Example sentences of "[vb infin] [conj] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus situations may arise where the acquisition of companies with relatively small turnover may nevertheless have a Community dimension . |
| 2 | To take the British example , I would hazard that the ratio of real balances to total private sector net worth is less than 1% ( see Dow and Saville ( 1988 ) for a breakdown of the constituent parts of private sector wealth ) . |
| 3 | You , Mr. Speaker — indeed , the whole House — will know that the Archbishop of Canterbury , the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster , the Moderator of the Free Church Federal Council and the Chief Rabbi drew the Prime Minister 's attention to the pre-Christmas law-breaking , which they said ’ will determine the institution of a nationally observed day in the week substantially set apart for activities which are other than commercial in nature . |
| 4 | Such a distorted sequence might have profound effects on the student 's musical abilities , especially in the earlier stages , and would certainly make the pedagogic method seem problematic to anyone who did not know that the order of grades had been transposed . |
| 5 | Members of Council will know that the objective of changing the culture of the Council has gone because we 've largely done the job . |
| 6 | Any successful business person will know that the lack of common vision , sense of direction and purpose provide a tested recipe for failure . |
| 7 | Er I think er if the honourable gentleman checks the record he will find that my right honourable friend said that America did not have a national statutory minimum wage but I 'm most I 'm most grateful to the honourable gentleman for reminding us of the international comparisons because he will know that the country in Europe which has embraced his policy of a statutory minimum wage is Spain and Spain has twice the level of unemployment of the European average and twice the level in this country . |
| 8 | such as ‘ How do we know that the behaviour of numbers does not somehow change as they become larger ? ’ |
| 9 | If the law is to be effective , the criminals must know that the chance of their being caught is high , as is the chance of their being convicted ; and that they are certain to receive a sentence that matches the severity of their crime . |
| 10 | For instance , teachers involved in this scheme would know that the success of their female pupils would be very carefully monitored , and that senior people in the school would be looking at the girls ' test results . |
| 11 | And our great concern is that people in Scotland should know that the possibility of reconciliation exists . |
| 12 | ‘ But , ’ said the stranger , ‘ do you or do you not know that the law of England supposes every man to be innocent until he is proved — proved — to be guilty ? ’ |
| 13 | If the issuer did not know that the issue of the certificate triggered completion of the sale , or that it would be likely to do so , he would probably not be liable : see 14.11 . |
| 14 | Most people are fascinated by the way words change their meanings and their form and spelling : your pupils may not know that the history of any one word can be a story in itself ( like the etymology of the word " history " ) . |
| 15 | Oh blimey , I should know that the land of milk and honey Denmark . |
| 16 | At the moment we can not make precise predictions about the level and type of demand , but we do know that the number of places in residential and nursing home care has declined in the past year . |
| 17 | If the pattern in Northern Ireland is the same as in the rest of the United Kingdom , the Minister will know that the number of persons there subsequently convicted under the Act is very small . |
| 18 | This might possibly be an accurate forecast of the future , but anyone with experience of even a relatively simple up-to-date photocopier will know that the amount of maintenance support it requires goes far beyond this board-changing routine . |
| 19 | It did not know that the purchaser of the scrap had left some behind . |
| 20 | ‘ And did you know that the County of Meath is known as Royal Meath ? ’ |
| 21 | Anyone listening to or reading about the debate will know that the nub of the Government 's thinking is that they want the Bill to be passed . |
| 22 | As soon as these figures are written down , you will know that the answer to the addition of the three rows of figures will be 11977 . |
| 23 | Do you know that the answer to all your questions , all your problems , is actually contained within its glorious covers . |
| 24 | ‘ You must know that the companionship of you and Charlotte in a strange land will be beyond price to me . ’ |
| 25 | Alternatively a pupil might know that the height of most adults is between five and six feet but fail to apply this knowledge to estimates of other lengths or heights . |
| 26 | Since you seem to know whereof you speak I will only say that you must know that the burden of restraint by means of the … mechanism … employed will , of necessity , fall upon the man . |
| 27 | He will , of course , know that the Leader of the Opposition has said in the past that ’ Sweden is certainly a model for us ’ . |
| 28 | Few would doubt that the rise of government has produced economic inefficiency and restricted the freedom of choice . |
| 29 | Secondly , we may well doubt that the reconciliation of opposites is really a sound principle for defining poetry , whether it is truly applicable to all the texts one would wish to include under the heading of poetry or good literature . |
| 30 | There is an immense difference between the political systems of fascism and of liberal democracy , either of which may exist in a capitalist society ; and no one can doubt that the history of the world would have been very different if the fascist powers had been victorious in the Second World War . |