Example sentences of "[to-vb] that [noun pl] [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 And , in the ordinary course of events , everyone is reluctant to accept that others have an expertise which is relevant to their personal situation .
2 The nurse needs both to understand the difficulties which managers experience in staffing the service and to know that managers understand the nurse 's difficulty of combining a working life with parenthood .
3 The most problematic aspects of a modern concept of citizenship is the need to promote the sense of national identity or in some way to secure that citizens experience a sense of belonging to the state and the state belonging to them .
4 The aim of this report is not to demand that brewers turn the block back to 1620 , 1720 , 1820 or even to 1920 ; pubs have to make money , and have to adapt to some extent to changing needs and expectations .
5 That theory , and its antithesis , the contract theory , share a common assumption that whether or not society has a right to demand that companies serve the public interest depends on whether the state can be depicted as playing some special role in corporate existence , different in kind from its role in sustaining unincorporated businesses .
6 Given the volume and speed of the electronic transactions , bank customers are also likely to demand that banks ascertain the trustworthiness of the signers or authenticators .
7 As with the determination of the carrier 's capacity , bank customers are likely to demand that banks ascertain the capacity of the issuer of the description by examining certifications issued by trusted third parties .
8 It is not unusual to find that countries adopt the best parts of both strategies in order to tackle air pollution problems .
9 Duncan had been appalled to find that women had the vote ‘ down South ’ and got off to a shaky start in the motor trade when one of the local spivs conned him into thinking a Pina Colada was the latest model Ford built in Spain .
10 But the policemen sent to see that shops obeyed the rule had little work to do : there was no money to push up prices .
11 She also uses studies of women 's habits of speech to suggest that women use a slightly different language .
12 It makes little sense , for example , to require that children have a command of formal vocabulary before they are competent in technical vocabulary or vice versa .
13 The most common treatment of the bequest motive is to assume that bequests enter the lifetime utility function ( e.g. , Yaari , 1964 , 1965 ) .
14 The general public has a tendency to assume that nurses experience a strong desire to care for others , perhaps believing that many feel a true vocation or ‘ divine call ’ to the work , although it is probably less usual to describe it in these terms today .
15 But this is to assume that humans have a natural capacity to recognise and reflect on their interests , and that they will only stand so much injustice .
16 Unfortunately , the time-scale involved led both parties to conclude that discussions to merge the two organisations should not be continued . ’
17 It would be rash to conclude that interviews have no role to play in evaluation .
18 David Ross Stewart , the chairman of ESII , said the board had examined a number of options to ensure that shareholders received a payment to reflect the value of the company 's liquid assets , while achieving a satisfactory long-term solution in respect of the unquoted portfolio .
19 Similarly , engineers should seek to ensure that suppliers appreciate the quality and safety requirements of the products/processes which they are supplying .
20 It will not only include the functional constraints listed above , but will use the product control facility in order to ensure that changes maintain the integrity of the design .
21 The idea that society is entitled to take whatever steps may be considered necessary to ensure that companies serve the public interest depends on the theory that the only basis on which companies can be allowed to possess power , which effectively means the only basis on which large companies can be allowed to exist , is that they produce consequences beneficial to society .
22 The TPS has worked with the School Management Task Force to ensure that placements form an integral element in the career profile of teachers .
23 Recommendations concerning volunteers included formal support by named staff and the targeting of recruitment to ensure that volunteers represent the whole community .
24 Whereas the White Paper working paper dealing with this topic points out that ‘ the scheme will be structured to ensure that GPs have no financial incentives to refuse to treat any category of patients ’ , it is well known that , in the USA , HMOs reduced the number of hospital admissions dramatically .
25 Even if the rights being asserted are in reality a reflection of parental responsibility to ensure that children receive a suitable education ( although there is inevitably dispute between parent and state about the meaning of ‘ suitable ’ in this context ) , such responsibility gives rise to a considerable amount of power and authority .
26 The third is to ensure that children understand the health hazards that they run .
27 We are consulting others on systems to ensure that consumers have a proper choice when buying eggs and other foodstuffs .
28 Now the county 's trading standards department is planning to ensure that traders have no excuse for breaking the law .
29 Certainly it is hard to believe that bull-leapers grasped the horns , and relied on the tossing movement to get them safely over the bull 's head .
30 It is difficult to believe that pupils gain a great deal more from being in a group of six rather than seven pupils ; or that the curriculum of a 43-pupil school ( the average size derived from these statistics ) , can be much more enriched by seven rather than six teachers .
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