Example sentences of "to [noun prp] [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The South Korean justification to Jessup was that no one would be convicted , unless he or she was taking orders from a foreign power . |
| 2 | One thing which drew George close to Lennie was that he was lonely . |
| 3 | Before he had fully conceived the idea of The Four Quartets , he had remarked that what drew him to Beethoven was that in these last works the composer did what he himself had sought to do in poetry — and may have actually done in ‘ forty or fifty lines ’ — namely to ‘ get beyond ’ that art . |
| 4 | It may be that an element in the antipathy of Ecgfrith and his queen , Iurminburh , to Wilfrid was that Wilfrid was not committed enough to Ecgfrith 's family . |
| 5 | His chief importance to Edward was that he was a substantial landowner in Normandy and was at odds with John II over the succession to the counties of Angoulême and Mortain . |
| 6 | ‘ My objection to Hill is that he is totally irrelevant to most of the things of value that the BBC does . |
| 7 | On April 11 the Prime Minister , V. P. Singh , warned in a speech in the Lok Sabha ( lower house of parliament ) : " Our message to Pakistan is that you can not get away with taking Kashmir without a war . " |
| 8 | The military advice given to Mountbatten was that they should not be armed , but he overruled this and gave his recognition to the AFO . |
| 9 | And his final message to AEA is as usual optimistic . |
| 10 | Of primary interest to Anthony was whether , and if so how , a distinction ought to be drawn between accounting theories , standards and practices for business and non-business organizations . |
| 11 | That letter to Sixsmith was but one of the many dozens he had penned . |
| 12 | The real reason you tugged your forelock to Capron was that you were afraid of being kicked out ? ’ |
| 13 | which is not a very , but what I 'm saying to Graham is if we do it on a slip road like , cos , cos I 've never done one before , if you , you 'd have to have warning signs if you got a census on the slip coming off |
| 14 | When a papal commission decided that a Copernican cosmology was unacceptable , the pope 's instruction to Bellarmine was that Galileo be required to abandon his Copernican beliefs — with the threat of jail if he refused . |
| 15 | What this may have suggested to Tolkien is that if the Old English and Old Norse sources agreed that ‘ Earendel ’ was a star , the Old English and medieval German ones agreed he was a messenger of hope to the heathens . |
| 16 | Yes , right I agree entirely , and one of the points we 're making to Mr is that we were never consulted we were merely told this is happening , now we 're trying to put the report in in a positive way . |
| 17 | The Flemings are not famed for their courtliness , but William 's loyalty to Stephen is as beyond question as fitzAlan 's . |
| 18 | A key consideration for the development of a spatial language interface to GlS is that many different groups of users exist within the spatial data-handling community . |
| 19 | Miliband 's response to Poulantzas was that he goes too far in dismissing the composition of the state elite as of no account , and in suggesting that structural constraints are so compelling ‘ as to turn those who run the state into the merest functionaries and executants of policies imposed upon them by ‘ the system ’ ( Miliband 1983 , p. 32 ) . |
| 20 | Is my hon. Friend aware that the main barrier to CHP is that producers have to sell their electricity to the pool and then buy it back at a much higher — an uplift price ? |
| 21 | My personal reaction to Tomlinson is that its conclusions about Barts and the other hospitals scheduled for closure are fundamentally wrong . |
| 22 | Its principal aim , according to Mellor is that there should be ‘ something for everyone in all parts of the country , and that everyone should have an opportunity to try something new and widen their horizons ’ . |
| 23 | One of the things he had learned since coming to Egypt was that the country had its rhythms and that if you were going to get anywhere you had to work with them and not against them . |
| 24 | ‘ A woman whose response to Chernobyl is that only thirty-one people were killed , who can dismiss as unimportant one of the world 's greatest nuclear disasters which put thousands in hospital , exposed a hundred thousand or more to dangerous radioactivity , devastated vast areas of land , and may result in deaths from cancer amounting to fifty thousand over the next fifty years , is totally unsuitable to be trusted to work in an atomic power station . |
| 25 | All that had happened to Jenna was that an old , painful wound had reopened . |
| 26 | The key attraction of British Caledonian to SAS was that it was based in Gatwick airport — a key hub airport . |
| 27 | But my enduring thoughts as I finally flew away from the Cape Verdian sunshine back to Britain was that these people deserve to succeed . |
| 28 | The benefit of TOGC treatment to Newco is that it will not be invoiced for VAT by the vendor on the purchase of the business . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , what was not made clear to George was that Frank had an extremely ambitious , though very pleasant , wife who insisted on participating in events to the exclusion of George , who had a very proper concern for himself . |
| 30 | The exhibition most deliberately linked to Columbus was that at the Musée Barbier-Mueller in Geneva , the catalogue for which is a magnificent book , written by eight authors , half of whose essays were translated into French ( Spanish and Catalan editions are available but not an English translation ) . |