Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The train lover was fascinated to find that most journeys are undertaken on the railway because Chinese roads are not up to Western standards . |
| 2 | The disaster was all the more stunning because people had come to assume that such things did n't happen . |
| 3 | Serious UFO researchers have come to recognise that these stories are essentially subjective . |
| 4 | However , if the condition in question were designed to ensure that all operators of fishing vessels were based in the United Kingdom , it would inhibit the export of fish by British flag vessels to other member states and so constitute a breach of article 34 of the E.E.C . |
| 5 | Detailed regulations are in place which are designed to ensure that all employees give the highest priority to the health and safety of themselves , and those around them . |
| 6 | He thought , not for the first time , that a system which required ministers to run their departments , fulfil their parliamentary responsibilities , and spend the weekend listening to the grievances of their constituents , might have been designed to ensure that major decisions were made by men and women tired to the point of exhaustion . |
| 7 | On waste , the government intends to introduce a system of credits designed to ensure that local authorities get on target to meet the goal of 25 per cent recycling of household waste by 2000 . |
| 8 | The diversity of museum collections in general requires that these practices be sufficiently flexible to accommodate the unusual object or set of circumstances , and yet sufficiently disciplined to ensure that realistic standards can be established and maintained . |
| 9 | By the time Durkheim came to write Two Laws of Penal Evolu-tion , he had modified his theory about the decline in importance of the conscience collective ( a phrase he ceased to use ) and had come to believe that collective sentiments were a crucial factor in any society . |
| 10 | I feel myself shudder ; I have come to learn that such touchings normally precede a trip to the Dark . |
| 11 | He was then involved in civil defence and he took me to see a trial designed to show that air-raid shelters built to government specifications were death-traps . |
| 12 | Erm authorities are expected to show that environmental concerns have been comprehensively and consistently taken into adv erm account in their plans . |
| 13 | One afternoon in late October we heard on a local radio station that someone , claiming to speak for Islamic Jihad , had phoned to announce that two Americans would be executed . |
| 14 | The sort of argument just presented emphasizes that large organizations are not monolithic and that attempts to tighten up the system to make them so do not necessarily yield improvements . |
| 15 | Already towards the end of January , when it was made known that German troops were encircled in Stalingrad , the unease registered in numerous reports merged into critical comment expressing fundamental doubts about the necessity of the war with Russia and now also about the truth of Hitler 's explanations for the war . |
| 16 | Not every reader of his book can have come to it believing the chauvinistic claims that have sometimes been issued on behalf both of psychoanalysis and of oral history , or prepared to believe that these pursuits could be successfully combined . |
| 17 | Although every effort is made to ensure that all details are correct at time of going to press , times and dates of events can vary . |
| 18 | To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what arrangements he has made to ensure that existing recipients of attendance allowance and mobility allowance receive disability living allowance in April . |
| 19 | Either attempts can be made to ensure that corporate managers behave as profit-maximizers by making them responsive once again to the market ; or , alternatively , new life can be breathed into the legal model of the company so that managers are once again forced to act in the interests of the shareholders . |
| 20 | Adjustments may then be made to ensure that both tips are at the same height above the same point without the model being moved ( Fig.4.3 ) . |
| 21 | This process will be carefully regulated to ensure that appropriate services are available in each locality . |
| 22 | Work therefore needs to be done to ensure that administrative records are retained sensibly , since it would be impossible to preserve every piece of information for ever . |
| 23 | THE HISTORY of belief in the supernormal over the past hundred years is studded with the names of famous illusionists who have sought to prove that much-vaunted miracles were nothing more than conjuring tricks . |
| 24 | Initially , the main aim of this research was to demonstrate the inaccuracy of Chomsky 's characterization of the input as " random and degenerate " but , more recently , attempts have been made to show that particular features of this register actually facilitate the learner 's task . |
| 25 | A repetition of the analysis just given shows that stellar cores of mass less than M(Chandrasekhar) are stable against further collapse and form neutron stars . |
| 26 | The context of speech-making and the techniques and conventions that have been developed ensure that many sides of a case are put at the same time as maintaining the proprieties due to different statuses . |
| 27 | Many of us in middle years of life have experienced the pain of such loss : few of us have experienced multiple losses , sometimes in quick succession , except in times of war ; none of us have yet had to accept that those losses , of our own generation , signify the beginning of the end for us . |
| 28 | He was sobered to find that many Tahitians were already dying from the venereal diseases bequeathed to them on a previous visit . |
| 29 | We 've got to recognise that many women in our organisation , for example , perceive a glass ceiling . |
| 30 | In any event , P P Gs are carefully drafted to ensure that few options are closed off . |