Example sentences of "to [pron] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has n't occurred to them that some people might actually have to survive on any money they 're given . ’ |
| 2 | Often it does not occur to them that they can speak up , raise their voices in front of people . |
| 3 | In addition to these annual changes , there are daily ones and it is these and the responses of living organisms to them that are the subject of this book . |
| 4 | at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’ |
| 5 | McLeish thanked him , scrambled up the embankment , drawing in deep breaths , and walked carefully down the side of the track in the sizeable footsteps of his squad , explaining to them that they were looking for a sharp-edged weapon . |
| 6 | Yet it does not occur to them that God might have brought about the defeat as an act of judgement upon them , and unlike Joshua and the elders in the story of Ai in Joshua 7 , they do not bother to turn to God to discover his mind . |
| 7 | It was thanks to them that he learned that the hunt was on for a leak on the Washington embassy wartime staff which could only have been Maclean . |
| 8 | It feels to them that a major event has changed their lives and yet people around them seem to be wanting them to forget it and ‘ get on with things ’ as quickly as possible . |
| 9 | It seemed incongruous to them that the sweet teenager they knew was not only surviving life in the toughest of all trades . |
| 10 | ‘ Servants , be obedient to them that are your masters ’ she read in Ephesians 6 — and she had not been obedient . |
| 11 | It does n't matter to them that the so-called ‘ Stars ’ setting out next week on a gruelling four-month tour are no such thing . |
| 12 | ‘ It should be a warning to them that if they 're really serious about fighting drug abuse , they need to step in and take a leading role . |
| 13 | Wherefore as God had granted him all those dominions , it seemed just to them that he should accept the imperial title also , when it was offered to him by the consent of all Christendom . |
| 14 | It evidently did not occur to them that the people of Auckland felt the same . |
| 15 | It may mislead people into obeying the law where , but for their consent , it would have been clear to them that it is better to disobey . |
| 16 | It became clear to them that their trust was to maintain the essence of their country in themselves . |
| 17 | He knew of course that he never could meet them , but he wanted so badly to talk to them that he would get out their letters and pictures from his box of papers and talk quietly to them anyway . |
| 18 | And it seemed to them that there came against them on the part of the Christians full seventy thousand knights , all as white as snow : . |
| 19 | No one in their history had ever said to them that they did n't want to be famous , ’ says Gedge . |
| 20 | To suggest to them that the skin is capable of absorbing essential oils by diffusing them across the fine blood capillaries ( under the surface of the skin ) and into the main bloodstream is bound to meet with a certain amount of scepticism , if not ridicule . |
| 21 | I saw them from the window and called to them that I would tell the police who they were . |
| 22 | He then generally obliged the heirs and entrusted to them that they should give and make over to each person whatever he had left them . |
| 23 | She made it plain to them that she was upset by his tactless gesture . |
| 24 | It suddenly occurred to them that he had not moved a muscle since they came in . |
| 25 | ( I never cease to marvel at the continued confusion in the public mind between nuclear power and weapons : too many people stare at me as if I were some unnaturally hybrid creature when I mention to them that I am both a member of CND and a strident advocate of nuclear power stations to produce electricity . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , despite the necessity to protect children from being misled by the stories of ‘ heaven ’ and miracles , it should be made quite clear to them that most of the stories of good works attributed to the people involved are most likely to be true , and as these people are believed to have done much more good than most , they have been given a place in the windows of the churches and in paintings and elsewhere . |
| 27 | It is of such minor significance to them that they ‘ override ’ it . |
| 28 | It must have seemed to them that Marian and Allen had perished in the flames and their own immediate concern was to remove themselves from the danger of the roof falling in on their heads and from the certain consequence that so conspicuous a fire in the night would be seen by the outlaws and would sooner or later bring them to the scene . |
| 29 | It was obvious to them that Danzig , up to the advent of the Nazis , had been far freer from racial strife and entrenched national rivalry than might have been expected in such a complex and explosive economic and political environment . |
| 30 | Sometimes they fear that the strength of their passion will so endanger relationships which are important to them that they will shut down parts in themselves from which they believe the threat comes . |