Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [verb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once he introduces them , the linguist can not simply retreat into claiming that he is only dealing with the abstractions of descriptive linguistics . |
| 2 | ‘ The new vehicle will assist in ensuring that a safe and efficient rigging service continues at the terminal to the end of the century and beyond . ’ |
| 3 | I can not go beyond what I have said , except to make it clear once again that if and when it is clear that a further legislative change will materially assist in ensuring that this sort of thing does not happen again , we will be ready to make it . |
| 4 | The first question I want to ask of contemporary antiracism is whether it does not collude in accepting that the problems of ‘ race ’ and racism are somehow peripheral to the substance of political life . |
| 5 | DHAs can then concentrate on ensuring that the health needs of the population for which they are responsible are met ; that there are effective services for the prevention and control of disease and the promotion of health ; that their population has access to a comprehensive range of high quality , value for money services ; and on setting targets for and monitoring the performance of those management units for which they continue to have responsibility . |
| 6 | A biologist who was so minded could counter by arguing that , if by and large the marriages generate the children , then marriage laws could still have been influenced by evolutionary pressures . |
| 7 | She would survive by remembering that she was an intelligent capable woman with access to will-power and self-control — and that the two days were not going to last forever . |
| 8 | Erm with some of these it may even be possible to y'know there 's a number of different adjectives that you could try with with some of these things like erm y'know how would you feel about knowing that you 're attractive to your own sex ? |
| 9 | Like the previous speakers I greatly welcome the concessions er proposed by the Government er in the police aspect of the Bill , although I c ca n't refrain from commenting that I simply can not understand why they were surprised at the reaction to their original proposal , given what had already been said in this House and by everybody that they consulted , but welcome though these concessions are , er I myself find them falling short of the ideal in three respects . |
| 10 | Please would you therefore confirm in writing that cyclists , if necessary pushing their bikes , are to be treated as pedestrians and allowed to proceed . |
| 11 | Any proposal which amounts to a new theory of justification may succeed in showing that in the Gettier cases the relevant true beliefs were not justified at all . |
| 12 | And the proof of determinism would presumably consist in showing that an all-embracing theory of the kind envisaged can be constructed , a theory incorporating every event under some significant description . |
| 13 | He will usually benefit from knowing that there will still be one regular wage coming in . |
| 14 | The researchers suggest that victims would benefit from knowing that these effects are common and should discuss their feelings openly with colleagues or medical staff . |
| 15 | So it seems to me that what Williamson has shown in one particular case is clear evidence of punctuation , but no reasons at all that I can see for supposing that the mechanism of change was any other which Darwin described over a hundred years ago . |
| 16 | Thus new all new developments must conform with the development plan which must ‘ work towards ensuring that development and growth are sustainable ’ . |
| 17 | This view avoids the necessity of explaining how an increase in complexity can occur by denying that it happens , but only at the expense of supposing not only that there is a minute homunculus in the egg but that within that homonculus there is an egg containing a still more minute homonculus , and so on , in Chinese box fashion , ad infinitum — or , if not ad infinitum , at least back to Eve , who carried within her a sufficient number of successively smaller homunculi to account for all the future generations of mankind . |
| 18 | How ancient this thought is we can see by noticing that it is just the figure Plato used in The Republic to supply his political myth justifying political inequality ( Bk . |
| 19 | Congress , colleagues , I wan na begin by stressing that this motion is not about reducing the level of training the G M B offers its members . |
| 20 | Let's begin by assuming that your plot actually has somewhere for a garage to stand . |
| 21 | Let us begin by recognizing that the more advanced research workers are in their particular fields of research the more they are likely to want to use specialist research literature ( such as journal articles and research reports ) and the less , on the whole , they are likely to want to use general books . |
| 22 | In order to understand how such a theory might be constructed we should begin by recognizing that social movements are essentially a phenomenon of modern societies . |
| 23 | A second approach to the problem of the legitimacy of corporate managerial power might begin by showing that the response outlined so far is fundamentally misguided . |
| 24 | The precise relationship between sentencing practice and penal policy is a matter of some complexity , but we may begin by noting that the size of the sentenced prison population at any given time is determined by three key variables , only two of which are the direct responsibility of the courts . |
| 25 | For example , to place the concept ‘ hypertext ’ in a semantic net , one might begin by saying that it contains documents , runs on computers , and serves users . |
| 26 | If the House will bear with me , I too can give hon. Members an insight into the words on my brief by reading them out : ’ I should begin by saying that the Report stage was dominated by Government amendments , which I believe is rare . |
| 27 | Basically the thing is not working as it should , the outputs are not as they should be so he will probably begin by checking that the inputs are present , that is the electric power or fuel or other materials are available . |
| 28 | To place these observations in the general context of the special qualities given to the Democratic Unionist Party by its close links with Free Presbyterianism , we can summarize by saying that , were the Democratic Unionist Party a ‘ secular ’ political party , it would certainly cultivate links with the fraternal orders to strengthen its ties with the ordinary Ulster Protestant voter . |
| 29 | Now we must shift from thinking that human interests always come first to the idea that humans themselves should bear the cost of whatever progress there should be in the world today . |
| 30 | We must shift to realising that the destruction of nature is our destruction too . |