Example sentences of "[to-vb] that [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , she was grown-up enough to know that to please a man you needed to listen to him , and in fact it was no hardship at all to listen to Karl ( unlike Georg , who spoke only of the farm ) . |
| 2 | You 're also wise enough to know that finding the person who 's right for you requires a very subtle alchemy . |
| 3 | They would begin to know that putting a little eighth note right before the next bar meant anticipation and that made things easier because , if you have a half hour lesson and they want to learn something by Iron Maiden , and you want to show them a dorian mode in three octaves and they 've got to show you their chords in four or five positions , you 've got to work fast ! |
| 4 | It was the Nonconformist Beecher connection and the special relationship between American and British reformers which Nonconformists were doing so much to cement that paved the way for Uncle Tom . |
| 5 | For example , the late John Strachey , former Minister of Food , used to contend that had the notorious African Ground Nuts Scheme been placed just 30 miles to the West of the site chosen in Tanganyika ( now Tanzania ) , the climate differed just sufficiently there that all would have been well . |
| 6 | It is easy to see that studying the growth and modifiability of neurons is a much harder task than describing them in the state you normally find them , so it is not surprising that much less is known , and all I can do here is to point out some of the interesting possibilities that are opening up . |
| 7 | One could use the intent and motive argument to claim that to maintain the standing of the House one should seriously devalue and perhaps scrap early-day motions . |
| 8 | He would have liked to hear the figure of his salary ; but just as he was nervously about to sound that note the little boy came back — the little boy Mrs Moreen had sent out of the room to fetch her fan ( 3 ) He came back without the fan , only with the casual observation that he could n't find it . |
| 9 | I had the sense to realize that taking the publicity seriously would be dangerous , but none the less it was very seductive . |
| 10 | It is to remind ourselves of the radical demands of God , and to realize that to call the Christian gospel ‘ good news ’ is to concentrate on only half the story . |
| 11 | He was too clever not to realize that harbouring the Shah increased the danger of Muslim fundamentalism gaining round in the kingdom . |
| 12 | You have to sense that coming a little while in advance and if you think someone is going to throw a tantrum , you hold back . |
| 13 | In order to answer that question the court had to balance the interest to be served by non-disclosure against the interest served by disclosure . |
| 14 | However , we have to remember that offsetting a large part of this acquisition of funds is an outflow which is being used to meet claims and other expenses . |
| 15 | To illustrate this , it is relevant to remember that driving a car is possible for the fully sighted in foggy conditions , but it is a more tiring procedure than driving when visibility is good . |
| 16 | He said , ‘ You have to remember that selecting the right cigar is an act of intuition rather than analysis . |
| 17 | There is an analogy with natural language and it would be ridiculous to suggest that writing an article or report using " Esperanto " infringed any copyright subsisting in the language . |
| 18 | It would be foolish to suggest that getting the vote had no beneficial consequences for women . |
| 19 | Fortunately , those days are over , but it would be deceitful to suggest that constructing a pool was anything other than hard work , for even with modern materials a considerable amount of energy has to be expended . |
| 20 | There was nothing to suggest that had the evidence been excluded that result would necessarily have been the same . |
| 21 | Davies says there is some evidence to suggest that showing the consequences of violence is preferable to not doing so . |
| 22 | Nor is it unreasonable to assume that given a sufficient respite they hoped that Britain 's own nuclear force might become strong enough to act as a deterrent to a Soviet attack on the home islands . |
| 23 | It encourages woman-centred psychologists to ignore the wider discursive structuring of methodology , and to assume that revaluing a traditionally female-identified method positively guarantees its feminism . |
| 24 | It is a fatal error to assume that lowering the price makes an indifferent product saleable to a general market . |
| 25 | Mr Justice Owen ruled that the government was " entitled and reasonable " to conclude that holding a public enquiry into the scheme was " not expedient " . |
| 26 | It would be pleasant to use that soap every day . |
| 27 | John Stuart Mill notices this ( he quotes the sentence in question , italicising ‘ and of individual qualities ’ ) , and proceeds ( 1 ) to ask what is meant by an ‘ individual quality ’ ; ( 2 ) as if he knows the answer to this question ( namely , the individual qualities of an object are ‘ the individual and instantaneous impressions which it produces in us ’ ) , to deny that predicating a quality of an object is predicating of it one of its individual qualities ; and ( 3 ) to say what it is to predicate a quality of an object ( namely , ‘ to assert that the object affects us in a manner similar to that in which we are affected by a known class of objects ’ ) . |
| 28 | In order to resolve that dispute the High Court of Justice , Queen 's Bench Division , referred the following questions to the Court of Justice for a preliminary ruling : |
| 29 | Perhaps it was the transition to land that enabled the scorpions to survive beyond the Palaeozoic , which saw the end of the sea scorpions . |
| 30 | Care has been taken to ensure that getting the right answer requires a genuine understanding of the grammatical rules . |