Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johnny 's double standards , and his entrenched belief in the superiority of the male , had led her into an angry tirade of defence designed only to prove that she was exactly the cheap little tart that he so obviously thought her.Their relationship seemed to be increasingly an exercise in one-upmanship : my time 's better than yours ; so there ! |
| 2 | All this was indeed ‘ daring ’ stuff and few moviegoers in that 1914–16 period could have failed to appreciate that the messages were coming at them thick and fast as the motion-picture industry tried hard to prove that it was a mature social agency . |
| 3 | Foreigners used mistakenly to think that British diplomats always knew what they were doing when the truth was they were dimly muddling through . |
| 4 | Her eyes glanced sideways to ensure that nobody was listening . |
| 5 | At the second appeal Murphy 's conviction was quashed , a new witness coming forward to say that at the time of the murder in Luton he had seen Murphy in a London street . |
| 6 | Yet we who teach in primary schools need continually to remember that it is with children that we work . |
| 7 | GRAHAM TAYLOR woke today to find that he still has at least one friend after the worst week of his life . |
| 8 | It was a weird , time , with white rastas , art-school escapees , old rockers and punk fanzine costermongers coming together to discover that maybe they did have something in common after all . |
| 9 | At times like that you do your initial planning only to find that everything has changed and you have to fly by the seat of your pants . |
| 10 | The establishment worked hard to ensure that allegiance to the nation transcended allegiance to any other group or individual . |
| 11 | The officer in charge went forward to check that all was well and with a Permanent Staff Instructor laid out the electrical initiation cable and applied the detonators to the ring main they had fitted up the previous afternoon . |
| 12 | Some writers appear still to feel that the criterion remains one of recognition by the government of this country , the difference being that , whereas before 1980 the government would say expressly whether it recognised the foreign government , now it is to be left to be ascertained as a matter of inference : see Professor J. Crawford ‘ Decisions of British Courts during 1985–86 involving questions of Public or Private International Law ’ ( 1986 ) 57 B.Y . |
| 13 | Not all the transactions were strictly honest , though , and sometimes customers got home to discover that they 'd bought a cat or a puppy , thus that expression and an expression bonus : ‘ letting the cat out of the bag ’ . |
| 14 | This occurred when a broker attempted to undertake a single transaction involving 2,000m Hungarian Forints — $22m — in the government bonds market only to discover that the appropriate field in the application did n't have enough space for the zeros . |
| 15 | Its origins were as a ‘ nannying ’ organisation formed rapidly to ensure that UK companies were aware of the opportunities presented by North Sea developments . |
| 16 | In February or March , when spring was waiting to burst out but the trees were still leafless and the earth grey and cold , Sophia used sometimes to pretend that she was in Italy — not necessarily in a beautiful or famous part but perhaps in some obscure little town in the Alban Hills or a dusty coastal village between Naples and Sorrento . |
| 17 | Later during that same year , my father came home to say that a friend had a bike for sale . |
| 18 | This is particularly so in the ‘ plea for removal ’ type of crisis , when friends and neighbours get together to insist that a person is a danger to him/herself , or the community . |
| 19 | In addition to working out equivalences between Advanced level , a one-year BTEC diploma and one-year CPVE , the manager needed also to remember that the upper reaches of qualification under the National Council for Vocational Qualifications ( NCVQ ) would require another exercise in establishing equivalence and balance . |
| 20 | However Hahnemann came increasingly to recognize that there were patients whose diseases continually seemed to relapse , or change their form , and such patients could be extremely difficult to treat . |
| 21 | Opposition Members seem constantly to forget that parents , not teachers , are the primary educators of children . |
| 22 | Leelo Ross , a large woman who claims Lancastrian origins ( although it seemed highly unlikely that black pudding could be blamed on her proportions ) gave the audience an insight into among other things the ‘ Modern Jewish Woman ’ including driving Jewish style ; and the laconic Dembina delved deep to prove that even the most serious of subjects could be a source of humour . |
| 23 | You may remember a few months before Christmas , I think , that the five District Councils in Oxford County joined together to say that they felt that Government housing policy was failing to deal with the growing housing crisis in Oxfordshire . |
| 24 | No briefing session can deal with individual problems but it should advise the executive moving abroad to ensure that his tax position is handled properly to avoid making costly mistakes . |
| 25 | Determinism seems fairly obvious in this case , but Laplace went further to assume that there were similar laws governing everything else , including human behavior . |
| 26 | Marketers in Companies supplying industrial goods markets have therefore to accept that the situations faced by their companies in these markets are subject to a variety of different contingencies ( Or specific circumstances ) . |
| 27 | Although Eisenhower and Churchill had worked together in the Second World War as military commander and prime minister , Churchill had now to remember that Eisenhower was president of the world 's greatest power . |
| 28 | I and others hesitate even to mention that a particular species is rare in case it causes a demand to develop , even among our colleagues . |
| 29 | After contacting the police , a heartbroken Dorothy returned home to find that someone had pushed the wallet , with the £400 inside , through her letter box . |
| 30 | And in Corinthians , Paul seems clearly to indicate that Jesus 's own brothers were married : ‘ Have we not every right to eat and drink ? |