Example sentences of "[to-vb] that [noun] [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its purpose is to impose an obligation upon Norwich to secure that Winchester complies with the Rules . |
| 2 | If you wait for a few minutes , and it really can be that long , you might be surprised to discover that Windows un-freezes of its own accord . |
| 3 | Similarly , if you have junior managers reporting to you , ensure that they have a similar debate with their staff and follow this through to see that action occurs on the suggestions . |
| 4 | So far in this section the naive inductivist account of science has been undermined largely by arguing that theories must precede observation statements , so that it is false to claim that science starts with observation . |
| 5 | To experience joy in suffering is to realize that Jesus stands with the poor , the underprivileged , and those , like Francis of Assisi , rejected by their own people . |
| 6 | When parallel lines are closely hatched the eye prefers to assume that light flows along them . |
| 7 | The commitment to balanced and verifiable arms control , the commitment to ensure that Iraq complies in full and unconditionally with the United Nations Security Council resolutions , the commitment to fight terrorism and trafficking in narcotics — all these have our support . |
| 8 | These requirements will suffice to ensure that issue costs in respect of instruments other than shares will not be charged directly to the share premium account but will be charged against profits over the term of the capital instrument . |
| 9 | ‘ You may be prepared to do whatever it takes to get this house , but I 'm prepared to do whatever 's necessary to ensure that Thomas remains in my care . ’ |
| 10 | Will the Minister confirm that the Government will take the necessary steps — if necessary through Her Majesty 's inspectorate of pollution — to ensure that PowerGen complies with its commitment to retrofit 4 GW of coal burn should it not do so voluntarily ? |
| 11 | I would hope that the vast majority of beer festival organisers take heed of Keith Thomas 's article and try to ensure that quality comes before quantity at beer festivals , then I might be tempted to visit more beer festivals again . |
| 12 | Well , they each seem to do one thing well enough , but fail to realise that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time . |
| 13 | It is important to realise that credit comes in many shapes and forms — and at different costs . |
| 14 | It is important to realise that credit comes in many shapes and forms — and at different costs . |
| 15 | This is not to say that reading happens outside of the domain of politics , but that we ca n't easily conflate the two . |
| 16 | ( This is not of course to say that assignment amounts to assertion ; assignment is a necessary move in forming a syntactic-semantic construction , which may then be asserted or questioned or even indicated as the situation that the speaker desires to bring about . ) |
| 17 | ( This is not to say that car refers to something different in each of these sentences — in both cases it is the whole car which is referred to . ) |
| 18 | However , when Rousseau 's text is submitted to the questioning scrutiny of the grammatologist , it emerges that , although Rousseau clearly wants to say that melody originates in the passions , he actually has to formulate a definition of it that includes a notion of articulation and differentiation . |
| 19 | Whenever anyone , Y , is in a position to say , ‘ X is φ ’ on account of what he sees , drawing no inferences , and not lying , then it is true to say that X appears to him to be φ , even if it goes against our linguistic practice of saying , ‘ X appears to Y to be φ ’ only if we have a reason not to say , ‘ X is φ ’ . |
| 20 | There are four related conceptual differences between epistemic and perspectival appearances : ( 1 ) Epistemic appearances are subjective , whereas perspectival appearances are objective ; ( 2 ) It makes no sense to say that X appears to be φ to Y but Y does not know it , whereas it does make sense to say that X presents such-and-such a perspectival appearance to the point of view Y occupies but Y does not know it ; ( 3 ) X can appear to be φ to Y only if Y possesses the concept φ : nothing similar can be said about perspectival appearances ; ( 4 ) Epistemic appearances are related to their objects by being true or false of them , whereas perspectival appearances are related to their objects mathematically . |
| 21 | On the one hand , it is clear that we depend for survival upon our bodies , whereas we may not want to say that God depends upon the world for survival . |
| 22 | In another multivariate approach , Shuttleworth ( 1980a ) has used principal components analysis to show that relief accounts for 20.5 per cent of the variation in landscape description produced by a nine-point semantic differential scale . |
| 23 | The aim of the discussion so far has been to show that tragedy arises from the spirit of music and is bound to perish without it . |
| 24 | It is important to note that Eddie says on page 22 , when asked if the boy was seen again : |