Example sentences of "[noun pl] to the [noun sg] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | 7.3.3 against damage or destruction by the Insured Risks to the extent that such insurance may ordinarily be arranged for properties such as the Centre with an insurer of repute and subject to such excesses exclusions or limitations as the insurer may require It may be advisable to provide that the insurer should have principal offices in the United Kingdom , but this is no guarantee that the insurer will not succumb to liquidation or contest claims , and one wonders whether this would find favour with our European partners . |
| 2 | 7.3.3 against damage or destruction by the Insured Risks to the extent that such insurance may ordinarily be arranged for properties such as the Centre with an insurer of repute and subject to such excesses exclusions or limitations as the insurer may reasonably require |
| 3 | This , as its name indicates , is crime fiction based fundamentally on actual police investigation of a crime , usually murder , for the same old reason that murder signals to the reader that the book carries a certain weight . |
| 4 | The scare quotes sound the alarm , and so alert readers to the idea that something is deficient or inappropriate about the word being used . |
| 5 | Perhaps the most important thing that QED will have done is to open other sufferers ' eyes to the realisation that they are very far from being alone . |
| 6 | One of the major functions of education must be to open people 's eyes to the fact that things were at one time different ; that they have evolved to where they are now ; and that they need not necessarily always remain as they are . |
| 7 | She would explain the nature of her interest , so awakening in him a wish to know more about what goes on outside Masailand and also opening his eyes to the fact that the white folk see the Masai as childlike . |
| 8 | We can not close our eyes to the fact that if the arguments advanced on behalf of the appellant in relation to this ground of appeal are soundly based , then there is , not a small lacuna , but a yawning gap in the protection for the public afforded by section 16 of the Act of 1968 through which a large number of dishonest persons can — by arranging matters so that they come within the definition of ‘ self-employed ’ — escape conviction and punishment for the kind of deceitful conduct of which the jury , by their verdicts in the instant case , found this appellant to be guilty . |
| 9 | We can not shut our eyes to the fact that there are groups , very small numerically but extremely cohesive and tenacious , who have infiltrated the unions with the intention of seizing power if they can . |
| 10 | Random sampling , it can be argued , makes rather few concessions to the fact that human populations are not normally socially well-mixed : indeed , they tend to develop distinct homogeneity within subgroups . |
| 11 | Most mortgage lenders see you in the same light as everyone else and make no concessions to the lifestyle that lies ahead of you . |
| 12 | But the exercise of choice must be a special one , for it must alert the parties to the fact that they are about to enter a binding commitment from which they can not simply opt out . |
| 13 | In explaining each point , I shall begin by posing a problem that the living machine faces ; then I shall consider possible solutions to the problem that a sensible engineer might consider ; I shall finally come to the solution that nature has actually adopted . |
| 14 | In addition , acid rain mobilizes the aluminium in forest soils ( from harmless soil compounds such as aluminium silicate ) which decreases the ratio of calcium to aluminium in soil solutions to the extent that root growth is impaired . |
| 15 | Although the students have won converts to the notion that the riot police use excessive force , they have yet to win much support for their demands . |
| 16 | In view of what you , Mr. Speaker , have had to say about the Consolidated Fund Bill , can you give some assurance that , if this matter about Maxwell and him laundering money is raised , you will ensure that people such as Arthur Scargill and Peter Heathfield will be given special tickets to sit in the Gallery so that they can hear the debate and so that they can draw the attention of various channels to the fact that perhaps Mr. Lightman should investigate the missing Maxwell millions , and perhaps we can find out whether Roger Windsor , Mr. Maxwell 's nark , was paid £50,000 out of the Daily Mirror 's missing millions . |
| 17 | Thanks to the money that used to come from Saudi Arabia , and now comes from Iran , it is able to finance schools , universities and clinics . |
| 18 | Thanks to the publicity that resulted , the firm has been inundated with inquiries . |
| 19 | But thanks to the transplant that will now be a relatively normal life . |
| 20 | Today , his novels — always popular with the reading public — are more widely known than ever , thanks to the fact that their plots , originally written for serialisation , have translated into highly successful films . |
| 21 | Museum charges : the number of people visiting the Science Museum ( for example ) was 53 per cent lower in 1991 than in 1981 — thanks to the fact that you now have to pay . |
| 22 | ‘ And I do n't return night after night to the flat — largely thanks to the fact that I am footloose and fancy-free , I can follow my job wherever it takes me . ’ |
| 23 | The argument rests in part on the pervasive nature of deixis ( see Chapter 2 below ) in natural languages , for sentences like ( II ) are true or false only relative to contextual parameters , thanks to the fact that I , now and the tense of am are variables given specific values only on particular occasions of utterance ( i.e. ( II ) is true only when spoken by certain speakers , those who are sixty-three , or true of individuals only at certain times , when they are sixty-three ) : ( 11 ) I am now sixty-three years old These facts seem to establish that truth conditions must be assigned to utterances , i.e. sentences with their associated contexts of utterance , not to sentences alone ( or , if one likes , truth conditions include context conditions ) . |
| 24 | If Zen had survived more or less intact all this time it was thanks to the instinct that was telling him to leave now . |
| 25 | I give thanks to the Lord that he has seen fit now to bless my long devotion to the wind . |
| 26 | In addition to alerting subjects to the fact that the experiment was concerned with subjective risk , this may have caused them to attend to the stimuli in ways which unnaturally stressed risk-related aspects of the situations . |
| 27 | The driver may be forthcoming that his boss said words to the effect that he knew there was no insurance but the vehicle was the only one available and the journey had to be undertaken . |
| 28 | ‘ did loiter ( or solicit ) ’ Two police officers will keep observations for prostitutes and to prove this point their evidence should contain words to the effect that ‘ the accused walked slowly up and down High Street five times stopping and talking to several men . |
| 29 | Well apparently rumour has it that the doctor at the hospital who dealt with these last cases was saying words to the effect that er Jonathan just put Jonathan in a situation and he 'd keep the hospital in business for evermore . |
| 30 | Yes I did er I sh I wo n't say the exact words but they were words to the effect that er that I was sorry , that I understood and appreciated that er erm his family would have been terrified by the experience . |