Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [to-vb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will he take this opportunity to confirm that sufficient resources will be made available to ensure that full establishment is maintained at each of those locations for men and resources , for training and administration ? |
| 2 | They must act on this opportunity to ensure that young doctors working in the NHS receive the training that they need and deserve . |
| 3 | In such areas as Y.T.S. and T.V.E.I. , there is some evidence to suggest that Catholic provision is already being left behind . |
| 4 | There is some evidence to suggest that this difference is critical . |
| 5 | There is some evidence to suggest that Asian claimants are particularly reluctant to become indebted to agencies beyond the family ( Cohen , 1991b ) . |
| 6 | Moreover , there is some evidence to suggest that most victims who report rape do not suffer serious injury . |
| 7 | Attention has been heavily concentrated on national campaigns and the activities of party leaders , despite the fact that there is some evidence to suggest that local campaigns may be becoming more important in influencing election results . |
| 8 | There is then some evidence to show that Japanese workers do indeed work for longer periods with each employer , but only 20 per cent of labour in the private sector stay long enough to get close to the peak of the wages profile . |
| 9 | Gill and Jackson go on to identify eight ‘ black and mixed race couples ’ , seven ‘ mixed race ’ children and three black children , and use this sample to demonstrate that racial identity confusion , as they found it in the transracially placed children , could also be found in black children in black families and ‘ mixed race ’ children in ‘ mixed race ’ families : ‘ They provide an interesting comparison … because … same race placements are increasingly regarded as the ideal by social workers … and it is in the black and mixed race couples that ( it is said ) the child will come to develop a strong racial identity ’ ( p. 129 ) . |
| 10 | Although the last thing we want is a return to rigid central control , the NHS does need some coordination to ensure that scarce resources are used to best advantage and not wasted by the unsupervised duplication of facilities . |
| 11 | Once he had got the idea of killing her ( and at first this fantasy did not seem very different from the reveries in which he wept by her open grave , comforted by young , fashionably dressed women ) it took some time to appreciate that this scenario was of quite a different type from the others . |
| 12 | It gives me some satisfaction to learn that 12 years later British Airways , privatised , efficient , and highly profitable , has become the biggest international airline in the world , while Lufthansa , struggling with high costs , has seen its reputation slip . |
| 13 | Appendages in the ‘ head ’ region often include powerful claws , and it does not take much imagination to conclude that these eurypterids were among the fiercest predators of their day . |
| 14 | It does n't take too much imagination to guess that this means ‘ draw a circle centred at x = 10.5 , y = 24.75 , and of radius 3.9 , in whatever units we happen to be using at the moment ’ . |
| 15 | Indeed , there is much evidence to suggest that many collocations found in natural text are domain-independent , and that only the analysis of a sufficiently large and general corpus will provide coverage of such structures . |
| 16 | The already high incidence of vascular disease in non-diabetic western populations appears to be still higher in diabetic subjects and , although there have been suggestions of a specific diabetic large-vessel disease ( Lundbaek , 1973 ) , there is little evidence to suggest that atherosclerotic lesions in diabetics are distinct from those in non-diabetics ( Strandness et al , 1964 ) . |
| 17 | However , other reports using the Wada technique have provided little evidence to suggest that bilateral speech production is a significant feature of all cases of stuttering ( Andrews , Quinn and Sorby , 1972 ; Luessonhop , Boggs , Labowit and Walle , 1973 ; Dorman and Porter , 1975 ) . |
| 18 | As was intimated in the introduction , although there is little evidence to suggest that sexual behaviour changed greatly in the period , the feeling remained for many people at the time that this was nevertheless what was happening . |
| 19 | There is still very little evidence to show that oral sex is risky for HIV transmission . |
| 20 | Such a move was clearly designed only to better a bad situation rather than remedy it completely , since it would be expected that the availability of refined sugar would be subject to the same seasonal fluctuations as availability of gur , and there is little reason to suspect that refined sugar was more readily available than the ( unrefined ) gur . |
| 21 | These figures of speech — hyperbole , metaphor , irony , sarcasm — work only if the sender has enough knowledge to know that average house cellars will not hold millions of bottles , women are not made of iron , and so on . |
| 22 | Have you any reason to believe that either set of parents might make demands on either partner which would make ‘ leaving ’ difficult ? |
| 23 | It 's also important in that context to remember that some art , by its nature , is fleeting . |