Example sentences of "[vb infin] be [to-vb] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we think about those questions of individ individuation in our normal affairs , the best we can do is to say that what individuates us and also what makes us the same person through changes over time , is a great medley of factors , some of which are bodily , some of which involve our souls |
| 2 | This is correct , but bearing in mind the observations made above , all one can reasonably do is to assume that everything published and available is legally permissible until the law says it is not . |
| 3 | Only half convinced of the truth of my new thesis , and not wholly sure of where exactly I am , I can nevertheless recognize with some satisfaction that perhaps the most disconcerting thing a character in a novel can do is to announce that he is indeed a character in a novel . |
| 4 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 5 | As the Labour dissidents in the Cabinet recognized , they did not have the power — they were a minority in the Cabinet as well as in the Commons — to avoid such a cut ; all that they could do was to ensure that it was not a Labour government which imposed it . |
| 6 | For example , their practice of reiterated warnings to an individual of the wrongfulness of his or her words or actions may have been to ensure that he or she did not plead ignorance of wrongdoing , which could have been an acceptable defence in the courts . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | However , a further requirement which the alleged dispossessor claiming the benefit of the 1980 Act must satisfy is to show that his possession has been adverse within the meaning of the Act … |
| 9 | In that respect the best advice I can offer is to ensure that they come from good working stock . |