Example sentences of "[vb infin] that [prep] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Those who are working and hoping , however feebly , to encompass the lives of boys and girls with wholesome atmosphere must know that in regard to sexuality two factors stand out .
2 How do I know that in choosing Direct Line I wo n't get into the same trouble ? ’
3 Yes , before you all write in , I do know that by pressing the yellow button on the machine I will be told when I need to knit with the main carriage , but ( hand on heart ) how many of you have got carried away and done one too many strokes with the lace carriage ?
4 Let me qualify that by saying … some Irishmen .
5 I welcome the positive approach — perhaps I should qualify that by saying ’ part positive ’ — adopted by the hon. Member for Makerfield ( Mr. McCartney ) towards the Committee stage .
6 This means that he did not consider that by taking the brahmacārya vow he was necessarily withdrawing from the life of society , which was one reason why he resented being called an ascetic .
7 Lloyd George might think that in beating Wilson over the space requirements of Asiatics in the debate over the Merchant Shipping Act in 1906 he was delivering the working classes from their unworthy prejudices against foreign seamen , but the seamen thought that they knew better .
8 And do n't think that by developing the second half of your brain you will merely be doubling your mental capacity .
9 So , do you think that by making divorce possible so early on , that a lot of marriages that could be saved , will in fact er founder ?
10 Then Ruddock told me : ‘ Do you really think that after facing Tyson twice , knocking out former world champions Mike Dokes , Page and Bonecrusher Smith I 'm really gon na be frightened of Lennox Lewis ? ’
11 I can answer that by telling you what happened to me during the Tencel plant opening at Mobile in December .
12 It would therefore appear that in determining the dose of adsorbent required , it is necessary to take into account the size of the intestinal endotoxin pool , the extent of dysfunction of the gut mucosal barrier and the adsorptive capacity of the agent .
13 ( 3 ) That on the taking of the said accounts and inquiry costs of and incidental to proceedings on an indemnity basis are not to be disallowed on the ground that an order has already been made for costs of and incidental to those proceedings to be taxed on a standard basis unless it should appear that in making the said order the court intended thereby to deprive the defendants of the right to add those costs or some part thereof to the mortgage security .
14 As the hon. Member for Livingston can promise his hon. Friends nothing about money , he could not prevent that from happening if he returned to the old system .
15 What assurances can the Minister give that in attempting to develop a common requirement for a new air defence frigate we shall not end up with another fiasco of expensive and fruitless bickering between countries with different design requirements ?
16 Why should I assume that in combining imperatives with propositions about other persons I can afford to ignore , while taking for granted the analogizing on which the mere use of a common name depends , the operations of assimilating to and differentiating from myself without which the propositions would not even have their full meaning ?
17 By requiring the investor to buy a proportion of debt in the geared company we can write , therefore , if this is true for a proportion , we can show that by dividing both sides of Eq .
18 As a non-philosopher I always used to find that slightly depressing statement that of Eyre 's about beauty , and it seemed to me that one could immediately follow that by saying just because there 's a word for it maybe you have it because you like it and you want to use it and is n't that self-validating in a sense .
19 As a non-philosopher I always used to find that a slightly depressing statement , that of Ayer 's about beauty , and it seemed to me that one could perhaps immediately follow that by saying ‘ Just because there 's a word for it maybe , you have it because you like it and you want to use it and is n't that self- validating in a sense ? ’
20 It does not follow that in owning a funboard you should only learn funboard techniques .
21 Might sound a bit complicated , but if we take it slowly , all will be revealed , and you will see that by using this method , every guest has an equal share of fishing opportunities .
22 You can see that by adding more detail to the eyes , feet and feathers as well as shading you can carry this as far as you wish to go ( Figure 1 ) .
23 Trainees will see that by tackling the practical presenting problem with too much alacrity they may superimpose their interpretation of Sally 's problems before confirming them with Sally .
24 We shall see that in writing this letter Anselm was concerned to safeguard the privileges of Canterbury against the claims of legatine authority ; but he was also inspired by a traditional respect for royal authority , and the common-sense view that in fact nothing could be accomplished without help from the king and his officials .
25 Given the long times required to charge the larger rods , you can see that after getting a first qualitative result with the smallest rods within a few weeks , a proper quantitative analysis to test the variation with rod diameter and current , and so establish the nature of the effect would take a long time .
26 I did n't realize that by keeping quiet I was walking into a trap . ’
27 I 'll , I can endorse that by saying that we should n't , as I noticed a certain offhandedness with him that I did n't like at all .
28 We might suggest that in conceiving the rule for + 2 , we somehow already conceived all the instances , and this is what makes it the case that the ‘ correct ’ interpretation is correct .
29 This may suggest that in putting forward candidates they were less sanguine of their chances than they might have been .
30 She could control that by reminding herself of the terrible consequences it had led to the first time .
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