Example sentences of "[to-vb] that the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Minton therefore had good reason to worry that the police might one day arrive to search the house , for one of the notorious aspects of the Montagu case was the disclosure that the police had done this without warrants . |
| 2 | This is to be expected , and it is reasonable for the vendor to request that the receivers of confidential information enter into such agreements , confirming that they will make no use of it other than for the specific purpose of evaluating the proposed buy-out . |
| 3 | ULSTER Unionist leader Jim Molyneaux urged the British government yesterday to accept that the talks framework is dead . |
| 4 | The resistance to devolution was so strong that the government was forced to accept that the bills should be ratified by referenda . |
| 5 | Where can Jenny have been , in the course of her adolescence , to be willing , if only out of nervousness , to accept that the Reds in Spain have been swept out from under the bed and up into mountain caves ? |
| 6 | If there is a serious departure from these laid down guidelines the auditor may refuse to accept that the accounts are a ’ true and fair view ’ of the financial affairs of the company and accordingly qualify the accounts to that effect . |
| 7 | The other , more plausible , avenue is to accept that the phenomena discussed would normally be established by linguistic means but that is in no way a necessary feature of them , and so no problem of principle need arise . |
| 8 | Daum now wants UEFA to accept that the rules regarding foreign players are for everyone else — but not for him because he had yet another excusable lapse of memory . |
| 9 | Schools seem less reluctant to accept that the difficulties some children experience may well point to a more general problem in school or classroom interaction ; and teachers who have been helped to respond more appropriately to those pupils whom they had found most difficult to teach , have found that in the process they were becoming better teachers to their other pupils as well , with their job satisfaction rising accordingly . |
| 10 | As for the Webbs ' insistence on the separate and restricted role for trade unionism , the practical effect was , once again , to abandon industrial democracy , to accept that the rights of working people at work remained the rights inhering in the property they owned : their labour , and nothing more . |
| 11 | Finally , I propose to call no person more than once to accept that the movers will have the opportunity of winding up at the end and I would please ask you to wait until you have been called . |
| 12 | Her mother never knew this , though , and because she had agreed to accept that the words ‘ action stations ’ meant that there was an urgent and valid reason for the conversation to be terminated she felt no sense of rejection . |
| 13 | In all our dealings with the head teacher we found that he consistently refused to accept that the methods of teaching at the school were failing our son . |
| 14 | He checked the police ID cards , and finally had to accept that the police would vouch for the social workers . |
| 15 | Marketers in Companies supplying industrial goods markets have therefore to accept that the situations faced by their companies in these markets are subject to a variety of different contingencies ( Or specific circumstances ) . |
| 16 | In Indochina , France became embroiled in one of the most complex of the post-war colonial conflicts , but it took time to accept that the days of European colonial rule were numbered . |
| 17 | Mr Dorrell continued : ’ In the past the Inland Revenue has , I am told , felt able to accept that the allowances paid to volunteers did no more than reimburse them for their actual expenses . |
| 18 | Again , most of us are happy to accept that the cortices of all mammals are , as units , homologous with each other . |
| 19 | He refuses to accept that the voters are fed up of electioneering in Langbaurgh . |
| 20 | How , for example , is one to know that the students have an understanding of therapeutic diets ? |
| 21 | Ten days and more of women 's films is a good way of recharging one 's batteries , and women thinking of going to next year 's Festival might like to know that the organisers will arrange accommodation with local families for 50F a night ( approx £5 . ) |
| 22 | But for the time being conservationists everywhere are happy to know that the swans and the anglers are no longer rivers apart . |
| 23 | I had read enough to know that the figures for anorexics who starve to death or commit suicide are frighteningly high . |
| 24 | Our members need to know that the services and benefits that the union provide are available to them regardless of where they work . |
| 25 | It may be helpful to know that the courts have treated the following as contracts of sale contracts : to make and supply ships ' propellers according to a specification , Cammell Laird v. Manganese Bronze & brass ( 1934 H.L. ) ; to prepare and supply food in a restaurant , Lockett v. A. & m . |
| 26 | Almost as many men died behind the lines as did from going over the top , an old sergeant told Charlie , and it did n't help to know that the Germans were suffering the same problems a few hundred yards away . |
| 27 | She might like to know that the imports of manufactured goods amount to 17 per cent . |
| 28 | Anyone who , like Shoreditch , did n't quite get round to placing that bet on the Tories , may like to know that the bookies are now quoting odds for the next election . |
| 29 | I feel we will 've achieved significant progress if we have turned , I did n't know you worked in the United Kingdom , into it 's good to know that the rights and needs of children are just as important to you in the United Kingdom as they are overseas . |
| 30 | To be sure that a patient is truly regaining their health , it is of no value just to know that the symptoms of his complaint have been relieved , rather the focus of his disease has to be seen to be shifting into less important areas , that is , moving down the hierarchy . |