Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [conj] [verb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are , therefore , anxious that he should not be thrown away in some other role and I hope that any plan he has made will be carefully examined so as to ensure that as far as possible he does not do something foolhardy . |
| 2 | Indeed , as Sutherland and Mackintosh ( 1971 ) have pointed out , Siegels 's training apparatus was specifically arranged so as to ensure that the rats would adopt response strategies of the sort they did . |
| 3 | Hence it would be necessary to draft a new housing repair code in terms specific enough to be clearly understandable … but also containing a wide enough range of topics to be considered so as to ensure that the law is sufficiently flexible to cover the greatest number of housing repair problems … |
| 4 | However , before getting too carried away and concluding that detailed activity-based accounting may soon be outdated , and replaced by more simple machine-time analyses , it must be remembered that the extremes of CIM are still a long way off for most industries . |
| 5 | At that stage it would have been easy to have got carried away and think that the Cup was won but I made a point of saying that " A wise man does n't count his chickens " and we did n't do that . |
| 6 | Joseph looked ahead and saw that their side of the boulevard was blocked by two carts with big , iron-rimmed wheels . |
| 7 | We must ensure that there is local flexibility when assessing housing benefit so that it is sufficient to meet the charges that are imposed locally and to ensure that the gap does not widen . |
| 8 | When he asked me if I played I admitted that I had done so but insisted that I really was very bad . |
| 9 | Such an order may be made so as to ensure that there is a home for the children of the marriage . |
| 10 | Stick to the knitting : identifying that which is done best and ensuring that every aspect of management is geared to maintaining it . |
| 11 | You do not feel inhibited because you have n't prepared adequately or fear that other people might catch you out or ridicule you . |
| 12 | The terms can be drafted so as to provide that all contracts between the parties are to be governed by those terms , and a copy of the terms can be signed by trading partners at the commencement of a trading relationship . |
| 13 | He had smiled then and said that despite my generosity he would give no cause for jealousy . |
| 14 | Drew had denied that the clothing had been cleaned there and insisted that he had sent it to the cleaners in Swansea and Rochdale previously on the tour . |
| 15 | Otis engineer William Mulholland said that the lifts were checked regularly and claimed that vandalism or abuse was responsible for a large number of reported breakdowns . |
| 16 | At the same time , Phil Ledler , Stuart Aaronson and G. Lenoir have gone further and shown that in Burkitt 's lymphoma cells the myc gene becomes linked with DNA-encoding parts of the antibody molecule . |
| 17 | Three patients , however , were followed serially and showed that serum carnitine concentrations are gluten dependent in coeliac disease patients . |
| 18 | As we have seen , the realization of this objective requires that a broad variety of mechanisms are institutionalized so as to ensure that the business of government is conducted in accordance with the rule of law . |
| 19 | For example , consider the monopolist discussed above and suppose that the firm 's executives wish to maximise profits , but have only limited information about the true revenue and cost functions . |
| 20 | Penny Junor does not think this decision has been taken yet but believes that the second option is possible . |
| 21 | Yet in both cases in Parliament the section was put forward as providing that only the marginal cost would be treated as taxable . |
| 22 | If this is to be taken seriously as meaning that through learning language , rather than geography , history or other social sciences , pupils acquire better understanding of foreign cultures , then teachers need knowledge of the relationship between language and cultural learning . |
| 23 | When Nietzsche is quoted directly as arguing that " tropes are not something that can be added or subtracted from language at will ; they are its truest nature " , de Man 's paraphrase seems innocuous : The mode of paraphrase frees de Man from the obligation of theoretical presence in his discourse while still allowing him to translate Nietzsche 's text into the terms of his own problematic . |
| 24 | Kenya 's new director of wildlife , Richard Leakey , was quoted recently as saying that government neglect had ‘ permitted the poachers to have our parks to themselves as private hunting blocks with their vehicles , modern weapons and chain saws ’ . |