Example sentences of "to the [noun sg] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Prince did not care what promises had been made to the Englishman ; forcing Sharpe to dance would demonstrate to the Rifleman that the Prince commanded this headquarters . |
| 2 | The starting point is from a bridge opposite the Torridon Hotel on the A896 , and a path takes you through a delightful forest , past an incredible waterfall , and up to the ridge that runs south towards the summit . |
| 3 | I got free in the end , after being presented with a sprig of basil , and walked inland along the bluff until I could climb on to the ridge that led to Bourani . |
| 4 | It would also leave Lewis as possibly a minor player in the world heavyweight scene which could be returning to the chaos that surrounded it before Mike Tyson brutally united sports richest prize . |
| 5 | turns with the earth out to the year that opens . |
| 6 | It was the reaction to the evidence that women were the equals , if not more than the equals , of men in sexual responsiveness and capacity . |
| 7 | That was similar to the evidence that the Secretary of State gave some weeks ago . |
| 8 | This fact , linked to the evidence that a high proportion of defective issues are suffering from use-related types of damage — such as detached boards and loose pages — points very strongly to the conclusion that the routine vetting of material supplied to readers should have a major role to play in the selection of items for repair and refurbishment . |
| 9 | Regardless of who we are or what we may do in life all of us have an upper limit to the stress that our bodies can take . |
| 10 | ‘ Marc Alexander Vila , ’ Peter had announced , oblivious to the electricity that had flashed between them . |
| 11 | To the rejoinder that he wear the gown showing his ‘ highest proficiency ’ he replied , ‘ Ah , well , 1 should not need to put any other gown in my bag than 1 usually carry ’ , by which he meant his night-gown , as ‘ that represents my greatest proficiency ’ . |
| 12 | In 1297 an Irish attorney acting for the abbot of Mellifont in a case before King 's Bench suggested to the abbot that he would be guaranteed success in his litigation if he paid Rothbury a bribe of twenty marks through the attorney . |
| 13 | Interviewed last year , Gagosian responded to the accusation that he had made transparencies of paintings reproduced in art magazines and offered them for sale as ‘ a scurrilous charge ’ — but he went on to admit ‘ Well , I may have done it once . ’ |
| 14 | It is his haste in this matter which gives colour to the accusation that he was never seriously concerned with the unity of India . |
| 15 | By running for deputy , he has left himself open to the accusation that he has no hope of becoming leader . |
| 16 | Projects least vulnerable to the accusation that they are dealing with non-problems are those initiated by the International Chamber of Commerce , the membership of whose Com-missions is drawn preponderantly from the world of industry and commerce , banking , shipping , and arbitration . |
| 17 | A visit to France , the details of which remain unclear , also led to the accusation that he had associated with the supporters of Mary Queen of Scots [ q.v. ] there : this may account for the apparent loss of royal favour by the mid-1570s . |
| 18 | To the accusation that Performance Plus was encouraging staff to chase customers for payment , Bob observed that he thought that was what the BBC was doing with people who hadn ‘ t bought a TV licence . |
| 19 | Reforms however , must not leave health professionals open to the accusation that they are more interested in detainees than victims . |
| 20 | To understand the challenge to the papacy that this scene represents , we need to look at the structure of the traditional Church and also at popular religion at the beginning of the thirteenth century . |
| 21 | Because there is no organised palliative care in the Netherlands , Dr Pijnenborg and her colleagues think ‘ that a doctor 's duty to preserve life and to alleviate suffering are in conflict ’ , and refer to the injustice that a patient must ‘ suffer to the end ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ The public house represents what should be the hub of our wheel of life , essential to our material need and second only to the church that stands and represents our spiritual necessity . |
| 23 | It was no comfort to the church that many of the king 's judges were themselves clerics , for in Edward 's reign they clearly gave their first loyalty to the king who was employing them ; they seem seldom to have challenged his interests . |
| 24 | Nor was it much consolation to the church that the extension of prohibitions was less the result of deliberate crown policy ( though the king certainly assisted by the provision of new writs ) than of popular demand among suitors , often clergy litigating against clergy . |
| 25 | Er well as far as I can see erm with , with a few minor reservations , the the elders would prefer not to recommend to the church that a call be issued . |
| 26 | Leavis held firm to the idea that any kind of responsible discussion of literature was a critical act , so that the academic was inescapably engaged in criticism when lecturing or conducting a seminar . |
| 27 | It is the heir of a nineteenth-century ideology that , though supposedly liberal and contemplative , is also élitist , anti-vocational , antimarket , and indeed downright hostile to the idea that higher education should prepare young people to take their places in a wealth-producing economy . |
| 28 | I suppose it will be said that it is the height of romanticism to cling to the idea that universities can remain largely publicly funded and that students will not inevitably have to pay fees . |
| 29 | Thus he had an inherent antipathy to the idea that law , even Church law , canon law , could achieve anything that was good for the Church . |
| 30 | They clung so tenaciously to the idea that Rose felt she could n't stand in their way . |