Example sentences of "[to-vb] [that] something " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simple denial — the straightforward refusal to accept that something is so and that problems exist at all or have a direct connection with alcohol or drug use : " I can handle it " . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's a relief to know that something positive is being done at last , ’ says Karen . |
| 3 | It is therefore interesting to discover that something as basic as fashion in furniture has been altered by a single cold winter . |
| 4 | The film viewer sees a wide range of technical devices — split-screen , slow motion , fast motion , various kinds of fades — that enable the storyteller to indicate that something happened earlier ( the ‘ flash-back ’ ) or that something will happen in the future , or that something is being dreamt or fantasized . |
| 5 | The cough is there to signal that something is going awry and needs attention after which it will be all right . |
| 6 | Very often I fail to see that something is on its way to birth , and tax myself with totally useless questions as to what the matter might be . |
| 7 | It is clear what Mill 's answer would have to be : ‘ Yes , since to see that something is a certain colour is to be aware of the mere resemblance between a present sensation and a remembered past one . ’ |
| 8 | To think about this even for a moment is to see that something is amiss . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ Asians need to see that something positive is being achieved by the police , that punishment is handed out to the guilty . |
| 10 | ‘ You want me to confirm that something you feel is all right is truly all right , ’ said the counsellor . |
| 11 | The biographical sources for this period are neither detailed nor accurate enough to allow a close analysis of the degree to which the system had become elaborated in the first half of the sixteenth century , but the broader outlines may certainly be perceived and seem to confirm that something like the provisions of the Kanunname were operating by the early years of that century . |
| 12 | It did n't take Matron long to realize that something was going on and put a stop to it . ’ |
| 13 | One has only to reflect on the enumeration of the varied properties of a state of full employment in the General Theory to realize that something is seriously wrong . |
| 14 | Gradually he came to realize that something was seriously amiss . |
| 15 | The ‘ purpose at hand ’ , to distinguish between criminals and decent people , requires also that policemen and women be able to sense that something unusual and abnormal is occurring . |
| 16 | The offworlder seemed to sense that something was wrong . |
| 17 | Josie seemed to sense that something was wrong . |
| 18 | The 1555 survey contains forty-six ( exclusive of men who were also freeholders ) , and it is reasonable to assume that something like thirty held land that was sublet in 1522 , an estimate that finds a measure of confirmation in the subsidy schedule which , perhaps in deference to the provision for the taxing of income from customary holdings , mentions the landed wealth of twenty-six men who were assessed on goods . |
| 19 | Whilst he was shaving realization began to dawn that something was amiss . |
| 20 | We 've got to hope that something will happen to make these people change their minds , but do leopards ever change their spots ? |
| 21 | We must fight for greater tolerance , and for legislation that protects against anti-gay discrimination , to ensure that something like Section 28 will never be brought into the rest of Europe . |
| 22 | For having encouraged us all to believe that Labour was going to win , the media will now encourage us all to believe that something astonishing must have happened to stop it winning . |
| 23 | The charged atmosphere , the tension and electricity whenever we got close — I refused to believe that something so incredible could happen . ’ |
| 24 | When I held that tiny baby in my arms it was so hard to believe that something so beautiful could come from such a sordid act . |
| 25 | As we saw in Chapter 2 , many people find it hard to believe that something like the eye , Paley 's favourite example , so complex and well designed , with so many interlocking working parts , could have arisen from small beginnings by a gradual series of step-by-step changes . |
| 26 | No , it 's too easy to forget that something which I hardly ever think about now was then a very great concern . |
| 27 | The DSS seems to recognise that something needs to be done about this . |
| 28 | Her immediate reaction was to fear that something had happened to one of their parents . |
| 29 | To demonstrate that something necessarily has a certain property , so the theory runs , is to show , by means of a syllogistic argument from certain axioms or first principles , that it has it . |
| 30 | When I began these big fish articles for PFK , I wanted to demonstrate that something a little different could be kept at little or no extra cost to setting up a comparatively-sized community tank . |