Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] that this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I phoned your office on Friday to confirm that this date is convenient . |
| 2 | First , the attempt to suggest that this scope of review is logically demanded is not convincing . |
| 3 | To counteract this problem , subjects are given sufficient practice tests before the experiment to ensure that this effect has worn off . |
| 4 | They must take reasonable steps to ensure that this information is available to those who might benefit ( Sched 2 , para 1 ) . |
| 5 | He was later to become suspicious of Maine 's motives , however , as he was to see in the glorification of contract a subtle justification of the legal institutions of capitalism , and he was to seen in Maine 's insistence on the primacy of the monogamous family an attempt to prove that this institution was beyond historical change . |
| 6 | Marx 's whole work was an attempt to show that this image was false ; that there was nothing inevitable about all this , but rather that this apparent powerlessness of the worker to determine the wage was the product of the distribution of property and especially of the distribution of the ownership of such things as land , machines , tools , etc . |
| 7 | A quick check confirmed that , looking straight ahead , the threshold would appear where his helmet had been It took a dumbfounded second to realise that this illusion was caused by that blasted periscope , fulfilling its designed job , in the centre of my field of view . |
| 8 | It is no exaggeration to say that this function of the budget shifts the emphasis away from the ‘ actual ’ results as recorded in the financial accounts , towards the budget . |
| 9 | Perhaps we are seeing , as an evolution ( the origins of which can be traced to the nineteenth century ) , the emergence of a genuine hybrid tribunal , in which case to suggest that this body is a further example of the use of judges for extrajudicial activities is only one way to describe it . |
| 10 | It does n't take too much imagination to guess that this means ‘ draw a circle centred at x = 10.5 , y = 24.75 , and of radius 3.9 , in whatever units we happen to be using at the moment ’ . |
| 11 | She says I intend going to Strasbourg on Monday to argue that this report has been irresponsibly drawn up . |
| 12 | If again we talk about the locality where thinking takes place we have a right to say that this locality is the paper on which we write or the mouth which speaks . |
| 13 | The argument we are now to consider tries to show that this assumption ( characteristic of a weak scepticism ) is false . |
| 14 | It took Churchward a while to realize that this language was in fact Naacal , the first language of humankind , which could be translated by , at best , a couple of Indian ( or maybe they were Tibetan ) sages . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | There is some evidence to suggest that this difference is critical . |
| 17 | At the present juncture there is no evidence to suggest that this crime is necessarily linked to those you have mentioned , or indeed to any others . ’ |
| 18 | Most importantly perhaps it is quite clearly a nonsense to suggest that this scheme could be introduced retrospectively for council tenants . |
| 19 | A small accompanying LED lights to show that this channel is operative . |
| 20 | It 's an ongoing exercise , and er we have produced er sufficient scientific evidence to show that this pond is of tremendous value . |
| 21 | ‘ Action must be taken by the government and regulatory authorities to ensure that this situation is addressed . |
| 22 | Mr Aldous and his senior partners have been at pains to ensure that this danger has been minimised at Robson Rhodes . |
| 23 | ‘ It is not an empty claim to say that this conference is one of progress , indeed one of celebration , not of relaxation or complacency . ’ |
| 24 | We have only to look around the Chamber to know that this Parliament is finished ; it is dead . |
| 25 | Once again it is up to the pilot to insist that this wing is held and not to accept someone on the upwind wing-tip . |
| 26 | Limited liability , therefore , still provides effective protection , and there is an obligation to ensure that this benefit to the proprietor is matched by the maintenance of the same minimum standards of fair play towards the users of accounts , whether lenders , creditors , the Inland Revenue , Customs & Excise or minority shareholders — generically ‘ The Public Interest ’ . |
| 27 | The garrison finally capitulated at 4 pm , enabling the Duke to write complacently : ‘ Now we may have the happiness to say that this part of the kingdom is clear of all the rebels . ’ |
| 28 | Obviously took Teddy twenty minutes to think that this iceberg was a it was a , a valid symbol ! |
| 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 | Would you believe he had the temerity to suggest that this house is too large for one person ? |