Example sentences of "[to-vb] that [noun] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I sat just outside the entrance to the trench it was very difficult to accept that Taff was dead . |
| 2 | As the family had to accept that Ollie was top dog , there could be no equal treatment for the gentler and older Stan — Ollie had to be favoured in all things . |
| 3 | The pressure group Children Act Housing Action Group and 17-year-old Carol Aston are seeking a judicial review into the housing department refusal to accept that Aston was vulnerable and at risk , despite a referral from the SSD . |
| 4 | Lucy would n't have staked anything on it , but he did n't appear to know that Christine was dead . |
| 5 | I just happened to know that Geoffrey was keen to meet you again , and you do seem to be at a loose end at the moment . |
| 6 | Not so much the man who had killed him , though it would have pleased her to know that man was dead . |
| 7 | He is sufficiently aware of his own failings to know that satyāgrahis are capable of making erroneous decisions . |
| 8 | where , to interpret the word it , we need to know that pineapples are edible and tables are not . |
| 9 | Alix 's mother , broad-minded though she was , did not approve of Catholicism , and was hardly to know that Esther was Jewish . |
| 10 | First , it empowers the Secretary of State to make safety regulations governing the making and supplying of goods , i. e. regulations designed to secure that goods are safe , that appropriate information is supplied with them and inappropriate information is not supplied . |
| 11 | ‘ The big surprise was to discover that people were good at things they had no idea about , ’ says Hamilton-Phillips , who converted the VGA into a limited company when she took over as chief executive in 1984 . |
| 12 | Raised beds make attractive garden features , and if you are beginning to find that bending is difficult , they can also make gardening a more practical and pleasurable hobby in the years ahead . |
| 13 | Thirdly , self and peer evaluation seem to indicate that professionals are unwilling to be held to account for their actions by outside individuals or groups . |
| 14 | And so the A N C has to make sure that while it works for the aspirations of its people it must also protect the country and I 'm afraid in this context it means it has through negotiations and other means also conceded made concessions in order to save the situation and the only organization that is now working for the national interest even losing its own supporters in the country is basically the A N C and it 's quite a remarkable thing to see that leaders are prepared to l lose political support because they have to make sure that the country does n't . |
| 15 | Watching the two of them play together during the session it was easy to see that Tom was active and restless while Sue would sit quietly and watch what was happening . |
| 16 | As we experience Act I , Scene i , of King Lear for the first time , it may not be easy to see that Cordelia is right , the others wrong . |
| 17 | Annunziata opened the door quietly and checked to see that Julia was asleep before walking silently to Comfort 's chair and whispering that there was a visitor for the signora downstairs . |
| 18 | Once we have them , our reason considers them and we come to see that wholes are equal to the sum of their parts , or that all numbers are even or odd . |
| 19 | We should remember that it was ill the employers " interests to claim that it was not worth providing women with a long training because they would waste it by leaving early ; while it was in the trade union 's interest to claim that women were incompetent because they had only received a short training . |
| 20 | It would appear that states prefer to act legally where possible and it is not possible to claim that states are unaffected by legal prohibitions on war , but the regularity with which such a large proportion of states are prepared to use force illegally — despite their total commitment to law-abidingness within their territories and the apparent lack of any retributive consequences of such illegalities ( unless defeat in war is unhelpfully labelled as a punishment ) — raise doubts about the parallels between municipal and international law in terms of the parameters of the concept of law . |
| 21 | It took only two minutes of lying stretched and rigid on his bed for Alex Mair to realize that sleep was unlikely to come . |
| 22 | ‘ Yes , but my tongue runs away with me and I find it difficult to realize that Matt is dead . ’ |
| 23 | The debate about whether Brunel was literally ‘ sold down the river ’ over the broad gauge issue will continue in railway circles , but InterCity chose the number thirteen to speculate that Brunel was unlucky not to get his wider gauge accepted . |
| 24 | It is this argument which leads Durkheim to state that crime is essential to the continuation of society . |
| 25 | These are potentially valuable rights for many senior executives , but you will do well to remember that litigation is apt to be an uncertain , protracted and depressing business . |
| 26 | It is important to remember that labour is heterogeneous in the sense that different workers possess different skills and abilities . |
| 27 | PYY slows gastric emptying and mouth to caecum transit in humans , and there is considerable circumstantial evidence to suggest that enteroglucagon is trophic to the small intestinal musoca . |
| 28 | Further evidence to suggest that events are important in depression according to their threatfulness rather than according to the amount of change they signify comes from a study by Tennant and Andrews ( 1978 ) . |
| 29 | The review goes on to suggest that Italians are responsible for the introduction of organised crime into the United States . |
| 30 | In defence of his claim that there was ‘ no evidence to suggest that people are prepared to abandon their traditional party allegiances ’ , Stott pointed out that in two recent elections , candidates supported by the Campaign for Labour Representation polled badly : |