Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both of these measures were intended to ensure that banks continued to regard the traditional discount market as an important outlet for surplus funds and source of liquidity in the event of shortage . |
| 2 | These were designed to ensure that consumers were protected , but at the same time companies earned a fair rate of return on their investment . |
| 3 | If any proof were needed to insist that confessors and directors should avoid pressing their penitents into any clearly established scheme but instead should simply wait upon the Lord and watch and assist his working in the individual soul , this diversity among the great masters of the spiritual life should be sufficient . |
| 4 | The room was twice the size of their back-street Holland Park offices but for a couple of hours all comers were invited to believe that Women 's Word was on the same financial footing as its big competitors . |
| 5 | Art dealers were beginning to realize that paintings could become valuable investments for speculators . |
| 6 | Car horns had no effect , and we were beginning to think that shanks ' pony was the only way of attracting his attention when someone came up with this idea . ) |
| 7 | Nevertheless a handful of American politicians , writers and others were coming to believe that situations could arise wherein close , if not formal , co-operation with Britain might be appropriate . |
| 8 | Salah persuaded the fathers or brothers of the girls to consider the schemes and these men were reassured to know that women had discussed the matter and had achieved some consensus . |
| 9 | Bishops were ordered to ensure that prayers were said in every church for the success of the king 's expeditions to France , and news of the great victory of Crécy was proclaimed throughout the realm . |
| 10 | In twelfth-century legend St Valerie was the martyr ( J saint who personified Aquitaine and her story as told at Limoges — where she had lived and died and where her " thousand-year-old " body was still preserved was intended to show that Limoges was a more venerable city than Poitiers . |
| 11 | It was understood , however , that the Personnel Committee decision was intended to ensure that departments were open to members of the public rather than all workplaces . |
| 12 | This was expected to confirm that subjects would be seen uniformly away from the central strip , but , as described above , revealed the two halves to be of different sensitivity . |
| 13 | Animism was likewise low and primitive because it was said to imply that souls inhabit animals and trees just as they inhabit men . |
| 14 | Every effort was made to ensure that tribunals normally sat in buildings other than the premises of the DHSS in order to emphasize their independence from the Department . |
| 15 | A good deal of evidence was produced to show that children tend to conform to their teachers ' expectations of them . |
| 16 | The difference between the rhetorical and social representational approaches can be illustrated by considering a quotation from Moscovici ( 1984 ) , in which he is discussing the social nature of social representations : ‘ The word ‘ social ’ was meant to indicate that representations are the outcome of an unceasing babble and a permanent dialogue between individuals , a dialogue that is both internal and external , during which representations are echoed or complemented ’ ( Moscovici , 1984 : 950 ) . |
| 17 | Far from showing that teachers are very experienced predictors of how children will perform , this was taken to show that children will do , more or less , what is expected of them , whatever that may be . |
| 18 | Unfortunately for the newspaper , that party did not have many wealthy benefactors , and evidence was admitted to show that others immediately made the connection . |
| 19 | US ambassador Madeleine Albright said the US was determined to see that women jurists sit on the tribunal , that women prosecutors ‘ bring war criminals to justice ’ and that the systematic rape of women and girls be prosecuted thoroughly . |
| 20 | Verderers and agisters were on occasion , however , appointed directly by the king or by the Justice of the Forest ; at other times the warden of the forest was ordered to see that vacancies were filled . |