Example sentences of "[adv] and [verb] [to-vb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two documents were published together and helped to ensure that attention was focussed upon any alleged defects in the scheme and its administration . |
| 2 | Other insurers , however , have put a much higher loading on ageing drivers because of evidence which suggests that the risk of accident increases when drivers are in their 60s and over and fail to realise that their faculties are diminishing . |
| 3 | He nodded once more and tried to remember that this was dammit , the British embassy . |
| 4 | He had known Elise only slightly and seemed to sense that Merrill did n't want to talk about her cousin , and he confined his conversation to holidays , recent travel and his work . |
| 5 | To assess Mr Reynolds ' fitness , various observations ( temperature , pulse , respirations , weight , urine tests ) and routine blood tests were carried out and checked to ensure that the results were within normal limits . |
| 6 | They had n't been encouraged and treated well and led to believe that they had brains and insights like she had . |
| 7 | " Who does not know " , said Alexander III in 1886 of Gorchakov 's successor , " that the pitiful Giers ( N.K. Giers , foreign minister 1881 – 94 ) is nothing more than an executor of my will ? " , while almost two decades later an even more self-effacing foreign minister had no doubt that " my duty consists in telling the emperor what I think about every question , and then when the Sovereign decides I must obey unconditionally and try to see that the Sovereign 's decision is executed " . |
| 8 | Mitch did not know where she was either and seemed to think that she had been deliberately keeping out of his way . |
| 9 | We take each complaint seriously and seek to ensure that every one is properly examined . |
| 10 | The Government take the matter extremely seriously and want to ensure that grants go to those who most need them . |
| 11 | Annunziata opened the door quietly and checked to see that Julia was asleep before walking silently to Comfort 's chair and whispering that there was a visitor for the signora downstairs . |