Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mossad proposed that to conceal the plan they would send TOW missiles to Iran from their own stocks and America would ship them replenishments . |
| 2 | Composers such as the late Luigi Nono , with the most exemplary of avant-garde pedigrees and a long-standing commitment to the Italian Communist Party , found that to package a political content in his music demanded more explicit dramatic support than contemporary thinking allowed . |
| 3 | De Candolle realized that to explain the existence of these provinces would require naturalists to tackle the question of the actual origin of species , although at this point he thought the matter was beyond the scope of scientific investigation . |
| 4 | Chapman realized that to survive a team now needed three instead of two full-time defenders to cover the gap in the centre of the field . |
| 5 | Looking at the tangle of bushes on either side , she soon realised that to make a thorough search of the undergrowth was out of the question . |
| 6 | As a result of all this they realised that to complete the measurements on the range of electrodes and to see how they depend on the other experimental conditions would take nearly three years . |
| 7 | Another tract in the same Congregational Union series argued that to join a local church was , in effect , to join ‘ Christ 's universal church ’ , which was ‘ Christ 's own society ’ , not a ‘ private society organised by pious men . ’ |
| 8 | He argued that to implement a ‘ Non-Alignment Pact ’ in a civil war between an incumbent government supported by one Great Power and insurgents supported by another Great Power ‘ a coalition government must be formed comprising those elements of both Government and insurgent forces which are prepared to come to a compromise and work together in the context of non-alignment ’ . |
| 9 | This was firmly denied by the Committee , both before and after publication , who argued that to urge a change in the law was not necessarily to approve or endorse homosexual behaviour . |
| 10 | Mr Tsongas , a pro-business liberal , argued that to restart the campaign he abandoned three weeks ago for lack of funds would only make him a spoiler . |
| 11 | For example , in the fastest city of them all — which turned out to be Boston , not New York , which was third after Buffalo — the researchers noted that to get the exact time of day the telephone company requires you to dial N-E-R-V-O-U-S . |
| 12 | It seemed that to feed the children they had denied themselves all food and eaten grass . |
| 13 | In the last exercise you learnt that to remove a number from one side of an equation you simply had to do the opposite or reverse operation to both sides . |
| 14 | Joe agreed and to satisfy the fat woman who was watching curiously , bought tea and sugar , a jar of Bovril and a tin of cocoa . |
| 15 | The usual kind of education … is designed to give answers to questions which nobody asked and to inhibit the student in discovering his own truth and insight . |
| 16 | This enabled us not only to check the quality of the work but also to help if problems arose and to show the importance we attached to the role of the interviewers . |
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| 18 | He warned that to destroy the " legitimate state structures " would inevitably create " an explosive power vacuum " . |
| 19 | The government 's resignation statement warned that to adopt the resolution would ruin the economic reform policy , jeopardize promised assistance from Western countries and financial institutions , deprive the government of power , and make " the figure of the President purely symbolic " . |
| 20 | It was the GP who then decided whether to treat the patient , to refer the patient on to another agency , or to do nothing . |
| 21 | The magistrate decided whether to try a case summarily or to set in motion the process of committing it to a superior court . |
| 22 | Finally , there was the third reading debate when the House had to look at what it had done to the draft bill during the committee stage and decided whether to pass the measure . |
| 23 | They feared that to alienate the Grand Prince , who had a wide measure of control over appointments to the hierarchy , would leave them vulnerable to the intellectual vigour of the ‘ heresy ’ . |
| 24 | He felt that to stop the dance and make gestures , no matter how elegantly , destroyed the flow and the ability of the dancers to communicate expressively the meaning of their movements . |
| 25 | Eyeing her , Wexford thought that to say a lady with an infant would be better . |
| 26 | Peter Cole of SBCI Savory Milln , considering that trust was crucial , thought that to employ a number of headhunters ran the risk of losing trust . |
| 27 | But I thought that to have a saint 's care was a good idea , even to my Protestant mind . |
| 28 | She debated whether to reach the wherry by going through the Cathedral grounds and over the footbridge — the prettier way — or whether to use over the traffic bridge in front of the market square . |
| 29 | At one extreme , the editors could be given total licence to film anything they liked and to show the House in their own way ( as when covering a football match , or as in some American state legislatures where camera and microphone men are even allowed to wander around on the floor of the House ) . |
| 30 | He had lived for a time in England , and we discussed whether to conduct the session in English or German . |