Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Acceptance of this fact often provides a marvellous feeling of relief to accept what we are and to know that the striving for position , for power , for status is nearly over allows us to accept that others want our help . |
| 2 | If the police can exploit the technique for measuring the speed of road hogs , dare we hope to find that bats use it for measuring the speed of insect prey ? |
| 3 | All were happy in their work and , once in it , seem to find that men accept them quite well . |
| 4 | Nurses volunteer their services when they wish to work and managers engage them at the times required . |
| 5 | It can , however , no longer be assumed that that is so , and in any case it is not clear that if a clergyman wishes to stand and electors wish him to represent them the mere fact that the churches do not like the idea has anything to do with matter . |
| 6 | The Act also empowers the police to set up roadblocks to discover whether vehicles contain anyone who has witnessed , committed or is about to commit a serious crime . |
| 7 | It took an Orwell to see that radicals need it too , and need it more than others . |
| 8 | First , can Quine be forced to acknowledge that questions arise which demand transcendental reflection — does his resistance to such issues flow naturally from his philosophy , or docs it require a stubborn closing of the mind ? |
| 9 | The individual who is determined to remain calm in the face of aggression , even though he may feel he is doing the right thing , might wonder whether others look down on him and be tempted to behave as others think he should . |
| 10 | And therefore people said of her that she would be lucky , for things had begun to grow just as she appeared , buds started to sprout and birds to practise their spring songs . |
| 11 | Hello love , I mean if they , if they were in cells without any books to read or televisions to watch I would n't have that much sympathy , my sympathy is with the little girls |
| 12 | Measures taken by a state in order to ensure that ships flying its flag had a genuine link with it did not by any means need to contain nationality requirements such as those in section 14 of the Act of 1988 . |
| 13 | Another technical advance Chapman saw on the Continent was the ten-yard semi-circle to ensure that players kept their distance during a penalty kick . |
| 14 | It was important for us to ensure that parents understood what ANDES position was , as the mass media was so intent on branding us as Communists in the hands of the Soviets . |
| 15 | The Department of Transport 's Vehicle Certification Agency ( VCA ) has appointed a team of engineering inspectors , based at MIRA in Warwickshire , to ensure that companies entering their cars for Low Volume Type Approval meet a whole raft of regulations which , and we quote , ‘ demonstrate that the vehicle is constructed from parts which conform to international standards ’ . |
| 16 | The review of directors ' managerial decisions can be viewed as being motivated by a similar desire to ensure that directors exercise their powers only in accordance with the will of their constituents ( the shareholders ) and that they are subjected to the controls often associated with the Rule of Law to prevent them from using their power arbitrarily . |
| 17 | It is our aim to ensure that customers get what they have a right to expect — the very best product . |
| 18 | Many such policies have to be enshrined in a legal framework to ensure that employers implement them . |
| 19 | Many of the proposals dealt with the need to ensure that resources reached their intended destination and that they were augmented by the creation of new taxes on industrial and agricultural sectors . |
| 20 | It is words rather than meanings that are problematic ; in fact , the point of reform is to ensure that words express what speakers ‘ really mean ’ rather than unfortunately conveying something speakers do not intend . |
| 21 | Even extremists of the 1960s , who believed that the task of a school was to ensure that children enjoyed themselves while they were pupils , must have had in mind , as well , some further outcome , some advantage that would flow in the long run to the children who had been encouraged , under that regime , to ‘ grow ’ and ‘ blossom ’ and ‘ flourish ’ in the ‘ learning situation ’ provided by the class-room . |
| 22 | This usually all works well with a large one-off competition , but if you have organised a series of regional newspaper competitions , for example , you will need to have a foolproof system to ensure that winners receive their prizes shortly after winning and you do not have irate editors ringing up saying that their readers are growing angry at the lack of delivery . |
| 23 | Whether it be for the supermarket shelf or McDonald 's , suppliers may add ingredients to ensure that foods maintain their fresh taste and appearance . |
| 24 | But if Big Bang turns to crash and Poles lose their unPolish patience with the austerity plan , or if Solidarity can not contain its differences any longer , a fresh election could come as early as this autumn . |
| 25 | But there was change in the air : one woman began to study and others took their cue from her . |
| 26 | It would therefore be reasonable to consider whether children find it offensive to be treated like children . |
| 27 | An audience listens to music , not to words ( in fact , especially in choral music , the words are frequently indistinguishable , or so difficult to grasp that listeners ignore them ) . |
| 28 | There will continue to be problems if science teachers are personally doubtful about girls ' ability to do science well ; even if their doubts are not voiced ( and anecdotal evidence suggests they sometimes are ) , girls are unlikely to respond unless teachers show they believe that girls have something to offer science as well as the reverse . |
| 29 | It 's an encouraging if surprising fact that children and young people are much less likely to smoke when parents tell them that they do n't want them to . |
| 30 | At a stroke the gold reserves in Fort Knox would be worth more dollars , thus improving backing for the dollar ; gold reserves for other central banks would be worth more , encouraging them to accumulate further interest-earning dollar reserves ; gold production would be stimulated and private demand reduced ( as industry tried to economize and speculators took their profits ) , allowing countries to absorb additional gold into their reserves . |