Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [to-vb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am fascinated to notice that your profession has at last started not merely to say that , but to criticise those who refuse to allow so manifest a fact to be stated in order that it may be examined . |
| 2 | The arms on a tea-tray we will be selling are those of the Duke of Northumberland and I am fascinated to read that his first wife was divorced by him in 1779 . |
| 3 | The hotel does not operate a service charge , but you are given to understand that guests in fact tip generously . |
| 4 | After treatment , measurements are undertaken to ensure that the self-healing processes have been initiated . |
| 5 | Shinwell had been heard to declare that " he held the seamen of the Clyde in the hollow of his hand " and that English ports were also dissatisfied with Wilson 's autocratic methods and ready to break away if he did not tell them what he had done with their money . |
| 6 | More than one bride 's father has been heard to say that he did not want to have a large engagement party if the wedding was to follow within a year because that would involve him in the organization and expense of ‘ two weddings ’ . |
| 7 | 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 ! |
| 8 | This view has since been altered to contend that the struggle for education is part of the struggle for freedom and that some demands which affect the education system should be fought for while apartheid is still in place . |
| 9 | By now your heater will have brought the water to temperature and should have been adjusted to ensure that it 's spot on . |
| 10 | Special forms of segregated sheltered housing , and ultimately the old person 's residential home , ensure that older people are taught to feel that their lives are somehow different and separate from other age-groups . |
| 11 | The difference in attitudes toward welfare between the USA and Europe has been highlighted to show that trends toward contraction of municipal housing and urban programmes , when coupled with the process of deinstitutionalization , make it more likely that hospital leavers will be marginalized in a competitive environment . |
| 12 | Constitutional arrangements have been developed to ensure that bureaucracies remain responsive to political direction . |
| 13 | We have been given to understand that our forest of Chippenham around the place called ‘ Holloway ’ is so dense that malefactors are able to lie hid in those parts , and so travellers are threatened with frequent losses , and some incur peril of lives and goods there . |
| 14 | This second misfortune seemed to revive her memories of the earlier time when she had been carrying his child and had been given to understand that her husband had been simultaneously carrying on an affair with some young army chauffeuse . |
| 15 | You ha–e been given to understand that the typical guest is male , in his late fifties and involved with the chemical industry in a managerial or professional capacity . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've worked for fourteen years in this business and I 've been given to understand that I should get a partnership one day . ’ |
| 17 | Then , unable to hold back the words , she added , ‘ I 've been given to understand that you and Silas are both somewhat allergic to — er — to the feminine side of life — and that you 've both decided to live without such small luxuries . ’ |
| 18 | Glass has been given to believe that there may be a future for him and Maria together , so he has agreed to help get Leonard out of Berlin . |
| 19 | Generations of Britain 's elite have been taught to believe that there are no absolute moral principles . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been taught to believe that there are — perhaps I 've even seen it , but I do n't know , ’ Sophia protested . |
| 21 | At this time certain information is usually recorded to ensure the patient is fit for surgery and also to avoid potential complications , e.g. a specimen of urine is tested to ensure that diabetes mellitus does not go undiagnosed ; allergies are checked to ensure that drugs , anaesthetic agents , lotions or dressings can be avoided if a patient has an allergy to them . |
| 22 | In the final version , however , the wording had been amended to state that foreign banking markets were required to provide equivalent , but not necessarily identical , access facilities to EC banks if they wanted to trade within the EC ; it was also agreed that any foreign banks which were already trading legally within the EC would not need to reapply for authorization . |
| 23 | The practice of editors varies substantially , and these points are intended to suggest that some simple changes could improve the ways in which they communicate about the process and their decisions . |
| 24 | Apart from the deliberate references to Theodoric and Charlemagne , which are intended to show that Frederick Barbarossa was of the same mould as these great heroes , the description of the Kaiserslauten palace is especially interesting . |
| 25 | Thus , the examples , which examine the historical development of attitudes , are intended to show that present explicit attitudes must contain their implicit potentialities for future circumstances . |
| 26 | For example , one method is that subordinated debt may be repaid only when certain conditions are met , which are intended to ensure that the interests of other creditors are not impaired by the repayment . |
| 27 | They are intended to ensure that increased levels of interaction amongst Network members do not result in friction or embarrassment amongst Network members or the extensive use of other Network members ' resources on an unprofitable basis . |
| 28 | These are intended to ensure that the main points in the chapter have been absorbed and provide a basic check for the lecturer and the student to ensure that the basic tools are there to enable the student to tackle the problems for discussion with a reasonable grounding in the subject . |
| 29 | " Now then … in 1959 your husband came to the conclusion , and I am given to understand that you fully agreed , that it would be a sensible step for him to take employment for 15 months with a construction firm in Central America , in order to save the larger part of his salary Nenna protested that she had never exactly thought it sensible , it was the parting of lovers , which must always be senseless , but they 'd both of them thought that David , Panama , would be a wretched place to take small children to . |
| 30 | I am given to understand that this will apply to Scotland also . |