Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Bishop Empey argued to the synod : ‘ Somehow we have to nail the lie that permissiveness flows from the Church of Ireland and that morality is the sole possession of but one Church in this land ’ ( Irish Times , 22 May 1986 ) . |
| 2 | I would also like to nail the lie that the Conservatives do n't care about nursery education as put forward by Chris as Mrs already said this morning , Hertfordshire County Council has one of the best records of nursery education in the whole of the country , something like seventy five per cent of the client group currently have part time nursery places . |
| 3 | Merson is controlling his diet and craving for fast-food in a bid to lose a few pounds excess weight , but spoke out yesterday to nail the lies that he has had a bust-up with George Graham over the battle of the bulge . |
| 4 | In default of explanation Mr. Cunningham 's award was so far below what , by analogy with the award of an industrial tribunal , he was entitled to expect as in my judgment to compel the inference that the assessment was irrational , if not perverse . |
| 5 | Where the former used the full vocabulary of informality , and seemed unprepared or unable to accommodate the possibility that alternative viewpoints might exist , the latter were more aware of the limitations of progressivism , both as an idea and as a basis for practice . |
| 6 | He envisages that a change in outlook may derive from appreciation of the complex event sequences that new techniques have now exposed in the Quaternary ; from appraisal of the classical models of change to accommodate the realization that extreme rapidity of change now has to be considered when evaluating chronological biotal and geomorphological processes ; from adjustment of geomorphology to new knowledge of Quaternary change such as rate of ice sheet growth and decay ; and similar adjustment of biogeography and of palaeoclimatology . |
| 7 | Why is it that some people find it so difficult to accommodate the idea that providing immediate relief to human suffering can go alongside campaigning for longer term solu-tions ? |
| 8 | So they will continue to arise , but I think that it is right to plan to accommodate the ones that you know about . |
| 9 | Clearly , theories of this sort must be extended in some way if they are to accommodate the fact that latent inhibition depends in part on what the target stimulus predicts . |
| 10 | But once the size of companies expanded further it was very easy to accommodate the fact that whilst directors remained responsible for the formulation of the overall policy of the company the ordinary management was entrusted to executives . |
| 11 | More extreme Tories continued to attack the theory of co-ordination ( maintaining that the monarch was not one of the three estates , which instead comprised the Lords Spiritual , Lords Temporal and the Commons ) and to uphold the view that " our Kings and Queens are above the Law " . |
| 12 | One of her inner circle added : ‘ Even if they have not managed to kill the goose that had laid the golden eggs for the media , they have certainly succeeded in wounding her . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It amazes me he should now want to kill the goose that has laid him the golden egg . |
| 14 | The point of this exercise is to limit the terms experience , life , and reality in such a manner as to enable the claim that popular access to all three can only be gained by means of art which , for the purposes of national education effectively means English and especially English literature . |
| 15 | Question : When I used to write batch files under MS-DOS 4 using EDLIN , I used to add ‘ beeps ’ to alert the user that something had happened by entering the command ECHO ∘VG |
| 16 | Foucault adopts a strategy , obviously indebted to Bachelard , designed to restore the otherness that History by definition must disallow : he produces an account of epistemic shifts , with prior epistemes presented as altogether estranged from the present . |
| 17 | This last item did much to restore the confidence that seemed to have deserted me in the previous few months . |
| 18 | The erm , importance of monitoring procedures can not be over-stressed because enable , to enable us to actually find out if these er , arrangements are working properly we do have to monitor the arrangements that are in place , and we have to provide details of monitor important for the members ' benefit , er , explaining how the budget is er , is being spent , and also bringing in information about the number of assessments , the levels of assessments , and all the other aspects that er , that make a new system work . |
| 19 | Dumps are increasingly required to have special liners to stop moisture from seeping in ; to collect and treat any liquid that does get in ; to monitor the waste that is added to a dump ; and to provide for shutting down the landfill at the end of its life and cleaning up any environmental damage that may come later . |
| 20 | The strict code of conduct does much to cultivate the discipline that is so much part and parcel of karate-do ( ‘ way of karate ’ ) . |
| 21 | Bell is happy to cultivate the impression that he was the Svengali who transformed Thatcher 's harsh , strident public persona into something softer and more voter-friendly . |
| 22 | ‘ It was brilliant to hit the goals that took us to the top , and it 's got to be the best 90 minutes of my career . ’ |
| 23 | he meant to hit the car that was going |
| 24 | If the pharmaceutical industry is really concerned about the economics of health care they would be better to curb the profits that they make through drugs sold to the NHS for which the charges are not infrequently excessive . |
| 25 | It is an Army Town and we were its children , destined , if unlucky , to go the way that nearly 2,000 of its children did years before and would do again . |
| 26 | But the stage at which they come to believe there is no way in which they can achieve the aim is the stage at which you need to re-examine the objective that the business has been set . |
| 27 | They were trying to tame the process that gives the hydrogen bomb its devastating power-the same process that ‘ fuels ’ the Sun and the stars . |
| 28 | But if we are to preserve the creatures that rely directly upon water as their medium , technique and science alone are not enough . |
| 29 | We need to preserve the jobs that we have . |
| 30 | The Ministry of propaganda did what it could to play down such disasters and tried for as long as possible to preserve the illusion that they were not important , but Fascism now began to lose a lot of its popular support . |