Example sentences of "[to-vb] that [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is usual , for instance , in trust deeds used in the capital markets to provide that disputes about remuneration of the trustee are to be resolved by a merchant bank acting as an expert : see 5.5 . |
| 2 | To acknowledge that amounts to something very different from simply excising history as such . |
| 3 | To suggest that delegates from a conference of existing trades councils would reflect a truly national view , would be misleading . |
| 4 | Gorbachev on Dec. 4 had announced to the USSR Supreme Soviet emergency plans to import basic foodstuffs to the value of 2,100 million roubles ( US$1,050 million at the new commercial exchange rate ) to ensure that supplies in the first quarter of 1991 were at the levels of the same period in 1990 . |
| 5 | Palmerston tried to ensure that attachés in the missions to the German courts should at least be able to read German script ; and in the 1840s and 1850s there were efforts to send students of oriental languages from Oxford and Cambridge to Constantinople , where they were to form a new class of oriental secretaries and replace the Greek and Levantine dragomans who had for decades acted as translators and interpreters there . |
| 6 | In medieval times independent auditors were employed by feudal barons to ensure that returns from tenant farmers accurately reflected revenues received from estates . |
| 7 | Care therefore needs to be taken to ensure that increases in value in management 's shares do not derive from a chargeable event as described above . |
| 8 | In spite of this experience , there are still some people who try to argue that increases in the money supply have no effect on the rate of inflation . |
| 9 | They may be interested to learn that snowstorms in the Alps have been known to throw a spanner in the clockwork of everyday life too . |
| 10 | Everything that can be done to stop that has to be done . |
| 11 | In making this categorical assertion I am admitting that , as a social anthropologist , I really have very little to say that touches on the roots of our problem . |
| 12 | To say that seems to me really to beg the question . |
| 13 | I will attempt to show that answers to this question have to do with the almost hidden insidious nature of modern life . |