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

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1 The diversity of museum collections in general requires that these practices be sufficiently flexible to accommodate the unusual object or set of circumstances , and yet sufficiently disciplined to ensure that realistic standards can be established and maintained .
2 I personally needed to know that these ideas were not wrong .
3 Yet suspecting and knowing are two different things , and I was still naive enough to want to believe that all policemen could be trusted .
4 As for Louise , strolling beneath the shade of her white silk parasol , she had remained so cool and chaste that she had scarcely deigned to notice that young men were admiring her .
5 To avoid this kind of disaster health authorities in England and Wales will soon have to ensure that proper preparations for community care are made before inpatients who need such care are discharged .
6 He just had to hope that these nomes felt the same way .
7 Sitting there in the Cathedral Close in the weak spring sunlight , trying to grasp the enormity of the events we had lived through , we gradually came to accept that these things were now in the past , and the war was really over .
8 Meanwhile , Dr Dunstaple was gradually coming to realize that other things were missing .
9 All bills for departing guests must be made up and double checked to ensure that all charges have been posted to them ( Fig. 3.8(c) , Fig. 3.30 ) .
10 In either event , the employee will probably seek to argue that operational savings properly fall to be regarded as a benefit derived from the patent .
11 This process will be carefully regulated to ensure that appropriate services are available in each locality .
12 In any event , P P Gs are carefully drafted to ensure that few options are closed off .
13 We would also like to suggest that interested readers attend meetings organised by the RSC Chemometrics Group or UK Chemometrics Discussion Group , which are regularly advertised in Chemistry in Britain .
14 Now I think it also is important that we recognize that as a university and as colleges we have a responsibility for the sort of environment , the education environment , that we provide our students , but I think we also have to remember that these students are eighteen years old when they come up , they are twenty one when they graduate , and many of the students are older than that , they are graduate students and they are young adults .
15 We also need to ensure that all children are educated beyond an assumption that mathematics has one correct form .
16 And I 'm also pleased to see most seed companies acknowledging that they are revivals ; in the past they have often tried to pretend that these reintroductions were stunning new breakthroughs .
17 Whigs often liked to suggest that all Tories were by definition sympathetic to a restoration of the Stuarts , because of their belief in indefeasible hereditary right .
18 Hewitt ( 1983 ) is then led to conclude that most disasters are characteristic rather than accidental features of places and societies where they occur ; risk arises from ordinary life rather than rareness , and natural extremes are more to be expected than many of the social developments that pervade everyday life .
19 Not only biologists : politicians , too , have sometimes liked to argue that political systems based upon competition are in some sense ‘ natural ’ , because competition is such an essential part of nature .
20 Many of us in middle years of life have experienced the pain of such loss : few of us have experienced multiple losses , sometimes in quick succession , except in times of war ; none of us have yet had to accept that those losses , of our own generation , signify the beginning of the end for us .
21 ‘ Many of us truly want to believe that money-making schemes are genuine , even if we harbour some doubts . ’
22 Observing in the classroom , we have been very encouraged to see that many programs that were originally designed and written to be used with a whole class ( maybe as many as 30 pupils participating ) are very effective with groups of pupils working on their own , either with the same approach taken with the whole class or with a subset of the possible activities offered by the program being tackled ( eg , PIRATES , JANEPLUS and TRANSPOTS ) .
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