Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] that the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By a respondent 's notice dated 21 January 1992 the foster mother sought to contend that the judge 's grant of leave under section 10(9) of the Act of 1989 should be affirmed on the grounds that if the Court of Appeal accepted the local authority 's test for the grant of leave to apply under section 10(9) the evidence justified the judge 's order . |
| 2 | The first attempt did not succeed ; mainly , in the view of military historian Gabriel Cardona , because Franco failed to realize that the conquest of a large city like Madrid required massive and concentrated artillery attack , with coordinated and sustained support from the air , not African-style cavalry charges followed by rapid , but unsupported , infantry attack . |
| 3 | This view has since been altered to contend that the struggle for education is part of the struggle for freedom and that some demands which affect the education system should be fought for while apartheid is still in place . |
| 4 | Reading on in the book of Acts , I was fascinated to see that the experience of Cornelius and his household in Acts 10 was different . |
| 5 | A level 1 assessment at age 7 is intended to signal that the child may need special help . |
| 6 | Coetzee checked to see that the pockets were empty so that nothing could be lost at the scene of the crime . |
| 7 | A police spokesman said yesterday : ‘ Nobody checked to see that the cord was hooked up to the crane . |
| 8 | This goes to confirm that the figures shown in Table 11.1 are fairly representative of the industry more generally . |
| 9 | Well-launched as it was , I regret to report that the organization of China-Canada Inc. seemed to die of inactivity after its founder left for China in 1946 ; it was , after all , very much of a one-man show and the big names on all the committees were more or less honorary only . |
| 10 | Curran is convinced that it produced a ‘ muted radicalism ’ but it would be equally justified to claim that the Mirror had to change because it could not portray the 1950s and 1960s in the language or imagery of the 1940s . |
| 11 | Although he was the first to use motor transport on an extensive scale in Lewis — many a time as a youngster I ran a mile to see his fleet of yellow Fords — he failed to see that the advent of the bus made it possible for the crofter to live in the country and work in the town . |
| 12 | He , like many of his critics and followers , failed to see that the claims for a new scientific conceptualization rest not only on the ‘ facts ’ they are concerned to put into some kind of order , but also on the capacity of the new theoretical framework to bring out connections between what , until the new framework is used , appear as unconnected bits and pieces of information . |
| 13 | They failed to see that the principle of subsidiarity as interpreted was inadequate to a modern society . |
| 14 | The issuance of multiple copies was thus intended to assure that the consignee received at least one . |
| 15 | I I tend to agree that the criteria tend to fall into two sorts . |
| 16 | A dissatisfied party may want to establish that the reference was made to an expert so that he can then sue the individual , or that the reference was made to an arbitrator so that he can appeal against the award : or again there may be differences in rights of enforcement prompting the claim that an arbitration was a reference to an expert , or vice versa . |
| 17 | There are all sorts of reasons for giving the less direct answer : B may want to establish that the fact that the reading was not done was not due to laziness . |
| 18 | It is quite impossible to say that Woolwich paid to close a transaction since it protested that it was not liable and it immediately sought to establish that the regulations were void . |
| 19 | The mother sought to establish that the father had ‘ subsequently acquiesced ’ in the removal of the children by her to England and their retention in England . |
| 20 | Perhaps the notice could be altered to indicate that the path leads only as far as the river . |
| 21 | ( Later the bill was amended to provide that the Secretary of State would be prohibited from prescribing periods of time or proportions of school timetables to be allocated to programmes of study : see now ERA 1988 , section 4(3) . ) |
| 22 | Under a constitutional amendment approved on Nov. 6 , Article 11 ( regarding the succession on the death or incapacitation of the President ) was amended to provide that the Speaker of the National Assembly would succeed to the presidency until the end of the current presidential mandate . |
| 23 | Agree that the Solicitors ' Remuneration Order 1972 be amended to provide that the Society may require up to 50% of a client 's profit costs all disbursements and VAT to be paid during the process of application for a Remuneration Certificate , in accordance with guidelines to be issued by the Adjudication and Appeals Committee after consultation with the Lord Chancellor . |
| 24 | On the third morning , they arose to find that the blizzard had died down , to be followed by keen frost as the temperature plummeted . |
| 25 | Although we offer holiday packages , we tend to find that the Citalia holidaymaker is often more discerning . |
| 26 | Mr Brown and Mr Smith repeatedly intervened to demand that the Chancellor answer the simple question of whether pensioners would be fully compensated , which Mr Lamont repeatedly ducked , saying only that the worst off would receive help . |
| 27 | And I 'd want to know that the person who did that was going to be punished , and punished properly . |
| 28 | The petition refers to nine separate matters which , it is alleged , tend to establish that the attack on Goddard was not pre-meditated . |
| 29 | He probably expected to find that the problem had been too much for her . |
| 30 | FANS of Fatal Attraction will be fascinated to know that the director 's cut containing a totally different ending is now available ( CIC , £12.99 ) . |