Example sentences of "[to-vb] that [pers pn] [verb] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These kids have to have a structure , and to know that you mean what you say . ’ |
| 2 | And I think you know me well enough by now , Bella , to know that I get what I want . ’ |
| 3 | That 's all : no laborious abstracting , no checking of old abstracts to see that they comprise what you " ve contracted to give , no checking of old schedules of documents against the deeds , no copying of documents . |
| 4 | With some reluctance , for this generation was not free of sexual solidarity , Tim had to agree that he knew what she meant . |
| 5 | First of all , the great mistake most people when they 're talking to press people is to assume that they know what they 're talking about . |
| 6 | Terrie put the helm hard over while I alternately concentrated on the reef , closing rapidly on both sides , and took bearings on the tree to ensure that we made whatever course corrections were necessary to counteract the current that runs northward up this coastline at up to three knots . |
| 7 | There are also times when we need to ensure that we understand what is being said , and this can be done by asking simple questions or making comments which help elucidate or develop what the counsellee is saying , such as , ‘ So you think that … ’ , or ‘ You mean that … ‘ , or even ‘ I 'm not sure that I follow what you mean … |
| 8 | It therefore becomes our responsibility to do our work well at all times to ensure that we achieve what we set out to do if we want to end gassing and to increase the sporting prospects . |
| 9 | The first step in empowering house officers so that change can happen is to ensure that they know what they are entitled to expect from the job . |
| 10 | There was no doubting the eagerness of many colleges to respond to the challenge and the opportunity , and the Board — containing a number of lively young university people and interested employers — was torn between its anxiety to go ahead quickly and the need to ensure that it established what it called at its first meeting ‘ lasting standards ’ . |
| 11 | LIFESPAN provides a tool to ensure that you know what you are inspecting , i.e. that no-one can modify the modules you are inspecting . |
| 12 | Frequently , moreover , there appears to be little concern that advice should be available to the teacher or headmaster , to ensure that he uses what few resources he has to best effect . |
| 13 | The contemporary tumours that Eleanor had been an adulteress made it possible to believe that she preached what she practised . |
| 14 | And I think that there 's a massive problem that needs to be addressed , and I think we should involve those people themselves , also in looking at what the issues are , it 's all very well for people to decide , workers to think that they know what the issues are . |
| 15 | Well , everyone seemed to think that I knew what I was doing with a computer , so the shifts , the picket shifts were left up to me , any facts and figures needed , databases , addresses were left up to me . |
| 16 | But erm , sometimes they have n't covered it completely , or do n't understand it , they 've just ticked it , and signed it to say that they know what they 're doing . |
| 17 | If the person never saw the figure otherwise than as he does now , to say that he interprets what he sees in a certain way may be taken — because of ( 1 ) above — to imply that all seeing involves ( a ) the immediate awareness of something uninterpreted and ( b ) the interpretation of it in the light of past experience . |
| 18 | ( Puff , puff ) I should just like to say that I find what Lord Boddy is saying extraordinarily interesting . |
| 19 | Why does the separation of the mental from the physical make it impossible to show that we understand what it is for there to be other minds than our own , given the separation of the mental from the physical ? |
| 20 | Engineering recruits are required to show that they know what it is to be exposed to the hard world of reality by gaining direct experience in day-to-day aviation practice . |
| 21 | Students have to show that they understand what has been learned so deeply that they are able to look down on it and assess it critically for themselves . |
| 22 | And in order for this to be possible , he must be able also to show that he understands what he has learned . |