Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems that the Government are not prepared to accept that a lot of people are not sufficiently intelligent to understand the system and the bureaucracy that the Government have created . |
| 2 | They need to know that a part of your day will be theirs . |
| 3 | Quite apart from the fact that they find it very interesting , I think that people outside the university would be pleased to know that a course of such down to earth practical is taught in a place which they sometimes regard as being rather airy fairy . |
| 4 | Saad Rashid was a shrewd man , good with figures , but it did not take his shrewdness to know that a sentence of death would have been passed upon him by those who had once been his colleagues in Baghdad . |
| 5 | And it may surprise you to know that a number of the county people are not what they appear . |
| 6 | But it 's interesting to know that a lot of the copies either must have copies , which they should have or that they know what bin it . |
| 7 | In fact , there were so many things she did n't want him to know that a list of them would have stretched on and on . |
| 8 | ‘ I have already indicated my agreement with the views of my noble and learned friend , Lord Diplock , as expressed in O'Reilly v. Mackman [ 1983 ] 2 A.C. 237 , and I gratefully adopt all his reasons for the conclusion that : ‘ it would … as a general rule be contrary to public policy , and as such an abuse of the process of the court , to permit a person seeking to establish that a decision of a public authority infringed rights to which he was entitled to protection under public law to proceed by way of an ordinary action and by this means to evade the provisions of Order 53 for the protection of such authorities . ’ |
| 9 | Ltd , the position has now been reached that in order to establish that a duty of care arises in a particular situation , it is not necessary to bring the facts of that situation within those of previous situations in which a duty of care has been held to exist . |
| 10 | ‘ I was fascinated to discover that a number of Americans worked for SOE before America came into the war . |
| 11 | Jessamy was horrified to find that a wave of pure jealousy was beginning to sweep through her . |
| 12 | There are many tales of naturalists who have gone to some place in search of a rare species , only to find that a member of that very species floats down out of the trees on gentle wings to besport itself before his amazed eyes , or appear in whatever appropriate manner to his appreciative gaze . |
| 13 | I was pleased to find that a number of pamphlets on the town had been published in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by a keen amateur local historian . |
| 14 | Despite being very close to an agreement with NALGO it was disappointing for the Special Finance Committee held on the 7 October 1992 to learn that the latest package offer had been rejected and to find that a number of employees had taken industrial action to lobby the meeting . |
| 15 | Pairs of square brackets indicate that the enclosed formula is to be taken as an E , with round brackets for properties ; where it may be necessary to indicate that a sequence of E P is a clause within some larger construction rather than a simple entity-identifying expression , we shall use scroll brackets as our notational device . |
| 16 | But this is to anticipate the argument ; for the moment I want only to observe that a conception of the self as socially and/or metaphysically constituted produces one idea of transgression , and that of the self as ideally ( if not actually ) unified and autonomous , quite another . |
| 17 | Causes bloodflow to the extremities to increase and a reddening of irises . |
| 18 | Others will think that the value of a community depends on little beyond its prosperity , so Mr. O'Brian should be forced to compensate if a practice of requiring compensation in these circumstances would increase the wealth of the community as a whole . |
| 19 | There are , then , considerable difficulties in attempting to ensure accountability and Leat comments that ‘ problems are likely to increase if a policy of pluralism and closer relationships between the voluntary and statutory sectors is pursued ’ . |
| 20 | By 1895 , with the sensational trial of Oscar Wilde ( one of those ‘ writers of elegant and glittering literature , glossing over vice ’ , denounced by the Reverend Richard Armstrong of the Social Purity Alliance ) , the government felt obliged to prosecute because a relative of one of its members was mentioned in the case . |
| 21 | The petitioners wanted to know whether a legacy of liberatio to them in the first will could now be held to include debts they had first contracted after the making of the first will ; and whether , if the heirs were to sue them for that , they could be barred by an exceptio doli . |
| 22 | This argument is reinforced by the decision in Greensmith where the analyst had not tested to discover whether a specimen of cocaine was a salt ( para. 4 ) or a stereoisomeric form ( para. 2 ) . |
| 23 | In written language , as in spoken language , one can refer to the context to establish whether a piece of information has or has not been introduced earlier . |
| 24 | At Highlander , workshops of this sort of cultural exchange play a critical role in reaching across the natural human barriers which we can expect to find when a number of different people from widely different communities , cultural backgrounds , and economic and social circumstances are thrown together for a weekend to discuss their common problems in an attempt to find solutions . |
| 25 | Comment was made this morning , er earlier on by Mr Timothy about the fact that the new settlement would be likely to generate a higher usage of transport than is the norm for Greater York , if I understood him correctly , erm , knowing the public transport system in Greater York , erm , I fail to see how he could possibly come to that conclusion , because bus services in the rural part of Greater York are very poor , clearly that 's partly because of the distribution of the rural population , and I fail to see that a settlement of the size being suggested would actually generate a level of usage of public transport any higher than that which ex already exists in the York in flat , and certainly no higher than exists within the exis existing urban area . |
| 26 | Piaget ( Piaget , Jean , The Child ' s Conception of Number , Chapter I , Routledge & Kegan Paul , 1952 ) has described many experiments of this type with children of four years upwards and concluded that it was not until about the age of seven that children were able to see that a quantity of liquid remains constant although it appears to change when poured into different shaped containers . |
| 27 | I was very very pleased to see that a lot of you have tried to do your join up handwriting after a bit of practice we 'd had and it had come out really really nicely , well done . |
| 28 | He went into Haymarket itself , where he was amused to see that A Woman of No Importance was playing at the Theatre Royal . |
| 29 | ‘ It seems , ’ writes Afshan ‘ that these people as well as the parents refuse to acknowledge that a problem of this nature exists . ’ |
| 30 | But everyone seems to agree that a diet of restaurant grub ca n't be all that good for you somehow . |