Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [to-vb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A short time before , estate agents ' men had put up a board to say that five houses were to be built — but they had erected it in the flower garden of the house instead of in the field as they had been instructed . |
| 2 | The interviewer uses a checklist to ensure that specific areas are covered , requesting explanations or introducing new topics as necessary . |
| 3 | The plan suggests that it would be a delusion to assume that these immigrants would shed their values for Shetland ones . |
| 4 | Unless needs are clearly identified , it is difficult to proceed to the next stage in the ‘ training cycle ’ : planning a programme to ensure that effective use is made of available resources . |
| 5 | However , it is too simplistic a reaction to suggest that French poststructuralism can therefore be invalidated by judging it against the claims of a comparable endeavour in Germany , a procedure which can only operate by turning the former into a failed version of the latter , which obviously leaves open the possibility of exactly the reverse argument being made . |
| 6 | The lack of provision of income maintenance for those with part-time earnings stems from a failure to recognise that most women work part-time not from choice , nor because their earnings are inessential , but because their employment opportunities are severely constrained by their family commitments . |
| 7 | If again we talk about the locality where thinking takes place we have a right to say that this locality is the paper on which we write or the mouth which speaks . |
| 8 | Boulestin 's writing still seems so fresh and original that it comes as a shock to realize that these happenings occurred over forty years ago , and that his first cookery book Simple French Cooking for English Homes appeared in 1923 . |
| 9 | In 1913 , Mrs. Pember Reeves commented that it came as a shock to realise that working class wives in Lambeth who looked as it they were ‘ in the dull middle of middle age ’ in the 1950s , Viola Klein remarked that women generally looked old at 40 , which may indicate some improvement . |
| 10 | When set within an historical perspective , it comes as something of a shock to learn that primary education as we perceive it ( with children and teachers housed in buildings built or adapted to ‘ meet the needs of the children themselves , ) is a recent phenomenon . |
| 11 | Most importantly perhaps it is quite clearly a nonsense to suggest that this scheme could be introduced retrospectively for council tenants . |
| 12 | It took Churchward a while to realize that this language was in fact Naacal , the first language of humankind , which could be translated by , at best , a couple of Indian ( or maybe they were Tibetan ) sages . |
| 13 | It is a tautology to say that English spelling is excellent because the reader can Jump around for clues on so many different levels ( semantic , visual , phonic , contextual , etymological , and so on ) . |
| 14 | It would be too simplistic an approach to such a society to say that hi sā dominated . |
| 15 | It would , of course , be a mistake to think that all hoards fall into one or other of these categories : they are the opposite ends of a spectrum along which most hoards in reality lie . |
| 16 | It would be a mistake to assume that all participants in the revolt were involved in it for the same reasons . |
| 17 | But it would be a mistake to assume that Prime Ministers are necessarily mouth-pieces of their Lord Chancellors when making the most senior appointments . |
| 18 | ( In this context it may be mentioned that in Athenian law courts it became the custom to have a clepsydra to ensure that most speeches were limited to half an hour . ) |
| 19 | It would not be open to a doctor to argue that other doctors did as he did . |
| 20 | Control is vested in local planning authorities , who are under a duty to ens–e that all land and property within their area is used for the best possible purposes in view of the shortage of land and the needs of the community . |
| 21 | We in government have a duty to ensure that local responsibility is not abused , and we intend to carry out that duty . |
| 22 | Second , there is a duty to ensure that different sections of the public have been fairly treated . |
| 23 | The first is that it turned out , political intentions notwithstanding , that the officers of the NCC saw in the National Curriculum a way to ensure that all pupils would share a common curriculum , a goal they already espoused , and that the DES found it unexceptionable to present the National Curriculum in this way . |
| 24 | Real travellers will have discovered that most taxi drivers have only a cursory grasp of English so it may come as a surprise to learn that foreign cabbies ‘ drive at breakneck speed ’ while talking eloquently of ‘ local proverbs and giving handy hints about what to buy in the local market . ’ |
| 25 | The result is that there is a tendency to assume that corporate management are adequately controlled by the shareholders in all companies , including the large public company . |