Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason that has been given for saying that Halley 's attempt was serious , rather than merely placatory , is that he confessed in public that his efforts had not , after all , produced decisive results . |
| 2 | Anyone viewing all this nonsense from another planet — as most men do — can be forgiven for assuming that women are a bunch of mixed up crazies who do n't know what they want , but do know that they want it all , both ways and with jam on the top , too . |
| 3 | You 'd be forgiven for thinking that Windows 3.1 is the biggest selling application of all time , with unit sales of around a million a month . |
| 4 | Given all of the above , you might be forgiven for thinking that tennis and fitness are somewhat secondary to the social aspects of the club . |
| 5 | In fact you could be forgiven for thinking that SuperCalc was just like Lotus 1-2-3 , except that the backslash key menus run along the bottom of the screen instead of the top ! |
| 6 | You 'd be forgiven for thinking that Meany 's camera equipment probably went ‘ crunch ’ on this one . |
| 7 | YOU could be forgiven for thinking that pop star Yazz is off to study . |
| 8 | Some fifty successful local wage claims apart , and despite Wilson 's optimism in his Presidential Address at the Annual Conference of the union in September 1916 , seamen might have been forgiven for concluding that patriotism had done very little for their cause . |
| 9 | From their historical perspective Marx and Engels could be forgiven for arguing that late-nineteenth-century Britain had a repressive capitalist state . |
| 10 | You could have been excused for believing that Maradonna had made a come back . |
| 11 | City protested after learning that Bury St Edmunds referee Kelvin Morton was scheduled to take charge . |
| 12 | ’ The Government has made clear its intention to work towards ensuring that development and growth are sustainable . |
| 13 | The collapse of the previous International was also attributed by Lenin to the deviant ideology of its leaders and the Comintern was consequently designed in see that orthodoxy was imposed centrally upon all sections . |
| 14 | All the same , he has written a book committed to proving that Europeans ought to unite . |
| 15 | We have seen that , according to Althusser 's reading , Marx is committed to arguing that practices are mutually dependent , and some of the links between them are displayed in Althusser 's attempt to clarify the relations between the practices of capitalist society . |
| 16 | If these were the only considerations , merger policy might be confined to ensuring that companies formed accurate assessments of the costs and benefits of mergers . |
| 17 | This is most easily simplified by noting that C can be written formally as unc and consequently |
| 18 | It starts by proclaiming that God is dead or what comes to the same thing , that if he exists he is irrelevant . |
| 19 | The subsection concludes by providing that Part IV of Schedule 2 is to have effect for determining whether suitable accommodation will be available . |
| 20 | Please would you therefore confirm in writing that cyclists , if necessary pushing their bikes , are to be treated as pedestrians and allowed to proceed . |
| 21 | ‘ Alice ’ was a jolly girl and did not give way to deep depression as another ‘ Army ’ mother had done on finding that baby would not be a Major as her father was . |
| 22 | We conclude by noting that Young ( 1987 ) , in a paper which attacks the one-sided partiality of much criminological theory , is rightly critical of what he calls the adversarial positivism which characterises the debate over unemployment and crime . |
| 23 | Treatment with one of the benzimidazoles or levamisole is effective and the condition may be prevented by ensuring that birds do not run on the same ground each year . |
| 24 | To say that Socrates is mortal is true is not to say anything that can not be said by asserting that Socrates is mortal . |
| 25 | A further reason that may be advanced for insisting that police interference of whatever kind must be legally justified is that it is an understandable human reaction to respond with some indignation to an allegation or suspicion believed by its object to be unjustified . |
| 26 | I tell you what it could be is that cos you got ta know that C D's use laser to read it |
| 27 | He was accused of asserting that Hitler had rejected the army 's suggestions of an airlift to remove the encircled troops , and of saying : ‘ The Führer has always spoken himself about how important Stalingrad is , and now he 's gone and lost it . ’ |
| 28 | Thus new all new developments must conform with the development plan which must ‘ work towards ensuring that development and growth are sustainable ’ . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , Western interests lie in ensuring that Russia does not become the overweening power in the region . |
| 30 | Incredibly the Appeal Court ruled that Mathews was not necessarily lying in saying that Murphy was the driver of the getaway van but could have been mistaken ; and this third appeal was dismissed . |