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

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1 Paul Newman and Robert Redford might now be right for the roles of a pair of outlaws on their last legs who flee to Bolivia to find that civilisation and its increased firepower are after them there as well , but in 1968 they were more an emblem of defiant youth and , rather than be riddled with bullets , they go out with a freeze-to-sepia and some plunky Burt Bacharach music .
2 Besides , they had been through enough together for Colonel Windsor to know that Tubby was a man — or , at least , he had been .
3 It did n't take imminence for Jezrael to know that violence was only skin-deep in each of the three men , hidden like lava , waiting to erupt .
4 It is worth looking closely at Milton Keynes to see that planning need not , any more , mean trying to design every dot and comma of people 's lives .
5 For example , it is necessary to hear only a brief phrase of some Grand Waltz by Tchaikovsky , Glinka or Strauss to know that steps of grande élévation are the object of the exercise ; to hear some slow pavane , minuet or saraband is to realise that an adage is being practised .
6 ARRIVED AT Techno Towers to discover that computers had not yet been invented .
7 After four months in Hong Kong , Miller returned to Cappielow to discover that Morton had only ten players on their books .
8 So it 's an attempt on , on , on the second level to minutely reconstructing historical , the lost , the truest but what really happened and in that on that level , it 's important for Freud to establish that Moses was not Jewish but Egyptian , because this gives him the link with Egyptian monarchism and the events of the exodus and explains it as well .
9 It is this argument which leads Durkheim to state that crime is essential to the continuation of society .
10 It will be a pressure point in Brussels to ensure that business in the Province is not handicapped by any aspect of the Single Market .
11 The Director of Personnel responsible for the personal affairs of overseas executives rang Mark from Detroit to say that compensation terms had now been worked out , and that he would be visiting England the following week to discuss the subject with him .
12 The authors warn visiting foreign scientists that their presence in the USSR will be used by the KGB to show that Sakharov is forgotten or that his exile is at least accepted .
13 It is quite wrong for such as Regan to claim that criteria such as these make a mockery of the statutory scrutiny of proposals .
14 INDUSTRIAL fasteners group TT is to pay a second interim dividend on March 31 for the year ended last December to ensure that shareholders do not lose out following the recent Budget changes .
15 The portiere barked some instructions at the boy and made Sandison to understand that Aldo would see to it that the letter got posted .
16 Lord Bellomont 's position as Governor in New York , Massachusetts , and New Hampshire , and military commander in Connecticut , Rhode Island , and New Jersey was similar enough to the position held by the Governor of the Dominion of New England to show that unification was not just an eccentric idea launched by James II .
17 Chapman did n't want Oldham to know that Taylor was the man he was after in case they refused to part with him .
18 As the right hon. Gentleman pointed out , we made new arrangements on 5 November to ensure that income support payments can be paid directly to the lender .
19 The Tamils called on Premadasa to ensure that food and medical supplies were getting through to Tamil citizens in the North-East Province .
20 He rang Inspector Lane to check that Sergeant Evans had been sent off on the business in Essex , to be told Evans was already on his way there .
21 Belfast fight boss Eastwood revealed : ‘ It 's all systems go — I have faxed Frank Warren to say that Paul Hodkinson is prepared to fight Colin McMillan in November .
22 Thus even in the type of rational expectations model used by Barro to show that stabilization policy was ineffective , such policy can be shown to be at least potentially effective .
23 These testimonies , including interviews with Panamanian human rights monitors , hospital workers , ambulance drivers and funeral home directors , led ICI to conclude that US strategy involved the use of military terror to eliminate or intimidate specific sectors of the population thought to be the most likely to resist .
24 He passed the summer at Bec , and reached Rome in October to find that messengers from the king had also recently arrived .
25 The US repeatedly asked Israel to ensure that Harari , aged 62 , to leave Panama , but Israel insisted that he was a private citizen , a claim which was treated with considerable scepticism by Washington .
26 This opportunity is taken to bring to your notice the vehicle inspection service provided by the Society 's Motor Claims Offices throughout the United Kingdom to ensure that policyholders ' claims receive urgent attention .
27 The pre-Columbian school cites evidence from ancient bones in Europe and North Africa to show that syphilis was extant long before Columbus 's expeditions .
28 So , for example , when Barth came in a later volume of the Church Dogmatics to discuss the image of God in man , he did so in a fashion which led Brunner to assert that Barth had now changed his ground , and adopted Brunner 's own stance as developed in Nature and Grace .
29 I found it an impressive programme and I hope it will not lead Mr Heseltine to conclude that chess sets are less harmful potentially than television sets .
30 The DES , through the UGC , have urged the CVCP to ensure that universities throughout the UK —
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