Example sentences of "[vb infin] [that] [noun] [vb mod] be [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 A share certificate will contain two statements on which the company will know that reliance may be placed .
2 ‘ When Florence Nightingale said bluntly that if you overcrowded your soldiers in dirty quarters there would be an outbreak of smallpox , she was snubbed as an ignorant female who did not know that smallpox can be produced only by the importation of its specific microbe , ’ Shaw remarks .
3 I do not doubt that representations will be made about that private sector decision , which I very much regret .
4 These cause trouble because often the speller does not recognise that words can be made up of different bits brought together .
5 Although the University will do its best to avoid increases in fees , it can not guarantee that fees will be maintained at the same level for the duration of your course .
6 All fees are subject to annual review and although the University will do its best to avoid large increases , it can not guarantee that fees will be maintained at the same level for the duration of a student 's course .
7 And he said that he did not consider that Skelton should be allowed to expand so far northward .
8 As it stands , classical Freudian theory should therefore predict that sleep might be disturbed by the prevention of dreaming , but that any untoward effects would be from the prevention of restorative sleep , rather than the prevention of dreaming per se .
9 Specifically , I did predict that oil would be pumped into the waters of the Gulf .
10 He does n't think that women should be allowed so much freedom of movement , although he understands that this is regrettably the custom , to this day , among white women . ’
11 I do not think that frontiers should be changed by force or by unilateral action .
12 While it recommended that the British should not enjoy even the hint of a veto in any form of consultative machinery , it did not think that Britain should be treated as a satellite .
13 During my researches for this series I have met many people who , though agreeing with the theory behind the reforms of British medical education proposed by the General Medical Council and other bodies , do not think that reforms can be implemented on a wide scale .
14 An abatement of reverence and forelock touching is all to the good , and I can not really think that doctors should be denied their fair share of human fallibility .
15 Most people do n't think that children should be represented in Parliament by children .
16 Yeah , well Lesley Dewhurst , do you think that people should be forced into behaving in certain ways ?
17 Warton , in his book The History of English Poetry , published in the 1680s , wrote , ‘ Antient chemistry made people fancy that bodies could be preserved with the resemblance of real life , by means of a precious liquor circulating through every part in golden tubes artificially disposed , and operating on the principles of vegetation . ’
18 Equally , the firms can not ensure that decisions will be made according to what they see as appropriate criteria unless those criteria are built into the decision process .
19 That seems to be the only way to prevent the piecemeal fragmentation of present facilities , and I would be grateful if you could ensure that steps will be taken to implement these measures .
20 In today 's Conservative Party , ‘ knowing all the right people ’ does not ensure that doors will be opened .
21 The communication processes operating in these environments are characterised by a high degree of open-ness within the research centres , coupled with a desire to withhold significant research results from similar research centres elsewhere until the public release of such information can ensure that priority will be accorded to those making the announcement .
22 Do you have any general feelings about that , do you feel that things could be tightened up ?
23 Do n't assume that questions will be worded in the same way every year .
24 Ashton and MacMillan do show that changes can be made .
25 But it does not believe that music should be used to cover up , or encourage , worshippers to talk .
26 The Trust is not an anglers ' or owners ' association and takes no side in the arguments between the supporters or sporting and commercial fishing , but it does believe that salmon should be taken only in their rivers of origin or their estuaries so that the total level of fishing effort can be controlled in order to ensure that enough fish reach the spawning sites to maintain stocks naturally .
27 Keynes 's own policies have often been misrepresented : in the 1930s , for example , he was well aware of the structural problems of British industry , and did not believe that unemployment could be reduced much below 12 per cent .
28 Bearing in mind the urgency of the matter now , after so many years , when does he believe that action will be taken ?
29 But , given the destructive power of modern weapons , they did not believe that civilization could be protected by war .
30 He said people who condemned the scheme for being too extreme should remember that rules could be relaxed , while it would be unpopular to introduce more stringent byelaws after the trial .
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