Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun pl] that [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But whereas suppliers of logic devices under defence contracts , such as Ferranti , are accustomed to meet demands that their equipment withstand paralysing fields of 40 to 100 volts/metre , many makers of standard industrial hardware are ill-equipped to cope with the hazards of far weaker fields . |
| 2 | The main objective of this motion is to create conditions that our members will not suffer deafness because of industrial noise . |
| 3 | The creation of a captive insurance company may enable the group to save on premiums and to cover risks that their normal insurers do not ( eg excess claims ) . |
| 4 | Never ask or expect the patient to perform actions that his physiotherapist considers are too hard for him . |
| 5 | With the Gulf War over , the German leader 's anxious to dispel doubts that his country can be counted on in a crisis , and there are moves underway to change the German constitution , at least to allow German soldiers to join United Nations military peace-keeping operations . |
| 6 | Rather , as was pointed out in Makanjuola v. Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis , it is intended to reassure informants that their statements will only be used for the investigation of complaints and for such criminal or disciplinary proceedings as directly follow . |
| 7 | He stated that ‘ it ought to be inferred that … one of the purposes of the advertisement was to enable it to be used by smokers as ammunition to persuade others that their habit was not dangerous to the health of anyone except perhaps their own . ’ |
| 8 | The people who make up this brain drain are the backbone of the transnational capitalist class , the class whose political role is to persuade co-nationals that their interests are identical with , or at least best served by , those of the TNCs . |
| 9 | On July 31 the Commission issued an " essentially positive " opinion ( or recommendation to EC governments ) on Austria 's application , although it said that the government needed to give assurances that its neutrality policy would not obstruct EC moves towards a common foreign and security policy . |
| 10 | MAR has consistently rejected the use of violence and no evidence was produced to support allegations that its members were planning to engage in violent activities . |
| 11 | They state : ‘ If PES makes it less likely that new monetary programmes with large spending implications will be introduced inadvertently , it also helps to assure departments that their on-going programmes will not suddenly be disrupted ’ ( Heclo and Wildavsky , 1981 , p. 238 ) . |
| 12 | [ Furthermore ] no Englishman competent to judge doubts that our literature ranks among the two or three greatest in the world ; or that it is quite arguable that , if not perhaps the finest , it is the richest of all . |
| 13 | As well as — like Hewlett-Packard Co — embracing open systems wholeheartedly , ICL has been able , like HP , to convince users that its proprietary machines are open systems . |
| 14 | These will be eager to protect their own autonomy , but may also seek to convince ministers that their local initiatives should be enshrined in national policy . |
| 15 | Editors have also been known to remind PROs that their exhibition details have not yet been received Nor should you forget the media local to your offices and factories . |
| 16 | Although Lagrange seemed to cherish hopes that his work would show the way to the solution of the general quintic the results obtained indicated a distinct possibility that there might be no corresponding formula in the case of equations of degree greater than 4 , and a supposed proof of this was given by Ruffini in 1799 . |
| 17 | Under a massive front-page headline , HUNT FOR DRACULA FIEND ( Star ) , the report indicated that a 13-year-old was able to tell detectives that her attacker ‘ had short dark hair streaked with grey and deep-set eyes that made him ‘ look a bit like Dracula ’ ' . |
| 18 | Later she recovered consciousness enough to tell police that her attacker was a ‘ young man ’ . |