Example sentences of "that to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | How one would like that to be true ! |
| 2 | It argued in the early days that to be too closely allied with Catholicism would deter a broad membership , which is now drawn from among protestants , muslims , baptists , Jews — and , it emphasises proudly , atheists . |
| 3 | For that to be true , the diesel must have come of age . |
| 4 | In private Michael still had to keep his end up against attacks , that to be religious was to be a fool , though less frequently now because Frank travelled abroad and was away much of the time . |
| 5 | ‘ For that to be possible , it would , of course , be essential for what is now East Germany to accept fully both the liberal democratic institutions of the Federal Republic and the rights and obligations involved in being part of a member state of the European Community . ’ |
| 6 | She might imagine that to be quite an achievement . |
| 7 | Or is it that the sudden perception of one 's own constant vulnerability provides , in its black , clouded way , a dazzling , near-religious feeling of revelation — this is how things really are ; that to be born is , by definition , to be a victim ? |
| 8 | And it might even be said that it is from this , far more than from early Christianity , that we have inherited our sense of the dubious physical nature of the female , and our idea that the human norm is male and that to be female is in itself a pathological state . |
| 9 | It is a paradox too , that because Christianity has been able to drop any mention of the physical cycles of women 's lives , secular culture has ended up with an idea that true liberation means we can forget ‘ those difficult days ’ , and ‘ carry on as normal ’ ; assuming , perhaps , that to be normal is to be more like a man . |
| 10 | Never again will they imagine that to be an administrator is to be superior to being a cleaner . |
| 11 | I suspect most people would find that to be ethically unacceptable . |
| 12 | Besides , she is to be got downstairs , and how is that to be managed ? |
| 13 | ‘ I expect that to be the same this time , but a fortnight away from Russia is a long time and things change so quickly , ’ said the bespectacled runner . |
| 14 | This global negative self-statement brings emotional distress which is intensified and maintained by Automatic Thought 2 ‘ that to be distressed is a sign of weakness ’ . |
| 15 | Please note that to be classed as an infant , in accordance with Air Navigation Article 34 , a child must be under 2 years of age on the date of their return flight . |
| 16 | One of the most persuasive interpretations of this fact , and that to be considered next , derives from Wagner 's ( 1976 , 1981 ) theories . |
| 17 | I take that to be a request for the difficulties and I am going to go in to those . |
| 18 | In the past animals have borne the cost of human ‘ progress ’ — whatever we conceive that to be . |
| 19 | Yet not too long afterwards , it was suggested that for a salesman with 20 years ' continuous employment , three years was an appropriate improvement period ; many would think that to be erring on the high side . |
| 20 | In many lesser developed ( Third World ) countries , the proportion of notes and coin in the nation 's total money stock is much larger than that to be found in the advanced industrial nations due to the lack of sophisticated banking/financial systems in most poor countries ; also many of the residents still do not fully participate in the money economy due to barter and self-sufficiency . |
| 21 | Duncan and Goodwin claim that state institutions are invaluable in the management and organization of the differentiated and spatially variable societies typical of capitalism , and that to be successful such state intervention should take place on a local as well as a national level . |
| 22 | A settlor can even address the beneficiary of the trust , for example ‘ I ask , Gaius Seius , that you should be content with that thing ’ or ‘ I wish that to be given to you , . |
| 23 | The order for maintenance sounds as if it is something which will be enforced in specie ; yet in fact there is neither good reason to believe this , nor any need for that to be done . |
| 24 | You do n't have to gather them together in a group in order for that to be a successful piece of creative activity . ’ |
| 25 | But it does n't need to be like that to be important . ’ |
| 26 | Was that to be her fate — the end of all her dreams ? |
| 27 | At the very genesis of all feeling and awareness one thought held sway which should not really have been there at all : that to be grown-up , to be a man , meant losing a great part of me . |
| 28 | If I had to I 'd tune it down , but I do n't play enough guitar on the Genesis tour for that to be a problem . |
| 29 | If the guitar player has a certain patch on his FX which he 's happy with , and which he wrote the song around , I 'm quite happy for that to be put down as it is . |
| 30 | While urging for a change in the terms of the debate , in the short-term fat women must argue that to be both fat and beautiful is not a contradiction in terms , as part of the process of beginning to celebrate our sexuality . |