Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [to-vb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Any devout follower of Sigmar is allowed a WP test to sense that this chamber is unlike the rest of the Castle , somehow more wholesome ( Cleric of Sigmar +20 , Initiate of Sigmar +10 ) .
2 So , as they had done with the relations of production , Marx and Engels tried to show that this state of affairs was not inevitable , but the product of a specific historical development .
3 Wright has to realise that certain behaviour can cost a player their place . ’
4 People are not born with a repressed set of experiences , but they acquire them , although at times Freud seems to suggest that some parts of the repressed material of earlier generations is inherited .
5 Reynolds seemed to realise that such objections could go on for ever , so he said , ‘ Yes .
6 Imagine his surprise when reading the article on the Benson Bf 109G in your July issue to find that this aircraft was in fact one of ‘ his ’ !
7 Sometimes Althusser seems to imply that different histories may range through different modes of production , at other times it appears that they are specific to each , an effect of the overdetermination of the social formation .
8 Lévi-Strauss sought to demonstrate that similar oppositions operate in kinship and mythic systems enabling him to compare apparently unlike kinship systems and myths from different cultures and show the structural continuity of mythemes , and kin relationships , across what are , at first sight , very different cultures .
9 It was a scene of desperation , but Dahrendorf seemed to feel that this kind of community DIY activity could be a part of the answer to the problem of a permanent and growing rate of unemployment .
10 After a time Boldwood started to hope that one day , if Bathsheba remarried at all , she would marry him .
11 Reagan continued to assert that direct action was the only way to deal with terrorist countries like Libya and Iran and that he would not countenance any other approach .
12 Rusche and Kirchheimer attempted to demonstrate that penal practices in any society were directly connected to the mode of production .
13 A mechanic for Britax France refused to believe that British installation charges did not include the cost of the seat as well , ‘ It takes 10 or 15 minutes at the most , ’ he said .
14 ‘ My Lords , Mr. Jeffreys sought to argue that any removal from the shelves of the supermarket , even if unaccompanied by label switching , was without more an appropriation .
15 The report calls for the EC to legislate to ensure that tropical timber imports come from sustainable sources and to enforce minimum operating standards for EC companies working in tropical forest areas .
16 The BBFC aimed to ensure that British films were as bloodless as possible , contained no criticism of any foreign power and no attack on any established British institution such as the clergy or the judiciary , avoided all political , religious and social controversy , and did nothing that would risk causing offence or inflaming public opinion .
17 Christina could see that Paul wanted to scream that this colour had been his choice , but he bit back his retort , clenching his fists .
18 Mr. Lassman sought to suggest that this offence was aimed solely at hacking , and hacking , which is a word that finds no place in the Act , he says , means using one computer to access another .
19 The BMA strove to insist that local officials ( medically qualified though they were ) should merely inspect child health , leaving treatment to the independent doctors .
20 After his first horrified reaction has passed , Howard begins to think that this fatalism may be the only thing that keeps people sane .
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