Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [noun] that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Merson is controlling his diet and craving for fast-food in a bid to lose a few pounds excess weight , but spoke out yesterday to nail the lies that he has had a bust-up with George Graham over the battle of the bulge . |
| 2 | So they will continue to arise , but I think that it is right to plan to accommodate the ones that you know about . |
| 3 | Bell is happy to cultivate the impression that he was the Svengali who transformed Thatcher 's harsh , strident public persona into something softer and more voter-friendly . |
| 4 | If the pharmaceutical industry is really concerned about the economics of health care they would be better to curb the profits that they make through drugs sold to the NHS for which the charges are not infrequently excessive . |
| 5 | We need to preserve the jobs that we have . |
| 6 | The Ministry of propaganda did what it could to play down such disasters and tried for as long as possible to preserve the illusion that they were not important , but Fascism now began to lose a lot of its popular support . |
| 7 | He began to realize the possibility that he was being taken for a ride , that he was the stooge in a deadly game in which he was not being allowed to play a part . |
| 8 | Only if both these things are accepted can the further point that material things are ‘ senseless beings ’ be used to promote the conclusion that we are not justified in attributing heat to material things . |
| 9 | At 5 o'clock the justices indicated that they were retiring to consider their conclusions and to draft the reasons that they intended to state to support those conclusions . |
| 10 | I would like to assure the committee that we will put the money to good use in our work of protecting the countryside of Wales . |
| 11 | Despite the Bank of Spain 's best efforts to assure the market that it will prove no less doughty , dealers are not convinced . |
| 12 | I 've taken it upon myself to assure the count that you 're almost perfect . |
| 13 | He had driven up to collect his superior from the Carabinieri post where he and his rescuers had returned as soon as Zen had recovered enough to assure the sergeant that he did n't need to call an ambulance . |
| 14 | It 's not been without pain and I pay tribute to our staff 's willingness to embrace the changes that we 've had to make . |
| 15 | I sat numbly by the open window , with my legs pressed together , my arms hugging my sides and my hands gripping each other , to combat the sensation that I was going to shake myself to pieces . |
| 16 | He again failed to acknowledge the part that he could play in reducing the odds which are stacked against women and shackle them in the way that he described . |
| 17 | The novel does not question the concept of ‘ theory ’ so much as those theories which refuse to acknowledge the fact that they are ‘ fantastic structures ’ in the mode of the hypothetical , and that their status as autonomous systems will always be compromised by their relation to their object . |
| 18 | She would be falsely modest not to acknowledge the fact that she had come a very long way since those days when she had been a thin , gawky adolescent . |
| 19 | I invite Opposition Members to acknowledge the concessions that I have made and to withdraw amendments Nos. 75 and 76 . |
| 20 | Dressed in white tie , his delivery is conversational and informal , but , to sustain the illusion that he is making it all up as he goes along ( it is in fact directed by Peter Barkworth ) , he launches into too many rambling sidetracks . |
| 21 | In order to sustain the argument that I am putting forward here , it is important to establish what were the major arguments levelled by anthropologists and others against the ‘ great divide ’ theory . |
| 22 | My hon. Friend is right to mention the strengths of those companies , even when they face difficulties in world markets , and to emphasise the difficulties that they would face at home if a Labour Government were adding to those problems . |
| 23 | Topaz Chilcott walked behind her family , hanging back a little as if to emphasise the fact that she had never really been accepted by it . |
| 24 | He seemed determined to emphasise the fact that she was leaving . |
| 25 | In each case , if I am to claim that this revelation or experience is of ‘ God ’ , and is not simply an expression of some form of mental delusion which should be referred to a psychoanalyst , then I am forced to debate the interpretation that I am giving . |
| 26 | I told him I believed him and that it would be such a dirty trick not to post the letter that I was sure he must have posted it . |
| 27 | France , therefore , had to promise the Ottomans that she would come to their aid if complications arose . |
| 28 | You do n't have to LIKE the things that they do or say to LOVE them ; Jesus certainly did n't like Zacchaeus ' cheating , but he loved Zacchaeus ! |
| 29 | It is , however , certain that Molla Fenari was in Karaman at a date much later than Bayezid I 's reign , as will be shown ; and as there is no evidence to suggest a journey before 800/1397 or to support the possibility that he made two journeys to Karaman , it seems justifiable to treat the Taskopruzade story with some caution . |
| 30 | Firstly , it viewed the company as distinct from its shareholders and therefore , unlike the contractual model , it could be seen to support the theory that it was the company which was liable for any debts . |