Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] that [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | Research began with the aim of seeking to establish that any effects of organizational differences are researchable . |
| 3 | Therefore it is fitting to remember that such houses are no substitute for fair rent housing from local authorities or housing associations ( Clark 1981 ) . |
| 4 | Fimbra , as the regulatory body of middlemen who sell investment and insurance products , is attempting to require that these intermediaries hold professional indemnity insurance cover through a centralised scheme provided by Fimbra . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She then dismissed an originating summons under the Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985 , Schedule 1 ( the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction ) , declining to order that two children , who had been wrongfully removed from Australia to this country by their mother , should be returned to the jurisdiction of the State of Victoria , Australia . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Instead , the Commission indulged in some verbal gymnastics with : ‘ This work is beginning to suggest that some types of tree grow better in air that has most of the pollution removed from it . ’ |
| 9 | It says Ralph and Denise are only too aware there can be no substitute for James but are beginning to hope that better times could just be coming . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , Dr Dunstaple was gradually coming to realize that other things were missing . |
| 11 | Many students of social behaviour are coming to agree that both methods must be employed together . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We were not feeling at all holy when we went in , having decided that all men were rotters , and fancy leaving us at Christmas for a couple of dames they had only just met ! |
| 15 | ‘ Every time we meet we are having to recognise that evil men are cutting down people from our community . ’ |
| 16 | Having acknowledged that all children need the intellectual stimulation provided by the school curriculum , the question is , how do we , as teachers , devise a teaching scheme which focuses on each child 's strengths rather than on ‘ deficiencies ’ ? |
| 17 | Your failing to note that two periods of years were involved is a serious omission , Another serious omission relates to the quotation attributed to Mr Parrish that ‘ a decrease [ in harp seal population ] can not be ruled out ’ . |
| 18 | My experience of successful schools certainly supports these two recommendations and I would suggest there are clear implications for SENSS Teachers and advisory teachers to be involved in school policy making to ensure that all children have access to the full curriculum . |
| 19 | The replacement of the adjustable peg by floating implies that fewer rules of conduct are necessary for coordinating the system of exchange rates . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The geneticist R. C. Punnett countered Poulton 's arguments by trying to show that single mutations could produce the colours attributed to mimicry . |
| 23 | 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 . |