Example sentences of "that to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore , the background of the factory scenes features men doing their real work but the scarved and denimed wraiths seen taking lecture notes are actors , it apparently being the Equity assumption that to be a student requires no particular talent or skill . |
| 2 | And already he knew in his heart that to be a vicar or a curate was not his vocation as a priest for the rest of his life . |
| 3 | But he had a fixed idea in his mind that to be a bishop was not his work . |
| 4 | DeFries had an idea that to be a star you had to act like a star so everything was first class . |
| 5 | Many felt that to be denied the use of a fishing net for 4 months each year was the removal of a fundamental human right . |
| 6 | On the other hand , it was clearly preferable to the assumption that to be deprived of a child was punishment for sin . |
| 7 | I always thought that to be a religious Jew , you had to dress like someone from nineteenth-century Poland . |
| 8 | He wrote an exposition of Jesus ' saying to the rich young ruler that to be perfect he must sell all . |
| 9 | At the end of Owen 's testimony , Senator Inouye said he had received the impression that to be against the President 's policy in Central America was to be ‘ less than patriotic ’ . |
| 10 | ( Automatic Thought 1 may be traceable to a more wide ranging silent assumption that to be worthwhile she must get everything ‘ just right ’ . ) |
| 11 | if the [ LEA ] does not itself decide the special educational provision that should be made for the child , but leaves that to be decided by the school , with remedial classes and other facilities as may be available in the school , the [ LEA ] is not itself determining the special educational provision for the child within the meaning in section 7(1) ; consequently , the [ LEA ] is not obliged to make and maintain a statement … . |
| 12 | One may say that to be an authority on a certain matter is to be an authority about what to believe rather than about what to do . |
| 13 | There had grown up in the Commandos a tradition that to be a tough regiment it was necessary to act tough all the time in the barracks and on leave , and they were liable to be badly dressed , ill disciplined and noisy in the streets and restaurants of Cairo . |
| 14 | Not because we adhere to some outdated idea that to be commercial is to be tainted and somehow of no interest , but we felt we were redressing an imbalance . |
| 15 | It would encourage the idea that to be old and disabled is not so different from being young and disabled ; that dementia is a mental illness , not an inevitable feature of old age . |
| 16 | Frankly some of us actually wanted that to be a staff for No. 10 , for the Prime Minister , rather more like today 's Policy Unit which the present Prime Minister has in No. 10 , and less a general body to serve all the Cabinet . |
| 17 | Although there is some truth in this relative deprivation argument , it is equally important to note that the pains of imprisonment are mitigated by pleasant recollections : to be doing ‘ a lot of bird ’ without having lived well seems far more futile and absurd that to be paying for the rich fruits that crime has already brought . |
| 18 | I think that to be a loner and a writer is hell enough , but many would instantly tell me how horrendous it is to work in a factory — 1 did it for three months and loathed it — or to go to their office and stop from biting their nails when their boss has to score petty points off them . |
| 19 | White says that to be a clavicle , the specimen should have an S- or sigmoid curie , but it does not . |
| 20 | People are brought up to believe that to be successful in science you have first to have your right cerebral hemisphere obliterated ; and the people ( like a lot of teachers ) who perpetrate this nonsense should be fried slowly in rancid yak fat . |
| 21 | Jess knew that to be true . |
| 22 | Mr. Malone claimed that to be ‘ precisely what the government is doing — getting it patient and doctor led ’ , with reforms seeing ‘ services being delivered at recognised costs ’ . |
| 23 | People say that if you do n't ask you get told more , but I have never found that to be true . |
| 24 | But with the recognition that ‘ Be aware ’ prescribes responding from all relevant viewpoints , the judgement changes to condemnation of the massacres as objectively wrong on the grounds that to be moved against Hitler and on behalf of his victims would be the reaction of anyone , including Hitler himself , who responded impartially from the viewpoints of both . |
| 25 | Much as he would have liked to try to rescue Murray , he recognised that to be out of the question . |
| 26 | In the ornate new council chamber , Mayor Murphy was trying to convince the city council that to be a real Edwardian Mayor he ought to wear mayoral robes , as they did in England ; the newly extended hospital was bracing itself for additional accident cases ; and Hank Stych stood in the airport at Calgary waiting for a local plane to take him north to Tollemarche . |
| 27 | They are aware that to be labelled as the mouthpiece of the Federal Government alone , or worse still , as that of the ruling party , the NPN , would greatly damage their credibility . |
| 28 | An unprejudiced reading of the New Testament certainly suggests that to be true . |
| 29 | It seemed to me obvious at the time that to be a child was safer and easier than to be adult and that , specifically , to be a girl was safer and easier than to be a woman . |
| 30 | I think he expected that to be the end of it , since he continued to be surprised and concerned every time lesbianism came up , in whatever form , over the following seven years . |