Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | If as a result of that provision the trustees or the majority of them are deemed , in relation to the trust , not to be resident in the United Kingdom , the provision goes on further to provide that the general administration of the trust shall be treated as ordinarily carried on outside the United Kingdom . |
| 2 | If he lacked Zhivkov 's taste , Ceauşescu showed greater consistency of purpose : Zhivkov survived his fall and lived long enough to explain that he had not really been a Communist after all ; Ceauşescu never gave his judges the satisfaction of hearing him renounce his beliefs . |
| 3 | Fabia had been in her room for a good half-hour before she cooled down sufficiently to realise that maybe her reaction to Lubor 's hauling her into his arms had been a little — fierce — perhaps . |
| 4 | Note 2.4.4 The rather pedantic observation that ( ab ) c = a(bc) is included here only to emphasise that the associativity of unc depends heavily on that of . |
| 5 | So much so , that in the conventional use of the term , ‘ being critical ’ has come almost exclusively to mean that the object or action in question has fallen short of the standards in question . |
| 6 | I have seen enough already to know that my work on Christabel must be seriously altered in the light of what you have in these letters — I would n't be happy going on without taking them into account — and that must be true of Dr Michell 's work on Ash too , just as true . ’ |
| 7 | The person or creature — one of your sub-personalities — starts to argue with you , telling you all the reasons why you are wrong , and why you would do much better to believe that life is full of suffering ! |
| 8 | Cardiff turned to Pearce as the elevator doors slid shut again , pausing only briefly to see that Rohmer was standing almost nonchalantly with his back to the corridor wall and with that infuriating half-smile on his face again . |
| 9 | The progression and results of this study ( which took a number of years and involved the House of Lords Record Office , the British Library , the Public Record Office and the College of Arms , as well as the Bridport manuscript books and medieval wills and testaments ) have been presented not only to show that reference books can be wrong , but that the wealth of material available to the local historian can be utilized to very positive effect over an extremely narrow range as over a wide one . |
| 10 | The sixteenth-century merchant who was so proud of his oriel windows would be astonished if he came back today to find that behind them management was managing and typists typing . |
| 11 | The second came back safely to reveal that men only just have the lion 's share . |
| 12 | It is worth pausing here momentarily to observe that such legally provided remedies can be morally justified even when applied to people who are not subject to the authority of the government and its laws . |
| 13 | We would do well today to see that times to remember are consciously worked into the pattern of our lives . |
| 14 | This must be done very carefully to ensure that the opening of the oviduct remains intact since it is extremely difficult to insert a needle once it has been damaged . |
| 15 | Auditors and tax specialists will have to liaise more closely to ensure that internal procedures allow deadlines to be met . |
| 16 | Even if neither we nor they were quite clued up enough to realise that Jethro Tull was a group and not the inventor of the seed drill ! |
| 17 | The driver led the way , turning around periodically to check that the others were with him . |
| 18 | Dr Tom McManus of the IIRS got up again to say that an assistant to Dr Selikoff at Mount Sinai had told him they were unable to associate any increase in asbestos-related disease to exposure below 100 nanograms , while 100,000 was considered tolerable in a factory ! |
| 19 | The Bank of England stepped in yesterday to signal that a drop in UK interest rates would be premature and longer-dated gilt edged stocks gained as much as £1 . |
| 20 | The question is whether prices and mortgage rates have fallen far enough to ensure that this position will be reached in the near future . |
| 21 | As part of our routine annual review of allocations , we shall continue to consider how best to ensure that funds are targeted where they are most needed . |
| 22 | Those who adopted the third and final position — although the arguments were rarely in practice as clear as this — went further still to argue that pupils should be brought together not only under one roof , not only studying one curriculum , but also within mixed-ability groups . |
| 23 | Almost everyone has a story to tell about dream incorporation — for instance dreaming about Arctic exploration only to wake up and find that the covers have slipped off and he is freezing cold , or dreaming of bells ringing only to wake up eventually to find that the alarm clock has been clattering for the last few minutes . |
| 24 | On suddenly realising he is dreaming , he may try to wake up only to find that his body seems paralysed . |
| 25 | I looked up again to see that she was still asleep and then I began leafing through the pages , curious to see whose names were entered there . |
| 26 | We went back upstairs to find that all the contents of our lockers had been thrown out over the floors , mixed up , trampled on , and that the lockers themselves had been hurled around the room , across the beds , which had been stripped , and out of the doors . |
| 27 | Some have gone even further to suggest that , since people are purposive beings , all practices , including moral practices , are purposive in nature : ‘ a practice without a point is an empty ritual ’ . |
| 28 | The Secretary of State sought earlier today to suggest that this comparative survey ’ Youth and work : transition to employment in England and Germany ’ somehow backed up the Government 's record . |
| 29 | Students should come not merely to know that such and such is the case , or that this procedure works , but should be able to offer their own account of why it is the case or why it works . |
| 30 | I am fascinated to notice that your profession has at last started not merely to say that , but to criticise those who refuse to allow so manifest a fact to be stated in order that it may be examined . |