Example sentences of "[verb] [that] to be [adj] " in BNC.

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1	He added that to be accurate , the aircraft would have to risk coming under fire .
2	Amzallag says that to be successful ‘ it is not enough to be technically good .
3	The knowledge of being adopted can have various effects — Triseliotis ( 1973 ) says that to be comfortable as an adoptee it is necessary to cope with both the loss of birth parents and their implicit rejection .
4	Experience had shown that to be unlikely .
5	Gable replies that to be honest he 's surprised , although not by the attitude of ‘ the old guard conservative group of three or four London reviewers ’ .
6	People are brought up to believe that to be successful in science you have first to have your right cerebral hemisphere obliterated ; and the people ( like a lot of teachers ) who perpetrate this nonsense should be fried slowly in rancid yak fat .
7	‘ For a long time the courts have , without objection from Parliament , supplemented procedure laid down in legislation where they have found that to be necessary for this purpose .
8	‘ For a long time the courts have , without objection from Parliament , supplemented procedure laid down in legislation where they have found that to be necessary for this purpose .
9	People say that if you do n't ask you get told more , but I have never found that to be true .
10	Jess knew that to be true .
11	She knew that to be true , though Emily meant the world to her .
12	Now the fact that position is not a quality is certainly relevant to one 's awareness of the position of things ; it means that to be aware of a thing 's position it is logically necessary that one should be aware of how it stands in relation to something else .
13	Rothstein argues that to be able to see the wood through the trees , users should focus on ‘ common systems concepts , ’ rather than open systems .
14	An unprejudiced reading of the New Testament certainly suggests that to be true .

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