Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the two question marks that I put over the Bill , I believe that the Government are right to proceed with the reforms that it contains . |
| 2 | It is therefore normal to provide in the Articles that the consent of the equity investor or its director will be required before the payment of any dividends . |
| 3 | In concerning ourselves with the needs of pupils , we may too long have ignored the need to give our teachers services and support and help them to feel adequate to cope with the demands that education in the modern world is making upon them . |
| 4 | The employers did however wish to keep the door open for the future , and proposed a ban of five years on women entrants — something which the union was prepared to accept in the hope that " natural reductions " over this period would leave the men in a commanding position . |
| 5 | In some of these cases the defendant appeared mentally normal when examined by the doctor , but the doctor was none the less willing to infer from the circumstances that there had been abnormality of mind at the time of the killing , and to write a report which brought this within section 2 . |
| 6 | As long as I know that I 'm right er and say well I 'm quite willing to look at the figures that you 've been given , but these are the figures that are right but I will look at them erm and I , and I certainly would n't er confront it much more than that . |
| 7 | To reach such a target audience we probably need , at the minimum , ( a ) about two pages of description by the authors of each unit , telling the user how to load the program , how to drive it , and its limitations both educationally and technically this information could be included on the disc or tape that loads the program ( b ) some incentive to the programmer to document the program to this level , perhaps through its resulting acceptance into a ‘ library ’ ( c ) assurance from those receiving the program that they will be prepared to deal with the problems that such draft programs impose — this implies that they must be fairly competent users of their computer system : they could not expect to get software support from the author , who is likely to be another teacher whose time is fully occupied ( d ) some financial and organizational support for the distribution of programs , even if only on a cooperative basis ( e ) that users of such programs should undertake to report to the authors ( and to the library ? ) on the usefulness of each program received , and if they wish , to make recommendations for improvement . |
| 8 | To avoid postage it may sometimes be sensible to mention in the advertisement that rejected candidates , who fall into group 1 , will not be informed in writing . |
| 9 | This meant that I was free to respond to the effects that developed as I worked and I got a feel both for the subject and the pastels I was using . |
| 10 | Erm but one of the reasons that , that we got the audience was , was so that they , they obviously the audience were prepared to pay for the fact that |
| 11 | Although it would have avoided the possibility of argument had Winchester made the application , I am content to proceed upon the assumption that the applicant has a sufficient interest . |
| 12 | The condition and appearance of a rug can be affected by a number of factors other than age , and it is dangerous to jump to the conclusion that something is necessarily old because it is worn and in a poor state of repair . |
| 13 | It is all too easy to lead to the conclusion that compliance with regulations is all that is required for safety , i.e. compliance ends up taking precedence over the wider considerations of risk management . |
| 14 | A serial/parallel drive is easy to fit in the sense that you do n't have to open the case but there is still the software side of the installation to consider . |
| 15 | It 's quite easy to accede to the charge that one 's badly guilty . ’ |
| 16 | But they must be for ever content to owe to the English that elegance and culture , which , if they had been vigilant and active , perhaps the English might have owed to them . ’ |
| 17 | In the absence of coelacanths , it was still possible to toy with the idea that species and genera had their life-spans as individuals do , even though some ‘ living fossils ’ among plants should have made this more difficult than it was . |
| 18 | Taking the view as I do that this breach was incapable of remedy , it was unnecessary to require in the notice that the defendant should remedy the breach . |
| 19 | — I was very glad to see by the Newspapers that Mr. Gould had arrived safely at Hobart Town . |
| 20 | Moral philosophers who hold this sort of view are wont to agree with the attitudinist that moral judgements , or value judgements on which they are based , express emotional attitudes , but will insist that these can be correct or incorrect in quite as objective a way as that in which judgements can be true or false . |
| 21 | It is obvious to see from the photos that nuff of them were rushing out of their heads ! |
| 22 | Even if you are not lucky enough to have , as John Creasey did , a police officer as a neighbour or fellow member of some institution , you are likely to find on the whole that a visit to your local police station will pay off . |
| 23 | The chamber of commerce in Leeds is very positive about the future , as well it might be , and it was hard to infer from the report that the chamber of commerce felt that there was a need for a regional government , as the hon. Gentleman suggested . |
| 24 | April 1 being one of those ‘ wobbly Wednesdays ’ , no-one saw fit to comment on the fact that no such strategy was handed over by our Government , and that all the Commission received from us was a pristine copy of the Government 's White Paper on the Environment , first published nearly two years ago — and notoriously short on specific targets . |
| 25 | Rolls-Royce were swift to establish in the courts that their purchase of the trademark Bentley overrode their contract with him , which had banned his own use of his name for ten years only . |
| 26 | I know people who were prisoners of war in Japanese camps during the second world war and who , even now , find it hard to talk about the abuse that they suffered . |
| 27 | While grudgingly accepting Mr Rosen 's line that there were some good teachers who did teach properly , he was quick to counter with the challenge that ‘ we could n't be sure that it was happening elsewhere ’ . |
| 28 | But people tend to confuse the fact that one may be able to guess what an individual is likely to choose with the notion that the choice is not free . |
| 29 | It is necessary to win over the negotiators to the idea of using such a computer model , and resistance is likely to focus on the idea that negotiating is a matter of judgement and can not be mechanised . |
| 30 | Indeed Bobby Gould is likely to stick to the team that won startlingly at Chelsea last Saturday . |