Example sentences of "[to-vb] that the [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Without such explanation , of course , it makes it difficult to accept that the same things really are taking place in the different spheres .
2 When night fell we were appalled to find that the same principle had been carried over to the highway .
3 When was the last time you bought an item at one shop , only to find that the same item was much cheaper in another shop ?
4 In the second example , the comma is used to signal that the same clause represents new information .
5 Children will begin to see that the same amount of water will fill containers that appear to be of different capacity .
6 It would be absurdly sanguine to suggest that the latter half of the twentieth century has witnessed any global movement in the direction of democracy or popular power .
7 Indicators relating to the struggle between the hardline members of the Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ) and those in favour of economic liberalization continued to suggest that the latter group was gaining ground .
8 It is tempting to suggest that the same kind of jigsaw process will explain the shape of an elephant , but almost certainly it is not true .
9 The right has had the cheek to suggest that the same iron discipline should apply in the aftermath of defeat as in the anticipation of victory .
10 Certainly Premack 's findings are under this cloud since Sarah 's performance suffered considerably when in the presence of a trainer who did not know the answers that she was supposed to give , and it would seem natural to expect that the more broadbrush methods of the gestural teaching would be equally suspect .
11 But that should not lead us to assume that the same holds for the externalities identified here .
12 It is tempting to assume that the same rule applies , but quasar redshifts are , in some cases , very much bigger than any measured galaxy redshift , so the assumption involves considerable extrapolation .
13 The Windows for Workgroups beta included software to permit a DOS machine to hook up to a Windows for Workgroups network , although only as a client , so it 's safe to assume that the same Workgroup Connection software will find its way into version 6 .
14 But a capable , competent , intelligent person is also needed to ensure that the many tasks that have to be dealt with every day in the office are carried out smoothly and efficiently , and that good relationships and communications with all other departments in the hotel are maintained .
15 However , the report identifies a number of areas that need to be addressed in more detail as a result we are recommendatin it , recommending that a major consultation exercise be d be conducted this year to ensure that the many ideas that people have to improve our Health , Safety and Environment Service are considered .
16 When looking at how to develop and improve the management of its electronic information resources , a local authority needs to ensure that the same questions are asked about the electronic environment as are asked about the traditional ubiquitous paper record .
17 When a module name is first entered into LIFESPAN , it is checked to ensure that the same name has not already been chosen for another module .
18 Because the lumen of the same crypt is visible within a maximal range of 50 µm , every 15th section was stained and counted to ensure that the same crypt was not counted twice .
19 There seemed to be no way to ensure that the same tragedy would not be replayed . ’
20 Jack is in overall charge of the LDP sales company and the reason for that is to ensure that the same standards and disciplines of product development , point of sale and , most important , profitability are applied to LDP as to Stoddard Templeton .
21 Regan is right to the extent that to talk of recognition in such circumstances does have a purpose , as it would of a dog 's staccato barks and tail-waving on hearing its master 's voice , but he fails to realise that the same form of words now features in a related , but different , language-game .
22 When the product is the supplier it is naive to suppose that the same rules apply .
23 To think that the selfsame parents could have given birth to the two of us , she says .
24 It is a fallacy to think that the more information an organisation has the better will be the decisions .
25 It is certainly not enough to say that the former position shows " attribution " and the latter " predication " ; one must go on to say what these terms of one 's theory mean , and if our account is to be genuinely explanatory , we must do so in ways which can be related to concepts and phenomena which stand outside our initial theory .
26 Possibly it is not too much of an exaggeration to say that the more flexibility your employer retains in framing your job duties , the harder he may find it to argue that you are redundant .
27 This obviously is n't to say that the same response would not have been achieved with a centesimal potency , it merely demonstrates the applicability of LM 's in an acute and the simplicity of repetition .
28 Thus , while we follow with interest the supposedly dramatic variation from 2 feet to 10 feet to 39 feet of a certain zone along the English outcrop , we hardly bother with a footnote to say that the same zone in western Scotland is nearly 134 feet thick .
29 Is the concept of sensation involved in these sentences such that it makes sense to say that the same sensation is excited by the presence to our organs of numerous objects , or is it such that numerous objects ( and , indeed , the same object at different times ) can not but excite different , though possibly exactly similar sensations ?
30 From this it is easy to go one step further and to say that the same thing happens in fictional discourse , except that it is a postulated or imagined model of reality — in short , a fiction — that is transferred to the addressee .
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