Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regular staff , sometimes nominally of the same grade , provide a sort of supervision for them in the initial period and themselves tend to find that during the peak period they are doing , or doing more consistently , more responsible jobs than during the rest of the year . |
| 2 | The ‘ Pater Nostra ’ organisation , which will care for physically and mentally handicapped people in Atea , expect to find that by owning their own tractor they will not only go a long way to becoming self-sufficient but will be able to hire out the tractor locally to enhance their income . |
| 3 | I want to answer that by looking at what I call ‘ The Proper Purgatory . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I want to hear that from Garry , and I intend to see him , with or without your co-operation . ’ |
| 5 | Evelyn and the others are , indeed , with greater or lesser urgency and awareness , immobile in desperation , but I want to suggest that for Joyce it is not the dispassionate artist 's gaze which alone allows that strange steadiness commentators have called and even tone . |
| 6 | I shall be looking more closely at the implications of this point of view later , but here I want to suggest that in emphasising the importance of reflection Dorothy Heathcote has overstated the case . |
| 7 | As soon as someone gives you ten to the minus eight , you can say , Well if I want to convert that into real money , |
| 8 | I want to emphasize that in my discussion of social differentiation I am not dealing with an ‘ underclass ’ in the sense in which that term has recently been employed by , among others , Dahrendorf ( 1987 ) . |
| 9 | Right , it 's forty five over sixty , you want to change that into a decimal , what do you do ? |
| 10 | You divide the top number by the bottom number , so , supposing you 've got fifty seven minutes and you want to change that into a decimal of an hour , what fraction of an hour is it ? |
| 11 | You want to check that on the calculator , see if that one works ? |
| 12 | And on the other hand , what are changes such that we want to say that at the end of the change there is just no me left there at all and I 've been replaced by something else . |
| 13 | I have not wavered in the slightest degree in my attitude to this war , nor have I changed my mind as to the need of a final and complete settlement , but I want to say that in a war in which losses of such terrible magnitude are being imposed on all the Nations it appears to me not only wise but imperative that every country should use its political weapon to supplement all its military organisation , if by so doing it can defeat the enemy . |
| 14 | But it 's n I still ca n't reconcile why it was kept secret cos surely this is a fundamental point cos it is because they ca n't openly declare that how that they are moving away from the United Front , but if they 're trying to show that they 're moving in line with the peasants ' demands surely they want to show that to the peasants an so there , there 's it 's more that how th the Party cadres have been acting out of step rather than them making it clear to the peasants . |
| 15 | ( 3 ) A requirement under this section to provide a specimen of blood or urine can only be made at a police station or at a hospital ; and it can not be made at a police station unless — ( a ) the constable making the requirement has reasonable cause to believe that for medical reasons a specimen of breath can not be provided or should not be required , or ( b ) at the time the requirement is made a device or a reliable device of the type mentioned in subsection ( 1 ) ( a ) above is not available at the police station or it is then for any other reason not practicable to use such a device there , or ( c ) the suspected offence is one under section 4 of this Act and the constable making the requirement has been advised by a medical practitioner that the condition of the person required to provide the specimen might be due to some drug ; but may then be made notwithstanding that the person required to provide the specimen has already provided or been required to provide two specimens of breath . |
| 16 | Now , I do n't want to give you a boring lesson about the markets of the day , suffice to say that in 1520 hard cash was rare , most of it being tied up in fields , lands and houses , so it was natural for people like Ralemberg to tout for business . |
| 17 | They therefore tend to assume that after two years the firm ( if it is not a supernormal growth firm ) simply grows in line with GDP , on the grounds that , in the long run , the share of dividends or earnings in GDP does not trend in any significant way . |
| 18 | We begin to accept that in education , as in economics , small can be beautiful . |
| 19 | Erm , when I drew attention to this , one of the first things I did when I got elected to this council , erm , we get papers back which seem to suggest that in fact the Home Office are funding it at a level which , dare I say suggests that we might even make a small profit , er and I have in fact recently been approached by colleagues from Gloucestershire , asking us how we manage in that er , er exercise , because they 're concerned about the high cost of er , protection for certain royal establishments in their county . |
| 20 | I happen to think that behind much of that flamboyance in his earlier years there was a fund of timidity and reticence . |
| 21 | It amazes me how so many Liverpool people seem to think that by being born here ( which none of us have any control over ) people who ‘ get on ’ should be obligated to Liverpool for ever more . |
| 22 | There are dishonest traders about unfortunately , just as I suppose there are dishonest people in most walks of life but we like to think that in Nottinghamshire they are in a s small minority . |
| 23 | I concede that it will do for judging in retrospect the spontaneity beyond the margins of my rationality , as when jumping like an instinctive animal for the side of the road , and for such primitive choices as the child 's refusal of another helping ; but I continue to insist that at the centre of me I differ from the child in having escaped being restricted to choice between spontaneous goals . |
| 24 | But the Jockey Club 's director of public affairs , David Pipe , said : ‘ The jockeys fail to realise that in this day and age , public opinion is fairly powerful and they are in danger of becoming the subject of private cruelty prosecutions if they are deemed to have broken our rules . |
| 25 | Hereford 's league form has been disappointing but they aim to change that against Lincoln who 've not faired much better . |
| 26 | I regret to say that in consequence of the contents having been packed before they were thoroughly dry they are all in a badly mildewed state , so much so that I shall have to dry each specimen individually and remove the mildew with a brush : the smallest of the two large skins has also lost the whole of the wool or hair from the head ; The bottles too not having been properly secured , the spirit has escaped and caused the small boxes to fall to pieces forming an heterogenous mixture of nests , eggs broken and sound , tops , bottoms , and sides of boxes , plants , etc . |
| 27 | I hate to say that about anybody , but she really is . |
| 28 | ‘ I write to confirm that on 5 October 1989 you were represented at the hearing to oppose the plaintiff being granted an injunction preventing you from selling the property . |
| 29 | All these examples perhaps help to suggest that at least sometimes , and in some contexts , we are capable of a wide range of crimes . |
| 30 | 5.9.5 On a permitted assignment to a limited company and if the Landlord shall [ reasonably ] so require to procure that at least [ 2 ] directors of the company or some other guarantor or guarantors [ reasonably ] acceptable to the Landlord enter into direct covenants with the Landlord in the form of the Guarantor 's covenant contained in this Lease with " the Assignee " substituted for " the Tenant " [ 5.9.6 That each and every permitted underlease shall be granted without any fine or premium at a rent not less than the then open market rental value of the Premises [ to be approved by the Landlord prior to any such underlease ] [ and to be determined by the Surveyor acting as an expert and not as an arbitrator ] or the Rent then being paid ( whichever shall be the greater ) such rent being payable in advance on the days on which Rent is payable under this Lease and shall contain provisions approved by the Landlord : |