Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [to-vb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may like to add the name of one or two referees to your c.v. , either to vouch for your general honesty and reliability or to confirm that you have the skills and experience you claim in the c.v . |
| 2 | In view of the widespread and sometimes ill-founded criticism of the recent franchise round and despite the uniform excellence of the successful tenders , will my right hon. Friend nevertheless consider the possibility of providing a review system so as either to show up ways in which it could be improved in future or to demonstrate that an extremely good job has been done by the Independent Television Commission ? |
| 3 | The Prime Minister had his head down for the vast majority of the speech , assiduously following the whole of the 57 pages either to avoid the accusatory , glaring eyes of the Opposition or to check that his Chancellor did not deviate from the text . |
| 4 | To hold that a procedure is unfair involves a less apparent interference with the administration than to hold that the actual decision was unreasonable . |
| 5 | A joyful Lou called Melissa to thank her for her kindness and to say that Rick was now reconciled with his parents . |
| 6 | The best way to further enhance it is for every citizen to carry a donor card and to ensure that their families are aware of their view that their organs should be available for transplantation after their death . |
| 7 | Twelve weeks over the time that is allotted in the programme and to do that we 're gon na have to produce the twice the rate that we 're doing now . |
| 8 | The lease will indeed quite often contain extensive insurance provisions with this in mind and to ensure that all costs in respect of insurance are paid for by the tenant and not the landlord . |
| 9 | He delivered a strong attack on Paisley and sent his Minister for Home Affairs to the General Assembly to apologize for the demonstration and to promise that ‘ the Government will take all possible steps to put a recurrence of such indignities to the Head of this great church and his distinguished guests ’ . |
| 10 | Le Monde , citing agency reports , said that Biya 's speech had been an attempt to appease the opposition , which continued to allege massive electoral fraud and to claim that the Social Democratic Front ( SDF ) leader , John Fru Ndi , was the real winner . |
| 11 | The family have asked us specifically to pray for Marion at this time of her bereavement and to ask that the Lord would reveal to them his timing concerning their return to Brazil . |
| 12 | I will comment , as I repeatedly do , on the determination of everyone in Ulster to end violence and to ensure that they can get back to living normal lives . |
| 13 | And while a good many people subjected to compulsory hospital admission and treatment are grateful , in retrospect , for this enforced care , many continue deeply to resent the intrusion and to deny that it was either necessary or helpful . |
| 14 | Abolitionists successfully used the convention drastically to reduce the freedom of parliamentary action and to claim that it was more representative of national opinion than the legislature . |
| 15 | Master-in-charge , Austin Jessop , was quick to stress the excellence of the Newington side and to suggest that they would almost certainly have won either at the end of the tour or into a domestic season . |
| 16 | But because , in terms of our Christian moral code , this is a shameful matter we are inclined to push it to one side and to assume that kinship is the equivalent of " blood relationship " which implies , or should imply , biological connection . |
| 17 | When in the fullness of immense periods of time , emerging man found that he needed a ‘ god ’ , and a logical conception of ‘ good ’ and ‘ evil ’ , he had no alternative but to accept that the countless millions of operations which make up the law of the ‘ survival of the fittest ’ , had necessarily to be designated either ‘ good ’ , if they furthered the cause , or completely disregarded if they did not . |
| 18 | Mrs Kemp was left with no alternative but to accept that no hearing could take place . |
| 19 | I am not such an optimist as to imagine that we are always going to agree with you about the type of regulation , or its costs , but I do want to emphasise that we are determined always to try to talk through contentious issues with you and to ensure that there is real dialogue . ’ |
| 20 | Prince Bernhard had said no such thing , but Sharpe had decided it would be more efficacious to assign the opinion to the prince than to confess that it was his own view . |
| 21 | are more concerned to maintain good human relationships at work than to ensure that tasks are carried out efficiently |
| 22 | 17.58 ( i ) Pupils working towards level 9 should be encouraged to make their own decisions about the appropriate length for a piece of work and to recognise that there can be merit in brevity . |
| 23 | It is the education officer 's job to inform the colleges of likely numbers for enrolments in the coming session and to ensure that students are suitably informed about enrolment procedures , which may mean holding a special meeting — perhaps at a college . |
| 24 | Scholes , however , believes that Saussure is himself inconsistent , and responsible for later confusion , but the thrust of his argument is very close to Tallis 's , and both of them are concerned — as were Thurley and Nuttall — to reinstate the validity of reference and to deny that language is a system of ‘ pure differences ’ , without relation to reality . |
| 25 | Henry II sent Geoffrey to the Limousin to arrange a truce and to ensure that the discontented barons would come to the peace conference . |
| 26 | The purpose of registration is to provide a record of all children in the area who are currently the subject of an inter-agency protection plan and to ensure that the plans are formally reviewed . |
| 27 | The French approach to takeovers has tended to aim at strengthening their central manufacturing core and to ensure that the French company remains dominant and in control , whereas the British takeover is generally aimed at diversification . |
| 28 | Well there 's no question but which therapists and people of medical profession have come across cases of people who have indeed been scarred for their whole lives and and found it very difficult to maintain trust and relationships and and be able to achieve their potential as a result of the sorts of situations that they endured , and perhaps we 're more understanding about those sorts of areas of the human need to be able to express anxiety and to feel that to express fears is is not something that 's going to overwhelm people that are around us , so that adults who are in the care of children , be they teachers , or parents , or child care workers , can allow children to express their feelings so that they do n't need to hold on to them and thereby increase the fears that they have . |
| 29 | In this year , he was appointed President of the English Circle of Books Across the Sea , and also became a member of the Apollo Society which was dedicated to reviving " the neglected art of reading poetry and to show that poetry and music can be regarded as complementary " . |
| 30 | I would have expected Esquire to be a little more imaginative than to jump on the anti-Essex bandwagon and to realize that you do n't have to be brainless to live in Braintree . |