Example sentences of "that to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be an unpalatable thought , but we suspect that to an increasing degree throughout the 1990s brewers and conservationists will find themselves standing on the same side of the fence . |
| 2 | Where will it end , ’ he cried out , ‘ where will it end ? ’ ( feeling the helplessness in his own depths , knowing that to the crowd it came as an incitement to great anger ) . |
| 3 | In any case , it 's weird that whenever I say that to Keith , he looks at me with the unmistakably quizzical air of the tall thin intellectual he is , his hair on the blond side of chestnut ( now heavily greying ) ; his fair skin with his rosy cheeks reminding one of Victorian youths with perfect complexions ( or so the novels of Wilkie Collins and the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites would have us believe ) ; his eyebrows bushy and deliberately unkempt ; his classic tweed suit of the old school , worn with a shamefully Byronic air somewhere between hippy and academic ; his accent public school , as befits his education , although he also speaks a passable Spanish , so we can keep switching languages whenever linguistic difficulties develop . |
| 4 | But every sign now is that to shortages , inflation and a runaway budget deficit must be added serious shortfalls in output of coal , oil and nuclear energy . |
| 5 | Therefore , the background of the factory scenes features men doing their real work but the scarved and denimed wraiths seen taking lecture notes are actors , it apparently being the Equity assumption that to be a student requires no particular talent or skill . |
| 6 | Sir : Shabbir Akhtar ( 10 October ) himself makes what he might call a pardonable error in thinking that to liberals — genuine ones , not the compromisers so regretfully limned in John Torode 's article ( 3 October ) - freedom of speech is an absolute value . |
| 7 | Relating that to Labour 's ‘ unprecendented mass conversion ’ to moderation in Brighton last week , Mrs Thatcher said she did not believe her opponents now stood for home ownership , strong defence and financial rectitude . |
| 8 | Yet studies of police discretion also emphasize how its operation is structured , so that to a great extent its use becomes standardized , although individual whim can not be ignored entirely . |
| 9 | And already he knew in his heart that to be a vicar or a curate was not his vocation as a priest for the rest of his life . |
| 10 | But he had a fixed idea in his mind that to be a bishop was not his work . |
| 11 | It looks back to Lanman as well as to Eliot 's other Sanskrit teacher , the ex-anthropologist , Woods , who had written that to the Hindu , ‘ Logically and temporally , the word seems to precede its idea and its meaning : a man thinks , the Hindu would say , because he is talking . |
| 12 | Laing accepts that to some extent he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth . |
| 13 | It is a position which , interestingly enough , is much more acceptable to modern anthropology that to that of Morgan and Engels , who both stress emphatically the sexual aspect of the gens . |
| 14 | I just said that to Charlie to needle him . |
| 15 | If only they knew that to him their revelations were but bricks in the house he was trying to build , rungs on the ladder of discovery , twisted curve-edged pieces in the current puzzle ! |
| 16 | I should 've said that to Marie — I reckon that would 've been OK . |
| 17 | This is rather like the moment in Lewis 's life when he described philosophy as a subject and Barfield replied that to Plato , philosophy was not a subject but a way . |
| 18 | The tribal areas retain their status — which means that to this day there is no law and no democracy . |
| 19 | Ray Fletcher , the personnel manager at Rover 's Swindon plant and Graham Spaull , the training manager , are concerned that to many youngsters engineering means long hours , tedious jobs and dirty hands . |
| 20 | And I would always prefer that to the smooth and empty professionalism one so often encounters these days . |
| 21 | DeFries had an idea that to be a star you had to act like a star so everything was first class . |
| 22 | Many felt that to be denied the use of a fishing net for 4 months each year was the removal of a fundamental human right . |
| 23 | And although Mr Kohl promises that Germany will eventually amend its constitution and shoulder its proper military responsibilities in the world , he would prefer to sell that to his own people as a pro-European gesture than as a pro-American one . |
| 24 | And I believed that to others I who looked thus strangely upon them , I also was strange . |
| 25 | She 'd never said that to him before — nor indeed to anyone in her whole life . |
| 26 | He altered that to , ‘ Can you put the light out , dear ? ’ when she bashed him with the book and asked him to repeat what he had said . |
| 27 | The purity of my love was something that to me remained undefiled . |
| 28 | On the other hand , it was clearly preferable to the assumption that to be deprived of a child was punishment for sin . |
| 29 | Just say that to yourself : ‘ It was n't me . ’ ’ |
| 30 | The despairing jerk of his head to his Sergeant proclaimed that to Charles enough was now enough . |