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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , Dr Dunstaple was gradually coming to realize that other things were missing . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Every time we meet we are having to recognise that evil men are cutting down people from our community . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The geneticist R. C. Punnett countered Poulton 's arguments by trying to show that single mutations could produce the colours attributed to mimicry . |
| 11 | 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 . |