Example sentences of "to [pron] [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lioness , having caught a gazelle , may not kill it but drag it back alive to her cubs and give it to them so that , crippled though it is , the cubs may have a little practice in how to bring it down . |
| 2 | I append a list of the 15 drawings that we should like to borrow , and should be grateful if you would assign individual values to them so that I may arrange for them to be covered by government indemnity while in our care . |
| 3 | Would not my right hon. Friend be insulting British farmers if he were to suggest that he should decimate the financial support available to them so that it could be given to M. Delors for use as a slush fund for so-called cohesion — a bribe to the countries of southern Europe ? |
| 4 | Draw pencil lines along the ceiling 67 mm ( for 100 mm girth cove ) or 83 mm ( for 127 mm girth cove ) from the walls and parallel to them so that the lines intersect . |
| 5 | What is communicated can easily be a view that ignores other religions , or that interprets them inadequately within terms of a comparison with one 's own , or that accepts them without trying to relate to them so that they exist in a kind of schizophrenic soup in the mind and emotions . |
| 6 | Or perhaps through erm corruption in that the landlords are paying backhanders to them so that the landlords were left in effect with more land than they ought to have been . |
| 7 | Mr but you must have therefore suggested it to them then that er the service charges needed to be updated once a year |
| 8 | It seems to me however that the terms presumption and exception as national guidance stands at the moment go together in the context of greenbelt . |
| 9 | It also occurred to me today that perhaps one of us in the Glasgow Office ought to be trained in First Aid . |
| 10 | It occurred to me later that there 's something almost , that there 's a cultural imprint , not to make a pun , of this letterpress image of a page in the structural necessities of locking a page and having even gutters and relatively rectilinear forms that creates a feeling of reliability , security and permanence . |
| 11 | Syl was more of my mother 's generation than my own but it had never occurred to me before that he and she and Lili must all have been young at the same time . |
| 12 | Doc Paisley was the first man I ever heard preach to me directly that I was sinner , that God loved me and that Jesus died for me … |
| 13 | It was put to me recently that a guitar 's country of origin is irrelevant when determining its overall quality in the market place . |
| 14 | As James Gilbey , a member of the distilling dynasty who has known Diana since she was 17 , noted : ‘ She said to me recently that she had n't made any date in her diary past July because she does n't think she is going to be there . ’ |
| 15 | But it was absolutely clear to me then that I had n't the political antennae , the political flair . |
| 16 | It seemed to me then that I wanted everything , a whole new world , but could define no part of it . |
| 17 | It had n't occurred to me then that it might be me who was wrong . |
| 18 | It seems to me now that I must have been more than a little simple , because I received a telephone call from the home the very next day . |
| 19 | Ellen , I would that you could come to me now that you are alone and would ask you to consider it seriously . |
| 20 | It occurs to me now that the man might just possibly have meant this in a humorous sort of way ; that is to say , he intended it as a bantering remark . |
| 21 | ( Note that Liz Waterland has modified her idea of apprenticeship since this 1985 pamphlet appeared : ‘ It seems to me now that the text , whether in print or in the child 's own creation , is the guide and demonstrator , the adult and the child together are the apprentices — albeit at different stages of competence — who are feeling their way towards knowledge of the meaning of words ’ ( Waterland , 1986 , p. 147 ) . |
| 22 | In fact , it seems to me now that what remained constant did so , and all the more so , because of the changes with which the family was faced . |
| 23 | The plethora of adjectives point , again , towards self-dramatisation , and it is clear to me now that I used this device as a means of bearing depression in general . |
| 24 | It seems obvious to me now that several factors involved could have been given more thought . |
| 25 | But I did n't have a single partner who said to me afterwards that in a corporate sense I 'd done the wrong thing . |
| 26 | However the message soon got home to me so that today , nearly seventy years on , I always make a point of being early . |
| 27 | That 's why she would sometimes sign the order over to me so that I could put it through my account — otherwise she had to queue up at the post office , as I said . ’ |
| 28 | That each morning , like a beautiful woman , it will reveal some hidden facet to me so that I will never be bored with its presence . ’ |
| 29 | He gave it to me so that I could come in and out to you as I like . |
| 30 | It appears to me therefore that if a man diligently followed this desire , pursuing the false objects until their falsity appeared and then resolutely abandoning them , he must come out at last into the clear knowledge that the human soul was made to enjoy some object that is never fully given — nay , can not even be imagined as given — in our present mode of subjective and spatio-temporal experience . |