Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He was later to become suspicious of Maine 's motives , however , as he was to see in the glorification of contract a subtle justification of the legal institutions of capitalism , and he was to seen in Maine 's insistence on the primacy of the monogamous family an attempt to prove that this institution was beyond historical change . |
| 32 | But although Todorov 's analysis of James seems to conform to distinctions between reading , criticism and poetics in its attempt to prove that structuralist criticism is possible , it also undermines them . |
| 33 | Marx 's whole work was an attempt to show that this image was false ; that there was nothing inevitable about all this , but rather that this apparent powerlessness of the worker to determine the wage was the product of the distribution of property and especially of the distribution of the ownership of such things as land , machines , tools , etc . |
| 34 | The technique was used in a previous study to show that three members ( blood relatives ) of a duodenal ulcer family did indeed harbour clonal variants of the same strain of H pylori . |
| 35 | A divided assessment may have the added advantage of allowing the valuer to claim that certain areas have now become common to two occupations and should be omitted from the valuation . |
| 36 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the Broadcasting Act 1990 placed on the ITC the requirement to ensure that all bids were sustainable and stable for the whole 10 years of the franchise ? |
| 37 | If he will read all our policy , he will find clearly stated our determination to ensure that rural areas are protected against the petrol price rises that the Conservatives , Labour , and my own party recognise are otherwise inevitable in due course to protect the environment . |
| 38 | There was an explicit determination to ensure that all course elements studied and assessed were at degree level , and there were criticisms of ‘ traditional ’ submissions . |
| 39 | In spite of the Department 's ‘ determination to ensure that new research projects should include suggestions as to the best means of dissemination' ( para. 261 ) the Committee believed , from their evidence , that ‘ many social workers go about their complex tasks unaware of research findings which might influence and assist their decisions ’ . |
| 40 | There is a need to develop flexible budgeting to ensure that actual expenditure is measured against a budget which has been flexed to take account of actual workload ( recognising both volume and mix factors ) . |
| 41 | A Customs spokesman in Dublin said : ‘ We have an ongoing campaign to ensure that marked diesel oil is only used for its intended purpose and that hydro-carbon oil is not imported from the North . ’ |
| 42 | The vice-chancellors committee wants to consult polytechnic directors and the Government about ‘ how a full cost system might work ’ , recognising that it will need help to ensure that any changes , if made , increase opportunities and avoid hardship . |
| 43 | agrees that samples of all packaging , advertising , labelling and the like of the Licensed Products shall be provided to for inspection prior to initial use of the first Licensed Product to be published by which incorporates the Work to ensure that all Trade Marks are properly identified as the property of . |
| 44 | This registration procedure is part of the Museum and Galleries Commission work to ensure that all Museums come up to a certain level of competence , and to ensure the future well being of their collections . |
| 45 | The documents were prepared by the Law Society 's Race Relations Committee to ensure that all candidates for the judiciary know what is expected of them . |
| 46 | In the nineteenth century , they turned around the idea that women 's place was in the home to argue that motherly values should be extended beyond it . |
| 47 | ‘ It takes an enlightened boss to realise that standard textbook career progression is not always right for certain people , ’ says Kate Hargreaves . |
| 48 | A quick check confirmed that , looking straight ahead , the threshold would appear where his helmet had been It took a dumbfounded second to realise that this illusion was caused by that blasted periscope , fulfilling its designed job , in the centre of my field of view . |
| 49 | This offence can be considered where a hole appears in the side of the silencer etc. , as some doubt exists whether the gases have passed ‘ through ’ the silencer etc. , if they have passed through half of the silencer , Until there is judicial assistance to say that such gases must pass all the way through a silencer to escape liability under regulation 54(1) , a regulation 54(2) offence may be the safest offence . |
| 50 | It is no exaggeration to say that this function of the budget shifts the emphasis away from the ‘ actual ’ results as recorded in the financial accounts , towards the budget . |
| 51 | It would be a bit of an exaggeration to say that little Doug Flutie out-quarterbacked Houston 's big Warren Moon . |
| 52 | ( 5 ) Where the term excludes liability if some condition is not complied with , whether it was reasonable at time of contract to expect that such condition could be complied with . |
| 53 | Perhaps we are seeing , as an evolution ( the origins of which can be traced to the nineteenth century ) , the emergence of a genuine hybrid tribunal , in which case to suggest that this body is a further example of the use of judges for extrajudicial activities is only one way to describe it . |
| 54 | It has been their job to see that local councils do not spend money on activities which can not be justified by statute . |
| 55 | It does n't take too much imagination to guess that this means ‘ draw a circle centred at x = 10.5 , y = 24.75 , and of radius 3.9 , in whatever units we happen to be using at the moment ’ . |
| 56 | Simple denial — refusal to accept that any staff have problems with alcohol or drugs or other forms of addictive disease . |
| 57 | Well , she was a doctor , and she knew enough about human physiology to know that healthy men and women sometimes reacted to each other in the most devastating ways . |
| 58 | Most importantly , even though such ‘ accidents ’ may be shown to have had some precipitating social factors in the past , there is no need to suggest that such factors are present today . |
| 59 | You have the right to expect that any information imparted to a member of staff will be treated with respect and confidentiality , though some medical information will have to be discussed with other staff members . |
| 60 | Apart from the fact that a fully satisfactory solution is available without the need to assume that truncated clauses lurk beneath predicate qualifiers , there would be good reasons for discounting the possibility , even if one did not initially accept the intensional pattern of ( 15 ) as valid . |