Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wayne had rung in to say that he was sick , which meant that the little creep did n't want to drive past the picket line . |
| 2 | Someone must have come indoors to turn that light on . |
| 3 | He said , then half an hour after Albert rung up to say that you were n't coming to work , so I were right in shit ! |
| 4 | But there is a partial definition of ‘ appropriates ’ in clause 3(1) , which is included partly to indicate that this is the familiar concept of conversion but also for particular reasons later to be mentioned . |
| 5 | A Disinfection Order is also placed on the premises and further testing carried out to ensure that it is salmonella-free . |
| 6 | Any relocation depends on a detailed cost/benefit analysis being carried out to ensure that the exercise is truly worthwhile . |
| 7 | The most common are blood tests ( to measure haemoglobin , red blood cell , white blood cells and electrolytes ) , and chest X-rays and electrocardiographs ( ECG ) , which are usually carried out to ensure that patients are fit to have a general anaesthetic . |
| 8 | Checks are carried out to ensure that the name of the root package and any sub-packages to be created are unique ; sub-package module names and filenames are derived from the root package module name and filename by appending a letter ( A-Z ) or digit combination ( 0–9 ) . |
| 9 | Checks are then carried out to ensure that each module in the LIST_OF_CONTENTS has a latest version within LIFESPAN . |
| 10 | If the Government disagree with the conclusions of the PIEDA analysis , will they tell us what reports they have carried out to suggest that British Rail and PIEDA are wrong , or are they preparing to spend £4.5 billion , not on the basis of sensible planning , but by hunch , guess and God ? |
| 11 | After being mobbed by local rugby fans Botha said : ‘ We have come here to prove that we are all equal and our rugby is unified . ’ |
| 12 | We notice the past tense : Wordsworth has omitted here to mention that these small proprietors depended on the cottage industries , which were taken away when the factory system had become established , so that in Wordsworth 's lifetime the statesmen declined . |
| 13 | The Act of 1988 was designed precisely to ensure that the fish quotas allocated to the United Kingdom actually enured to the benefit of persons for whom they were intended . |
| 14 | The other two cases are included primarily to emphasize that a wide variety of phenomena is contained within the Lorenz equations , although , since yet further variety can be obtained by varying r/r c and b , they can do so only by example . |
| 15 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , whenever we make comparisons the figures that we quote are adjusted backwards to ensure that we quote them on a truly comparable basis in all instances . |
| 16 | Newbolt 's attitude is still very common — not only among the British ( especially those who have come under the influence of F. R. Leavis ) , but also among American free versifiers who think they are an avantgarde and who are muddled enough to think that they have Pound 's authority to back them . |
| 17 | The survey — ‘ mapping the universe ’ — which Geller and Huchra began a few years ago is not yet complete but they have seen enough to conclude that ‘ the size of the largest structures we detect is limited only by the extent of the survey ’ . |
| 18 | I 'd think that I have seen enough to say that cricket could never be the be-all-and-end-all of life for me . |
| 19 | I have seen enough to believe that the materials , over time , will prove to be of real help to teachers trying to solve their own problems by enabling them to see what support there is in the sharing of difficulties and by strengthening the belief that efficient discussion can lead to effective action . |
| 20 | Vologsky had not monitored all his automatic recording , but he had seen enough to know that things were really serious . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've seen enough to know that the place will be perfect for Pool . |
| 22 | He had not had time to compare more than a few paragraphs scattered throughout each text , but he had seen enough to know that their contents were practically identical . |
| 23 | As events turned out , therefore , the management might have done better to realise that there are competing definitions as to what constitutes ‘ efficiency ’ . |
| 24 | The minister Nicholas Breton , for example , noted in 1603 that his parishioners ‘ came to service more for fashion than devotion ’ , while the preacher John Angier of Denton in Lancashire believed that his parishioners came ‘ for no other purpose but to sleep , as if the sabbath were made only to recover that sleep they have lost in the week ’ . |
| 25 | But she adds : ‘ As many people as have written saying we should revise them have written in to say that it 's outrageous to think we should even consider revising them … |
| 26 | Have we said enough to show that the use of animal magnetism is morally dangerous ? |
| 27 | He has said enough to ensure that we will take his point . |
| 28 | Perhaps in one sense it does not matter that he ignored the sometimes vandalistic assaults on the gospel texts by Form-critics and Redaction-critics ; just as it could be seen not to matter that the school of philosophy in which he was reared had been rendered more or less obsolete by the man who — in the year that Lewis was writing The Problem of Pain — had become a professor of philosophy at Cambridge : Ludwig Wittgenstein . |
| 29 | As the wood is an 8,000-year-old oak wood only eight miles from the centre of London on a site of special scientific interest , could not the Department have done more to insist that the important new road going close to my constituency was cut-and-cover ? |
| 30 | ‘ Even if he had desired it , he could scarcely have done more to ensure that the Khans would support Nogai 's will . ’ |