Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [verb] that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If then his actions simply accorded with what was the convention of his society , this was not because he had so to act , or failed to see that a certain convention was socially limited . |
| 2 | There are 3 indirection operators : The examples that follow assume that a DIM statement has been used to reserves an area of memory and store the address of the first byte of the memory in a variable called " mem " . |
| 3 | Literary criticism has often taken precisely this assumption as its starting point , and has presumed that a literary text is not necessarily saying what it intends to say or even what it appears to say — hence the need for critical interpretation . |
| 4 | JE Nicholson ( Points of View , 10 February ) has done more than 5,000 car journeys over the Forth Road Bridge into Edinburgh , only to be habitually overtaken by a man on a tricycle , and has concluded that a new road bridge is not the answer . |
| 5 | Bill Lewis spent many years dowsing the standing stones of his native South Wales and came to believe that a crossing of underground streams beneath each ‘ active ’ standing stone creates a small static electric field . |
| 6 | It has also abandoned unilateralism and refuses to promise that a Labour government will rid Britain of nuclear weapons in the lifetime of the government . |
| 7 | Speaking in Taif , Saudi Arabia , on Feb. 11 , the Information Minister , Badr Jasim al Yaqub , had dismissed the possibility of early elections and had hinted that a period of martial law might be necessary . |
| 8 | Susanne Turfus , who was Education Officer between 1982–1988 , provided as part of her duties a similar service for parents who sought advice and help to ensure that a deaf child would receive the best possible education . |
| 9 | The Oxford Archaeological Unit has stated the site to be of limited interest and have said that a full excavation would suffice to investigate it . |
| 10 | If the staff of a school are required to ‘ do something about equal opportunities ’ and have read that a single-sex environment improves girls ' performance in mathematics and science , there may well be the belief that once they have reorganised their classes in this way , they have done all that is necessary . |
| 11 | Wakefield et al have shown a multifocal occlusive vasculitis in resected bowel affected by Crohn 's disease , and have shown that a high proportion of granulomas within the bowel wall directly involve damaged blood vessels . |
| 12 | We have publicly stated that we believe the Government should address this issue sooner rather than later and have suggested that a flexible approach to State pension age could be achieved with little additional cost to the State . |
| 13 | The company is busily registering Digivision as a trade name around the world , but has found that a small British firm is already using the name for electronic equipment . |
| 14 | Good-quality collars can be bought at virtually every gunshop but do ensure that a top-quality swivel is located between the collar D and the line itself . |
| 15 | Students can also apply from any part of the world , and audition in the UK , but need to remember that a high standard of fluency in the English language will be expected . |
| 16 | The fault lay with other clubs who responded to the devastating effectiveness of Arsenal 's attack merely by turning their centre-halves into stoppers , while failing to grasp that a sound defence was only the springboard to attack and not an end in itself . |