Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] [that] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 . ’
5 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 !
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 We would do well today to see that times to remember are consciously worked into the pattern of our lives .
9 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 .
10 Auditors and tax specialists will have to liaise more closely to ensure that internal procedures allow deadlines to be met .
11 The question is whether prices and mortgage rates have fallen far enough to ensure that this position will be reached in the near future .
12 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 .
13 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 ’ .
14 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 .
15 ‘ I 've seen him play often enough to know that he will do a good job for us . ’
16 In addition to the success of the LDP in broadly maintaining its position , its PKO allies — the DSP and Komeito — also performed well enough to ensure that they could continue to offer the LDP an overall majority in the upper house .
17 But , at least , it lasted long enough to show that the potential and the will were there .
18 Most of us have lived long enough to know that you ca n't say with any certainty , where you might be in the future .
19 Beddington had lived long enough to know that very few people were quite what the public considered them .
20 She had refused to sign the treaty recognizing Elizabeth as legitimate Queen of England , still considering her far from legitimate ; yet , once returned to Scotland , she compromised far enough to say that she would accept Elizabeth 's tenure during her lifetime on the understanding that her own eventual right to the succession was acknowledged .
21 But I had now finally to conclude that the love and the joy and the laughter that was Leslie had vanished for ever .
22 Note that world execute access is needed to the Process Directory itself ; you need therefore also to check that the entire VMS pathname above the Process Directory also has world execute access at every level .
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