Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | There is evidence to suggest that by the time of Euclid these observations were occurring in a cone of vision . |
| 32 | Moreover , there is evidence to suggest that by the seventeenth century both literacy and Bible reading were on the increase ; in the parish of Keevil in Wiltshire , for example , only 4 per cent of testators who died during the decades between 1590 and 1630 appear to have possessed a Bible , whereas during the course of the 1630s and 1640s the proportion rose to 18 per cent . |
| 33 | There is absolutely no evidence to suggest that by taking away advertising you will , you will er , cut down smoking . |
| 34 | Will the Minster confirm that if the bribes that the Secretary of State reinforced in terms of capital allocations for grant-maintained schools last week were extended to meet the right hon. and learned Gentleman 's other pledge to extend that to every possible school , the cost would be the equivalent of more than one penny on VAT ? |
| 35 | ‘ It took me a while to realise that of course I am not really opening a window : something is zooming forward and appearing out of nothing . |
| 36 | " You 're the second person to say that to me today , " Patrick murmured . |
| 37 | In fact I think there is overwhelming evidence to show that at least some of the time a ouija board can be a device ( like a crystal ball or a pendulum ) for releasing the forces of the subconscious in an irresponsible way , which can cause untold damage to the human personality . ’ |
| 38 | There is evidence to show that after six to seven years of an immersion program , productive use of the second language still differs considerably in grammatical and lexical ways from that of native speakers . |
| 39 | There is also evidence to show that by keeping interest rates artificially low in boom years , the state forced banks to allocate credit by rationing quantities and this favoured large borrowers . |
| 40 | There is abundant evidence to show that in almost every corner of Europe the area under the plough was expanding : villages were growing ; new lands were being colonized ; marshes were being reclaimed , forests felled ; in the eleventh and twelfth centuries the frontiers of Europe were being pressed outwards , and on Germany 's eastern frontier , and to a lesser extent elsewhere , new land was being settled by peasants as well as by lords . |
| 41 | Summing up the case against 24 year old Shaun Gooch and 22 year old Anthony Gallagher the Prosecution at Gloucester Crown Court suggested to the jury that there was sufficient evidence to prove that on September 13th last year , they 'd been racing their cars along Akers Way in Swindon . |
| 42 | She used every trick to ensure that at 50 she looks no more than 30 . |
| 43 | For these to be undertaken it is necessary to mount a separate ‘ experimental ’ project , but since children are not white mice it is necessary first to enlist enough parental support to allow people to give them their children to experiment on , and enough official support to ensure that in matters such as official examinations , children who have followed radically different curricula do not suffer . |
| 44 | It is the users responsibility to ensure that at the time of the next offline run , the specified terminal is connected and not logged in — the offline system will not allocate a terminal to itself if it is already allocated to another VAX/VMS process . |
| 45 | Although the original intention had been to formally assess the new curriculum before deciding to extend it to the rest of the school , various forces came into play to ensure that by 1987 the entire 160 strong intake was studying the new pathway course . |
| 46 | It will be part of my argument to suggest that behind these actions lies a unifying attitude of mind , a political position , which is primarily concerned to protect and conserve certain values and institutions . |
| 47 | More significantly , perhaps , it also means that no attempt may be made in the course of a prosecution to determine that in their investigations the authorities have committed one or more criminal offences . |
| 48 | One might rewrite Lewis 's phrase to say that in Valinor , as opposed to Eden , the Fall came when conscious creatures became ‘ more interested in their own creations than in God 's ’ . |
| 49 | Times were changing ; the popes had abolished the use of chrism in the imperial anointing , had denied the authority of kings over priests ; the time would shortly come when the popes themselves claimed to be vicars of Christ , and interpreted the phrase to mean that in the last analysis all earthly authority was mediated through them , not through kings . |
| 50 | Where a court is considering whether a provision does or does not cover X the rule will not admit the parliamentary history of the provision to demonstrate that at no stage in the parliamentary proceedings was there any suggestion that the provision covered X. It remains to be seen how long judges in the United Kingdom will be able to require negative evidence from parliamentary material to establish that an admissible statement is an expression of parliamentary intention , but exclude such evidence as an aid to construction . |
| 51 | And , lassitude apart , he had more than enough sense to see that after the triumph of the Abdication , with the memory of the vicissitudes of the previous year so fresh in his mind , a calm movement away from the gaming tables and towards the chip-cashing caisse was obviously prudent . |
| 52 | It would be folly to pretend that at least part of me does n't love independence or that very independent women make the most adaptable of wives . |
| 53 | Wherever you were stationed postings tended to come out of the blue , and you would quite often arrive back from leave to find that in your absence you had been posted elsewhere . |
| 54 | These clips are a triumph of form over content , and by the time you reach the four live songs that close this boxful of banging and shouting , it 's a relief to know that at least this is roughly what they 're really like when they 're not busy being hyperactive . |
| 55 | It would be a great relief to know that after a three week hospital stay , you 'd have £420 on top of your daily benefit of £840 , payable on your discharge . |
| 56 | ‘ It is simply wrong for the Government to suggest that on the basis of these raw figures it 's possible to make valid comparisons . ’ |
| 57 | Our service to you , our customer , is paramount and it is our objective to ensure that through consistently high standards we meet and realise your needs . |
| 58 | But it would be a mistake to believe that from the beginning Baldwin exercised all the power and merely allowed MacDonald to sit in impotent glory in 10 Downing Street . |
| 59 | Or perhaps she had sense to realise that in an entrenched battle she was likely to come off the worst . |
| 60 | I had just enough sense to appreciate that as a pain it rated no higher than a toothache . |