Example sentences of "[to-vb] [that] [noun] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Far better to remember that ivy does provide a very useful overwintering site for many small mammals and insects and also an essential nesting or roosting site for favourite garden birds .
2 Instead , great efforts are made to ensure that boys do keep up , through , for example , remedial classes which continue into secondary schooling .
3 The function of the impartial mediator or conciliator may be described as to act as a catalyst to ensure that negotiation does take place and that the issues are confronted and as a facilitator to enable an agreement which both parties can perceive to be fair .
4 It will therefore be crucial to ensure that re-investigation does offer real quality improvement so that the additional weight attached to it is factually justified .
5 We 're also going to consider that Cambridge does have very high housing costs in terms of mortgages and that in the city , whereas it may be reasonable in other areas for people to be able to have the opportunity to buy .
6 The purpose of this exercise is to demonstrate that energy does radiate from the body and that there is more to the human being than guts , blood and bone .
7 However , I should like to repeat that sanctions do exist .
8 His Aristotelian adversary had to admit that things did appear that way when he repeated the observations for himself .
9 Even more importantly , there is every reason to believe , with Mary Midgley , that the basic assumption behind cultural relativism/behaviourism that human beings are totally plastic and devoid of innate structuration is false : ‘ Sensible psychologists have tended more and more to admit that people do have some genetically fixed tendencies ’ and she continues that ‘ What makes this admission hard , is the very strong impression still prevalent that we have to choose between considering these tendencies and considering outside conditions ’ ( 1979 : 20 ) .
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