Example sentences of "that [noun sg] [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is at the local level that change needs to be assessed and at which the variety of political forces at work was best displayed . |
| 2 | The process meant that adolescence ceased to be what an American scholar has called an ‘ idea ’ and became , in his words , a ‘ social fact ’ . |
| 3 | The longer the dispute continued the more officialdom in Scottish education recognized that support had to be provided . |
| 4 | The fact that progress appears to be being made with respect to MNC environmental scanning practices should not be overly comforting to MNC executives . |
| 5 | It became obvious that pushy-aggression had to be replaced by calm , reassurance , and bribery . |
| 6 | Mm , that 's right , I mean the fact that agriculture tends to be perfectly com right , why there tends to be a lot of independent small producers is because there are no economies of scale , you know , apart from beyond , you know , a certain size of farm , you know , stud studies in the U K show that once you get , get beyond about two thousand hectares there are , there are significant dis-economies of scale , and although there are economies of scale up to that point , and that 's only in the case of very specialist types of production , by and large once you 've got a farm in excess of five hundred hectares , erm , you start to run into dis-economy , and mostly managerial dis-economies of scale . |
| 7 | The Church throughout the world received orders and instructions which it obeyed willingly enough , though sometimes it regretted that there were no arrangements for dialogue and that it had not been invited to collaborate ; the result was that unity had to be lived out in passive acceptance rather than celebrated in fraternity ( Pensiamo al Concilio 9 ; see Hebblethwaite , 1984 , p. 409 ) . |
| 8 | For equilibrium , transactions demand must be equal to £45 million and , from graph ( c ) , we see that income has to be £67.5 million . |
| 9 | It is the left that has espoused the causes of sexual and racial equality with enough vigour to persuade the establishment that action needed to be taken ( a host of anti-discrimination measures and laws ) , but without the power to make the sort of widespread social change that would render this sort of fussy , bureaucratic measurement unnecessary . |
| 10 | Returning to the problem of violence in residential care , we have seen that violence has to be defined by someone and that each person , whether instigator , recipient or third party , may have a different perspective . |
| 11 | On the one hand they doubted whether peasants should receive land as well as personal freedom ; on the other they felt that emancipation had to be introduced gradually , at different times in different places . |
| 12 | Obviously I strongly believe that industry has to be modernised — none of us is against that — but during the Government 's term of office the restructuring in many of our industries has been far too savage . |
| 13 | But in our eyes that exercise needs to be conducted before the plan reaches its final approval . |
| 14 | Can it be , that when Gandhi refers to morality without religion as being similar to a house built on sand he is simply expressing in a different way his belief in the convertibility of these terms rather than suggesting that morality has to be related to a particular religion ? |
| 15 | Mr Lang will criticise Labour for concentrating on attacking the Government over unemployment without recognising that wealth has to be created in order to increase the number of jobs on offer . |
| 16 | The absence of the bumble bee meant that pollination had to be carried out artificially , using an electronic vibrating rod . |
| 17 | recognised that the phrase had no intelligible meaning in a wholly common law context , which suggested that attention had to be given to the civil law origins of the phrase . |
| 18 | Bush said that attention needed to be focused on the economic reconstruction of Cambodia " so its new political reconciliation has a home from which to grow " . |
| 19 | In practice this means that attention tends to be more on the output that on the input . |
| 20 | Singapore is sending a 30-man army medical team : a token of its long-standing conviction that aggression has to be punished wherever it happens . |
| 21 | We have examined the various models and explanations of leadership , from the traditional concern with leaders and their subordinates to a more recent approach which suggests that leadership needs to be more enlightened and to allow individuals to develop their own leadership skills . |
| 22 | It warned that inflation continued to be a threat as delays in economic recovery abroad dampened growth prospects . |
| 23 | If we compare much of contemporary task execution with primitive work , such as hunting , the whole tasks are obvious in the sense that discretion has to be used to ensure the death of the quarry and the result is manifest . |
| 24 | During my relatively short period as a city detective , I was implicitly aware that quality had to be sacrificed to quantity , for the ‘ arrest list ’ was checked monthly and the numerical totals counted . |
| 25 | We have recently received a claim from a class member who had an accident in a class and as the teacher was in no way responsible that claim had to be refused . |
| 26 | It demonstrates that planning has to be an iterative process . |
| 27 | Even more so now that victory seems to be slipping away from us . |
| 28 | Slotted heads are rare on electric guitars , and remember that string-changing tends to be slower . |
| 29 | It was not until the French Revolution that democracy ceased to be a mere literary word , and became part of the political vocabulary . |
| 30 | It is a further consequence of this conception that democracy comes to be seen as a more or less perfected instrument which is susceptible to only minor technical improvements ; and in this respect there is agreement with a second notion of democracy , elaborated mainly during the postwar decades , which was expressed by the term ‘ stable democracy ’ . |