Example sentences of "[to-vb] that [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The starting point is to accept that each individual develops and evolves throughout life , and that the final stages of life are as important as any other . |
| 2 | It is hard for some owners to accept that this noise means ‘ I am inoffensive ’ rather than ‘ I am content ’ , but the fact is that inoffensiveness is the only condition to explain all the different contexts in which the purr occurs . |
| 3 | Simple denial — refusal to accept that any staff have problems with alcohol or drugs or other forms of addictive disease . |
| 4 | As we have seen , it is hard to draw the line between a conscious human being and a conscious machine likewise , we have to accept that any entity possessed of consciousness is in reality a living organism — whatever its physical characteristics . |
| 5 | But most rock is false in one way or another : you have to accept that some bands fake it better than others , and Ugly Kid Joe fake it like champions . |
| 6 | While we have to accept that some people have had a good go at blowing up the present inhabitant , would it not be simpler for her to emulate a previous incumbent and move up the road to Admiralty House ? |
| 7 | IT MAY surprise Tony Parsons to know that real feminists have more important things to do than comment on the way he holds a teapot . |
| 8 | 1992 , 28 , 46 ) may be comforted to know that systematic names have yet to penetrate the realms of applied chemistry . |
| 9 | The consumer , being used to smooth thick conventional yoghurt , may reject Busses yoghurt because of those unfamiliar characteristics but Busses yoghurt continues to sell well despite this and it is encouraging to know that many consumers do recognise the quality of the product . |
| 10 | It was pleasant to know that that fact had been noted among the critical young gentlemen who comprised , as far as it could be done , Edwin 's set . |
| 11 | Anyone fancying a repeat of Hazy Days on the Far East Buttress might be interested to know that current opinion gives it a serious E5 6b grading . |
| 12 | I am sure that it will be interesting to the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) to know that Labour Members advocate such tax increases . |
| 13 | It is good to know that Scottish Amicable has long since grown sufficiently to be able to invest in large properties . |
| 14 | What is it to know that human beings vary ? |
| 15 | Why do we need to know that another vehicle has Show Dogs In Transit ? |
| 16 | The hon. Gentleman might like to know that last year saw record levels of exports from this country and that our share of manufactured exports in world trade has been rising since 1984 . |
| 17 | For standing on the , on the seats you see , which I mean my father was right he 'd got the experience to know that several men had been drowned like that . |
| 18 | How was I to know that old Ian had n't trekked across South Africa with a couple of elephants and demanded ‘ an audience with Nelson or I 'll smash you with a stump , . |
| 19 | The first hurdle will be to renew the approval of the Vice-Chancellor , a senior judge , who has so far agreed that there is a case to argue but wants to know that enough creditors support the action to make its pursuit a worthwhile use of all creditors ' funds . |
| 20 | Is not that why everyone has good reason to know that Tory Governments mean higher VAT ? |
| 21 | He was not to know that those pictures appalled her , that she had never imagined herself capable of such thoughts . |
| 22 | In this work he needed to know that these numbers factorised uniquely into primes ( 3.7.13 ) just as do the ordinary integers . |
| 23 | He added : ‘ The chancellor must come to explain why the secret arrangements were such that the public were never to know that this payment had been made . ’ |
| 24 | You need , first of all , to have a sufficiently open system to know that this change has occurred , and secondly to be willing to acknowledge the change , and go through the whole exercise again . |
| 25 | And we are fascinated to know that this approach has been shown to be so effective in a remote part of the Far East where our cassettes are transported on the back of a motorcycle ! |
| 26 | The arguments in Beyond the Pleasure Principle which sought to establish that all organisms aim at death , a return to the state of inanimate matter , were admitted by Freud to be ones which could be overthrown by later biological research . |
| 27 | Indeed , I was slow to discover that other men had had this experience , for it had been possible to read books and to associate with men on other grounds … |
| 28 | He was always surprised to discover that other people did n't feel this way about him . |
| 29 | It is all good fun and just the thing to encourage not-especially-musical people to discover that real singers make everything sound great . |
| 30 | Again , given the cultural pressure on women with children , it is hardly surprising to find that successful mothers provide a point of reference and fulfil an opinion leader role . |