Example sentences of "[verb] [vb infin] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time , I felt it was no bad thing , for it helped intensify that curious brooding quality which is such an important element in so many tropical landscapes , and especially those of Polynesia . |
| 2 | Of course Marxists can point to Allende 's subsequent overthrow by the Chilean military to help demonstrate that peaceful socialist transformation will not be permitted . |
| 3 | Its data-holding potential allows it to be used to help ensure that all pupils are involved in the game as well as the traditional competitive classroom activity , testing . |
| 4 | Representatives of outside organisations must be closely involved in that debate to help ensure that serious regard is paid to the long-term public interest when changes to ethical guidance are considered . |
| 5 | We will also use our presidency to help ensure that poorer countries are not disadvantaged as a result of the Single Market . |
| 6 | The GUI for the Apple Macintosh ( first released in 1984 ) was the first to become widely used and its popularity helped ensure that other GUIs were developed for PC compatibles and UNIX platforms . |
| 7 | To help sustain that substantial expansion of local government expenditure , the Government have shifted the burden so that central Government now bear up to 89 per cent . |
| 8 | Also , ’ said Fribble , glancing to the velvet couch beneath the forest window , ‘ also I do think that one of us ought to stay with Fergus . ’ |
| 9 | Jessica I do think that that |
| 10 | Any exhibition is worth going looking at and thinking about , but I do think that that is an extraordinarily bad exhibition . |
| 11 | Yes , he 's always jumping on me to tell me to do more for local radio and get South East Arts and South East Arts clients more regularly in contact with local radio , and I must admit on the latter case I do think that many of our clients do spend a great deal of time and erm want to be active with local radio . |
| 12 | ( Single woman living with her unmarried brother and their very frail elderly mother ) I do think that disabled people , unless they 've had a big cash payment through an accident [ compensation ] … they do n't get enough to live on … |
| 13 | ‘ I do think that this is a very important issue for us in politics . |
| 14 | I mean I do think that this is we have n't yet , I go back to the claim I made before that in the hundred days since he 's been Prime Minister his concentration has been taken up by the Gulf war , obviously . |
| 15 | And I just want to repeat that I do think that some of the writing that 's come out of it has saved women 's lives . |
| 16 | If you go to see this football club to watch the football match , you are not allowed to park on the grass verge outside because the police do n't let you but if you go to a car boot sale at the football club the next day the cars , the grass verge is littered with cars cos it 's Sunday presumably and the police are not allowed to enforce on it so I do think that some of the traffic problems maybe need to be more carefully reinforced to stop this , you know , to stop the dealers you 're not going tyo these places but you know I think you do need to , you do need to , to regulate them but please , you know , do n't let's push them out altogether . |
| 17 | legitimate to think that how that they did think that this was a short-term goal in order to achieve their long-term objectives . |
| 18 | However this teacher did comment that some of his colleagues in other schools were less happy with the change in emphasis , largely because they had always taught music as the development of a range of performance and theoretical skills , and were frightened by the stress the new syllabuses were putting upon improvisation and composition : |
| 19 | I do not know , but I do know that many homosexuals have not chosen to be homosexual but simply are that way . |
| 20 | I can not profess to know how successful , or otherwise , the mystic 's attempts at transcendence may prove , but I do know that all the anorexic is capable of transcending are her own immediate difficulties and that , in most cases , this achievement is comparatively short-lived . |
| 21 | I do need , er , I do know that that the conflict between government , local government , the voluntary sector and all others who have an interest , can be quite prodigious , and the ways to resource can be also , quite considerable , and the whole thing does need to be debated and sorted out . |
| 22 | How far this was true I do not know , but I do know that any suggestion from her to Harold Wilson was likely to receive an affirmative answer . |
| 23 | I do know that some of my colleagues tried but you will not read about that in the newspaper clippings of the period . |
| 24 | But we do know that some people have done within Tarmac . |
| 25 | Mr Taylor says it would release six constables for other duties and told the committee : ‘ We do know that some forces have undergone civilianisation of these posts . |
| 26 | We do know that most coal fields began life as swamps about 300 million years ago in the Carboniferous period . |
| 27 | Having said that , we do know that large amounts of lead are harmful . |
| 28 | I do know that this is a very fine yarn ( hand knitters are pleased to call it ‘ one-ply ’ ) . |
| 29 | ‘ I did n't realise what I was getting into , ’ he admits , ‘ but I do know that this will be by far the hardest thing I 've done in my life . ’ |
| 30 | She did n't even know his name but she did know that this time she was IN LOVE ! |