Example sentences of "[vb pp] that [verb] [det] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | However , it soon became clear that , not only are Indian gaols so varied that to describe any one is to create a false picture , but a description of ‘ conditions ’ alone would give readers outside India little real insight into the country 's prison system or how it is experienced by inmates . |
| 2 | John Major must have pondered that question several times in past months as various Cabinet ministers depended on his support after making curious decisions on public or private issues . |
| 3 | Group norms are developed that condone such behaviour . |
| 4 | Even though there were many writers before Leapor who had made a similar affirmation , not least Katherine Phillips and Mary Astell , it must be recognized that to make such claims was to dispute a widely held belief , based on Aristotelian physiology , that women were by nature soft and therefore inconstant The best known statement of this view of women is Pope 's ‘ Epistle to a Lady ’ . |
| 5 | It was conceded that had any individual shareholder held a sufficient block to give him ‘ control ’ of the company then he might have been entitled to a higher price than the total market value of his shares , since he would then have been selling an item of property — control — additional to his shares . |
| 6 | In their wisdom , the council had decided that to repeat all the slogans , wear the same swastika insignia and copy all the other mannerisms of the old Nazi party would simply create a credibility gap . |
| 7 | The hon. Gentleman knows that we have answered that point many times , but I can not let it pass . |
| 8 | ‘ I am always sorry to hear when someone has been hurt in an accident , particularly if it is safety surfacing which has been vandalised that has some way been responsible for the injury . |
| 9 | One of Dana 's reactions was very characteristic : he bent double with laughter at something he had said that made all the others laugh , too . |
| 10 | This policy found little favor with the Pentagon which has said that maintaining these bases , for at least another 20 years , is a central priority in a new military doctrine , publicized under the title ‘ Discriminate Deterrence ’ . |
| 11 | He could not help feeling how kind it was of a fellow human being to accord him such deference , that the speaker must have a particularly sweet and generous nature , must love and honour him , and he had to struggle against this , he had to resist cravenly agreeing with whatever was said that preceded that ‘ sir ’ . |
| 12 | But there are problems even with this more sophisticated test , because it could be argued that to examine those who were as a matter of fact interested in science is to skew the sample . |
| 13 | Already , after the American War of Independence , Aranda had argued that to retain any sort of hold in America , Spain must abandon the old theory of Empire and set up local independent Bourbon thrones or even slough off Peru . ’ |
| 14 | I suspect you 've already made that answered that that question . |
| 15 | If the Minister admits that monumental errors were made that allowed those profits to accrue to companies that were almost given the assets of the National Bus Company , he must tell us what will be inserted in the legislation to prevent those errors from being made again . |
| 16 | The ceremony ends with a shotgun blasted into the boughs to wake up the sleeping tree.Does it work … apparently yes.It 's now thought that making such a rumpus around the trees scares off harmful insects … so wassailing really does make the orchards healthier . |
| 17 | ‘ No contract is alleged to have been made with or on behalf of the plaintiff , and no facts are averred that show any duty on the part of the defendants towards the plaintiff for breach of which an action could lie . |
| 18 | It has been shown that measuring these antibodies to establish the diagnosis of coeliac disease is helpful but not completely reliable as a few cases would be missed . |
| 19 | Although all the words have at least one sense bearing the property for which the root was originally selected , it must be noted that to locate all words bearing a particular semantic feature must involve the careful selection of several roots ( e.g. to find nouns with a [ +female ] feature , sprouts should begin from ’ female ’ , ’ woman ’ , ’ girl ’ and possibly ’ wife ’ ) . |
| 20 | However , it must be remembered that to do this of itself would incur an exchange risk . |
| 21 | It was not so much the kite design , rather , the principle of moving the centre of lift as the lines were pulled that made this early application a forecast of today 's steering methods . |
| 22 | We have found that creating this climate involves a number of factors . |
| 23 | They argue that it is easy for someone to appear to be above the age of 17 and say laws should be introduced that place less onus on the newsagent , who may be an innocent victim . |
| 24 | The dilemma is that it is difficult to take avoiding action : if activities are cut back there is no way of retaining or regaining market position — if activities are increased that means more spending and more risks . |
| 25 | ‘ I have already been asked that question several times under druggings of Veritas . |
| 26 | It is simply the number of people involved that makes this impossible , as well as the difficulties of focusing their activities , in an orderly fashion , on the single objective of turning an idea into a reality . |
| 27 | Leaving aside the question of a total reform of the education system , it is estimated that to provide all children with roughly the same standard of provision as white children have now would entail at least doubling or trebling the education budget . |
| 28 | There was little left that bore any resemblance to the original landscape in which Stephen and Christina had first holidayed . |
| 29 | A reserve army of labour was created that included many Afro-Caribbean people and people from the Indian sub-continent . |
| 30 | However it is not the distance , but the conditions under which it was achieved that set this dive apart . |