Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could accept self-determination and advance the prospects of a political settlement without burning his boats with the army — to whom he presented association as the first step towards a real , consensual integration — and without seeming to capitulate or feeling that he was capitulating to the FLN . |
| 2 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , it is not general practice to confirm or deny that nuclear tests are about to take place . |
| 3 | Sources from both clubs said they understood the new bid was from the same source , but an Argyll spokesman refused to confirm or deny that the company was behind the bid . |
| 4 | Like bees buzzing up and down my window pane , the instinct is too deep for such a creature to see or to reason that he is not getting the expected response . |
| 5 | If it is easy for a man — it is usually the man who suffers from such fears — to hit difficulty due to his own self-doubt , it is doubly easy for his partner to support or feed that doubt by her own expectation of his failure or overt recognition of it . |
| 6 | The behaviourist theory of knowledge says that for someone , S , to know or believe that some proposition p is true is for S to be disposed to behave in some way which is supposed to be appropriate to the world 's being as p says . |
| 7 | This does not , of course , have any bearing upon whether or not there are such laws of social life to discover or imply that the survey method ought to be abandoned . |
| 8 | The declaration , with its renewed emphasis on the importance of unity and on the obstacles to it , reads like the triumph of hope over experience : ‘ We urge our clergy and faithful not to neglect or undervalue that certain yet imperfect communion we already share . |
| 9 | In a moment of optimism my wife told me not to worry and pronounced that I could live perfectly well on one lung . |
| 10 | Well to try and show that we 'd covered we 'd taken in as much of what was going on |
| 11 | To try and insinuate that we had done something wrong . |
| 12 | To try and explain that verbally would be very very hard |
| 13 | The first need is to try and ensure that the churchyard is looked after and kept tidy . |
| 14 | The Council has to try and ensure that the subject ‘ bits ’ of the curriculum form a coherent whole and somehow deliver the broad and balanced curriculum enshrined in the noble opening passages of the Act . |
| 15 | Now the Presbyterian Church as the Church of Scotland enjoys a unique place in Scottish life and its structures it has a privileged place but I would suggest to you it has also therefore a number of responsibilities and one , I would suggest in this case , is to try and ensure that these local regional teams are in place . |
| 16 | Since most of the money being offered was raised through Federal taxation , especially income tax , these mechanisms were being used to try and ensure that State governments did operate the welfare programmes seen as desirable by the Federal government ; if they did not , then their residents were paying taxes to Washington , but receiving relatively little in return . |
| 17 | 233 seems to be that if a wife signs a security document at her debtor husband 's request , the creditor will be unable to enforce the security unless either the debtor or the creditor has taken positive steps to try and ensure that the wife understands the import of the security documents or unless she has obtained independent advice . |
| 18 | In cases falling within this protected class , equity would hold the security given by the surety to be unenforceable by the creditor if : ( i ) the relationship between the debtor and the surety and the consequent likelihood of influence and reliance was known to the creditor ; and ( ii ) the surety 's consent to the transaction was procured by undue influence or material misrepresentation on the part of the debtor or the surety lacked an adequate understanding of the nature and effect of the transaction ; and ( iii ) the creditor , whether by leaving it to the debtor to deal with the surety or otherwise , had failed to take reasonable steps to try and ensure that the surety entered into the transaction with an adequate understanding of the nature and effect of the transaction and that the surety 's consent to the transaction was a true and informed one . |
| 19 | In these circumstances it is necessary to ask whether the bank took reasonable steps to try and ensure that she had an adequate comprehension of the effect of the charge . |
| 20 | The reasoned , the reasoned proposals which are contained in a very thought out amen which has in fact contains ideas submitted by many different people of different persuasions to try and ensure that ideas could be erm worked at solidly does break the endless delays . |
| 21 | The purpose of general management is to try and ensure that in the city that we are getting the best value we can from the health resources that are in the city , and I have the authority now , and the responsibility to spend the budget that I 've had allocated from the Oxfordshire Health Authority , by Gerald Simon who 's the general manager . |
| 22 | A worrying thing at the moment is as I said we 're in close contact with is that the Malaysian Government is sending representatives over to visit the European Community Ministers in May , to try and say that there 's absolutely nothing wrong with what 's going on in their country with the logging , and they 're saying that people like Friends of the Earth are calling for a ban on timber , not because they care about sustained yield , but because we want to be able to sell our own wood , and this is to depress their trade . |
| 23 | After a moment he added caustically , ‘ However , I presume you 're not going to try and deny that it was a portrait of you ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ They 're going to try and get that other door open , ’ she told me . |
| 25 | So that 's just for your per your personal pride I suppose is to try and get that because |
| 26 | where you , you get a scale response to them and we can do stats on but equally , if you get people to describe their most recent dream or describe their most erm , you know , compelling dream or , you know , a good one that they 've had in the last year or something like that , you may want to try and get that on tape or something like that erm if possible , yeah . |
| 27 | Nonetheless , he continued to try and persuade that he was telling the truth . |
| 28 | Er so what I 'm looking for is to try and see that we do all we can to make sure that the second half of ninety three we take full advantage of everything that we 've got so that we do actually rapidly increase our productivity in the second half of the year . |
| 29 | If we wish to encourage risk taking , we have to be prepared to accept and recognize that people will fail . |
| 30 | Well some , I think it 's probably British Section , probably the best way just to write and say that we know , this is the case |