Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For it has come to pass that through marriage certain feelings are communicated by the partners to each other and , more important , to society at large . |
| 2 | He sees too that the other should from the first have known better , as he himself should ( he has come to understand that in retrospect ) , and therefore judges that they both made not only an unlucky but a bad choice . |
| 3 | During those two years , I have also come to believe that with the help of two powerful tools we can turn people on to the quality process . |
| 4 | For example , Vivian de Sola Pinto ( a regular contributor to the Review during the 19305 ) had come to consider that in the post-war world liberally-educated persons , whether schoolmasters , civil servants , or business administrators should have the capacity to contribute to the revitalization of a " soulless bureaucracy " , and that the main object of English studies should therefore be " the provision of a truly liberal education " for such " non-specialists " . |
| 5 | The snag was , everything had seemed perfectly fine and reasonable written down in black and white — but the book had omitted to mention that on snow the skis took on a life all of their own . |
| 6 | Solicitors ' firms large and small have come to realise that at a time when competition is intense and growth is seen as essential in order to meet increased overheads and maintain profit levels ( let alone to increase them ) any policy which irrevocably rules out fundamental reorganisation of their practices is likely to prove short-sighted . |
| 7 | But even Butler has come to realise that in fulfilling the role of gamekeeper turned poacher he might not win friends but he could influence people . |
| 8 | Has not he forgotten to mention that between 1979 and 1981 investment fell sharply and that it was lower in the third quarter of 1991 than in any other quarter — 12 per cent . |
| 9 | But the time has come to admit that in my efforts to explain this one valid point I may have misled the reader in other ways . |
| 10 | Will it just be the material produced by the neatest and cleverest or will an attempt be made to ensure that in turn every child will have a piece of work exhibited ? |
| 11 | The spectator is made to feel that without this element their reality would be incomplete . |
| 12 | On the question of the parade , I think one 's got to realize that in fact a service erm to the soldiers a parade is a part of , you know , a part of the service . |
| 13 | In those days they did n't use mileometers , what they did was they took any particular route number and the number of journeys they did , because in those days a bus kept on a route which applied , say between Witton and Rushmere Heath all day , did n't run around like they do nowadays and erm when the schedules were prepared , each bus had got a route number or was placed on a route number , say one Witton , two Witton , three Witton and a copy of its schedule was recorded on another sheet and the mileage , having known what the mileage was and we 'd used to obtain that from the Borough Surveyor 's Department , er I think it was about nine point one four miles a return trip Witton and Rushmere Heath , er you 'd work out how many journeys they did there and say well that bus was due to run a hundred and twenty six miles during the day . |
| 14 | and then when it 's got that and it 's got end on the bottom here , at the end of the stopping zone , you 've got to know that on a motorway |
| 15 | You 've got to remember that at the time , deregulation was looked on as an open cash-register . |
| 16 | Yeah , I would take some credit for that but you 've got to remember that in Fleetwood Mac I was working with great writers and great singers . ’ |
| 17 | The tradition has however tended to assume that by adopting a particular perspective ( Marxism ) it can escape the ideological effect much in the same way as science appears at times to escape from ideology . |
| 18 | He had always preferred to leave that to Nik Powell , or the man who had joined Virgin as financial director on Powell 's departure , Terry Baughan . |
| 19 | And that misuse of the aerosol sprays is probably responsible for about three thousand five hundred deaths , but I think you 've got to put that into perspective , first of all against the six thousand people who are killed on the roads every year in Britain , and you 've also got to set it against our estimate that there are more than a quarter of a million people alive today who would have died in childhood if it had n't been specifically for the advantage of being able to take medicines , anti-biotics generally in their childhood to keep them alive . |
| 20 | And er , I thought , oh he 's only got to put that in oven |
| 21 | and I bought her but when I came out the loo he is playing with the bus going wheeee , he was having a great time with that , I looked at him and I said got to give that to Charlotte , no , no , I do n't like it I want the house , meaning the garage , so I 've gone out now and bought her a circus |
| 22 | On the whole we 've tended to leave that to , to people who do have that specialisation . |
| 23 | The management er clearly desired to implement the scheme er with the minimum amount of frustration er to anyone , although you 've got to understand that as an engineer working a , a big milling machine for example , if someone comes along and said er , you know you could stand that job on its side different to what you 've got it at the moment , and you could do two faces instead of one you know , by turning the table and you know , by use of various tools er decrease the time factor , there was the , it was a fear that our members may work themselves out of a job . |
| 24 | I am much induced to believe that from an examination of the foreign correspondence of that Society ( of which W. Watson of Bartlett 's Buildings is sollicitor ) [ sic ] some traces might be found which might lead to discover some of Mr. Stone 's accomplices . |
| 25 | Care is needed to ensure that at the time the group dividend is paid : ( a ) no " arrangements " or " option arrangements " exist whereby the parent company could cease to be beneficially entitled to more than 50% of both profits for distribution and assets on a winding up available to " equity holders " of Target ( see Sch 18 Taxes Act ) ; and ( b ) Target is beneficially owned by its parent when the dividend is declared and paid . |
| 26 | I had never had to argue that as a woman I should have an education , become a theologian , own a house , or anything else . |
| 27 | So , I appologise for the excessive size of this one ; - } } ( I 've never had to say that before ) but I have decided not to compress them . |
| 28 | There are men who toil because work is a pleasure to them and there are others who toil because work is a duty ; but the great majority of men are only stimulated to labour that in amount or character is distasteful to them , by the hope that they may be able , in the first place , to maintain themselves , and secondly to marry and maintain a family … |
| 29 | ‘ But I 'm bound to say that in your position I think I should have made some enquiry into his bona fides . |
| 30 | However , I am bound to say that in my judgment Ex parte Handscomb was wrongly decided on that issue . |