Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] that the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In China recently , foreign journalists were forced by fevered local fans to agree that the Chinese team was the best . |
| 2 | IT may surprise many theatre-goers to hear that the latest production by 7:84 Theatre Company is Sophocles 's Antigone . |
| 3 | It is important to establish exactly what degree of dissonance we want in our music , and how frequently it should occur — in other words to ensure that the harmonic style and atmosphere are consistent . |
| 4 | Although Douglas was eventually acquitted of any offence , his initial conviction and the methods of the police — which included presenting in court what they claimed was a transcript of their tape of his speech , but which was only one third of the length of another tape-recording which was played to the court — led many Free Presbyterians and sympathizers to believe that the whole force of the state was being directed against them . |
| 5 | But many jobs require very specific education or training and it may be necessary to take careful steps to ensure that the right people apply . |
| 6 | In Coldunell Ltd. v. Gallon the creditors had acted responsibly in that they had taken steps to ensure that the elderly parents received independent legal advice and , as appears from the closing sentence of the extract of Oliver L.J . 's judgment just cited , they were entitled when they received in return documents apparently executed in the presence of such a solicitor to accept those documents and act upon them . |
| 7 | Came home from a week 's camp with local youngsters to find that the whole house had been ransacked , windows smashed , kids toys broken , the water boiler ripped out and everything wet . |
| 8 | Moreover , Walpole , described in the same book ( p. 83 ) as someone who " thrived on gossip , and on playing at loo or at hazard with a duchess or two " , could very well have been a sufficiently astute observer of social mores to deduce that the first manifestations which he had seen of the new way of dressing constituted the beginning of a major trend . |
| 9 | Do we not owe it to community charge payers in each of those areas to ensure that the best value is obtained for their money and that they get the most efficient service ? |
| 10 | It is part of your professional obligations to ensure that the full price is properly recorded on the conveyancing documentation , and if any part of it is to remain outstanding , it could always be secured by a loan agreement or indeed by a mortgage back to the seller . |
| 11 | During the final descent , check the loss of height in half-minute intervals to ensure that the desired descent rate is being maintained . |
| 12 | You only have to walk into any art gallery these days to see that the real action is in the shop . |
| 13 | Such conduct would clearly be a form of ‘ delivery ’ rather than the formal service effected by the authorities of the state of destination , but there seems to be nothing in the various Hague Conventions to suggest that the postal channel was any less valid than any other permitted mode . |
| 14 | It took me only a few weeks to realise that the medical world would never come to grips with polio until it could isolate the virus which caused it . |
| 15 | Whatever the truth of the matter , however , it is enough for present purposes to note that the latest date given in any of the sources is 873/1468 and that there thus appears to be a gap of at least five years between the death of Fahreddin Acemi and the accession of Molla Husrev to the Muftilik . |
| 16 | In answer to one question he said " I might read extracts to show that the great majority of those who left Oa went entirely of their own free will . " |
| 17 | Gielgud , too , through the agency of his mother , produced reviews to prove that the golden oldies of the classic past with whom Burton was being compared to his disadvantage had been just as slammed in their time . |
| 18 | I attach great importance to these observations because there is a fashion now in the humanities to deny that the old notion of human nature still has any utility . |
| 19 | This led some writers to suspect that the Third World , like the First World , was not of a piece , but that there might be substantial differences of kind as well as the obvious differences of degree between countries . |
| 20 | There is nothing in any of the standard sources to suggest that the undoubted eminence Hizir Bey enjoyed in the last years of his life derived from anything other than his excellence in and his position as kadi of the newly conquered city . |
| 21 | These will be granted by the professional bodies in the UK to appropriate actuaries to ensure that the highest standards will continue to prevail . |
| 22 | Many of the courses presented were thoroughly and lovingly prepared by lecturers from the polytechnics who fought hard at meetings with the officers of the CNAA and its panels to ensure that the school-centred elements in their courses were given due emphasis . |
| 23 | Apart from the 1 per cent who have their own private supplies , the great majority of the UK population rely upon the decisions of the water suppliers to ensure that the great bulk of the water we drink and cook with is ‘ wholesome ’ . |
| 24 | Companies such as Rank Xerox are so dedicated to the idea that they are inverting their organisation structures to ensure that the front-line troops — those who interface most closely with the customer become the focus of attention . |
| 25 | This kind of police misbehaviour encourages many Brazilians to believe that the only way they can deal with crime is to fight fire , so to speak , with fire . |
| 26 | ‘ We can look forward to working with France in international efforts to ensure that the temporary suspension of testing by two of the five nuclear weapons states — Russia and France — becomes permanent , and that the other three join them . ’ |
| 27 | However , the Italians , currently running an enormous budget deficit , may not be happy with constraints on fiscal policy , while the less-developed nations will want structural reforms to ensure that the major economies do not cream off all the benefits . |
| 28 | Franco 's propagandists spared no efforts to demonstrate that the international community had at last recognized the rightness of his principles , or to extol what they called the enormous political skill of the man who had foreseen the Cold War years before it became reality . |
| 29 | In view of this , a frequently canvassed suggestion has been that in referred mergers the onus should be placed upon the firms to demonstrate that the proposed merger would directly confer benefits to the public interest . |
| 30 | That is understandable , given the desire of those agencies to ascertain that the 3 years or more spent in higher education lead to some definite outcome . |