Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [to-vb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the chairman said he 'd heard nothing to suggest that an Englishman is required to wear a beard . |
| 2 | ‘ I know , ’ said Henry , ‘ and I am sorry to bother you at this time of night but my client has given me to understand that this is when you would be available . |
| 3 | Dexter had expected her to say that the day was to be spent seeking more evidence against David Parkin . |
| 4 | Members of Unix International have approached it to suggest that the true blue Unix club get a piece of the COSE requirement process , and word is that Unix International is having informal discussions with the COSE crew . |
| 5 | It might also have disturbed them to know that in such circumstances what is still a fairly new and effective lifeline for them would have been ruled out — insurance . |
| 6 | The courts ' attitude did not depend on endowing the husband in such cases with the role of agent for the lender , but they demonstrated an equitable intervention in favour of married women where the lender knew of the husband/wife relationship , had done nothing to ensure that the wife understood the transaction , and she had received no independent advice . |
| 7 | The reason in both cases why the security given was unenforceable was that ( a ) the security was given by the wife of the debtor , ( b ) the creditor knew of the relationship , ( c ) the creditor had done nothing to ensure that the wife understand the transaction , ( d ) the wife did not properly understand the transaction , and ( e ) she had had no independent advice . |
| 8 | Havers strenuously denied that there had been a cover-up , and Mr Douglas Hurd , then a Minister of State at the Foreign Office , maintained that a full inquiry into the affair had revealed nothing to suggest that national security had been prejudiced . |
| 9 | Has he ever said anything to indicate that someone has a grudge against him ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I could have got her to believe that , if I 'd wanted to . ’ |
| 11 | Utilization of the culture system described here has , however , enabled us to demonstrate that FGF-4 alone is sufficient to regulate the expression of Evx-1 , a member of a different class of homeobox-containing genes ( L.N. and G.R.M. , manuscript submitted ) . |
| 12 | IT WILL NOT SURPRISE those who have driven one to know that the Metro is a stunningly good car . |
| 13 | The obsession with sex in our society has conditioned us to assume that intimacy must always mean sex . |
| 14 | On entering the dining room , Hope had manoeuvred himself next to Miss D'Arcy and given her to understand that he was overwhelmed at the self-control of her behaviour in the face of such insensitivity as that displayed by the over-enthusiastic Mrs Crump who , nevertheless and for the sake of harmony , had to be tolerated — if not forgiven . |
| 15 | The sharing of the collector 's salary was really what appears to have been in the thoughts of Craigbarnet and his friends , for Dougalston too returned to this point in his letter to Montrose 's commissioner , telling him that Craigbarnet 's friends had given him to understand that they would support Kirkton 's re-election , ‘ with the same sellary that he now has if he would give Craigbarnett fifteen or twentie pound sterling yearly out of it ’ . |
| 16 | The company is writing to you directly about all this and have asked me to stress that they 're always happy to deal with any queries about their service . |
| 17 | Introduce Brenda who 's going to speak to us on Make do and Mend and she 's asked me to say that she 'd be very pleased if people break in or erm sort of form some sort of dialogue with her as she goes along . |
| 18 | There is , needless to say , no suggestion that the Bank of England are in contempt , and , for the same reasons as have led me to conclude that the injunction is overridden , I should have had no hesitation in varying the injunction if it had been necessary to do so . |
| 19 | That has led me to conclude that higher and further education no longer provide a pathway out of poverty towards educational achievement and self-fulfilment , because students from poor backgrounds may be forced to give up studying and never achieve the educational qualifications that they seek . |
| 20 | I was duly slapped down by my more knowledgeable tectonic seniors , and tried to forget the brief publication in question , but later work has now led me to suspect that I might have been right after all . |
| 21 | George Cripps 's son wrote to the Yorkshire Post in October 1979 : ‘ The remarks of Mr J. McKenna make me smile when I remember some of the things which my father told me about the machinations by various members of the then Football League , which have certainly led me to believe that they were not so simon pure as the image they presented to the public . ’ |
| 22 | Efforts of NALGO 's membership to develop policies for dealing with HIV infection and employment , and getting these converted into policy , have , however , led me to believe that NALGO membership is important not simply because of the wider political issues involved , but because HIV threatens employment security . |
| 23 | Recent experience of walking Long Distance Footpaths ( LDPs ) has led me to believe that there is a case for de-emphasising certain routes ( I understand that the RA currently recommends Duke of Edinburgh Award Groups to avoid the Three Peaks for example ) . |
| 24 | ‘ You had deliberately led me to believe that you 'd picked up a stranger in Bruges , and naturally I had assumed him to be a Belgian . ’ |
| 25 | Nothing in her life had led her to suppose that men could be relied on any more than anyone else . |
| 26 | You have effectively trained her to believe that if she only throws tantrums loudly or long enough she will eventually get a ‘ payoff ’ from a relenting ( or exhausted ) mother or father . |
| 27 | His experience of flying this route has led him to conclude that the bravery and daring of the crews who took [ part in these raids was quite remarkable and deserves to be more widely known . |
| 28 | In a most interesting essay in the recent volume of Essays on the Depopulation of Melanesia the great psychologist W. H. R. Rivers adduces evidence which has led him to believe that the natives of that unfortunate archipelago are dying out principally for the reason that the ‘ Civilization ’ forced upon them has deprived them of all interest in life . |
| 29 | His experience as president of the Scottish Institute had led him to believe that the way forward lay in joining forces with the English and Welsh in a single British Institute of Chartered Accountants , and in 1989 , he spearheaded the Scottish side of the campaign . |
| 30 | Some earlier research in 1972 had led him to believe that very high pressures could be attained , and also that the hydrogen ions behaved as free in the palladium crystal lattice , moving around and probably bumping into one another . |