Example sentences of "[vb -s] that [pron] [vb base] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her decision was said to follow demands from station heads that she increase her appearances from four to five mornings a week . |
| 2 | And how come the reader of Animal Farm accepts that they accept it ? |
| 3 | We ordinarily say of causal circumstances and causes that they make their effects happen , but we do not say , and will deny , that effects make either of the two causal items happen . |
| 4 | We also say of causal circumstances and causes that they explain their effects , in a sense in which effects do not explain the causal items . |
| 5 | The other holds that we discover what we have to say through the process of writing — D. H. Lawrence would support this view . |
| 6 | Yes , but unlike Eliot and Empson , Pound — by the abrupt , brusque and aphoristic way in which he delivers his critical judgements — insists that we understand them as immediately spun off from the imaginative work , thrown over his shoulder , as it were , as he hurries from one part of the workshop to another . |
| 7 | What happens when ‘ he ’ moves in and I ca n't work at all hours , ca n't eat when I like , ca n't take a bath any time I like , when he insists that I visit his relatives ? |
| 8 | Charles , her husband , jokes all the time about what I 'm wearing , insists that I join them for formal dinners late at night , and then teases me throughout them because I 've never eaten squid before , and I do n't know what haggis is made of . |
| 9 | ‘ He insists that you meet his mother and discuss things — reasonably . ’ |
| 10 | I 've got one friend whose husband insists that she keep her stockings and push-up bra on during sex . |
| 11 | If the hospital agrees that you need someone to travel with you , they also will get help with their travel costs . |
| 12 | It just happens that I do which is really why I was interested in doing the book . |
| 13 | This assumes that we know what we want to enforce . |
| 14 | Equation ( 7.6 ) assumes that we know what the UK and US inflation rates will be over the course of the year . |
| 15 | Each solicitor confirms that they hold their own client 's part of the contract in the agreed form ; agree forthwith to insert the agreed completion date . |
| 16 | But he complains that I give him the impression that I am holding back and am not fully committed . |
| 17 | Chris Patten , the Secretary of State for the Environment , later countered : ‘ If the Labour Party are accusing us of an electoral bribe , it shows that they find it rather difficult to criticise us on any other grounds . ’ |
| 18 | Reworking the question into a related generalisation , on the other hand , shows that you understand something of the complexities it contains . |
| 19 | Singing the booking form shows that you believe yourself and your companions to be physically fit and healthy to take part . |
| 20 | Even in these spiders , the simplest explanations for what they do requires that they assess their own fighting ability relative to that of their opponent . |
| 21 | ‘ Prudence ’ , claimed Sam Smiles , ‘ requires that we pitch our scale of living a degree below our means , rather than up to them : but this can only be done by carrying out faithfully a plan of living by which both ends may be made to meet . ’ |
| 22 | Our future requires that we focus our images on finding ways forward to a possible , tolerable and sharable society instead of wasting our time quarrelling with our allies and colleagues . |
| 23 | He requires that we do something , that we get on , that we become involved . |
| 24 | This development places extra demands upon the infant 's powers of attention and requires that she co-ordinate her behaviour with respect to both the object and the other person . |
| 25 | Ken 's agreed to run on our policies and our ticket , ’ even though he acknowledges that they suit him better than Ken . |
| 26 | To ask the question of whether there is enough presumes that we know what ‘ enough ’ is . |
| 27 | And now this spineless crowd of chancers demands that we back them against Lamont 's minions [ and their threatened imposition of VAT on books ] because of their contributions to knowledge . ’ |
| 28 | Modern life demands that we create our own dangers because so many traditional ones have been taken away from us . |
| 29 | Analytical reading demands that you vary your speed of reading according to : |
| 30 | And , in spite of police demands that he give himself up and intensive searches , he was still at large . |