Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [vb infin] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , it is not general practice to confirm or deny that nuclear tests are about to take place . |
| 2 | The behaviourist theory of knowledge says that for someone , S , to know or believe that some proposition p is true is for S to be disposed to behave in some way which is supposed to be appropriate to the world 's being as p says . |
| 3 | The declaration , with its renewed emphasis on the importance of unity and on the obstacles to it , reads like the triumph of hope over experience : ‘ We urge our clergy and faithful not to neglect or undervalue that certain yet imperfect communion we already share . |
| 4 | Now the Presbyterian Church as the Church of Scotland enjoys a unique place in Scottish life and its structures it has a privileged place but I would suggest to you it has also therefore a number of responsibilities and one , I would suggest in this case , is to try and ensure that these local regional teams are in place . |
| 5 | ‘ They 're going to try and get that other door open , ’ she told me . |
| 6 | It must recognise and rejoice that many of its clergy and thousands of its members are Christians first and Anglicans second . |
| 7 | There is still quite a lot of opposition , so I do n't think it 's , it 's a certainty , but I would certainly very much hope and believe that this is the will of God for the Church and that , that it will happen . |
| 8 | To verify or disprove that therapeutic vaccines can induce an anti-HIV immune response of such a kind that it has clinical , positive consequences ; and |
| 9 | A few Atlanticists , as one might term the doubters , decline to recognize or admit that such things exist . |
| 10 | Louis , who was the one most able , physically , to intervene and demand that commonsense prevail , merely took the line of least resistance by remaining shtum ( quiet ) . |
| 11 | So you know I mean more than that by all means , you know , er so much the better , you know y the more the merrier but erm certainly you know kind of it 's a good idea to at least try and get that many erm |
| 12 | While such large molar masses are now taken for granted , it was difficult in 1920 to believe and accept that these values were real and not just caused by the aggregation of much smaller molecules . |
| 13 | I think that there is every reason to suppose and hope that that kind of approach is what most people want and er even er Mr Bush and Mrs Thatcher and others have said that er the last thing they want is a war . |
| 14 | Amis nudged along his suburban ensemble with typically unhurried assurance , but he did n't seem to notice or care that each character spoke the same jocular bloke-in-the-pub idiom : long , broken-backed sentences that thrive on small qualifications . |
| 15 | No-one is suggesting that the forecast famine will be transformed into a flush but auctioneers anticipate prices being so strong they will be impossible to ignore and predict that reasonable numbers of finished steers and bulls will be pulled on to the market . |
| 16 | You may snort and think that this is very far-fetched but you can be assured that the majority of lecturers who appear before you not only know their subjects but are enthusiastic about them and about transmitting their knowledge to you . |
| 17 | I could only sit and marvel that some things are the same the world over . |
| 18 | Right , now they 're both ethers try and name them first in naming them take the biggest hydro-carbon chunk that you can find and pretend that that was an alkane so the smaller chunk then becomes the substituant . |