Example sentences of "that [to-vb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was when she first realized that to lose someone you love is not to feel instant separation . |
| 2 | The selection of documents to be saved for posterity is as essential as it has been for the last 30 years ; it is not so much that computers can not store everything ( storage capacities are continuing to develop exponentially ) , as the consideration that to conserve everything makes the past unmanageable and impenetrable . |
| 3 | Jarvis informs the public that to provide one 's relatives or friends with such a container would bring peace of mind . |
| 4 | For instance , the reason that to pull someone 's left leg and to kick the large bucket have no normal idiomatic interpretation is that leg and bucket carry no meaning in the idiom , so there is nothing for left and large to carry out their normal modifying functions on ( in general , a modifier needs a semantic constituent to modify ) . |
| 5 | It is easy enough to set up an objective which really consists of two contradictory objectives : that is to say that to reach one you have to move away from the other ( for example , lowering prices on premium goods , designing a family sports car , designing tyres that do not wear out ) . |
| 6 | We must remember that to deny someone control of their own lives is to offer them a most profound insult , not to mention the injury which the frustration of their wishes and the setting at naught of their own plans for themselves will add . |
| 7 | Berkeley , nevertheless , thought that to concede anything to materialism was to concede too much , and that any element of materialism inevitably led to scepticism and atheism . |
| 8 | The jury chose to ignore Mr Justice Drake 's advice that to call someone a queer ‘ may not be defamatory ’ and that the matter was ‘ very debatable ’ . |
| 9 | She did not go on to explain that to remove anything would be wrong as far as she was concerned . |
| 10 | The city has always had a crowd who knew that to get anything out you have to put something back — from Tokyo Joe 's at the end of the Eighties , through the larger clubs you mentioned such as Base and Joy , to Sugarsweet at present . |
| 11 | The fact that sceptics are not sceptical about scepticism is further evidence that to doubt anything we must believe something . |
| 12 | They feel that to explain everything will be to destroy the beauty of nature , but they are wrong . |