many apples . |
| 17 | This move had a dramatic effect on the income of pensioners in 1948 , but flawed the Beveridge scheme in the long run by ensuring that many pensioners would have to continue resorting to means-tested benefits . |
| 18 | This is one issue on which the hon. Gentleman might have commenced his supplementary question by saying that most people in Wales are pleased with the way in which the Government have fought for the British lamb industry as a whole and that Welsh consignments have been fought for , too . |
| 19 | The work of the Dragon Project though , is beginning to show that there may be some basis for thinking that unusual behaviour of certain known energies could be taking place at certain sites ( New Scientist , 21 October , p 166 ) , and it is possible that our ancient ancestors could detect this ‘ Earth energy ’ . |
| 20 | L 220 , p. 1 ) providing that all fish catches subject to quota made by vessels ‘ flying the flag ’ or ‘ registered ’ in a member state should be charged against the quota applicable to that state , the applicants in the main proceedings maintained that there was no basis for suggesting that that provision permitted member states to derogate as regards the grant of the flag from their basic E.E.C . |
| 21 | Indeed , it is through this sort of process that public law comes to be seen as concerned with ‘ the order of things ’ . |
| 22 | Those who have the job of seeing that political studies libraries are kept up may well ask themselves if there is any point . |
| 23 | It took the view that the upper limit is arbitrary , and might operate unfairly , since a person just above the limit receives no assistance , whereas a person just below it might have to make a substantial contribution but would have the security of knowing that that contribution represents the maximum liability for costs regardless of the actual cost or the outcome of the case . |
| 24 | What is the point of arguing that justified belief is impossible , for if you were right there could be no reasons for your conclusion ? |
| 25 | We will consider proposals for a new system of rebates to come into effect from April 1996 with the aim of ensuring that personal pensions remain attractive across the age range . |
| 26 | His first years in government were spent in the Whips ' Office , where he was schooled in the importance of ensuring that all interests were taken into account . |
| 27 | In deliberating on this important issue the Committee recognised the importance of ensuring that all staff in the Exchequer Division should be clearly informed of the present position . |
| 28 | Had Canada won against the Swedes , Australia would then have had a home tie against them with the chance to recoup some of their financial losses in Cyprus , coupled with the incentive of knowing that further success would probably earn them a home match with the United States in the semi-finals . |
| 29 | The onus of proving that sufficient disclosure was made rests on the firm and it is not a defence to show that a legal or financial impediment on the part of the customer would have prevented him from proceeding with the relevant transaction , or that disclosure would not have affected the customer 's decision whether or not to proceed . |
| 30 | The Bureau is taking a lead in ensuring that local government is ready for 1992 . |