Example sentences of "[verb] that [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might be supposed that to injure him by getting deeply into his debt sufficed to satisfy any unfriendly feelings they might entertain towards him . |
| 2 | In copper-oxide superconducting materials , this suggest that to raise the critical temperature you want to make the lattice smaller . |
| 3 | Mossad proposed that to conceal the plan they would send TOW missiles to Iran from their own stocks and America would ship them replenishments . |
| 4 | ‘ If the law has to have a proper effect then landlords and breweries should know that to serve young people like this , they are in danger of losing their licences . ’ |
| 5 | Research already carried out has shown that five and six year olds often do not know that to guarantee successful communication , the speaker must identify the intended meaning uniquely from the listener 's point of view . |
| 6 | After all , she was grown-up enough to know that to please a man you needed to listen to him , and in fact it was no hardship at all to listen to Karl ( unlike Georg , who spoke only of the farm ) . |
| 7 | However , it soon became clear that , not only are Indian gaols so varied that to describe any one is to create a false picture , but a description of ‘ conditions ’ alone would give readers outside India little real insight into the country 's prison system or how it is experienced by inmates . |
| 8 | Any agreement or any peace treaty , when it comes , must recognise that to humiliate either the Serbs or the Croats would be a great mistake . |
| 9 | It is not possible to predict the types of security interests that will be created in the future and requiring registration of some such unforeseen interests could be unnecessarily burdensome ; even with respect to the known types of legal charge , particularly those conferring the right to possession , it would produce overkill ; and lastly it is claimed that to require the registration of all charges could dry up certain types of secured borrowing . |
| 10 | It probably was , but they wont say that to make the Batty sale seem more justified . |
| 11 | I say that to show that the payments are ludicrously inadequate — £6 last year , £6 this year and presumably the same next year . |
| 12 | Some say that to belong to the kingdom of Heaven is the same as belonging to the Church . |
| 13 | When he did , he found that to acknowledge these events in writing became a sort of therapy for him . |
| 14 | Composers such as the late Luigi Nono , with the most exemplary of avant-garde pedigrees and a long-standing commitment to the Italian Communist Party , found that to package a political content in his music demanded more explicit dramatic support than contemporary thinking allowed . |
| 15 | .. It can hardly be considered that to ask an employee to acquire basic skills as to retrieving information from a computer … is something in the slightest esoteric or even , nowadays , unusual . |
| 16 | It was considered that to focus on penetration would be to continue to emphasise the sexual as against the violent aspects of the offence . |
| 17 | He may even have considered that to establish the superiority of the Copernican over the Tychonic system would be to reaffirm the superiority of Catholic over Protestant science . |
| 18 | I found a medicine dropper and used that to feed it the milk they left me . |
| 19 | You ca n't see the warmth that causes that to happen , you can only see the result of it . |
| 20 | Mr Jencks concludes that to search for a comprehensive policy to tackle the underclass is a waste of time ; different policies are needed for different problems that may be only loosely related . |
| 21 | That was when she first realized that to lose someone you love is not to feel instant separation . |
| 22 | De Candolle realized that to explain the existence of these provinces would require naturalists to tackle the question of the actual origin of species , although at this point he thought the matter was beyond the scope of scientific investigation . |
| 23 | Chapman realized that to survive a team now needed three instead of two full-time defenders to cover the gap in the centre of the field . |
| 24 | " I would think that to follow your thought in this instance is only possible for one to whom the message of Tristan , in particular , has been revealed . " |
| 25 | But it thinks that to rely solely on market forces is a messy way of reining in a big borrower . |
| 26 | Salmon explains that " Colletts and Gallaher agreed that to follow competition and cut price would show a short-term benefit in sales , but set up a long-term " imagery " problem . |
| 27 | I am suggesting that to formulate a generic curriculum , we must attempt to separate the core outline from its interpretation or implementation ( in a similar manner to SGML ) . |
| 28 | Certainly said the pollsters , suggesting that to gain an accurate sample 299,014 York voters would need to be interviewed . |
| 29 | That ingrained courage , the belief that he must continue to fight on — the ability to fool himself into thinking that he could fight on — was all that was left to Tubby , and Colonel Windsor realised that to take it away from him could precipitate the final breakdown . |
| 30 | After a few moments of frozen hesitation , she realised that to refuse his offer would only reinforce his current impression that she was a frigid little puritan with hang-ups about physical contact . |