Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] that [noun] [be] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 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 .
2 Do the answers given suggest that laws are followed because they are agreed with and felt to be right — indicating the influence of informal control mechanisms ?
3 Five minutes went by as she reflected that Rosemary must be feeling as miserable as Travis , then , checking to see that Travis was all right as she passed , she went to bed .
4 On his voyage , he has realised that sport is more than just a game to Americans , and that sports stars are the heroes of the nation .
5 He adds : ‘ Monie has realised that Jason is a player who thrives on a roving commission .
6 In the US , he asserts , the government has realised that legislation is not enough and has set up the Computer Expert Resource Team .
7 As Pip has realised that Magwitch is Estella 's father and he comforts him by telling him that his daughter is still alive and that he is in love with her .
8 Italy has realised that mine is a very useful role .
9 With bored businessmen and other visitors , it had n't taken the authorities long to realize that gambling was an important source of foreign currency .
10 Here though , unless one wants to claim that context is whatever ( excluding semantics ) produces inferences , some characterization of context seems required .
11 However , a report from the US Fish and Wildlife Agency has claimed that Japan is contravening its allowance .
12 In the first place , no-one has claimed that education is the only factor making for economic growth , and vice versa , no-one has argued that education makes no impact whatsoever on economic growth .
13 First , it empowers the Secretary of State to make safety regulations governing the making and supplying of goods , i. e. regulations designed to secure that goods are safe , that appropriate information is supplied with them and inappropriate information is not supplied .
14 Mr Justice Hutchison said the 1936 Act primarily envisages a system where the local authority has a power and a duty to try to secure that premises are not in a state which constitutes a statutory nuisance .
15 A working group made up of clinicians , consultants , GPs and other health professionals has looked at a number of options and has recommended that services be consolidated , and accommodation improvements made , at the Chest Hospital .
16 The concessions and trade-offs which have come to form the main content of Zambian politics have proved fatally debilitating , even though the skill with which they have been orchestrated by President Kenneth Kaunda ( KK ) has ensured that Zambia is one of the least oppressive societies in Africa .
17 For some farmers and landowners the major impact of the newcomers has therefore been political rather than social , for their arrival in the village has ensured that landownership is no longer the automatic passport to the political domination of the countryside that it was once considered to be .
18 He tried to remember that Fiver was under-sized and that they had had an anxious time and were all weary .
19 Professor Everitt has written that innkeepers were among the most mobile elements in the community , but that only a minority established dynasties that lasted for three or four generations .
20 Dahrendorf , however , has argued that alienation is irrelevant to empirical social science , ‘ since no amount of empirical research can either confirm or refute it ’ .
21 Paul Smith has argued that Disraeli was no great reformer but was of enormous value to the party because he was believed to have been one ; in rediscovering Disraeli , the USRC rediscovered the myth too .
22 In order to avoid the pitfalls of economism he has argued that classes are defined at all levels , not just at the economic one .
23 Dr Dennis Cope , of UCLA , has said that Ali is a victim of ‘ Parkinson 's syndrome secondary to pugilistic brain syndrome ’ .
24 Which programme has said that Newark was closed ?
25 Nobody has said that Norwich were nt offside … so why bother telling us theyd ‘ scored ’ ?
26 Pol Pot has said that animals are an important part of Cambodia 's heritage and must be protected .
27 Apparently , the ad consists of BRUCE DICKINSON holding the band 's mascot EDDIE up to the camera and drawling : ‘ Buckle up , or you could end up looking like this , ’ but market research has revealed that viewers were far more frightened at the prospect of looking like Brucie himself .
28 The World Cup Soccer Championship begins in early June in Italy , and an I T N investigation has revealed that hooligans are planning big trouble .
29 Management has decided that workers are still not ready to be pushed too far towards Japanese-style working methods , or as one assembly worker at Dagenham put it : ‘ If they think I 'm going to do physical jerks and sing the company song before I start my shift , they 've got another think coming . ’
30 Keegan knows that Tommy will not settle for second best indefinitely and if he has decided that Srnecek is his favourite then £500,000 would represent good business .
  Next page