Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [verb] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what arrangements he has made to ensure that existing recipients of attendance allowance and mobility allowance receive disability living allowance in April . |
| 2 | The slow evolution of select committee work has helped to ensure that both these obstacles have been surmounted . |
| 3 | I hold no specific brief for the Baxter scheme , but it has attempted to demonstrate that alternative schemes could be produced that would retain the Government 's proposal for a terminus — an interchange — at King 's Cross , but states that the plan would be more satisfactory if it were achieved without creating an enormous hole in the ground which British Rail proposes , with all the consequent destruction of homes , jobs and local neighbourhood . |
| 4 | This section has attempted to show that more research is needed into the make-up of multiple estates in the earliest periods for which documents exist . |
| 5 | There has been some controversy in recent years over the effect which the plague had on the population , and the bacteriologist J. F. D. Shrewsbury has tried to argue that bubonic plague could not , by its nature , have destroyed as high a proportion of the population as historians have claimed ( 102 ) . |
| 6 | A retired solicitor will not be treated as continuing to hold himself out as a partner merely because he has neglected to ensure that revised letterheads are used by the firm from the date of his retirement , but there could be more of a problem when he has been party to a lease of partnership property and steps have not been taken to replace him as one of its lessees/trustees. ( e ) Sureties Section 18 of the Partnership Act contains a special provision which applies , in the absence of contrary agreement , whenever there is a change in the membership of a firm : A continuing guaranty or cautionary obligation given either to a firm or to a third person in respect of the transactions of a firm is , in the absence of agreement to the contrary , revoked as to future transactions by any change in the constitution of the firm to which , or of the firm in respect of transactions of which , the guaranty or obligation was given . |
| 7 | Such research has purported to show that abusing parents are more likely to have , for example , personality problems ( Loss and Glancy , 1983 ; Kokkevi and Agathonos , 1987 ) , low IQ ( Oliver , 1977 ) and have been the victims of abuse themselves ( Kempe and Kempe , 1978 ) . |
| 8 | This important legal ruling that the untaught deaf and dumb could be held responsible for the crimes they committed helped to ensure that another uneducated deaf woman was punished for the infanticide of her child . |
| 9 | I think you were sort of there to , and then you see you , you 've got to remember that all our lectures were taken in our off duty time . |
| 10 | But the fact that we should now have come to believe that such a society might be both possible and desirable is certainly interesting . |
| 11 | But Polybius would of course have had to jettison his pet idea of the mixed constitution , and generally speaking he would have had to admit that those Romans whose minds appeared so transparent to him were in fact much more mysterious creatures . |
| 12 | Public concern , legislation , departmental procedures , and pressure on professional staff would have combined to ensure that effective action was taken . |
| 13 | Not surprisingly he was livid , and having failed to realise that those who laugh easily do not fear easily , he tried several means of torture to get her to consent . |
| 14 | Mr. Davis felt constrained to accept that such a case might be within the purview of the legislation . |
| 15 | I think I 've come to realise that Western dress is shallow . |
| 16 | She still admired her education and artistic breadth but had come to realise that these were all Miss Hatherby could share with her . |
| 17 | The disaster was all the more stunning because people had come to assume that such things did n't happen . |
| 18 | By the time Durkheim came to write Two Laws of Penal Evolu-tion , he had modified his theory about the decline in importance of the conscience collective ( a phrase he ceased to use ) and had come to believe that collective sentiments were a crucial factor in any society . |
| 19 | One afternoon in late October we heard on a local radio station that someone , claiming to speak for Islamic Jihad , had phoned to announce that two Americans would be executed . |
| 20 | Classical elite theorists had sought to show that liberal democracy was a utopian ideal incapable of realization . |
| 21 | Much of what Suragai had said suggested that all the races had been around for far longer than recorded history , but that was a possibility which had always been accepted . |
| 22 | Very late in the day they had written to say that some arrangement had fallen through and they would be prepared to play us if they could find sufficient members interested in taking part . |
| 23 | There are statistics kept on accidents by er Central Government which all hospitals are asked to put to but you 've got to realize that these are only people who have attended hospital . |
| 24 | I hate the sort of book that says , " Now a word of warning here , " but I 've got to say that all these old mine workings are dangerous . |
| 25 | You 've got to remember that this is in Jamaica , and we 're in England . |
| 26 | We 've got to recognise that many women in our organisation , for example , perceive a glass ceiling . |
| 27 | They 've got to learn that this business is plagued with fantasists and people with grudges . |
| 28 | I 've got to get that those AVCs er , I mean if I had to , if that happened , how would we pay off Brian ? |
| 29 | my Lord we se , I do n't think that 's true because what we 're saying and if and I believe it does flair from our keepers that erm we have to prove we 've got to prove that these restrictions would of lead to category of business from what the |
| 30 | You 've got to note that this training , you would like this training |