Example sentences of "[vb infin] [conj] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The northern English towns might not know or care that Wall Street had crashed . |
| 2 | Force the other party to try hard to get your attention and let them know or think that they could lose out to someone else . |
| 3 | That is to say , if the child is black ( reality ) , he or she must first recognise and accept that he or she has a black psychic image . |
| 4 | Er I really ca n't accept that er general questionnaire responded to sixty five per cent twelve per cent of sixty five per cent of you will recognise and agree that changes were needed that are existing now erm and so there must be evidence as and when the erm district erm district erm . |
| 5 | It must recognise and rejoice that many of its clergy and thousands of its members are Christians first and Anglicans second . |
| 6 | It is perhaps surprising that he did not count and find that he had double the actual number present , but he , too , has departed . |
| 7 | Whereas it hath been represented to us , upon the oaths of several of our trusty and well-beloved booksellers , that certain journeyman taylors , shoemakers , barbers , Spitaldfields-weavers [ sic ] , and other handicraftsmen , and that certain apprentices , shopmen , &c. have assembled in certain clubs , called Spouting-clubs , and , having there intoxicated themselves with porter and poetry , have presumed to make rhymes , and discharge them on the Public , under the title of ‘ Squires and Honourables , &c. &c. to the great annoyance of said Public , and of us , the said Reviewers ; WE do hereby ordain and decree that … [ everyone ] so offending in future , shall , for every such first offence , be chained to the compter , for a space , not exceeding twelve , nor less than six days ; and … for every such second offence , be not only chained to the compter for the said space of time ( more or less ) but be obliged to wear bob-wigs , and flapped hats without girdle or buckle , for the space of six months . |
| 8 | All I know is that God is n't a good explanation , so we must wait and hope that somebody comes up with a better one . " |
| 9 | When servicing your " fridge " choose a service engineer whom you can trust and insist that he collects any gas that he bleed off in a proper cylinder . |
| 10 | A question is an attention-focusing device , especially on things that we do not yet know but know that we do not know . |
| 11 | Exactly how he achieved this I can not explain except to say that he had a kind of eloquence that made you think he was speaking to you personally and the gift of a born story-teller . |
| 12 | If it is the latter , how will Britain ensure or guarantee that the old or new boundaries are enforced ? |
| 13 | We did not expect or intend that the project should address issues of this kind . |
| 14 | What sort of things can I do or learn that will be needed at work ? |
| 15 | Will the Minister confirm or deny that a British nuclear test , code-named Bristol , is due to take place soon in Nevada ? |
| 16 | Will the Minister confirm or deny that his Department is now threatening local authorities that plan new builds , by saying that it will take away discretionary housing grants ? |
| 17 | Will he confirm or deny that the Tomlinson inquiry is likely to show that two directly managed units and one trust are in serious trouble ? |
| 18 | Attempting to copy a decorative technique can confirm or disprove that it produces the same appearance and microstructure observed on the original item . |
| 19 | AT&T Co says it is studying a device that would turn an ordinary television set into a terminal that could call up films , shows and information or act as a video telephone , but it insisted that it is only in the prototype phase and denied a Los Angeles Times story that a field test of the technology would be announced next month ; it would neither confirm nor deny that it is teaming up with BellSouth Corp and Viacom International Inc in the interactive television work . |
| 20 | Stavros Niachos , 81 , will neither confirm nor deny that he was the buyer of Yo , Picasso , the 1901 self-portrait of the artist at his easel , staring boldly out at the new century ; but it certainly went to the bidder who has often acted on his behalf . |
| 21 | It was , after all , a wonderful sensation creeping through her in response to his lips , and she found herself drifting into co-operation with him , holding his perfect body against her , feeling his heart beat and knowing that they fitted together in a most satisfactory way . |
| 22 | He never tried to wake her , instead he would just stand and watch and pray that the angels had in fact gathered her and justice had been done . |
| 23 | The Communist convener could both feel and see that he was losing control . |
| 24 | Mulroney , however , professed himself still optimistic that the Accord would succeed and announced that he was commissioning Lowell Murray , the Government Leader in the Senate and Minister of State for Federal-Provincial Relations , as a special Meech Lake emissary . |
| 25 | And what more could Miss Waters do but affirm that if one could not perform one 's Christian duty without being treated as a busybody then the parish had come to a sorry pass ? |
| 26 | So you can immediately see that it would be quite wrong to make the mistake that people sometimes do make and think that the second model of the mind is really just the first one given new terms and that the ego is equivalent to the conscious . |
| 27 | But for certain reasons , which I will mention presently , we do n't want to use it ; so we pretend that it does not exist and hope that no one will be guilty of such bad taste as to refer to it . ) |
| 28 | Do you suspect or know that your son was involved with any particular woman ? ’ |
| 29 | They really did n't understand or realize that they were worth so much . |
| 30 | ‘ I can only weep and wail that my years of workless wandering have left me no riches to offer this holy infant ! |