Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she needs to remember that deciding strategies is easy ; implementing them is hard . |
| 2 | They want to assert that homosexual relationships are just as valid as heterosexual ones and that it is perfectly ‘ natural ’ for some people to be homosexual if their inclination is in that direction and that those who profess distaste for homosexuality are denying them human rights . |
| 3 | He thought , not for the first time , that a system which required ministers to run their departments , fulfil their parliamentary responsibilities , and spend the weekend listening to the grievances of their constituents , might have been designed to ensure that major decisions were made by men and women tired to the point of exhaustion . |
| 4 | On waste , the government intends to introduce a system of credits designed to ensure that local authorities get on target to meet the goal of 25 per cent recycling of household waste by 2000 . |
| 5 | The diversity of museum collections in general requires that these practices be sufficiently flexible to accommodate the unusual object or set of circumstances , and yet sufficiently disciplined to ensure that realistic standards can be established and maintained . |
| 6 | ‘ Many of us truly want to believe that money-making schemes are genuine , even if we harbour some doubts . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When the engineer checks the claim , he or she needs to ensure that additional costs are not claimed twice , for example additional costs already recovered by additional measured work or dayworks or variations priced at current prices . |
| 9 | From Enid Blyton to Henry James , the reader has to appreciate that different things are being expected of him or her . |
| 10 | In either event , the employee will probably seek to argue that operational savings properly fall to be regarded as a benefit derived from the patent . |
| 11 | He was then involved in civil defence and he took me to see a trial designed to show that air-raid shelters built to government specifications were death-traps . |
| 12 | Erm authorities are expected to show that environmental concerns have been comprehensively and consistently taken into adv erm account in their plans . |
| 13 | It is one of the privileges of a councillor in a council meeting to see that other members obey standing orders . |
| 14 | International credit market : The main aspects of the euro-credit market will be dealt with in the next chapter ; suffice to state that international banks must consider country/sovereign risk in relation to project loans . |
| 15 | Although it will not do to assume that political developments in different nation states will ever be sufficiently ‘ synchronised ’ to avoid entirely the problems of advancing the socialist project in one country , or a restricted group of countries , this consideration does point to the vital need for maximum international coordination in the pursuit of socialist objectives . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Either attempts can be made to ensure that corporate managers behave as profit-maximizers by making them responsive once again to the market ; or , alternatively , new life can be breathed into the legal model of the company so that managers are once again forced to act in the interests of the shareholders . |
| 18 | The Council undertakes to ensure that future changes in these terms will be entered in theses documents , or otherwise recorded for you to refer to , within 28 days of the change . |
| 19 | This process will be carefully regulated to ensure that appropriate services are available in each locality . |
| 20 | Work therefore needs to be done to ensure that administrative records are retained sensibly , since it would be impossible to preserve every piece of information for ever . |
| 21 | Instead , a new grouping of critics , working under the influence of theorists such as Louis Althusser and Michel Foucault , came to realise that literary texts did not mark out expression which could somehow break free of the culture which produced them . |
| 22 | In addition , research on large lexicons seemed to imply that lexicon-based constraints could constrain the identity of a word on the basis of very little phonemic information . |
| 23 | THE HISTORY of belief in the supernormal over the past hundred years is studded with the names of famous illusionists who have sought to prove that much-vaunted miracles were nothing more than conjuring tricks . |
| 24 | Initially , the main aim of this research was to demonstrate the inaccuracy of Chomsky 's characterization of the input as " random and degenerate " but , more recently , attempts have been made to show that particular features of this register actually facilitate the learner 's task . |
| 25 | We tend to assume that significant rituals are only found in ‘ primitive ’ societies and in state ceremonies such as the Coronation . |
| 26 | I do n't want to suggest that social problems can be cured by the application of wealth . |
| 27 | However , they would like to confirm that other guitarists are being considered to replace him . |
| 28 | We would also like to suggest that interested readers attend meetings organised by the RSC Chemometrics Group or UK Chemometrics Discussion Group , which are regularly advertised in Chemistry in Britain . |
| 29 | The BMA strove to insist that local officials ( medically qualified though they were ) should merely inspect child health , leaving treatment to the independent doctors . |
| 30 | These emphasize the protection of individual rights , working on behalf of the client for more and better services , and attempting to ensure that existing services meet client needs and provide care to agreed service specifications . |