Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] that the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her next mistake , in their eyes , was one of failing to inform them that the prizemoney for the Malaysian Open had been chopped in half . |
| 2 | ‘ Your appeal against the above offer of permanent accommodation made available to you on 12-9-91 has been considered carefully but I regret to inform you that the appeal has not been allowed and you should sign for the tenancy at the local housing office by 2-12-91 . |
| 3 | I write to inform you that the appeal is to be heard at the above address on |
| 4 | It pleases me to inform you that the weather here continues to be temperate ! |
| 5 | Held , allowing the appeal , that where a driver was required to provide a specimen of blood or urine for one of the reasons set out in section 7(3) of the Act of 1988 , or claimed the right to provide such a specimen under section 8(2) , the constable was required by section 7(4) to inform him that the specimen was to be of blood or urine and that it was for the constable to decide which ; but that there was no requirement to invite the driver to express his preference for giving blood or urine ; that if the constable intended to require a specimen of blood , the driver was to be given the right to object on medical grounds to be determined by a medical practitioner or , if the requirement had been made under section 7(3) , for some other reason affording a ‘ reasonable excuse ’ within section 7(6) of the Act ; and that , accordingly , the requirement for the defendant to provide a specimen of blood had complied with section 7(4) ( post , pp. 885G–H , 890D–G , 891A–D , 895B–E , H — 896A ) . |
| 6 | In January 1982 he came back to Stockport to speak of his mountaineering experiences ; so many wanted to hear him that the venue had to be changed from School to the Town Hall . |
| 7 | My rose-growing Surrey headmaster ( by now retired ) came to Banbury for a weekend , and as we drove off to the Cotswolds he tried to persuade me that the implication of all this was that secondary schools would no longer be a worthwhile place for teachers with academic interests : all the good work would hereafter be done within an inflated system of higher education . |
| 8 | It is further agreed that the approach adopted by the court of appeal in the case of and incorporate of nineteen eighty nine , one queens bench page eight hundred and seventy eight , is that which I should adopt , er the person which seeks to persuade me that the percentage which I should apply should be four point five percent rather than the two percent used in that case by the court of appeal , he argues partly on the basis of er , evidence by Mr an architect who er , with the greatest respect to him , whilst I feel quite sure his architectural abilities are of the highest quality , I feel that as an economist he is perhaps er not more reliable than any other economist , er but er , Mr argues that er , recent falls in house prices show that houses are not the risk free inflation proof investments which the court of appeal assumed when and was decided . |
| 9 | Many local authorities are issuing court summonses and spending much time and money trying to persuade them that the poll tax has not been abolished and that it will be with us next year and possibly the year after . |
| 10 | Bank analysts barely reacted , says John Thornton , Norwest 's chief financial officer , despite efforts to persuade them that the disclosures gave a better picture of his bank 's economic value . |
| 11 | The union will engage in negotiations with the employers in an attempt to persuade them that the wage claim is justified . |
| 12 | They shepherded their charges with a cheerful , maternal competence as if to reassure them that the place might look like a prison but was as gently beneficent as a nursing home and that they were only there for their own good . |
| 13 | The road curved and climbed and went through all the antics of a mountain pass to persuade you that the land was n't rather flat , and small clumps of trees and farmhouses aided the illusion . |
| 14 | The problem is that in order to reassure you that the product has doubled the size of a hard disk , it lies when asked how much free space is left ! |
| 15 | But over time Mr Premadasa 's approach to the problem changed : foreign pressure and the failure of the military solution to terrorism combined to persuade him that the army needed to be discouraged from indiscriminate killing . |
| 16 | She needed a regular fix from Alan , to reassure her that the world was still familiar , manageable , subject to known laws . |
| 17 | If the sender is traceable , probably the most sensible thing to do is to notify him that the goods are at his risk and to request him to fetch them ; and if ( as is likely with perishables ) the goods become a nuisance , the recipient would surely be justified in abating the nuisance by destroying them , even without notice to the sender , if the emergency were so pressing as to leave him no time to give it . |
| 18 | First , experience does nothing to reassure us that the Government will use the powers they have taken to themselves to interfere with the untrammelled workings of the market place . |
| 19 | What we need in the present case is further evidence to persuade us that the proposal to distinguish ordinary attributives as ( 37 ) ( a ) and postnominal attributives as ( 37 ) ( c ) goes beyond the mere possibility of correlating the two intensional patterns to the two different surface constructions . |
| 20 | But the U.S. has space and a welcome for even more of us : with travel and tourism its third-largest retail industry , the ailing American economy can not afford to leave it up to our own tour firms to persuade us that the time — and price — is right . |
| 21 | And he concluded : ‘ I find that the defendants have failed to satisfy me that the dogs are not of the type known as the pit bull terrier . |
| 22 | But in his judgment the RM said the defendants had failed to satisfy him that the dogs were not pit bull type terriers . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , he thought it necessary , and we agree , in the context of this case , to attempt to satisfy us that the United Kingdom is not in any event in breach of the Convention . ’ |
| 24 | In the end the Middlesex authorities asked Andrew to leave — so many show people like Ken and Diana Dors came to see him that the noise along the corridors was unbearable . |
| 25 | The perceived attitudes of teachers seemed to convince them that the school system was ‘ rigged ’ : some saw very little point in trying . |
| 26 | But to convince you that the Son of Man has the right on earth to forgive sins . ’ |
| 27 | Yet to convince you that the claim I have made in my last paragraph is justifiable would require a full-length monograph at least as long as my Political Systems of Highland Burma which is itself a fair-sized and relevant monograph entirely devoted to the affairs of the Kachin . |
| 28 | Rather it had served to convince him that the choice now open to mankind was between the principle of non-violence and racial suicide . |
| 29 | Although this knowledge was by no means sufficient to put an end to the stammer , it did help to convince him that the problem was capable of being solved . |
| 30 | Here the focus often , but not always , turns to the woman , since it is by attempting to discredit her that the majority of men accused of sex crimes try to save themselves . |