Example sentences of "[to-vb] that [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Foreign investors are beginning to worry that the Mexican peso is less solid than it looks . |
| 2 | All of this leads Fred and Beth to worry that the fatal combination of an explosion of ‘ free time ’ with a booming global market in consumer goods and leisure industries will spell the death of their great utopian dream that they have cherished for so long — individual self-realization , mutuality in work and levelling out of global economic inequalities . |
| 3 | Forward scouts came back to inform that the English might had reached Cheswick , a mere six miles to the south , and its vanguard would be before Berwick in a few hours . |
| 4 | With the single daily dose it may be more appropriate to assay the concentration eight or 12 hours after administration of the dose or to accept that a lower trough ( predose ) concentration may be more appropriate . |
| 5 | Likewise it is reasonable to accept that a rationalised religion must have a starting point that is based on acceptance of an unproved statement , provided that such a statement , if later proved to need modification , has not permitted the development of a religion that will collapse , if that vital primary premise comes into question . |
| 6 | But I urge him to accept that a single currency , as my right hon. Friend the Member for Blaby ( Mr. Lawson ) made clear the other day , means a massive transfer of political and economic power to the centre . |
| 7 | ‘ Meaning ’ theists and ‘ meaning ’ atheists are able to accept that a common definition of ‘ God ’ can be found and the evidence for and against God 's existence duly weighed and argued over . |
| 8 | So would it be more realistic to accept that a voluntary system is doomed and legislate for compliance ? |
| 9 | And the Kremer result does not require us to accept that a pre-exposed stimulus inhibits a CR in the way that a CS- does . |
| 10 | You also need to accept that the perfect horse has not yet been born . |
| 11 | While welcoming my right hon. Friend 's reply , may I ask him to accept that the best training for Royal Navy reservists is with the regular Navy and will he give that priority in the coming operations for the Royal Naval Reserve ? |
| 12 | Vested interests were reluctant to accept that the typical diet was a cause of coronary heart disease , strokes and cancer , and that people should eat less fat , sugar and salt and more cereals , fruit and vegetables . |
| 13 | The theologians ' determination to rest their faith on something more secure than history has made them more than willing , in many circumstances , to accept that the historical evidence of Jesus ' life is as patchy as the most sceptical secular historian says it is . |
| 14 | At the same time , we may have to accept that the National Curriculum finally forces us to address the question of how far the polarization of the discourse , and the adopting of classroom strategies which celebrate something called ‘ process ’ at the expense of content , may both stem in part from a posture of defensiveness in the face of the problem of the primary class teacher 's curriculum knowledge . |
| 15 | Interviewed later on BBC Newsnight he refused to accept that the German election results invalidated the case for introducing PR in Britain . |
| 16 | Since we believe that all variations in behavioural capacity reflect underlying variations in the nervous system , we have to accept that the human brain is , in some way , different from that of other species . |
| 17 | I am unable to accept that the supposed reductio ad adsurdum is a sufficient ground for reading into the Act a qualification which is not there . |
| 18 | For the post-war generations in the developed nations reared on the statistics of economic and social improvement , it will not be easy to accept that the twenty-first century threatens humanity with hard times and lowered standards of living . |
| 19 | It was a mixed class and the students … regular in attendance and conscientious about the work for the class … . although the amount varied , one student produced some written work every week , two or three others did eight or nine papers … enough was produced for me to know that a real interest was being taken in the class . |
| 20 | He was not to know that a real fear was beginning to overwhelm Sally-Anne . |
| 21 | You will all however be pleased to know that a new day has been arranged — 27th February 1982 at Quintin Kynaston School . |
| 22 | It 's nice to know that a British company is so much at home overseas . |
| 23 | It 's good to know that a British firm ( in this case the largest producers of centre lathes in the world ) will be able to supply the technology needed to build automatic production lines ( this issue , p 632 ) . |
| 24 | Jube had witnessed — and taken part in — sufficient bar-room brawls in his life as a trucker to know that a sure-fire way of making certain a felled opponent stayed down , was to heel-stomp him . |
| 25 | To know that a particular animal dance , or brightly coloured display , operates as a territorial device or as a sexual arousal mechanism does not make it any less beautiful . |
| 26 | Rehabilitation officer Margaret Harding , 64 , was not meant to know that a special presentation had been organised , but word soon got out . |
| 27 | There is no indication as to why this name was chosen but you may be interested to know that a Grizzled Skipper is a butterfly that , unlike the Grizzled Skipper card , is not at all colourful . |
| 28 | We can know how things are in front of our noses , maybe , but it is not possible to know that an altruistic act is morally good , nor that God exists , nor that you will have eggs for breakfast tomorrow . |
| 29 | Social historians might want to know that the average phone in the US was used for twenty minutes a day in 1992 , whereas the average phone in the UK was used for only four minutes . |
| 30 | On the one hand one rather likes to find examples of animals helping each other , out of a confused feeling that it will somehow strengthen human motives for altruism to know that the lower creation can be altruistic too . |