Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [that] [vb base] to " in BNC.

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1 A large part of the dominant society at the time really believed that such subjects , and suggestions were more a figment of my neurosis and my hang-ups but time has proven that view to be untrue .
2 Dr Mostafa Tolba , executive director of the UN Environment Programme ( UNEP ) , has said that damage to the ozone layer is worse than previously thought and has proposed advancing a ban on ozone-destroying chemicals by four years to the start of 1996 .
3 When one has told a friend about a stage performance or some media utterance that one feels he should go to see , one has performed that work to the friend and partly negated his need to see the work for himself .
4 Repairs are expected to costs hundreds of millions of dollars , and French scientists have admitted that damage to some reactors may be so serious that they will have to be closed on safety grounds .
5 ‘ Perhaps you believe that I too have ridden that carousel to excess ? ’
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