Example sentences of "[to-vb] that they [verb] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether you agree or disagree with what they do , you have to accept that they 've worked out a very complicated system of values . |
| 2 | But the shaming should not be of a ‘ stigmatizing ’ nature which will tend to exclude them from being accepted members of the community ; it should be of a kind which serves to reintegrate them within it , by getting them to accept that they have done wrong while encouraging others to readmit them to society . |
| 3 | The darkness was almost complete now ; she could only see the faintest outline of his features , enough to know that they 'd taken on a hard , determined cast . |
| 4 | Many people wish to plan their funerals in advance , and to know that they have set aside the money to pay for them : |
| 5 | It is not unusual to find that they have forged ahead on their own between lessons and are proud of the visible progress they have made . ’ |
| 6 | If capitalist industrialisation has done little to improve the position of women , is there any evidence to suggest that they have fared better with alternative paths of development ? |
| 7 | BUT Jill Turner and driver John Crawley were both prepared to swear that they had driven directly from the flat to a firm of independent chemical analysts . |
| 8 | Marion , who has worked at the Tour for the past two years and recently took over as Membership Secretary , says : ‘ We are pleased that so many girls want to join our Tour , but we are also anxious to ensure that they have thought through all the consequences and they are sure that they want to be a professional . |
| 9 | It was impossible to believe that they had fallen so mathematically into place by themselves . |
| 10 | While the public may be cynical about electoral promises , governments of whatever complexion customarily take pains to demonstrate that they have carried out the main proposals embodied in their manifesto , as well as other commitments or ‘ pledges ’ given at election time . |
| 11 | Further , it is essential that engineers are in a position to demonstrate that they have carried out their professional responsibilities and have acted to remove or reduce risks to responsible and acceptable levels . |
| 12 | Whatever procedure for dismissal is established must be seen as fair and just , so that governing bodies are able to demonstrate that they have acted reasonably . |
| 13 | To check that they 've gone home . |
| 14 | It was sad to think that they had waited so long in England for this invasion of their homeland and after a few hours ashore so many of them had been killed or wounded , the dead now lying in a temporary grave in the corner of a Normandy orchard . |
| 15 | that the plaintiffs can not be heard to say that they have acted dishonestly when an honest construction can be put upon their conduct by treating their acceptance and retention of the money as being upon the terms on which it was offered . |
| 16 | And even if it were possible , making debtors pay 50p to prove that they had paid off their debts seems rather harshly discouraging for them — it would virtually boil down to imposing a line on them not because they had been debtors but because they had now paid their debts in full . |
| 17 | Increasingly the Scots were coming to feel that they had benefited little from the establishment of the new regime in 1689 , and as a result Jacobitism north of the border took on nationalistic overtones . |