Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] the [noun sg] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | A different possible interpretation of a contract is that , not the buyer , but the seller has undertaken to accept the risk that the goods might not exist , i.e. he has undertaken as part of the contract that the goods do in fact exist . |
| 2 | It is not intended to provide the detail that is rightly expected by the local communities who live and work in close proximity to our operations , and which we provide through locally published reports . |
| 3 | Foucault adopts a strategy , obviously indebted to Bachelard , designed to restore the otherness that History by definition must disallow : he produces an account of epistemic shifts , with prior epistemes presented as altogether estranged from the present . |
| 4 | This course tries to experiment by lifting these restrictions and asking when other elements are permitted to define the form that experience takes . |
| 5 | Most of the index-linked stocks that have been issued have annual coupon payments of 2 or 2 ½ per cent ; this is designed to reflect the fact that the long-run real rate of return on the UK capital stock is about 2 ½ per cent . |
| 6 | The new communion ceremony was designed to dispel the belief that each individual mass was a re-enactment of Christ 's sacrifice , or that the bread and wine were physically changed as a result of their consecration by a priest . |
| 7 | She prayed that Maisie could somehow see how well her boy had done for himself , and how he had come to regret the hatred that almost destroyed him . |
| 8 | If Senna becomes champion , and to do it he must win in Japan and Australia , then Prost 's recent criticism of his treatment at the hands of Honda will immediately spring to mind regardless of a subsequent and rather naive document , signed by all sides and designed to give the impression that all is sweetness and light . |
| 9 | And slicing away one part of , transferring the spinal unit , just taking out bits and pieces , is designed to weaken the idea that itself can stand on its own . |
| 10 | The mechanism is claimed to address the problem that a first-generation client-server database does not support a standard SQL query or a standard SQL update transaction that accesses data on more than one server . |
| 11 | Prompted by the rapid development of medical technology over the past decade or so , the medical community has come to reject the notion that death is associated exclusively with breathing and heartbeat , the ‘ vital functions ’ . |
| 12 | This study was designed to investigate the possibility that transferring to human insulin has a direct effect on the perception and experience of hypoglycaemia . |
| 13 | Not a promising start , one felt , for an ( ill titled ) series designed to overcome the idea that boffins are tedious , wordy and evasive . |
| 14 | However , whether or not it does so is a matter of construction , and it seems equally clear both that a court will be unwilling to interpret a clause as applying to such breaches and that , in the event of a dispute , the party challenging an exclusion clause can be expected to raise the argument that the breach is fundamental and not covered by the exclusion . |
| 15 | The project is designed to test the hypothesis that the process of social polarisation identified by Pahl ( 1984 ) , confirmed by this applicant 's small scale research in Hartlepool ( Morris , 1987 ) , and apparent in national statistics ( GHS , 1984 , Table 6.18 ) , reaches beyond the household to the extended family , and to friendship and neighbourhood contacts . |
| 16 | So this was an obvious sales pitch , a shameless hype , designed to remind the world that the famous inner cities , which have now received the ultimate accolade of being received into cliche , enjoy the attentions of six ministers as well as the Prime Minister herself . |
| 17 | Charts should be designed to show the information that is required and so they can be creative . |
| 18 | The Festival of Britain , 1951 , was designed to tell the world that we were back in business , full of vim and zip , bursting with new ideas , new teeth in the new bulldog , through another war with honour and into the second half of the twentieth century with eagerness and confidence . |
| 19 | The discussion so far is intended to highlight the point that macroeconomic objectives often conflict , and that the policy-maker has to choose the most desirable combination . |
| 20 | Many ministers were said to support the view that exceptional aid to Poland and Egypt , effectively writing off half their debt , should be extended to other countries . |
| 21 | Personally , I would like to have seen him play Karpov but that seems destined to remain the match that never was . |
| 22 | This brief diversion into the cultural and political history of Germany , the USSR and China has been made to emphasise the way that a state may determine artistic production , and thence art criticism . |
| 23 | It implies describing carefully the nature , extent and implications of any problems prior to intervention ; saying what it is you might do to alter these and why it would be beneficial to try ; describing how best this might be brought about ; saying in advance what kinds of public test might be applied to support the view that something worthwhile has been achieved ; pursuing a solution , and then defending the results against criticism from peers ( Sheldon , 1986 , p. 224 ) . |
| 24 | However , a case can be made to support the view that both perspectives are ideologically based . |
| 25 | Firstly , it viewed the company as distinct from its shareholders and therefore , unlike the contractual model , it could be seen to support the theory that it was the company which was liable for any debts . |
| 26 | Choppy Spencer is are you prepared to accept the conclusion that some people might be suggesting right now that this whole stunt of opting out is a political fumble ? |
| 27 | Simple instances , on the other hand , are those in which the clause seems to have been adopted to cover the eventuality that there may be some defect in the will so far as the civil law is concerned . |
| 28 | At the same time , criticisms which underlay le français fondamental have been made to illustrate the fact that such vocabulary selection , far from being all that linguists can contribute to the preparation of teaching materials , is still in a stage of development . |
| 29 | To begin with the players were seen to undermine the idea that one 's identity and place were a function of what one essentially was — what God had made one . |
| 30 | But we think , ’ Rose said , ‘ it was done to disguise the fact that the poison that killed Sir Thomas was not in the entrée at all , but in another dish . |