Example sentences of "to [det] [is] [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | The answer to that is that nine times out of ten you do not know what you really want , you do not know your own mind and have not made a choice . |
2 | My reply to that is that the quiet passage of a canoe going with the current is less likely to disturb the otter than a walker tramping along the bank of the river . |
3 | All I can say to that is that I have a higher opinion of your judgement than he has . |
4 | My answer to that is that I do n't feel that my job is to do PR . |
5 | And the answer to that is that the People of this Country govern Parliament . |
6 | The short answer to that is that we do n't know . |
7 | The answer to that is that the consideration is not the rendering of the services , as is plain from the fact that the document is to take effect in Equity from the date . |
8 | I think the the answer to that is that the reference e should be made to the village making a significant contribution to the development needs of Greater York , be it housing , employment or comm erm social and community . |
9 | Peter Davis , North Yorkshire County Council , erm I think the clear answer to that is that districts , erm and county , erm were very aware of the greenbelt constraints on greenbelt sites |
10 | Mm yeah Brian 's argument to that is that er if you 've got if you were hit in the back |
11 | Now the opposing argument to that is that if you create a special environment during the educational phase of a child 's life , then what happens after that for his I mean how far have you then separated them off from the sort of life that they will have to lead thereafter . |
12 | They could be seen , eaten , and listened to that is until the show went on tour to Australia . |
13 | Erm , one reason why ca n't help himself to that is because that would be a history of change , that would be a history of the body , and that is not intrinsic to us . |
14 | One reply to this is that most offences of bad driving have the potential to cause death or serious injury ; and that the North Committee 's proposals undervalue the element of endangerment where no harm occurs rather than over -value the resulting harm where it does occur . |
15 | The exception to this is that only a parent may receive the results of the pupil 's assessment . |
16 | The downside to this is that they lose valuable advertising space on television programmes such as Saturday Superstore . |
17 | that the only kind of learning worth seriously measuring is that which can be evaluated by making a mark on a card for subsequent ingestion by a machine ( An awful corollary to this is that judgments made by human beings must be given less weight than electronically certified facts . ) |
18 | The corollary to this is that few books that are too enjoyable , too funny , or too popular could possibly be ‘ classics ’ . |
19 | The snag to this is that although a pan-head can rotate through a full circle , your hips are limited to about a quarter of this movement . |
20 | The counter-claim to this is that if your goods and services are competitive future trade will not be lost because you have a reasonable and commonsense approach to limiting credit orders to a certain size . |
21 | The only exception to this is that no one other than a state government or the Federal Government may operate a television or radio station without the approval of the president . |
22 | The counterpart to this is that they are naturally limited intellectually and so not actively encouraged to excel in academic and the more cerebral pursuits and , of course , they do not . |
23 | The postscript to this is that such a conclusion would follow from the revised contractualism and , I suggest , is in the mainstream of our moral thinking . |
24 | A common reply to this is that you can not have social control without crime or deviance and hence , if social control is necessary , then crime and deviance must be , too . |
25 | Erm the general response to this is that it was a failure . |
26 | The first reaction to this is that the speller needs to be looked at more closely : the inversion of letters here , and the production of a completely un-English-looking word , suggests that the child has considerable difficulty with visualisation , and possibly has trouble reading , too . |
27 | One possible answer to this is that such a person is felt to be not only a representative but also representative as a person of those who chose her/him . |
28 | The only exception to this is that the test machine arrived without one of its little rubber feet , something that I feel might happen quite regularly , given that they just screw in with a small self-tapping screw , and have no supporting adhesive to really make things permanent . |
29 | A contributing factor to this is that a dictionary aims to provide for every usage of a word with little indication of how common that usage is . |
30 | The main corollary to this is that , while CSPs in general are gradual in their strength ( depending on how fast or carefully one speaks ) , socially differentiated CSPs are likely to be discrete . |