Example sentences of "to [det] [noun pl] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To make the maximum contribution towards creating the commercially successful product — success in other fields is of trivial interest — engineers must face up to some questions that they may initially feel poorly equipped to answer . |
| 2 | Taken along with his restrained reaction to the repression of the pro-democracy movement in China itself [ see pp. 36720-22 ] , his attitude gave rise to some suggestions that he saw a role for himself as a potential mediator in the Hong Kong issue . |
| 3 | One study ( CBI , 1983 ) has shown that a significant proportion of firms actually experiencing fairly large changes in their total workforces report in response to such questions that their workforces have " stayed the same " . |
| 4 | It is because God is not subject to such things that He may be said not to suffer , at least in the way human beings do . |
| 5 | Among its findings on freshwater quality the report mentioned : ( i ) high levels of phosphates in rivers , lakes and reservoirs in most of central and southern England , which cause excessive growth of surface plants such as algae which in turn damage wildlife ; ( ii ) acidification of rivers and lakes in some parts of Scotland , northern England and Wales to such levels that they are almost devoid of fish ; ( iii ) one in eight sewage plants still not operating within discharge limits ; ( iv ) periodic high levels of pesticide pollution in drinking water ; and ( v ) a high proportion of freshwater sites used for recreational purposes failing to meet the standards set by the European Community directive on bathing water . |
| 6 | It is to these chapters that we turn for biblical guidance on the fundamental questions concerning God , man and the world . |
| 7 | It is to these questions that we turn in the next section . |
| 8 | It is to these questions that I now turn . |
| 9 | Cooperative activity is central to effective community work and it is therefore to these matters that we turn in concluding this chapter . |
| 10 | Segmented labour market theories help to explain the disadvantaged position of women and ethnic minorities in employment , and it is to these groups that we now turn . |
| 11 | More worryingly , what are the implications of tying manifestations of urban crisis to these places that we call inner cities , thus characterising a social problem as a spatial expression ? |
| 12 | The conferences were held actually , shall we say according to these guidelines that you have before you erm , and it was felt that the remit of these conferences has already and will in the future erm , increase democracy , accountability and the efficiency in decision making processes in our union . |
| 13 | It is to these ideas that we turn first . |
| 14 | It is to these struggles that we now turn . |
| 15 | But Madam Speaker there are a number of questions specifically related to these orders that we need to address . |
| 16 | It is to these aspects that we shall now turn . |
| 17 | Fortunately those of my friends who knew me before were only amused by this foolish description and there was no general resentment of my peerage , which could properly have been attributed to many services that I had given to the government — of both colours . |
| 18 | Besides being extremely painful , this often resulted in a nasty infection leading to many problems that they attributed to teething itself . |
| 19 | He quotes Hennock who wrote , ‘ It seemed to many observers that there had been a change for the worse since 1835 ! ’ |
| 20 | If we were to wind up the POWs fund and pay out the money once and for all to all POWs that we could find , we could run into severe problems in the next 10 to 15 years as these chaps get very old and need help even more . |
| 21 | More remarkable still , in 1907 Pius X instructed Catholics to give assent not only to what the Biblical Commission had already decided , but to all decisions that it might make in the future . |
| 22 | I ask this question after reading in the Echo about their latest crazy scheme sending out instructions to all child-minders that they must feed their young charges ‘ culture food ’ . |
| 23 | Whatever the outcome of the Higginson Committee 's inquiry may be , if we are to see a radical improvement in secondary education , we must learn to think not merely of a new form of examination ( and therefore presumably a novel kind of syllabus that will lead to it ) but of a wholly new approach to those studies that we wish to retain in the sixth forms at school , and how these studies are to relate to the pupils ' next step , when they leave school . |
| 24 | In other words , sticking to those sectors that we know and understand and which we chose for the nineties because we believe they had good growth prospects . |
| 25 | Does the document refer simply to any rights that you might have against the company that employed you or against every company in the group ? |
| 26 | Now as I said , I 'm perfectly aware that the only proper and permissible response on the part of any young climber worth his or her salt to any views that I might hold , is that they 're those of an irredeemably antiquated never-was-been . |
| 27 | He persuaded the dealers at the time a fiercely independent group of businessmen who did n't like the idea of belonging to any organisations that they needed to be heard by the government , museums , and collectors . |
| 28 | Prenatal diagnosis in the first trimester provides early reassurance to most mothers that their fetus is not affected by the genetic disorder under investigation . |
| 29 | But , on the other hand , where Hansard does provide the answer , it should be so clear to both parties that they will avoid the cost of litigation . |
| 30 | The dreams cease to bear much relation to reality , but are so important to both men that they can not be awakened from , controlled or stopped , by anything short of death . |