Example sentences of "[to-vb] that [pron] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fabia saw no point in butting in to comment that she had in fact come very close to doing that very thing , and after a few moments ' pause Ven went on , ‘ I knew I 'd bruised your pride , but that had been necessary when my desire for you had threatened to blot out reason . |
| 2 | Somewhere in this range , too , are those coincidences that give us an eerie spine-tingling feeling , like dreaming of a particular person for the first time in decades , then waking up to find that they died in the night . |
| 3 | Okay , now I 've just used this one example , but if you look at erm each other and one another there is also a reflective pronoun to find that they work in the same way in the appropriate antecedents and it also works for quantifier pronoun relations every girl admires herself which is fine but herself admired every girl does n't make a whole lot of sense . |
| 4 | Theda came to herself to find that she lay in a large four-poster bed , with the curtains drawn back , and the weak autumn sun coming in at the windows . |
| 5 | He was one of the first people to see that what matters in heredity is a flow not of matter or energy but of information . |
| 6 | While waiting for medicine to cure idiots , I have undertaken to see that they participate in the benefit of education . |
| 7 | ‘ How refreshing to see that you believe in fostering good relations between management and staff , ’ he drawled lazily . |
| 8 | Such patients often differ only in the time taken to reach hospital , and to claim that they differ in any more fundamental way is pure sophistry . |
| 9 | And it is fatuous for Mr Paddy Ashdown to claim that he stands in readiness to preserve our democracy with a more moderate alternative to Labour . |
| 10 | Might the assailant be able to claim that he acted in self-defence ? 4 . |
| 11 | When confronted with Plymouth Brethren or other sects at the door , my major defence ploy was to claim that I lived in a ‘ Quaker house ’ . |
| 12 | Then , by what actually occurs , you will be able to confirm that you have in fact turned in the right direction to reach your track . |
| 13 | Two points about Dunleavy 's framework can usefully be raised : ( a ) He tends to assume that what applies in the case of high-rise flats or town-centre redevelopment applies in other areas of policy-making ; ( b ) He places a heavy emphasis on the nationalizing of urban policy change , arguing ( 1980a , p. 98 ) that within ‘ broad limits the decentralised authorities implementing policies have moved in step with a precision that cries out for explanation ’ . |
| 14 | Indeed , at first sight he appears to deny that they existed in his own day . |
| 15 | Clara was not at all sure what a gallery was , but from the conversation she managed to deduce that it dealt in paintings , and unlike the Tate and the National Gallery , dealt commercially . |
| 16 | Still a device was invented to cover up the disappearance of an old landmark ; and at the accession of Her present gracious Majesty , she was unlawfully proclaimed by a new title ‘ Head of the Commonwealth ’ , subsequently legalised by the Royal Titles Act 1953 , against which I am proud to recall that I protested in my place in the House of Commons . |
| 17 | Up to 3,000 students at Bucharest Polytechnic , as well as demanding sweeping changes in education policy , expressed concern that the NSF was dominated by communists who were trying to ensure that they stayed in power by scheduling the elections so that the emerging political parties would have little time to organize . |
| 18 | When Williams appeared to like the idea , Orton totally changed the part so that it could fit him , not so much like a glove , but like a well-crafted cabinet , one in which Ken could be displayed at his finest and with plenty of space to ensure that nothing got in his way . |
| 19 | Besides the commitment in Korea , the United States made a firm treaty with Japan in 1951 to ensure that she remained in the Western camp . |
| 20 | It is to be hoped that all steam enthusiasts will perhaps make an effort to support this railway at some time during the present season to help to ensure that it remains in being into the future . |
| 21 | We review our package each year to ensure that it remains in line with the best in the industry . |
| 22 | Likewise any project or assignment needs a system of control to ensure that it proceeds in the manner designed . |
| 23 | You can also arrange the use of the hotel 's chauffeur driven vintage Bentley car to ensure that you arrive in style . |
| 24 | We think it desirable that the same type of teacher should be employed in these courses ( One-Year , Terminal and less formal ) as in University Tutorial Classes and that arrangements should be made whereby staff-tutors appointed for extra-mural work by the Universities should be encouraged to devote part of their time to less formal work , not only in the interests of the work , but also in order to provide a variety of occupation for the tutor and to ensure that he keeps in touch with all phases of the adult education movement . |
| 25 | Given the complexities of some of the procedures which police officers are required to operate under this legislation , it is not surprising to find that the Metropolitan Police , and no doubt many other forces as well , have issued a set of elaborate and detailed instructions which indicate to an officer precisely how he is to proceed in any one of the many contingencies that may arise and which are designed to ensure that he acts in accordance with the statute as interpreted by the courts . |
| 26 | There is always a danger of this happening with innovation , of those instigating and leading a new initiative coming to believe that nothing happened in the field before their arrival . |
| 27 | Encouraging authors to recognise that they live in a complex , multicultural society is one thing . |
| 28 | I think at the end it must come down to two things ; one basically a change in attitude — we have to come to recognise that we live in a very , very technological society , that most of us were born before man walked on the moon , but the kids in school were born in an age when man had walked on the moon ten years ago and they live in a world which is very scientific , and we have to recognise that — and the other one is practical sense , I think , where we really have to look seriously to in-service training of teachers , a ) and b ) we have to look carefully at the way we train teachers now . |
| 29 | I think at the end it must come down to two things ; one basically a change in attitude — we have to come to recognise that we live in a very , very technological society , that most of us were born before man walked on the moon , but the kids in school were born in an age when man had walked on the moon ten years ago and they live in a world which is very scientific , and we have to recognise that — and the other one is practical sense , I think , where we really have to look seriously to in-service training of teachers , a ) and b ) we have to look carefully at the way we train teachers now . |
| 30 | ‘ A friend of your daughter 's gave us to understand that you lived in Michigan . ’ |