Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] that it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Xerox is today expected to announce that it has called in New York investment banker Goldman Sachs & Co to try to find a buyer for the company . |
| 2 | The legislation was welcomed by the Prime Minister , but Walesa was said to object that it failed to go far enough in changing the 1952 Stalinist constitution . |
| 3 | The legislation was welcomed by the Prime Minister , but Walesa was said to object that it failed to go far enough in changing the 1952 Stalinist constitution . |
| 4 | ( c ) When she raised the question of blood transfusions the only response was to lull her into a sense of false security , both the staff nurse , in her express words , and Dr. F. in his demeanour and the obstetrics staff nurse explicitly , all sought to indicate that it did not much matter since there appeared to them to be no prospect of a blood transfusion becoming necessary . |
| 5 | ‘ The catering industry is unique in the challenges it offers young people and every effort must be made to ensure that it plays a central role in careers advice , ’ he said . |
| 6 | The farming industry must tell the public at large and be seen to demonstrate that it cares about providing quality food which is produced with high animal welfare standards and protection of the environment . |
| 7 | Critics of the corporate family model have tended to suggest that it applies more to large firms where promises of permanent employment are more likely to promote corporate identification . |
| 8 | It argues that free market mechanisms can not resolve , or even erode , the North-South Divide and that positive national and regional planning is needed to ensure that it does not widen after 1993 . |
| 9 | We 're also told to say that it has ‘ strong separation of the interface from the implementation . ’ |
| 10 | Israel , justifiably proud of its military prowess , has had to admit that it has nothing special to offer . |
| 11 | Before the package and modules can be entered into LIFESPAN again , the information within the module header must be checked to ensure that it has been correctly formatted and is thus acceptable to LIFESPAN . |
| 12 | If an ECR is made that is surprising to the clinicians working in a health authority , questions should be asked to ensure that it represents a fair use of resources . |
| 13 | She knew that she had pushed her dreadful experience away , had refused to be broken , had tried to pretend that it had never happened . |
| 14 | Even the Scottish National party has been forced to acknowledge that it hitched its colours to a vote loser . |
| 15 | However much we may lament Mr Swinton 's recent seclusion , we are forced to conclude that it has done him nothing but good . |
| 16 | AI believes that the 1986 law should be reviewed to ensure that it does not lead to the imprisonment of prisoners of conscience . |
| 17 | I have certainly tried to argue that it makes sense to talk of God inviting trust by withholding the sort of evidence which might admit of certainty that He exists . |
| 18 | What I attempted to tell you was that there is essentially no region that in respect of any land which lies within the general area of the statutorily approved greenbelt , its mere existence within the greenbelt must be taken to mean that it has a greenbelt function . |
| 19 | When Margaret returns once more to Helstone , educated in reality by the industrial north , she is still grieved to find that it has disappeared and that a new one , tidy and respectable , has been built in its place . |
| 20 | The country is very keen to host the summer Olympics in the year 2000 and , with a visit pending from an International Olympic Committee delegation , Beijing is determined to show that it has put the Tiananmen Square massacre behind it . |
| 21 | The 12 year old who started an account of a woodwork project by writing " When I made it I used glue and a tenon saw " failed to appreciate that it had not been established textually . |