Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You had to be in on the script meetings and the rehearsals to realize that underneath that company executive exterior lurked a funny man who took it all very seriously indeed . |
| 2 | Conference , to have a sign in the front and rear of your car may help all new drivers to understand that as a new driver you are entering a system that we are not aware of , speed , which is associated with many other items causes the very things that we work in our day-to-day lives under health and safety to stop . |
| 3 | It must be very hard for those fresh-faced New Georgians to realise that in their wake comes first the ruched blind , then the office use , followed by a bevy of Sock Shops , Tie Racks and Knickerboxes . |
| 4 | In effect these procedures require , inter alia , the establishment of Chinese Wall informational barriers to ensure that inside information acquired by one arm of the firm is not transmitted and used by another arm of the financial entity . |
| 5 | Smith and Hogan , Criminal Law , 6th edn , Butterworth , 1988 , 559 n6 , comment : " [ T ] his seems a surprising decision as it would surely astonish bankers to learn that by issuing such cards they are allowing their customers to borrow by way of overdraft to an unspecified amount " ( their emphasis ) . |
| 6 | Therefore , for the generating companies to say that by importing coal at the present world price of 145p per unit would benefit the consumers is a gross misrepresentation of the facts . |
| 7 | Returning to the jazz clubs was one option , but Rune had already made attempts to cover that by enlisting the aid of several barmen as well as his friends at Ib 's Bar . |
| 8 | This system was used before the advent of on-line catalogues to ensure that at least one copy of a book remained in a library system , which was often county-wide and contained many branches . |
| 9 | But Parents for Safe Food are lending their support to the Soil Association 's efforts to ensure that by the year 2000 , 20% of our food will be organic . |
| 10 | Enterprise Training is also proving its worth in helping more trainees than ever to find work placements and is committing additional resources to ensure that in the future such placements are available for all trainees . |
| 11 | In selecting a new class of options the clearing house attempts to ensure that at all times contracts may be exercised without any undue influence on the share market itself . |
| 12 | The Bar Council , the governing body of barristers , approved plans to ensure that at least 5% of its members and pupils will come from ethnic minorities . |
| 13 | Laing was at pains to stress that at no time did he feel under pressure : ‘ It was that I 'd never been caught before and I did n't know what to do . |
| 14 | It seems to me to indicate a failure on the part of the union activists to understand that by ‘ withdrawing good will ’ , the state education service has lost much of the respect so painstakingly built up by successive generations of teachers . |
| 15 | Even quite small companies parted with large sums to ensure that at the end of the line the fare-paying public would be greeted by an imposing terminal . |
| 16 | Robert Norster , national team manager and most definitely a product of the new enlightenment , ventures to hope that at last it is changing . |
| 17 | Husameddin offers nothing in the way of specific evidence to support his statement either about Molla Yegan 's resignation or about Molla Fenari 's appointment , however , and is indeed at pains to say that in spite of much research he has been unable to find any signatures of Molla Fenari 's dating from this second kadilik . |
| 18 | On the other hand , the Court was at pains to say that in a world of partial harmonisation the employee was free to agree with the transferee any changes he might have agreed with the transferor ( point 16 ) |
| 19 | In A Grammar of Metaphor she is at pains to show that in English poetry the relation of the verb metaphor to its proper term is weak and less important than its relation to its subject and objects : ‘ when a verb is metaphoric , its adaptability to the noun is so great that its relationship to it is direct , and much stronger than its relationship to the action it is ‘ replacing ’ ' ( 1958a:209 ) . |
| 20 | How are Americans to know that to the Vulgar British ‘ Bristols ’ are breasts ( boobs/knockers/charlies/tits ) and ‘ cobblers ’ are testicles ( balls/bollocks/knackers/goolies ) ? |
| 21 | But these vital new moves to ensure that in future all care workers will be true ‘ carers ’ must offer them some satisfaction . |
| 22 | One has only to read these two subsections to appreciate that in appeals in respect of contempt , the court has a complete discretion fettered only by the need to do justice . |
| 23 | At the time of Cats , for example , there were lots of offers to turn that into a film , but his instinct was to keep it as a musical play and hold off the film offers . |
| 24 | Blackwell Retail has asked publishers to note that from 18th January Parry Books , Liverpool , will trade as Blackwell 's University Bookshop , Liverpool , and York University Bookshop will trade as Blackwell 's University Bookshop , York . |
| 25 | Although in this connection too the higher courts are likely to say that the terms used are matters of fact for the magistrates , it will be open to those courts to say that in certain circumstances , the reactions of the victim were not likely to be those of harassment , alarm or distress . |
| 26 | It was not uncommon for interviewees to report that at least one set of parents had been unhappy initially about their plans to marry and this was often connected in some way with disappointment or disapproval over the choice of spouse . |
| 27 | The answer to the third is that the Criminal Justice Act 1991 introduced new guidelines which can be passed from the magistrates to the social services to ensure that from October this year juveniles can be remanded in custody under certain conditions not previously available to the courts . |
| 28 | ‘ It is important for the churches to realise that in a pluralistic , secularised society they can not exert influence by moral or dogmatic dictates ’ , the report stressed . |