Example sentences of "[that] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members of the Royal Family have long been aware that to remain in the public conscience requires coming to terms with , and feeding , the needs of the media . |
| 2 | The argument does not depend at all on demand growth : it rests on the view that to invest in Sizewell to replace old , but not necessarily worn out , plant will actually cheapen the provision of the same amount of electricity . |
| 3 | I mean , if you went to America and told them told a bu , American business man that to invest in this country because we 've got a lot of ! |
| 4 | Mr Jencks concludes that to search for a comprehensive policy to tackle the underclass is a waste of time ; different policies are needed for different problems that may be only loosely related . |
| 5 | It is true that to search for a legal framework in which the ill-articulated wishes of a testator can be given effect is to regard the testator 's intention . |
| 6 | The receiver may explain this harsh treatment by claiming that to go beyond meeting the minimum legal position would jeopardise his whole strategy . |
| 7 | There are many groups , much literature , and a great deal of help available for the widowed or divorced — so much that to go into the subject in detail would require another book . |
| 8 | This meant that to go for a crap you had to take a shovel and dig a hole which was hard work when the ground was solid . |
| 9 | Sam , without any hesitation had agreed knowing that to wait for the first available fireman would delay his train 's departure . |
| 10 | Buxton initiated his Civilization Society in part because he feared that to wait for antislavery principles to permeate foreign societies of slaveholders , which he believed to be BFASS policy , ‘ would cost us half a century , and that implies the sacrifice of twenty five millions of the human race ’ . |
| 11 | Even if the insurance market allows that to continue to the same extent , it will be small compensation to the director who abdicated in the first place an increasing responsibility to him or herself to ensure that necessary controls and preventive measure were in place to prevent a risk turning into a reality . |
| 12 | The commonsense view that to proceed with care is to proceed slowly can also be reversed in high level skills , there are instances where speed seems to be an essential accompaniment of delicate discrimination ( Lacy , 1978 ) . |
| 13 | Without naming names , he goes on to outline the situations which had so interested him in the cases of the Melanesians and the Tari Furora , as he points out that to tamper with the pattern of primitive culture at one point is to endanger the whole structure . |
| 14 | Is there anything that to comment on that ? |
| 15 | It was noted that to engage in such activities , people needed to feel that they had special areas of competence whether , for example , in knowing how to lift people , in tending the dying , and in knowing your way round the system . |
| 16 | When he declared , ‘ I resign myself to everything and put up with everything ’ , he was rejoicing in his discovery that to behave like a child sometimes worked . |
| 17 | Advocates for the CPSU , however , warned that to rule against the constitutionality of the party would endanger freedom of conscience , setting a dangerous precedent against " any party of the communist orientation " . |
| 18 | However , Feargal Quinn makes a valid point when he argues that to talk about farm-based commodity production and the factory based processing to meet consumer demands as if they are one industry is a misleading simplification . |
| 19 | Well , children can be allowed to express their anxieties verbally and to learn perhaps from the adults ' modelling around them that to talk about these things in moderation is perfectly acceptable erm but not to do it to the extent or to allow children to perhaps watch the news coverage to the extent that they become over excited and are not able to contain their own feelings of anxiety about loss and damage and death and separation from parents and significant adults . |
| 20 | Moreover we recognize that to talk of ‘ rising to the top ’ is an unavoidable metaphor that acknowledges the reality of competition . |
| 21 | But along with this goes the idea that to talk of ‘ the mind ’ is to talk of something actually in the head , or at any rate capable of making contact with the rest of the body via the brain . |
| 22 | Behind this question seems to be the idea that to talk of the ‘ meaning ’ of a word is to talk of some thing — either some thing in the world , which the word stands for , or some thing in the mind of the person who utters the word and in the mind of the person who hears it . |
| 23 | But the idea that to talk of the ‘ meaning ’ of a word is to talk of some thing does not seem to apply to the use we have been considering of the word ‘ here ’ . |
| 24 | The relevant considerations are ( 1 ) that to talk of an interpretation may be to talk of something one consciously does , an action ( in the Brown Book the corresponding question was whether ‘ B derived that the object shown to him was a pencil ’ [ my italics ] ) ; and ( 2 ) that the possibility of an alternative interpretation ( using the word now not to refer to an action ) may not have occurred to the person concerned . |
| 25 | The myth is the idea that to talk of a mental process of remembering is to explain the use we make of the word remember . |
| 26 | Regan is right to the extent that to talk of recognition in such circumstances does have a purpose , as it would of a dog 's staccato barks and tail-waving on hearing its master 's voice , but he fails to realise that the same form of words now features in a related , but different , language-game . |
| 27 | I am sure that to conceal from a child the fact that he is adopted is both foolish and cruel . |
| 28 | They feel that to embark on such an undertaking might spiritually jeopardise their work . |
| 29 | It is so clear that to look into it takes your breath away : there is no sense of depth and the rocks could be two or twenty metres away . |
| 30 | Best practice suggests that to comply with the law employers must identify and document the requirements for a position in terms of skills , experience and education , and should apply job analysis techniques to catalogue the essential functions of the post . |