Example sentences of "that [to-vb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knowing that to pretend it was all gay was treachery . |
| 2 | This view is commonly known as Positivism and , in its heyday , was so widely diffused among social scientists that to spell it out would have seemed a mere statement of the obvious . |
| 3 | I found a medicine dropper and used that to feed it the milk they left me . |
| 4 | Had n't he said that to express it would be just empty words ? |
| 5 | Labour showed some chagrin that the Tories had stolen a march on them by ending conscription , but even Aneurin Bevan , the shadow Foreign Secretary and a unilateralist at heart , accepted the need for the British nuclear deterrent , making his famous remark that to abandon it would ‘ send a British Foreign Secretary , whoever he may be , naked to the conference table ’ . |
| 6 | It was obvious that to base it on a villa one would need to have full access to the whole site and many more seasons — I imagined at least 15 . |
| 7 | Discussion of immorality was particularly problematic , given the strongly held belief that to name it and put it into discourse was a dangerous incitement to further acts of depravity . |
| 8 | She said — or I heard — that we should only fall in love once , that it was an experience of such profound significance that to repeat it would be to devalue it . |
| 9 | We might even say that to call it a statement is misleading . |
| 10 | I do n't know , I would have thought that to call it Cheshire cheeses it must be |
| 11 | As I am aware that to remove it from its present location would leave an unwelcome gap in your own display , may I suggest that , if you are willing to lend it , we supply you with a full-size mounted or framed photograph of the original to take its place for the duration of our exhibition ? |
| 12 | And having noticed that there is nothing whatever in this ‘ I think , therefore I am ’ which assures me that I say the truth , other than that I see very clearly [ je vois très clairement ] that to think it is necessary to be , I judged that I could take it as a general rule that the things which we conceive very clearly and very distinctly [ que nous concevons fort clairement et fort distinctement ] are all true … |
| 13 | She feared that to approach it would simply alert the authorities to a new means of blackmail by threatening her father through his civil service position . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | the semantic net is so large that to traverse it by hand would be laborious , and |
| 16 | The subjective conviction of heightened awareness is so treacherous that to exempt it from the critical tests of reason is to put oneself at the mercy of chance . |