Example sentences of "[to-vb] that [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She often seemed to worry that they would appear strange to me and out of key with the age . |
| 2 | Access to files sometimes leads people to worry that they will be sued if the record contains unprovable statements . |
| 3 | Some institutions , such as Mitsubishi Bank , are doing well to worry that it might . |
| 4 | This is to request that you will send me no more goods unless ordered . |
| 5 | We made two hundred and forty five pounds on Thriller of the Year one hundred and nineteen pounds on Tea for Two but that is after we 've made the three hundred pounds donation to Whiston Hospital we made a thousand and eighteen pounds on the panto Wuthering Heights we lost four hundred and nine pounds , but that was basically that we do costume plays and have to hire the erm fixtures and set pieces from Wrightsons or wherever we 're always going to be in this position and I think it 's the tradition of the Garrick that we continue to do them , and I think we have to accept that we may have losses in future on those particular erm things . |
| 6 | As women , we need to accept that we can be fierce , cunning and predatory before we can start to use these energies in a constructive way . |
| 7 | If we want the situation to be as realistic as possible , we have to accept that we can not control all the variables , and can therefore never be sure that the cause and effect relationships we identify are , in fact , correct . |
| 8 | But proving the necessity of crime requires more than showing that some things that were formerly criminal are now important parts of healthy social life ( even if we were to accept that we can objectively determine what constitutes healthy social life ) . |
| 9 | To have a concept of error is to accept that we can be in error on a given occasion even though we do not believe we are , and hence that we can be corrected by others . |
| 10 | We would do better to accept that we can not say precisely how much of the book dates from this last stage , although there were , no doubt , changes of various kinds , including deletions . |
| 11 | Under these conditions we have little option other than to accept that we can do little more than look with envy towards those farmers in New Zealand making a living without the ‘ benefit ’ of subsidies . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's difficult for people to accept that they ca n't interfere with the transfer of data once it 's automated . |
| 13 | It 's interesting that gay men on Switchboard found it much easier to accept that they did n't automatically know best for lesbians than white people on Switchboard find it to accept that they might not know best for Black people . |
| 14 | Prison reformers have been slow to adapt to prison realities , and to accept that they must address the wider canvas of the criminal justice process . |
| 15 | The clear implication was that , eventually , their full demands would be met and in the meantime the Unionists had been obliged to accept that they could no longer rule with total disregard for the feelings and aspirations of Derry 's Catholics . |
| 16 | Now the audit industry was in favour of that at the time because it saw itself as able to get its fingers into local authority audit so they were prepared to accept that they could do it then , it 's only now er when it 's proposed on what 's been their traditional prerogatives , they er er they audit of banks and private sector er er companies that they balk at the proposition and say ooh it 's horrendous we ca n't do it . |
| 17 | She thought it unlikely that this was due to concern for her feelings — it would be a new departure for him to accept that she might have any , apart from avarice . |
| 18 | It was hard to believe that this was actually happening ; harder still to accept that she could n't do anything about it . |
| 19 | Even now , however , he is prepared to accept that he may not be able to come back in a new guise after three years . |
| 20 | It is obvious that a horse will run from a stick , spurs or fear of the rider , but it is hard to accept that he will try to pull on the bit if that very action increases the pain . |
| 21 | She knew that he had been Eddie 's best friend — that was why she 'd always found it so hard to accept that he could have deliberately driven her brother off the track . |
| 22 | The foregoing chapters bring the story to that crucial time in the long history of earthly life when emerging man would find himself unwilling to accept that he must for ever be on his guard against the uncontrolled violence that ruled the evolutionary scene . |
| 23 | Life is killing us moment by moment , and until you are humble enough to accept that you will never be truly aware . |
| 24 | You 've been very good , and I wish I could explain things , but I must ask you to accept that I ca n't . |
| 25 | ‘ Why is it so hard to accept that I could feel all that too ? ’ |
| 26 | I can ask you to accept that I should n't have come to you like this if I did not believe that the matter may turn out to be very grave indeed . |
| 27 | If I come to you at three months with a P T A tumour , that 's grade one or two , how long would you be er willing to accept that I should have a recurrence before you treat it ? |
| 28 | It has had to accept that it can do neither without a deal with the opposition . |
| 29 | Most sceptics about natural selection are prepared to accept that it can bring about minor changes like the dark coloration that has evolved in various species of moth since the industrial revolution . |
| 30 | When my hon. Friend is discussing rights , I ask him to accept that it should be emphasised that a guillotine gags Parliament and many others outside . |