Example sentences of "[to-vb] that these [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I mean in retrospect , looking back on it , it seems crazy — since they were clearly both right , what were they arguing about ? erm but it took a lot of time to see that these two sets of views could , in fact , be made compatible as we now think they can be . |
2 | The idea of background knowledge enables us to see that these two possibilities will occur together as the result of a single experiment . |
3 | For all those reasons sir , we invite you to report that these two fields should not remain in the greenbelt . |
4 | The young reader has to be ready to understand that these ten pictures are of one kitten thriving on love and care . |
5 | It is not enough , however , to argue that these two effects simply cancel one another out and we can therefore forget about them . |
6 | It 's hard to think that these 2 teams are next to each other in the league . |
7 | It is no exaggeration to say that these three introductions were of enormous importance to the future of the Army . |
8 | However later tests ( Harrington and Johnstone 1987 ) found that it was not necessarily the case that longer input utterances ( where length is defined as number of phonemes or number of words intended by the speaker ) necessarily gave the greatest number of parsings into word strings : there was no correlation between number of phonemes in the utterance and number of parses into words ( r = -0.07 , not significant ) ; neither was there a significant correlation between number of words produced by the speaker and number of possible parses of its phonemic representation into words strings ( r = 0.11 ) , although there is a trend to show that these two variables are positively correlated . |
9 | It is easy to show that these two steps combine to give the required result . |
10 | Hib-E scholars have apparently always been quite happy to accept that the meat/mate merger is a true merger ( see citations in J. Milroy and Harris , 1980 : 200 ) , and Bliss ( 1979 : 208–10 ) cites evidence to show that these two classes had merged in Hib-E by around 1700 . |
11 | I shall try to show that these three frames of reference are complementary rather than self-sufficient or mutually exclusive . |