Example sentences of "[to-vb] that a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The practice of the present Auditor is to accept that a Tender lodged one week before a Proof is good in relation to the expenses of the Proof itself . |
| 2 | ‘ First , are we to accept that a man waded through water up to his neck to tie a noose to hang himself ? |
| 3 | But it is one thing for us to know that a person needs God 's conviction and another thing to say so to him . |
| 4 | He stops short of hoping Grobbelaar makes one of his increasingly frequent mistakes tomorrow , but Knight is professional enough to know that a team has to take advantage of any breaks that come their way . |
| 5 | It claims that the normal way to establish that a person has authority over another person involves showing that the alleged subject is likely better to comply with reasons which apply to him ( other than the alleged authoritative directives ) if he accepts the directives of the alleged authority as authoritatively binding and tries to follow them , rather than by trying to follow the reasons which apply to him directly . |
| 6 | To establish that a vehicle has been stolen the Police must have a record of its reg no . |
| 7 | He would prefer us to be in the position of the person who learns to trust that a friend has posted a letter , and who does not go out to be certain that the letter has found its destination , a search that in fact would portray not faith , but a lack of faith . |
| 8 | He had already learned his lesson by painful experience ; the burn-like swelling on his left calf still throbbed occasionally to remind him of the morning a week ago when he had drawn on his trousers carelessly , to discover that a scorpion had spent the night nestling in one of the legs . |
| 9 | Cooper leaped out and opened the bonnet , to discover that a round had penetrated the cylinder block . |
| 10 | It is therefore possible , in theory at least , for a court to find that a trader has complied with the code but that such compliance nevertheless involved giving a misleading indication . |
| 11 | I turned to find that a girl had joined me at the bar . |
| 12 | The word ‘ ransom ’ seems to indicate that a price had to be paid to God in order that he would free people from their sins . |
| 13 | As with any accountability procedure it is insufficient just to indicate that a failure has occurred ; information must be forthcoming on how to improve educational practice . |
| 14 | In the occupational culture of Easton station most of these incidents are rendered afterwards into humorous stories , retold to new recruits and outsiders to demonstrate the ‘ funny side ’ of policing ; and the familiar RUC term ‘ all is regular ’ , used to signify that a call has been attended to , has obvious humorous connotations for one of the community welfare tasks described here . |
| 15 | I had hardly time to see that a car had been driven up to a shop window and was now rapidly reversing out of it when two young men wearing stocking-masks and bundled up in thick clothing , making them unidentifiable , came rushing into the street , each swinging a bag of loot . |
| 16 | Where services are provided on the basis of the principle of universality , such as national insurance retirement pensions , only enough assessment is required to confirm that a person falls within an impersonal category . |
| 17 | At the other extreme of the street , Mr Patel was able to confirm that a man had been working the previous day , and that morning , on the Ford Capri that was still there , still with the bonnet raised , still with a plastic bag on the battery . |
| 18 | Sergeant Curtis came in to report that a woman living near Riddle had seen him in Bay View Terrace on Friday evening , but this merely confirmed the route he had taken . |
| 19 | In a way this new fight against censorship is an opportunity not simply to defend and ensure intellectual freedom but to affirm that a profession does exist which essentially safeguards this freedom . |
| 20 | One way of explaining the interactional organization of sentences is to suggest that a clause consists of two segments . |
| 21 | I saw a river-bed , biting deep into the land , but nothing to suggest that a lake had ever been there or that man had ever trod there . |
| 22 | It may seem ridiculous to suggest that a suicide does not believe in death , but there is a certain amount of evidence to suggest that some forms of suicide ( usually referred to as ‘ schizoid ’ ) are in fact attempts at rebirth . |
| 23 | Perhaps a graphic parallel would be to imagine that a country existed in the middle of Europe which was at one and the same time Catholic , Protestant , Jewish and Islamic , while sharing equally the cultural and economic influence of the USA , USSR , and China ! |
| 24 | The first common mistake people make is to imagine that a dog thinks in the same way as a human being . |
| 25 | So far as the performer is concerned , he has the defence that he did not know and had no reason to suspect that a programme involving the use of the offending material would be included in a cable broadcast , or that the circumstances in which such material was included would be such that racial hatred would be likely to be stirred up . |
| 26 | The judge deemed it unconstitutionally restrictive to require that a person evaluate art by taking into consideration ‘ general standards of decency ’ . |
| 27 | The general approach now is for the courts to require that a minister produce reasonable grounds for his action , even where the jurisdictional fact is subjectively framed . |
| 28 | The new ASA rules allow you to insist that a company takes your name off individual lists . |
| 29 | I seem to recall that a gentleman called T. Dan Smith was also involved at that time and that he was not a Conservative . |
| 30 | Equally , the landlord may wish to ensure that a yard adjoining a building does not become obstructed by trade empties or unrestricted car parking . |