Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] that [prep] " in BNC.

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1 If one were to suggest that in order to learn French we should first practise and watch sentences such as ‘ He makes of the sun ’ in order to prepare the way for the sentence ‘ Il fait du soleil ’ , it would be ridiculed by modern language theorists .
2 And so if you were to use that at night and then put a bit of lavender on it is really nice .
3 This is to certify that in my opinion you are unfit to : work/join the Army/propagate your species .
4 It 's to know that in advance because I think they then have a practical contribution to make .
5 The alternative method is to provide that upon any adjustment of the base figure , the rent payable immediately before the adjustment becomes a fixed amount payable under the terms of the lease ( or is substituted for a fixed amount previously reserved ) .
6 Rather , it is to indicate that in this particular instance , underfunding is an accurate reflection of the second-class status that computer-assisted humanities research and teaching have in this country .
7 A useful way to understand this is to remember that in a domestic context UK banks do not need to keep operational balances at the Bank of England equal to the total value of their deposits , just in case they are withdrawn .
8 But what is really relevant is to state that against Ireland they played absolutely the right sort of game and they played it with utter conviction and quite brilliant execution .
9 The other aim is to suggest that in order to understand ‘ how teachers teach the unteachable ’ one must recognize the manner in which they are engaged in managing a delicate balance of perceptions — that they be like and unlike schools .
10 All we need do here is to remark that by 1914 it had carried the control of violence and unreason in national and international life further than ever before , and brought Europeans to a previously unmatched level of material and mental achievement .
11 So what we need to do is to recognise that as a witness of that , of the way in which we work , because it is .
12 A better solution to female patients being hostile to middle aged male obstetricians , of course , is to ensure that in the coming generation of doctors 87% of obstetric consultants are female .
13 A different way of questioning the justification of corporate power in terms of wealth maximisation is to argue that at least beyond a certain level of prosperity , increases in wealth do not compensate for , can not be traded-off against , the accumulation of power .
14 A possible reconciliation is to argue that in Collins the accused 's intent was to rape , if necessary , whereas in Jones & Smith there was no " if necessary " about the intent to steal .
15 Who 's to say that in those days there was nt as much hype/stereotyping and bullshit as there is today ? ?
16 To say of two linguistic expressions that they have the " same meaning " , at best , is to say that under the same sort of conditions , they can be used in the same way , to the same effect .
17 It 's probably the , the simplest illustration is to say that over the last three or four years , we 've moved from being well below S S A to nine point four percent above S S A , now nothing 's changed other than that we 've got a slight decrease in the number of calls over this last two years .
18 Even in the reference section at the end of the book the most he offers is to say that by studying the Buddha image we can learn more about Eastern art ‘ than if we read a good many surveys of these fields ’ .
19 Ruth Lowinsky 's book is a true period piece , which is to say that in its time it was bang up to date .
20 That is to say that in reality , effort is not applied exclusively to the various phases in turn .
21 That is to say that in a real life movie , the director would say to Kevin Costner ‘ Start walking here , Kev , darling , and walk over to the chair .
22 The point of this brier account of mistake is to show that at least one leading textbook of criminal law has distorted its presentation of the data because of a prior commitment to subjectivism .
23 In his autobiography A Little Learning ( 1964 ) Waugh was to observe that at the age of sixteen he noticed that his publisher father , ‘ whom I had grown up to accept with complete simplicity ’ , was in fact a highly gifted actor in everything he did .
24 As to the teaching profession , he said that he could have wished me to have obtained a less demanding post , if I wanted to write , because his experience at Highgate School had led him to believe that teaching , if conscientiously undertaken , was one of the most exhausting of occupations ; and , though I do not regret the experience , I was to discover that regarding its rigours he was right .
25 another mistake in the film was to suggest that in a a short franchise , say of seven years they would need a great deal of working capital , but they wo n't need a great deal of working capital or or share capital , they will actually be running a business where they get subsidy , because if er they 're involving socially necessary lines , like commuter lines , or or rural lines , then we 've made it very clear er that the taxpayers subsidy will continue , because these are loss making businesses , they will be bid they will bid for subsidy , and they will continue to get that subsidy , so they will have the flow of whatever income they can increase , in the passenger franchise , plus the subsidy , plus , and this is a very important point in what we 're doing in the restructuring of British Rail , you see , nobody up till now has said that British Rail is perfect , everyone acknowledges that there are big improvements to be made , the way we 're structuring it will get those improvements because the smaller franchises , not the great big monolithic nationalized industry , the smaller units , ha will be able to identify much more clearly where they can make the savings and where they can increase the revenue .
26 But on 21 July , Edward I ordered Jean de Grilly to obey Philip III 's summons and to make ready to perform military service ; but in his reply to the king of France he was to stress that in the 1259 treaty ‘ the certainty of the said service has not yet been found ’ .
27 It was to ensure that throughout the years that lay ahead he would remain on the road .
28 The key idea was to propose that in return for conceding the right of the state to conscript manpower , Labour should demand the ‘ Conscription of Riches ’ .
29 I think their greatest achievement was to realise that despite the fact that she was unable to speak , she was still able to communicate in other ways .
30 What we decided to do , because I thought that 's what you 'd been pressing for , was to show that as the equivalent affect of , okay , you think you 're making these profits but you 're actually enjoying services that you 're not paying for .
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