Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] that [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside legal doctrine itself there has been a greater willingness to accept that in the large public company the shareholders may not perform the task of monitoring and controlling the management of the company , so that the managers are potentially left in a position of unchecked power . |
| 2 | Conference , to have a sign in the front and rear of your car may help all new drivers to understand that as a new driver you are entering a system that we are not aware of , speed , which is associated with many other items causes the very things that we work in our day-to-day lives under health and safety to stop . |
| 3 | For example , Richards has used the methods of Cragg and Malkiel to show that over a 1-year time horizon professional analysts perform ‘ reasonably well ’ . |
| 4 | Engels was at a loss to explain the Junker refusal to accept that after the French Revolution they could never again command the total obedience and respect they had once enjoyed from a cowed and illiterate peasantry . |
| 5 | There is some evidence to suggest that among the important determinants should be numbered the complexity of the stimuli ( Ellis and Muller 1964 ) , whether or not the stimuli look like recognizable objects ( Ellis , Muller , and Tosti 1966 ) , and the extent to which the labels match critical features of the stimuli ( Segal 1964 ) . |
| 6 | Will the Minster confirm that if the bribes that the Secretary of State reinforced in terms of capital allocations for grant-maintained schools last week were extended to meet the right hon. and learned Gentleman 's other pledge to extend that to every possible school , the cost would be the equivalent of more than one penny on VAT ? |
| 7 | How are Americans to know that to the Vulgar British ‘ Bristols ’ are breasts ( boobs/knockers/charlies/tits ) and ‘ cobblers ’ are testicles ( balls/bollocks/knackers/goolies ) ? |
| 8 | Or perhaps she had sense to realise that in an entrenched battle she was likely to come off the worst . |
| 9 | Although the number of cars registered in Wales fell slightly during 1992 , there was little reason to think that in the long term we will not be faced by an unsustainable surge in the number of private vehicles using Welsh roads . |
| 10 | Someone may now say : nevertheless , though checkerboard solutions may be desirable for that reason on some occasions , we do better to reject their use out of hand in advance , because we have reason to think that in the long run more discrete injustice will be created than avoided through these solutions . |
| 11 | This discovery does make the point that trade had been established and there is no reason to think that in the closing years of his reign , when Cunobelinus was showing strong pro-Roman tendencies these commercial links with the Roman world would not have been fostered . |
| 12 | However , while climatic conditions could lead to some long-term changes in the economy and to sharp annual variations in food prices , there is no reason to doubt that over a long period movements in prices and wages do indicate whether population was rising or falling . |
| 13 | According to an evaluation report this may reflect an unwillingness to admit that in the past schools have been sex biased ( Payne , Cuff and Hustler , 1984 ) . |
| 14 | The Legislature can not , according to our constitution , bind itself as to the form of subsequent legislation , and it is impossible for Parliament to enact that in a subsequent statute dealing with the same subject-matter there can be no implied repeal . |
| 15 | It is a tremendous satisfaction to record that in the following years this changed . |
| 16 | ‘ It is important for the churches to realise that in a pluralistic , secularised society they can not exert influence by moral or dogmatic dictates ’ , the report stressed . |
| 17 | Even though we have just proved the equivalence of the concepts of primeness and of irreducibility in Z we ask the reader to note that in the following theorem the concept of irreducibility is associated with the existence of a decomposition of the asserted kind whereas the property of primeness is used to establish the uniqueness of this decomposition . |