Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have to inform you that this street will be evacuated this afternoon between nineteen and twenty hundred hours . |
| 2 | I phoned the kennel owner to inform her that British Rail insisted the dog wear a muzzle and that I would pay her back if she 'd buy one . |
| 3 | Smile , just to annoy everybody that blue Datsun says on |
| 4 | Erm I 'd like to assure you that that was n't in fact the case . |
| 5 | Surprisingly , it has taken a long time to arrange something that most would have considered to be basic . |
| 6 | Community nurses need to feel they can trust Council to act for them and their patients in directing the development of the profession , but unfortunately , his episode will do little to persuade them that this is the case . |
| 7 | I was able to reassure them that those staff not required on site would be relocated into other company stores . |
| 8 | It would be comforting to persuade ourselves that those people who are generating wealth by creating poverty are all fly-by-night operators with little regard for the basic niceties of the employer/employee relationship . |
| 9 | And I , I , I , I , I , I would not have endeavoured to persuade you that this was going to be the land reform document that was , that this is it . |
| 10 | You just get a feeling that one actor is going to give you that certain something which you 're looking for . |
| 11 | Partly it is to give you that extra pace which the active , probing , investigating story requires . |
| 12 | Once a patient has convinced himself that he has still got NSU , it is very difficult to persuade him that all the symptoms he complains of are in fact perfectly normal . |
| 13 | When I tried to lead her indoors she became indignant , shaking me off , ‘ Do you call yourself my niece , trying to get me into a burning house ! ’ and it took me some time to persuade her that all was well . |
| 14 | I am glad to reassure him that all is on course and going smoothly . |
| 15 | I would like to reassure him that this is not unusual behaviour for this fish . |
| 16 | We tried to reassure him that this was n't the case , that newspeople were merely going for the stories with the biggest hook . |
| 17 | An accurate scholar and an inspired teacher , he did not become a Professor in Bristol — yet his friends and pupils combined to give him that rarest of honours , a Festschrift , a book containing some of their best work , published to mark his 70th birthday . |
| 18 | I know that many girls who become anorexic set out with this express intention , and may even be able to persuade themselves that this is the sole cause ( whole truth ) of their subsequent condition . |
| 19 | I think I ought to see her again — just once , to reassure myself that all the old feelings really are as dead as I believe . |
| 20 | Women are being urged to re-train and re-learn but what are the obstacles they have to overcome to give themselves that second chance ? |
| 21 | Immune to sound and smell and in no hurry to escape , he pauses at every bale of raw wool , every bolt of half-finished cloth , tugging at it , scrunching it up , letting it slip through his fingers to satisfy himself that all is well . |
| 22 | The draftsman must provide for the landlord to have sufficient power of inspection of the tenant 's books to satisfy himself that any information supplied by the tenant is correct . |
| 23 | It follows , therefore , that this contingency insurance will , subject to its terms and conditions , indemnify the bank/organisation in the event of a claim arising from an insured peril in respect of such properties where the original policy is found for some reason not to be sufficient to protect the bank's/organisation 's interest and so long as the bank/organisation took the initial step , inter alia , reasonably to satisfy itself that adequate insurance arrangements had been made by the mortgagor . |
| 24 | The Purchaser should inspect the stock and plant and machinery to satisfy itself that these items satisfy the required criteria . |
| 25 | The House will wish to satisfy itself that any decision to enact the Bill is taken on the basis of a full consideration of that assessment of the Bill 's environmental effects . |
| 26 | The Director General , before considering a complaint , may require the complainant to satisfy him that alternative methods of dealing with the matter have been tried and found inadequate . |
| 27 | ‘ But I want to satisfy myself that all 's well . |
| 28 | The quasi-legal requirements of the Cadbury code of practice and new auditing and accounting rules , putting the responsibility on directors not only to satisfy themselves that adequate systems and controls are in place and that the business is a going concern but to declare this , compound the risk . |
| 29 | Under existing company law , accounts are prepared on the assumption that the company is a going concern , but there is no explicit requirement for directors to satisfy themselves that this is a reasonable assumption to make , by , for example , preparing a cash flow forecast . |
| 30 | ‘ I did n't hang about long , but I saw enough to convince me that all that rubbish about Melanie 's frigidity was pure invention on your part . ’ |