Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Responsibility for seeing that these conditions are complied with post-authorisation lies in the first instance with the trustee company . |
| 2 | The sequence number field orders the rows and provides a mechanism for checking that all rows of the text were stored or read . |
| 3 | Two supermarket chains — Sainsbury 's and Tesco — have their own systems for checking that fresh foods do not contain significant pesticide residues . |
| 4 | The state apparatus is subject to scrutiny and investigation by joint party-state control committees responsible for rooting out inefficiency , red tape , departmentalism , localism , embezzlement and corruption ; and for checking that governrnent funds have been used in ways intended by government policy . |
| 5 | One of the hypotheses which will be tested is that comprehension of the logical character of ‘ mental state verbs ’ is necessary for understanding that some sentences are true in virtue of their form alone ( eg ‘ The father is a man ’ ) . |
| 6 | Professor Tisdale , 47 , began the project at Aston University , Birmingham , after noticing that some cancers stopped sufferers from absorbing food . |
| 7 | After saying that actuarial calculations were based on the performance of the average man , went on quote , the average man has an expectation of life of a certain number of years . |
| 8 | After finding that large numbers were addicted , researchers then gave a psychological test to two groups of children — some of those with the heaviest addiction and others who did not play computer games . |
| 9 | Staff at the medical centre at Heathrow airport once called in the Customs and Excise after discovering that two men admitted in a critical condition had brought it upon themselves after swallowing a total of forty-eight condoms filled with liquid cannabis . |
| 10 | When the life of a child can so easily hang in the balance , is there not a case for recommending that all parents attend a practical course in first aid , rather than relying on the printed page ? |
| 11 | Finally , at a time when the demand for public accountability has never been greater , it is worth remembering that many museums receive substantial grants towards what is supposed to be their educational provision for the general public . |
| 12 | ( However , it 's worth remembering that many readers skip the advertisement sections . ) |
| 13 | It is worth remembering that simple sentences are more likely to be grammatically correct than long , involved ones . |
| 14 | It 's worth remembering that all drugs are open to abuse , and that people offer what they believe to be plausible explanations for such abuse : " To escape my problems ' ; " To relieve boredom " ; " To stay awake at parties ' ; " For self-confidence " ; " To be one of the crowd " ; " To help me get on with people " ; " To stop me worrying " ; " To become more creative " ; " To help me study all night " ; " It blows my mind " ; " For a pick-me-up " . |
| 15 | Finally it is worth remembering that general SVQs can be taken alongside other ‘ extra ’ modules , such as foreign languages , or modules requiring a higher level of competence . |
| 16 | It is worth remembering that most accidents happen within a few miles of home . |
| 17 | This came under heavy fire for implying that small firms set up without planning permission should only have enforcement orders issued against them if alternative premises were available . |
| 18 | I wondered what would count as an adequate educational response to individuals being labelled deviant , a response which would not simply take for granted that certain acts were or were not deviant but would look at the whole context of the interaction . |
| 19 | But Nagel himself is content to take for granted that other creatures do have experiences , and he does not require of an objective phenomenology that it provide a philosophical proof of this presupposition . |
| 20 | The comfortable classes could take it for granted that such conditions were the lot of the working classes : sad but normal . |
| 21 | We take it for granted that individual departments and even individual managers should have objectives . |
| 22 | It is much too easy to take for granted that both sides in an argument have the same over-all objective and are engaged in argument as to how that objective can be reached . |
| 23 | In this emergent consciousness paradigm it will be taken for granted that human beings have psychological capacities ; capacities largely unrecognised today and almost entirely unsuspected 50 years ago . |
| 24 | The scientists could not even take for granted that human factors were causing the bay to deteriorate ; cryptic changes in the natural world could , for all that was known , have been responsible . |
| 25 | But it should not be taken for granted that these types of programmes are the ideal and only way to approach health education , whether in schools or by health professionals . |
| 26 | In this chapter I want , first of all , to outline some of the reasons for believing that different types of animal have different types of brain , and second , to discuss ways of getting round some of the difficulties created when we want to make extrapolations between species . |
| 27 | Those who have the job of seeing that political studies libraries are kept up may well ask themselves if there is any point . |
| 28 | However , since joint production and ( more clearly ) joint marketing is much more likely to create the undesirable anticompetitive effects which cause concern than joint R&D is , it seems reasonable to insist that firms which propose extending joint activities beyond R&D must bear the burden of proving that such extensions are in the public interest . |
| 29 | It is an atavistic reaction , born partly of disappointment that decades of believing that infectious diseases are a danger past and partly from the underlying despair of those infected with HIV and the anger of the groups that represent them . |
| 30 | One can abandon the view that we have any infallible beliefs and find other ways of supposing that some beliefs are non-inferentially justified . |