Example sentences of "[to-vb] that [art] [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few stories about their activities went beyond the editing-down of a long speech — except , perhaps , to relate that the occasion was attended by ‘ leading party and Government officials ’ . |
| 2 | Alas , I was to reach the age of sixty and retire before even the first sod was turned , but I am happy to relate that the building is now complete and occupied by AIB . |
| 3 | It was difficult to accept that a dream was finished for ever . |
| 4 | In Liverpool it is a lot harder for people to accept that a poet is possibly what you are … ’ |
| 5 | Once in office Healey pressed his Nato colleagues to accept that no conflict was possible in Europe at any level between that of a local skirmish and all-out war . |
| 6 | Zuwaya were not prepared to accept that the law is embodied in a person or office , for then it acquires authority , a hierarchy of instances of control and review . |
| 7 | He offered common sense advice such as that she should ‘ have a talk ’ with her son , but refused to accept that the money was a loan and take the necessary steps to recover it . |
| 8 | The most frustrating aspect of the press reporting was the almost universal failure to accept that the objective was to force the government to act against the terrorists and criminals . |
| 9 | However , some judges do seem prepared to accept that the public are now more aware of character merchandising and there may be a change in this aspect of passing-off before too long . |
| 10 | If the house is already in the joint names of the husband and wife , it is usual to accept that the title was properly investigated at the time of purchase . |
| 11 | But after two or three hours and nil results , you have to accept that the trail is cold and you ca n't justify that level of manpower . |
| 12 | The rejoinder to this is to accept that the counter is pointing to a real feature of academic thought , which is that the consensus of the relevant disciplinary community does indeed offer some measure of reliability and raises knowledge claims above mere whim ; but that does not in itself amount to a demonstration of the ‘ progress ’ of knowledge . |
| 13 | We have to accept that the reality is that we are always already on the slope , holding a position . |
| 14 | But there was a marked reluctance to accept that the situation was as serious as Keynes portrayed it ( a portrayal broadly supported by a paper from the Balance of payments Working party ) . |
| 15 | This is not to press for a reversal of the present position , but to understand that if the work of research students is to be understood in educational terms , then the first step is to accept that the role is a hybrid of research and of higher education . |
| 16 | My Lords , erm I I I 'm glad t t to know that a text is readily available er I agree with my Noble Friend that if he took the simple course of comparing the Bill with the nineteen sixty four Act as it was printed , he would have run into trouble . |
| 17 | ‘ I have some rather good jewellery ’ ( and it was as if somewhere among her assortment of boxes was a very special one — but there was not — a mysterious Ali Baba store of necklaces , bracelets , rings , even a tiara ) ; ‘ I do n't think my insurers would be very pleased to know that a window was left open at night . ’ |
| 18 | Sometimes the narrative is intended to puzzle ( is he doing it or dreaming it ? ) , sometimes the narrative requires the viewer to know that a sequence is a dream or a memory . |
| 19 | For the visual computations algorithmically defined by Ullman do not depend on high-level processes capable of identifying ( recognizing ) objects as members of a specific class : the system does not need to know that an object is a fish , or even that it has the 3-D shape that it has , in order to know that it is an object . |
| 20 | He had only to recall the inevitability of their first coming together , her passionate , uncomplicated , animal gusto in their lovemaking to know that the thought was paranoid . |
| 21 | Green would be unlikely to know that the topography was considerably manipulated , but the use of boulders and rocks to build a foreground and the use of a mountain tarn as a middleground became frequent features of his work . |
| 22 | He told him of his experience and was interested to know that the phenomenon is by no means unknown and the other went on to relate another incident involving footsteps that he heard outside the office , but when he opened the door to investigate no one was there . |
| 23 | I E do we need to know that the trend is changing or do we need to know the particular slots where we get non performance . |
| 24 | Some of the features of alcoholism in its terminal phase are so well known that a cartoonist has only to draw a couple of lines for everyone to know that the subject is a " drunk " . |
| 25 | I did n't need any further examination to know that the man was dead . |
| 26 | Oliver was experienced enough to know that the promise was probably true . |
| 27 | Eugénie was able to bring this message back to the Tuileries where it must have pleased the Emperor to know that the Queen was sympathetic to France 's difficulties . |
| 28 | You will be pleased to know that the operation was a complete success , and apart from getting tired , when I do too much , no medication and no treatment is necessary . |
| 29 | It only has to come out wrong once for you to know that the hypothesis is wrong . |
| 30 | Oyster fans may also like to know that the oyster is transsexual and self generating , changing sex at will several times within one season . |