Example sentences of "[to-vb] that the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is to be expected , and it is reasonable for the vendor to request that the receivers of confidential information enter into such agreements , confirming that they will make no use of it other than for the specific purpose of evaluating the proposed buy-out . |
| 2 | I 've had to accept that the kind of woman who attracts me is n't the kind to sit at home having babies and darning my socks . |
| 3 | Conversation with Alexei had been limited for the past day to standard matters of duty , and since he had not been able to think of anything which he could say to change his son 's attitude , he had allowed himself to accept that the state of affairs which existed between them was likely to be permanent . |
| 4 | Unless we have good reasons for believing that this continuous supply of potential users has somehow become ‘ inoculated ’ against heroin use ( e.g. through effective drug education ) , then we have to accept that the concept of total ‘ saturation ’ may be implausible . |
| 5 | It does not require a great deal of imagination to accept that the unit of physical matter could be the product of a ‘ good ’ event if it contributed towards the desired end of a happy human race , but it does require a measure of mental effort to accept that each unit of ‘ good ’ produced a corresponding unit contributing towards God , that is , a unit of Godliness . |
| 6 | As for the Webbs ' insistence on the separate and restricted role for trade unionism , the practical effect was , once again , to abandon industrial democracy , to accept that the rights of working people at work remained the rights inhering in the property they owned : their labour , and nothing more . |
| 7 | Americans had to accept that the pursuit of more aggressive policies would " almost certainly cause the disintegration of the free world bloc " . |
| 8 | In all our dealings with the head teacher we found that he consistently refused to accept that the methods of teaching at the school were failing our son . |
| 9 | Gossip in Mother Russell 's had it that they 'd made their fortune by some prize , for there were one or two men in Harry Pascoe 's crew who thought they had seen strange goings on close inshore under the Gribbin the previous October ; but these would not be drawn further , and although it was never put into so many words , people came to accept that the source of Harry Pascoe 's wealth was not a safe subject for public discussion . |
| 10 | In Indochina , France became embroiled in one of the most complex of the post-war colonial conflicts , but it took time to accept that the days of European colonial rule were numbered . |
| 11 | Perhaps if someone invented a time machine ( almost certainly a scientific impossibility ) archaeologists would have the satisfaction of being able to prove and disprove each other 's theories ; failing that , we have to accept that the science of the distant past is a matter of informed deduction and , let us face it , guesswork . |
| 12 | Again , most of us are happy to accept that the cortices of all mammals are , as units , homologous with each other . |
| 13 | They resented its reluctance to accept that the opinion of a psychologist based on test evidence was more valid than the opinion of the man in the street — or on the jury — based on observation , and they were annoyed that the court failed to recognise that the tests involved were as confidential as those carried out by any other medical practitioner . |
| 14 | This attitude is linked to their refusal to accept that the prohibition of inhumane weapons applies to nuclear weapons . |
| 15 | Your body fuel makes your engine tick over , and it 's good to know that the majority of the time it is being well and truly fed in the best possible way ! |
| 16 | YOU MIGHT also like to know that the University of Minnesota has banned the use of mistletoe this year . |
| 17 | It was poor propaganda for the outside world to know that the granary of Europe was suffering from famine conditions . |
| 18 | You may be interested to know that the name of every legator in recorded in a Book of Commemoration kept at our Headquarters . |
| 19 | It is good to know that the name of Medau is being kept to the forefront of public attention with the publicity surrounding the launch of 's video ‘ Medau — The Art of Energy ’ , and the articles recently published in the Sunday Telegraph . |
| 20 | It seemed so dreadful , when one looked at Susan , to think how much of her life had been wasted already , and to know that the rest of it would be spent in bondage . |
| 21 | You may like to know that the cost of these sachets have been met by a generous donor . |
| 22 | The reason for the inclusion of the word ‘ limited ’ in the title of limited companies is to enable those trading with the company to know that the liability of members of the company with which they are trading is limited . |
| 23 | the ants came to know that the presence of this particular human was not harmful . |
| 24 | She might like to know that the imports of manufactured goods amount to 17 per cent . |
| 25 | About 1300 journalists registered at this years ' show , and you have only to read the number of column entries and to hear the radio and to see the television to know that the content of this year 's Royal Show stands second to none in the technical content of agricultural exhibitions across the world . |
| 26 | And the other afternoon — crises are always in the afternoon — when Harry , back from an official lunch , comes out of his office and announces , ‘ Gentlemen , I thought you might be interested to know that the location of the Alps has been shifted to Central Africa . ’ |
| 27 | 3.3 While it may be sufficient , in practical terms , to know that the assessment of damages for pain and suffering or other non-primary loss , is , in any particular case , going to depend largely upon the amounts awarded in previous cases which are perceived to be similar , or at least , where there are no such cases , upon the generality of awards of compensation for injury of that general type , that is unsatisfactory as a conceptual basis of compensation . |
| 28 | To be sure that a patient is truly regaining their health , it is of no value just to know that the symptoms of his complaint have been relieved , rather the focus of his disease has to be seen to be shifting into less important areas , that is , moving down the hierarchy . |
| 29 | Chief Executive George Mathewson is delighted with the 8 to 1 seal of approval , ‘ It has been a terrific boost to know that the number of customers impressed with our service far outweighs those who have a complaint , ’ he said . |
| 30 | Yet it was not beyond the power of reason and foresight to know that the days of the Indian Empire were numbered , if not in years , still in decades : the best and the wisest of the British in India had known and said it from the beginning . |