Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pers pn] that the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BELVILLE : If you can convince me that the hated parson has had no encouragement from you I will offer you the following proposals . |
| 2 | Do I now understand it that the whole programme is subject to maximum price ? |
| 3 | You pass the chosen card and then finger another as if you feel it is going to be the right one and then say ‘ How much do you bet me that the next card I turn over is the chosen one ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ But I can assure you that the last thing the Football League wants is a repeat of the Maidstone situation where a club struggles through the summer to a new season and then folds . |
| 5 | It did n't surprise me that the other four male English writers who had been invited had changed their minds and stayed away . |
| 6 | As the Temple was desecrated , according to the most probable chronology , about December 1 67 and reconsecrated about December 164 , we must take it that the correct interpretation of Daniel is the latter , amounting to about three years , which is in rough agreement with the " time , times and half a time " of the previous chapter . |
| 7 | We may take it that the utilitarian in him could accept with Ricardo 's labour theory of value his hostility to landlords , who might be regarded as unproductive and bone-idle , and share with him a reluctance to extend that hostility to master-manufacturers . |
| 8 | Do we take it that the rainy day has finally arrived ? |
| 9 | ‘ You 'd better tell them that the last showing has just started , Bill , ’ said Mr Brickley . |
| 10 | She did not tell me that the poor hungry children had to wash with ice in the morning , and walk through wet snow to sit for two hours with icy feet in a cold church on Sundays . |
| 11 | There 's nobody , nobody can tell me that the big national companies who pour money into the Tory fund , that they do n't have a say in their policy . |
| 12 | I must inform you that the same department are about to close the only respite centre ( Astley House in Huyton ) for children and young adults with special needs in the borough , so they can introduce what they call foster caring . |
| 13 | ‘ Friends , ’ she continued turning her back on him , ‘ by a miracle the settlement has fallen into our hands and I can tell you that the late Lord Chatwin left everything to his son and heir . ’ |
| 14 | Consequently , it is rather amusing to have Gergiev tell you that the only thing he misses about the bad old days before perestroika is the order . |
| 15 | Those who follow the favourites will tell you that the best bet is two-year-old handicaps , which have produced a profit of 14 to a 1 level stake over the last five seasons . |
| 16 | Any handbook on assertiveness techniques will tell you that the first rule is to make eye contact with your interviewers . |
| 17 | ( Any restaurateur will tell you that the attractive arrangement of food on the plate is 35 per cent of his job ) . |
| 18 | Any kid will tell you that the worst part of moving house is having to start at a new school where you do n't know anyone , and I was scared stiff . |
| 19 | He knew himself to be a magical dropout , so it did n't bother him that the mere appearance of a hero at the city gates was enough to cause retorts to explode and demons to materialise all through the Magical Quarter . |
| 20 | Will he also tell him that the first priority must be to reform the common agricultural policy , to remove the losses from fraud which occur within that policy and , especially , to bring about a successful conclusion to the GATT negotiations ? |
| 21 | That represents sixty percent of secondary schools and seventeen percent of primary schools and despite the er endeavour to which he refers of Essex county council , I can tell him that the latest school to decide to hold a ballot on such status is Notley High School , Braintree . |
| 22 | When my right hon. Friend sees the new Irish Prime Minister soon will he tell him that the biggest contribution the Irish Republic can make to peace , stability and reconciliation in Northern Ireland is to renounce its claim to sovereignty over Northern Ireland , as that claim encourages Irish Republican terrorism and gives it legitimacy , as well as being the strongest stumbling block in the way of all-party talks aimed at constitutional progress ? |
| 23 | No one can persuade me that the 3,000 licensees who went to Blackpool to take part in a protest march during the week of the Conservative conference are all mindless militants . |
| 24 | Though he was bound to give priority to Italy and to the Hellenistic East in his negative analysis of Roman rule , it did not escape him that the barbarous West was involved in the crisis . |
| 25 | of course goes on about what he always goes on about and er I would remind him that the supplementary estimates which is in the amendment here , is also in the amended motion which is proposed by the Conservatives and had all party support on every committee that it 's come to . |