Example sentences of "[to-vb] that [det] of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yvonne Harper-Wake , managing director of London 's The Gym at The Sanctuary , was amazed to find that many of the callers were overweight because they were eating all the wrong things . |
| 2 | It 'll change as you get older erm you wo n't necessarily just have that all the time we used to run these courses for students who had just come out of college and they were joining their company to work for the first first time and we used to do this and we used to find that many of the people who had just taken out the job for the first time had very very flat scores . |
| 3 | Having heard all the horror stories about being nicked for speeding in the US , I was pleasantly surprised to find that most of the traffic was travelling at about 70mph , so I set the cruise control at around that speed and tried not to look conspicuous . |
| 4 | Owen had been to the Coptic Cathedral before but not to a Coptic church ; so he was surprised to find that most of the congregation appeared to be on crutches . |
| 5 | The judge declined to find that any of the information contained in the blue book bore the stamp of confidentiality within the criteria laid down in Faccenda Chicken , ie it could not be described as a trade secret or anything approximating thereto . |
| 6 | It would be idle to pretend that any of the Pacific islands have the kind of economic importance possessed by , say , Korea , or Malaysia , but in addition to potentially immense political importance and no small amount of charm , they have a symbolic significance — for they are what the world still thinks of when confronted with the single word , Pacific . |
| 7 | It was not difficult to spot that some of the products in our portfolio could never again be profitable . |
| 8 | Dr Tim Bishop , for the ICRF in Leeds , added : ‘ We looked at dozens of case studies , from as far apart as America , Holland , Iceland , Germany , France , Sweden and the UK — in fact , almost all the known families with chromosome 17 linkage data and we were amazed to see that all of the families seemed to have the same genetic defect . ’ |
| 9 | It is , therefore , perhaps not surprising to see that many of the evaluation studies described in the library literature give accounts of the evaluation of specific methods and media which have been used in library instruction rather than evaluation of programmes of instruction . |
| 10 | Reports tend to confirm that most of the fish have completed spawning activities and seem ready to feed . |
| 11 | The DoE was able to confirm that most of the advertisers involved had not obtained their consent . |
| 12 | ‘ I do not want to labour the failures of the past but I do want to emphasise that many of the problems that are now being tackled are the legacy of past management failure . ’ |
| 13 | It might not be a complete oversimplification to state that many of the profession 's difficulties with the lay public stem from the public 's basic incomprehension of what we write ; and yet is it not the particular beauty of the English language that the most appreciated and elegant words are in fact the simplest and most easily understood ? |
| 14 | This is not to suggest that each of the sample antiracist statements does not have something pertinent to say about the particular instance of racism which it privileges as paradigmatic . |
| 15 | Practically unique letter specification was obtained from only the downstrokes of the writing , and there is other evidence to suggest that most of the information in cursive writing is in the downward portions of the writing . |
| 16 | ‘ You will be vexed to hear that some of the birds said to be in your last package from Sydney were missing : by what I can gather from your list they formed the whole of one of the smaller packages . |
| 17 | Meanwhile Kelly begins to suspect that many of the people helping to run the convention may also be fictional . |
| 18 | Editor , — Sir Bernard Tomlinson 's report on medical care in London seems to assume that many of the demands for care made on teaching hospitals in inner London could be satisfied by general practitioners and thus the need for acute beds in London would fall . |
| 19 | In view of the Korean love for fighting , although we have no proof it is safe to assume that some of the North Korean attacks are in retaliation of South Korean attacks . |
| 20 | When the target area was reached , and the bombload dropped , the tail gunner had the task of counting each bomb flash to ensure that all of the bombs had exploded . |
| 21 | Throughout the transaction process it is necessary to ensure that all of the parties are achieving their set responsibilities in accordance with the timetable and that , if not , the timetable is revised as necessary . |
| 22 | ‘ no steps were taken [ by the clerk ] to ensure that either of the defendants was aware of the nature or effect of the documents they were signing , and no suggestion was made to them that independent legal advice ought to be sought . |
| 23 | Reformers came to believe that many of the problems of government could be solved by the application to public administration of management techniques being developed in the private sector by large firms . |
| 24 | So much has been written about Monteverdi 's L'Orfeo that it may be difficult to believe that many of the puzzles can be answered through a study of Renaissance humanistic traditions . |
| 25 | It is difficult to believe that many of the prestige projects discussed in Chapter 8 would have been contemplated in the absence of the very high volumes of aid reaching countries for other , more mundane , purposes . |
| 26 | Thus although much has been achieved , it would be a mistake to believe that most of the problems have been solved . |
| 27 | It is difficult to believe that any of the characters examined by Burdon could be selectively neutral . |
| 28 | Journals which published it , and editors who included it , ceased to be fully respectable ; this message got through to Crookes , and he stopped his active propaganda , though apparently never ceasing to believe that some of the phenomena he had witnessed , often in distinguished and reliable company , were genuine . |
| 29 | But I mean , were led to believe that some of the people that you see sitting on the streets of Edinburgh begging are actually making a good living out of it ! |
| 30 | It is easy to forget that most of the energy that the real world consumes is in the million of stoves burning gas , kerosene , wood and coal in homes across the Third World . |