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

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31 Circular 8/81 noted that ‘ although the Community Land Act is repealed , authorities still have a valuable , though limited , role to play in ensuring that land is brought forward for private development .
32 It might be argued that the courts have a role to play in ensuring that groups which have been unfairly denied access to the policy-making arena or who have a genuine complaint about how that process was conducted , should be allowed to challenge the outcome of that process in the courts .
33 Data archives have a vital role to play in ensuring that documentation is produced which , as far as possible satisfies user requirements .
34 It amounts to saying that people who have sex more regularly somehow deserve the disease ’
35 got to got that Casanova that ,
36 To emphasize that markets are not the only possible allocation devices , we begin by assuming that allocations are chosen by a central dictator .
37 At present the fiction that each MP acts on his own judgement and takes a discriminating part in legislation is preserved by insisting that members must be present and pass through the lobbies night after night , though in fact such activity makes no material difference , but seriously impedes MPs in their task of keeping up to date with their special interests and with their constituency work .
38 ‘ Do n't be lulled into believing that Wales are back on top .
39 We are sorry that Mr Blake is ill , and sorry , too , that he has been misled into thinking that experiments on mice can tell anyone anything about a human being .
40 Before introducing a new set of coordinates , it may be noted in passing that Feinstein and Ibañez ( 1989 ) have considered an alternative coordinate system and have expanded a general solution in a different way involving Bessel and Neumann functions of zero order .
41 The chair began by stating that 90% of the jobs promoted in Northern Ireland were in companies which already exist here and , given the structure of industry , very few of these jobs would go to West Belfast .
42 We began by considering that channels can be studied by conventional or macroscopic techniques , or alternatively by so-called microscopic methods , which enable us to look at single channel currents .
43 We began by saying that William Titford moved house comparatively infrequently , and within a fairly limited area ; he and Mary Ann found new accommodation only once more in their married life together — as the children grew up and left home the parents moved to 48 Freegrove Road , Holloway , just off the Caledonian Road .
44 He began by saying that people were starving to death , and it got more pessimistic from then on : the resettlement camps , the ensuing dislocation which meant people could no longer grow their food , the dying children .
45 Allchin began by admitting that Microsoft has had a problem communicating its approach to object technology and claimed he was on the panel to put the record straight : there are objects in Windows NT because there is an object management system in the kernel — its simply not exposed to users .
46 Feminists began by arguing that sex differences are artificial and insignificant , for the very good reason that the idea of natural differences had so often been used to justify discriminatory treatment against women .
47 He began by indicating that Catholics , in general , had some experience of how the O.T .
48 In the absence of further information to the contrary , we are justified in assuming that money wages and the prices of non-labour inputs have also risen in proportion to the rise in price of final output .
49 A bystander at his creation , or rather arriving a few moments after it , would feel justified in assuming that Adam had had a mother , been born and brought up in the usual way , and was in every way like us ; but he would be wrong .
50 All we need is to show that your belief that you are not a brain in a vat can not be justified since nothing in your experience can count as evidence for that proposition , and then appeal to an analogue of : which holds that if a is justified in believing that p and that p implies q , a is justified in believing that q .
51 That is why we feel justified in saying that Realism has held sway for the last forty years .
52 What these legislative reforms seem to be suggesting is that all is basically well with the traditional model where the directors of the company manage the company but are supervised in that task by the shareholders who , if given the requisite powers , can be relied upon to ensure that directors do not use their powers for their own purposes .
53 ‘ Practical ’ determinism and ‘ practical ’ indeterminism thus converge in allowing that circumstances can be specified which give rise to varying levels of probability of crime occurring .
54 If investment in public education was a necessary political and humanitarian response to the problems of poverty and underprivilege , if it was an appropriate means of fostering and maintaining religious adherence , and if it was calculated to equip young people with the skills demanded by a changing industrial society , then a strategy had to be found for ensuring that value was obtained for the funds invested .
55 Imbuing staff with specific cultural attitudes which they must constantly rehearse ; part of this consists of ensuring that staff are proud to be part of a highly elite team
56 But do n't be hoodwinked into thinking that gifts and other offerings are the way to bring lasting happiness .
57 And the joy of the Christian , you know , is found in knowing that God 's going to sustain us no matter what the future holds .
58 In a subsequent decision the Court of Appeal thought many factors needed to be weighed before concluding that individuals could possess no such rights .
59 Spouse unable to refrain from observing that Mrs Body 's body will soon be a-mouldering in the grave .
60 Having failed to complete the flute music for De Jean , he had only received half the commission fee , a fact he tried to disguise by claiming that life in Mannheim was very expensive .
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