Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it is now the middle of October , I do not think it unreasonable to request that some action be taken in this matter as soon as possible . |
| 2 | When Autocover was originally negotiated the objective was to establish a scheme to cover the widest spectrum of the membership possible but we had to accept that all Insurance Companies would insist on excluding certain categories . |
| 3 | The principles for the provision of services for drug misusers are exactly the same as those for heavy drinkers , with the proviso that services have to accept that many service users are initially very reluctant attenders and are sent by the courts , police , school or parents . |
| 4 | The opinion , which comes ten years after a joint opinion by Arden and Leonard Hoffman QC and which supersedes it , not only concludes that standards are likely to be accepted as authoritative by the courts but that they are likely to accept that that compliance with abstracts of the UITF ‘ is also necessary to meet the true and fair requirement ’ . |
| 5 | It does not require a great deal of imagination to accept that the unit of physical matter could be the product of a ‘ good ’ event if it contributed towards the desired end of a happy human race , but it does require a measure of mental effort to accept that each unit of ‘ good ’ produced a corresponding unit contributing towards God , that is , a unit of Godliness . |
| 6 | The starting point is to accept that each individual develops and evolves throughout life , and that the final stages of life are as important as any other . |
| 7 | It is dependent not so much on the generous staffing levels of PNP Phase 1 ( though that obviously helped a great deal ) as on a combination of a degree of staffing flexibility and a basic preparedness to accept that this kind of role is important and needs to be built into a school 's staffing arrangements under whatever label is deemed appropriate . |
| 8 | It is hard for some owners to accept that this noise means ‘ I am inoffensive ’ rather than ‘ I am content ’ , but the fact is that inoffensiveness is the only condition to explain all the different contexts in which the purr occurs . |
| 9 | The CTP proclaims that the link between the perceived object and the perception is just an ordinary bit of the great causal nexus of nature ( it needs to believe this , as we shall see presently ) and yet it is prepared to accept that this segment of the chain has a rather privileged status ; at the very least , that it has a beginning and an end . |
| 10 | But I hope you are amiable and fair-minded enough to accept that this switch was not in any way part of my original purpose . |
| 11 | But I had to accept that this examination was far more important to them . |
| 12 | Mankind will have to accept that this product of immense periods of time was indisputably in existence inside the evolutionary story , waiting to be taken up as the only source available from which could be acquired a foundation for the God that man must ultimately have , and which was not completely imaginary , and therefore subject to unlimited interpretations . |
| 13 | As we have seen , it is hard to draw the line between a conscious human being and a conscious machine likewise , we have to accept that any entity possessed of consciousness is in reality a living organism — whatever its physical characteristics . |
| 14 | It would be rash to assume the former ; and realistic to accept that some gurus are the latter , especially those who have become ‘ brands ’ in their own right . |
| 15 | With the exception of some Christian pacifists and a handful of far-left revolutionaries , no part of the peace movement , before 1939 , came to accept that another war was unavoidable . |
| 16 | You may be pleased to know that all glass doors in Sri Lanka and India remained intact during my visit although there were one or two other incidents , of which more anon . |
| 17 | It was pleasant to know that that fact had been noted among the critical young gentlemen who comprised , as far as it could be done , Edwin 's set . |
| 18 | The hon. Gentleman will wish to know that that point is being pursued . |
| 19 | Why do we need to know that another vehicle has Show Dogs In Transit ? |
| 20 | There is no reason why a child has to know that some life forms became extinct in order to be able to measure variations between living organisms , nor is there any clear difference in difficulty between these two statements . |
| 21 | Finally , subscribers will be relieved to know that this work is done at minimal cost to the Bar — all the work is done pro bono by individual members of the Bar in their own time . |
| 22 | The crew were not to know that this day would be so different from their previous raid on Berlin . |
| 23 | He added : ‘ The chancellor must come to explain why the secret arrangements were such that the public were never to know that this payment had been made . ’ |
| 24 | You need , first of all , to have a sufficiently open system to know that this change has occurred , and secondly to be willing to acknowledge the change , and go through the whole exercise again . |
| 25 | We have only to look around the Chamber to know that this Parliament is finished ; it is dead . |
| 26 | And we are fascinated to know that this approach has been shown to be so effective in a remote part of the Far East where our cassettes are transported on the back of a motorcycle ! |
| 27 | Enough for me to know that this house was not a good place to be when he was alive , not good for either of you . |
| 28 | The main point of the Porter analysis was to establish that that form of information was fundamental to any strategic analysis . |
| 29 | We have a moral duty to demand that this savagery is outlawed and until we succeed we are all guilty of allowing it . |
| 30 | In cases where there was more than one accused , it was not unusual to discover that some evidence was admissible against one accused only and not the other accused . |