Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] that [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He evidently resented the fact that the name ‘ diesel ’ had come to be applied to virtually every type of oil engine , hot-bulb ( ignition ) as well as compression-ignition , and in 1923 he asked the Institution to declare that henceforth the word ‘ diesel ’ should only be used to describe oil engines operating on the compression-ignition principle , hot-bulb engines to be known as ‘ akroyds ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Every bullet has his billet ’ is a distinctively modern saying , first recorded in that form in 1765 , and in use up to the present day to indicate that sometimes no precautions work ; yet saying the proverb , and believing it , probably never stopped anyone taking cover . |
| 3 | In each of the East Asian economies there is evidence to suggest that both the level of complexity and the degree of individuation of labour are less than is typically the case in a classical Weberian bureaucracy . |
| 4 | We we got lots of evidence to suggest that actually the amount of noise problem outside weekends is actually and we do n't actually have the staff to actually deal with this problem without considerably more expenditure than anybody in this council is actually talking about and our tendency towards this erm again this is a bid of of what 's it sounds good and as as to the public conveniences this has been liaised it 's been negotiated about , it 's been looked at very , very expansively indeed . |
| 5 | Of course , to use such an argument to support vitalism would be specious : it is a nonsense to believe that only the presence of a ‘ vital principle ’ can confer life . |