Example sentences of "[to-vb] [that] it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are also happy to accept that it is only because we have these mental states that we behave as we do . |
| 2 | But I 've come to accept that it 's far more sensitive and vulnerable than my other possessions and it can not be hauled back to the manufacturers at the first sign of malfunction . |
| 3 | Simultaneously , Boardrooms across the USA began to accept that it was not always possible or desirable to rely entirely upon home-grown talent , and that managers and executives could be interchangeable between apparently quite different types of business . |
| 4 | It was a relief to Jean to know that it is n't just the children after all . |
| 5 | The child needs to know that it is not his fault that everyone is so upset and that someone has died and he is not being punished . |
| 6 | ‘ Old enough , I think , to know that it is not . ’ |
| 7 | I have been in the House long enough to know that it is not appropriate for me to comment on evidence given to a Select Committee until that Committee has reported . |
| 8 | Scandalmongers will be disappointed to know that it is not the prostitutes which I have in mind here , rather the fact that this little thing called Amendment 27 to the Maastricht bill is also receiving such a chorus of anticipation . |
| 9 | You ca n't see it but you need to know that it is there . |
| 10 | Even if he comes by it innocently , nevertheless once he gets to know that it was originally given in confidence , he can be restrained from breaking that confidence . |
| 11 | Disruptive behaviour has a direct and , at times , devastating impact upon teachers , but it is important to establish that it is not a recent phenomenon . |
| 12 | The shareholders enjoy an additional layer of protection with regard to gratuitous payments , in that in order to show that a payment is authorised by the company 's memorandum it will usually be necessary to establish that it is reasonably incidental to the company 's business purposes , in essence , that it is for the company 's benefit , which is an objective question . |
| 13 | The legislation does therefore not set up any presumption in the employee 's favour ; rather it is for him as claimant to lead evidence which tends to establish that it is more likely than not the employer gained from possession of the patent . |
| 14 | Secondly , the buyer may find it easier to establish that it was not a contractual document . |
| 15 | Acquiring this kind of expertise brings its own rewards and it is gratifying to discover that it is often easier to explain a subject to others when you have had some difficulty mastering it yourself . |
| 16 | It has taken five years to get this one right and the Government will not want to repeat the mistakes of the mid-1980s when Nigel Lawson thought he had beaten inflation , only to discover that it was just sleeping . |
| 17 | We were to discover that it was just large enough to hold a corpse and two breathlessly claustrophobic busy-bodies . |
| 18 | It was where the bedrooms had been ; they were later to discover that it was where the Romanovs had lived for a century and a half and had been the favourite apartments of Nicholas I. |
| 19 | He showed that it was harmless to white blood cells , which are a principal defence against invading microbes , and he and Craddock administered enough to animals to discover that it was remarkably innocuous . |
| 20 | Before sunrise I had the good fortune to discover that it was no longer necessary to maintain the horizontal posture , and came out on deck at two o'clock in the morning to see a noble full moon sinking westward and millions of the most brilliant stars shining overhead . |
| 21 | In real life we may solve the problem that seems to confront us only to find that it is not the most important problem . |
| 22 | Lord Keith , along with other British judges , sees the rule in Marleasing as one of interpretation only which leaves the national judge a margin of discretion to find that it is not possible to reconcile national law with Community law . |
| 23 | So , like a mug , I went out and bought it , only to find that it is n't anything like Pink Floyd . |
| 24 | okay , again I mean these are things that talk about confirmation I mean quite honestly I 'm I 'd be quite happy if we had offices where people talk to each other ninety per cent of the time rather than send memos and faxes to each other , and on the whole we are really talking about inside the office with the people who we work with I mean obviously clients as well trying to find something different , we tend tend to find that it 's very very easy sometimes to make a phone call it 's much easier to make a phone call and to talk to that person and give them the personal touch . |
| 25 | However it was a question of fact for the Crown Court , which was entitled to find that it was not so practicable . |
| 26 | In the instant case the IT were entitled to find that it was not reasonably practicable for Mr Sen to have presented his unfair dismissal claim in time , notwithstanding that he had been given erroneous advice about the time limit by a solicitor in circumstances where he had also been wrongly advised as to the time limit by a member of the IT staff . |
| 27 | On returning to his office the following Monday , Mark was surprised to find that it was now occupied by visiting American auditors . |
| 28 | Ten years ago I had purchased such a camera , a Pentax ME Super , and fortunately , I was able to dig it out from the back of a cupboard to find that it was still in excellent working order . |
| 29 | She was surprised to find that it was still not too late , only lunchtime actually , and she was further surprised when Felipe merely informed the other two that they had been driving in the mountains . |
| 30 | The party reached the lip of the main summit crater safely , only to find that it was quite docile , and that there was little to see within the crater apart from dense , swirling clouds of pungent sulphurous steam . |