Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is one of the privileges of a councillor in a council meeting to see that other members obey standing orders . |
| 2 | In these circumstances the creditor should be seeking to ensure that unfair advantage is not taken of the surety . |
| 3 | ‘ I think we are going to see that slight pick-up disappear . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | My right hon. Friend the Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup ( Mr. Heath ) echoed Harold Macmillan 's theme when he spoke to the House on 28 October 1971 : ’ I can not over-emphasise the importance the scale and quality of the decision whether we are going to decide that Western Europe should now move along the path to real unity our decision tonight will vitally affect the sort of world in which we British people and many generations to come will live their lives ’ . |
| 6 | It is only now that men and women are beginning to realize that representative institutions are not necessarily guardians of freedom but can themselves become engines of tyranny . |
| 7 | ‘ It means that they 're beginning to realize that Free People are not just a bunch of dumb bomb-chuckers . ’ |
| 8 | Scientists are beginning to argue that psychological fitness could be the biggest hurdle to a Mars mission . |
| 9 | I 'm beginning to feel that direct action is the only way forward like Earth First , who in Canada lie down in front of loggers and generally sabotage development . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , Dr Dunstaple was gradually coming to realize that other things were missing . |
| 11 | Having accepted that previous attempts to build a comprehensive Western Europe had failed through the efforts to incorporate Britain into the design , there was now a widespread conviction that a multi-purpose unit could be fashioned by the little Europe of the Six . |
| 12 | In the types of premises under consideration , having accepted that conventional methods of fire fighting are likely to be ineffective , the success of controlling fire may perhaps no longer be judged in terms of cubic capacity alone . |
| 13 | My sister and I were investments that did n't pay off for the income that is derived from investment is unearned income : having made that initial payment , the investor need make no further effort . |
| 14 | In 1799 , having decided that strict attention to work was undermining his health , Edwards turned his business over to R. H. Evans [ q.v. ] and set up as a gentleman collector . |
| 15 | Having decided that basic fact , the real problem is getting to the chosen position at the right time and without being shut out by other yachts . |
| 16 | During the 1940s , the government , having decided that sufficient redistribution of land had taken place , began to concentrate on increasing agricultural productivity . |
| 17 | Having seen that double bed tuck has much in common with Fisherman 's Rib , we can also see that the fabric produced in this way will have many features that are the same . |
| 18 | 1809 The Meeting having understood that great confusion and Litigation arises from the measure in Barley Deliver 'd at the Different periods … now order henceforth the measure in Barley shall be sixteen pecks of the Islay measure at all seasons … |
| 19 | There is no self-evident reason for continuing to insist that urban sociology should be equated with consumption or civil society , interesting as these areas of study are . |
| 20 | Cunningham had now been wheeled away to bed by an obliging porter , having reached that maudlin stage of inebriation which is most painful for others to bear . |
| 21 | ‘ Every time we meet we are having to recognise that evil men are cutting down people from our community . ’ |
| 22 | Having experienced that particular chaos , she was careful to keep her books up to date , a simple matter of filling in two columns each day , ‘ Purchases made ’ and ‘ Total cash takings ’ . |
| 23 | Having admitted that substantial support existed , the party spokesman went on to argue that there was no support worth talking about ! |
| 24 | An inquiry heard that the disaster was ‘ wholly avoidable ’ , and BR was criticised for failing to check that proper safety measures were carried out . |
| 25 | Having held that British practice was not in accordance with law , the judges found it unnecessary to address the question what would be regarded as acceptable limits on the right to privacy . |
| 26 | LEDU is trying to ensure that small businesses have the marketing experience , the exporting know-how and the managerial capacity that they need in order to get going . |
| 27 | In the great tradition of British travel writers , he has already sailed the Atlantic in a leather boat trying to prove that Irish monks could have reached America 1,000 years before Columbus . |
| 28 | The geneticist R. C. Punnett countered Poulton 's arguments by trying to show that single mutations could produce the colours attributed to mimicry . |
| 29 | Olavide , in the later eighteenth century , dreamed of transforming the whole of lower Andalusia on the model of the English countryside , without seeming to suspect that climatic conditions were radically different and that the creation of artificial meadows was a snare and delusion under the arid sun of southern Spain . |
| 30 | They should also press for the training necessary to enable them to carry out their duties of securing provision for individual pupils and working to ensure that special education is esteemed as highly as any other form of education within a system in which schools will have greater control over resources and the setting of priorities for their use . |