Example sentences of "[to-vb] that [pron] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To accept that whatever she had done or promised or performed to maintain her position in Market Square then her choice could only have been that or the workhouse . |
| 2 | I am prepared to accept that anyone who knows me may dislike me , but when someone who can not dislike me because they do n't know me , attacks me , I collapse inside , I lose eloquence , I get frightened , sometimes I cry . |
| 3 | For one thing , he found it hard to accept that anyone who lacked the advantage of being American could pose much of a threat , and for another , he needed every scrap of material he could get from any quarter , even the newspapers , to sustain the nonstop barrage of reports he was firing into headquarters . |
| 4 | He will be criminally liable unless he was so insane as either ‘ not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing ’ , or ‘ not to know that what he was doing was against the law ’ . |
| 5 | But in many boroughs , Mr Easey said , ‘ we began to find that whatever we said , they 'd go ahead and charge them anyway ’ . |
| 6 | After another brief pause , the speaker continues , using and to indicate that what she is going to say is connected to what she has just said . |
| 7 | Blemish is simply about creating a bad atmosphere around a person , for example , ‘ What do you think about Jane ? ’ said by someone screwing up their nose — to indicate that they themselves obviously do n't think too highly of her . |
| 8 | His mission is to assure that everyone he comes across has a happy life . |
| 9 | In antiquity no insignia such as cup or Bible were handed to the person ordained , and the clergy did not initially wear special vestments ; they were simply instructed to see that what they wore was ‘ wholly clean ’ . |
| 10 | The fools , not to see that what they madly desire would be such a calamity to them as no hands but their own could bring upon them . ’ |
| 11 | The the individuals , the the members , to see that we we cared about what what their interests were . |
| 12 | It takes little thought to see that someone who is physically crippled and confined to a wheelchair may still lead a very full life if his mental and higher faculties are in good order whereas a physically fit but totally demented person has little left to give and little capacity to receive except for physical care and a little love . |
| 13 | ‘ You want me to confirm that something you feel is all right is truly all right , ’ said the counsellor . |
| 14 | to confirm that I I 've heard it somewhere I mean |
| 15 | It is difficult , to remember that what we are presenting here is an entertaining rehearsed reading rather than a full-scale production . ’ |
| 16 | Once the director took Dustin aside and said , ‘ This is the only day we 're ever going to shoot this scene and , no matter how exhausted or lousy you feel , I want you to remember that what you give me is going to be on celluloid for people to see for ever and ever . |
| 17 | It is important to remember that whatever you are producing it is the client who pays . |
| 18 | It is important for us all to remember that everyone who shared in the meeting did so out of good conscience and with a genuine desire to find God 's will for us . |
| 19 | She needed to remember that he himself had been responsible for her having had to face that terrible choice in the first place . |
| 20 | You would do well to remember that you yourself are little more than a child . |
| 21 | To some extent , it is also intuitively satisfying to suggest that what one is talking about always comes before what one has to say about it . |
| 22 | This conditioning idea , absent in the that-clause construction , is what I believe accounts for the less factual tone of the infinitival structure : explicitly evoking one 's knowledge as the condition allowing one to assert something ( rather than flatly stating one 's awareness of a fact ) tends to suggest that what one is saying is a personal opinion rather than a matter of objective fact . |
| 23 | To suggest that what they were doing before was of low priority is a misleading simplification — could one for example conclude that if a professor moves from one department to another he does so because the former is of low quality ? |
| 24 | To suggest that everything we are — our health , our wealth , the very structure of society — is encoded in our DNA is simply to justify the status quo . |
| 25 | We should not be misled by any temptation to assume that what we are dealing with here is the familiar disposition of many words , mentioned above , to vary in their referential effect according to the standard considered relevant for the type of the noun ; as if , to take the last sentence in ( 34 ) it was simply a matter of adjusting our standard of what counts as old from the range suitable for schools to the smaller one which is appropriate to individual human beings . |
| 26 | Councillor Mrs Mairhi Trickett continued to insist that everything they had done was in the best interests of the children . |
| 27 | They whether they 're going to do that I I I do n't really know yet , not really certain . |
| 28 | If a friend descends upon you unexpectedly , you just have to hope that whatever you have in the freezer will suffice . |
| 29 | And thirdly , it has a very real er value in that , in going for er certification , we are actually putting checks and procedures in place which will help to ensure that what we do is the right price , is to the right time and is the right product . |
| 30 | Our business is to ensure that what we are doing now is done properly , not to take on board new activities and try and finance them at the expense of groups which are already suffering very poor , or at least inadequate services . |