Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have to inform you that this street will be evacuated this afternoon between nineteen and twenty hundred hours . |
| 2 | I phoned the kennel owner to inform her that British Rail insisted the dog wear a muzzle and that I would pay her back if she 'd buy one . |
| 3 | Smile , just to annoy everybody that blue Datsun says on |
| 4 | I was able to reassure them that those staff not required on site would be relocated into other company stores . |
| 5 | It would be comforting to persuade ourselves that those people who are generating wealth by creating poverty are all fly-by-night operators with little regard for the basic niceties of the employer/employee relationship . |
| 6 | Partly it is to give you that extra pace which the active , probing , investigating story requires . |
| 7 | Women are being urged to re-train and re-learn but what are the obstacles they have to overcome to give themselves that second chance ? |
| 8 | The draftsman must provide for the landlord to have sufficient power of inspection of the tenant 's books to satisfy himself that any information supplied by the tenant is correct . |
| 9 | It follows , therefore , that this contingency insurance will , subject to its terms and conditions , indemnify the bank/organisation in the event of a claim arising from an insured peril in respect of such properties where the original policy is found for some reason not to be sufficient to protect the bank's/organisation 's interest and so long as the bank/organisation took the initial step , inter alia , reasonably to satisfy itself that adequate insurance arrangements had been made by the mortgagor . |
| 10 | The Purchaser should inspect the stock and plant and machinery to satisfy itself that these items satisfy the required criteria . |
| 11 | The House will wish to satisfy itself that any decision to enact the Bill is taken on the basis of a full consideration of that assessment of the Bill 's environmental effects . |
| 12 | The Director General , before considering a complaint , may require the complainant to satisfy him that alternative methods of dealing with the matter have been tried and found inadequate . |
| 13 | The quasi-legal requirements of the Cadbury code of practice and new auditing and accounting rules , putting the responsibility on directors not only to satisfy themselves that adequate systems and controls are in place and that the business is a going concern but to declare this , compound the risk . |
| 14 | When at last he dared to creep from his hiding-place and move on tip-toe up the dark stairs , he had counted to 372 and managed to convince himself that any fate was preferable to having an accident down there amongst the coats . |
| 15 | Bessey was sceptical of the whole approach as little more than revived natural history , and , in order to convince him that scientific ecology was possible , Clements and Pound looked for a method of quantifying their studies . |
| 16 | ‘ At the moment , it seems impossible to convince him that any kind of action at all is necessary . ’ |
| 17 | The AX 's reputation for economy is enough to convince her that this car was the right choice . |
| 18 | In a similar way we sometimes need to remind ourselves that young readers have ideas that are worth consideration , and that the administratively-convenient solution to a problem may not be the most valuable one . |
| 19 | It may be useful to remind ourselves that both levels have reality , but they are , of course , reality to different people . |
| 20 | That 's just about it except to remind you that this weekend it 's the ITV Telethon . |
| 21 | Lee was startled by the almost aggressive note in Mrs Ridley 's question and had to remind herself that old people do not like change , do not like precipitate action , especially from those they have become used to . |
| 22 | But then , coupled with the promise made to her mother , common sense had prevailed to remind her that unpleasant experiences had been known to result from giving lifts to strangers . |
| 23 | He wanted to ask what she had to be tired about , to remind her that this dinner-party was all her idea , and there was no real point to it at all , since they had asked nobody whom they needed to impress . |
| 24 | ‘ No need to remind her that this room is virtually a hospital ward now . ’ |
| 25 | This might seem like a horrifying amount to spend in eight months ( and it would have been a lot more were Caterham 's labour rate not a reasonable £20 an hour ) , but you have to remind yourself that five services would last the average Caterham owner until 1996 . |
| 26 | And what Ms Meckler and her designer , Dermot Hayes , have inventively done is to remind us that these characters are like people picknicking on the edge of Vesuvius . |
| 27 | I have to tell you that these hot-line , long-distance blowjobs are another of our re-table routines … |
| 28 | If I were to tell you that this record puts a dayglo platform DM so far up the mule 's rectum that its entrails squish through its clenched teeth , I do n't think that I could be justly accused of exaggeration . |
| 29 | Rather abruptly , when they 'd all opened their presents and had a glass of sherry in their hands , she said , with a shy look at Tim , ‘ Before we start our dinner we 'd like to tell you that this time next year you 'll be Grandma and Grandpa . ’ |
| 30 | I do n't know , I do n't know , although I ought to warn you that another way of interpreting the Greek would be , but now a man wishes to be another approached that man . |