Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [vb infin] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sufferer may say that he or she uses alcohol or drugs for social reasons but is often just as comfortable , if not more so , using alone . |
| 2 | While experience may show that certain tasks were not as good discriminators as others there is likely to be an abundance of evidence over the three-year period for teachers to use . |
| 3 | Every Lord Chancellor , especially if he holds office as long as did Halsbury , will make some mistakes ( and Heuston suggests that as many as three of the six were ‘ unlucky ’ appointments ) but Halsbury 's experience may suggest that the proportion of bad appointments is likely to be statistically higher amongst appointments made from the Lord Chancellor 's political associates . |
| 4 | Alternatively , a client who has been treated as an expert investor on the grounds of his experience may claim that , in fact , he was a private investor , that he should have received warnings as to the risks and that , had he received them , he would not have entered into this type of transaction at all . |
| 5 | Moreover , those planning a curriculum may find that they proceed not in a linear fashion , but by moving back and forth among the various headings , since these affect one another . |
| 6 | Those whose main contact with violence has been through television or the cinema may think that in real life , just as in films , the hero or heroine 's story ends when their ordeal is over . |
| 7 | The external schema is the subset of the database which is relevant to the particular user , and though it may be a summarised and a very restricted subset , the user may think that it represents the whole view , because it is the whole view as far as the user is concerned . |
| 8 | One temptation to be resisted is the special offer microcomputer which , despite its low price may be the last in a series from that manufacturer and the user may find that no new software is being written for that model . |
| 9 | Although the user may imagine that any block size will be acceptable , VSAM only uses blocks of size 512b or 2048b , where b can take any value in the range 1–16 ; this means that VSAM will round up any intermediate value to the next available block size , so wasting the difference between the two values . |
| 10 | The contract may provide that the obtaining of some or all of these consents is a condition to completion , waivable by the acquirer . |
| 11 | Other procedural clauses may restrict the evidence which can be used in support of a claim : for instance , a contract may provide that a certificate of quality by an inspector or surveyor shall be conclusive evidence that goods conform to the contract ; or that " failure to notify the sellers of any defects or shortages within three days shall be conclusive evidence that the goods were in conformity with the contract in all respects " ; or even that " acceptance of the goods shall be conclusive evidence of their conformity with the contract " . |
| 12 | Will the Minister acknowledge that , if the review takes place next year , the construction industry training board may say that it wants to retain a statutory levy , to determine the rate of levy imposed and also wants flexibility on exemptions . |
| 13 | If a batch of a product is close to the specification limit in respect of any parameter at the time of manufacture then even a slight change may mean that it no longer complies with its specification , so that its effective shelf-life is very short . |
| 14 | There is no reason to refrain from any of these at the moment , although the cost v. benefit of international mailing may mean that , with a little more experience , we may reassess its worth . |
| 15 | A reviewing scientist may conclude that although the same results are obtainable on replication , they are incapable of supporting the theory or hypothesis advanced by the original scientist . |
| 16 | Moreover , the reliability may mean that a tradesman only sees one example of a particular circuit board each month or even only a couple a year . |
| 17 | Further , while continuous monitoring may ensure that participants in co-operative R&D ventures do not distort competition , it substitutes administrative action for the public and/or privately initiated judicial-review process which characterizes most antitrust policies . |
| 18 | Modern furniture should be fire-proof but your budget may dictate that you buy second-hand . |
| 19 | For that reason the acquirer may insist that the trust fund or estate is not distributed for a period , unless the beneficiaries accept liability . |
| 20 | If the rule is relaxed legal advisers faced with an ambiguous statutory provision may feel that they have to research the materials to see whether they yield the crock of gold , i.e. , a clear indication of Parliament 's intentions . |
| 21 | It is not always easy to accept the children of your child 's marriage partner , especially if their existence may mean that you are unlikely to have grandchildren of your own . |
| 22 | Effective treatment obviously depends on isolating the cause , and if necessary your vet may recommend that in a particular instance a dog may benefit from assessment by an animal psychologist , specializing in behavioural problems . |
| 23 | A married sister may plead that she has a husband and family to look after but that very fact also means that caring-will restrict her less . |
| 24 | Prior to running the software , the user should check that LIFESPAN is running with facilities made available , and should then invoke the LIFESPAN user access file to set up the necessary logical names ( see the ‘ Installation and Management of LIFESPAN ’ ) . |
| 25 | If this occurs the user should check that there is sufficient disk quota in the specified directory and that the user has write access to the directory . |
| 26 | Prior to running LIFESPAN PMR , the user should check that LIFESPAN is running with facilities made available , and should then invoke the LIFESPAN user access file to set up the necessary logical names ( see ‘ Installation and Management of LIFESPAN ’ ) . |
| 27 | The user should ensure that only one version of each filename is supplied for processing . |
| 28 | The user should ensure that a module name is not contained in more than one file . |
| 29 | The user should ensure that the module types are the same . |
| 30 | The user should ensure that the module issue is greater than the latest issue in LIFESPAN . |