Example sentences of "that [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Sam , without any hesitation had agreed knowing that to wait for the first available fireman would delay his train 's departure . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | Welch implies that to account for the apparent increases in zooplankton biomass over the past 30 years in the North Pacific without a marked concomitant increase in phytoplankton biomass ( as reflected by chlorophyll ) , phytoplankton productivity must have increased . |
| 7 | Moreover , as we saw earlier , it is possible to argue that to pay for a service produces an equal exchange relationship . |
| 8 | ( Harry had decided that to pay for entertaining Nadine Cunningham would be to add insult to injury . ) |
| 9 | I suppose the heat had made me edgy : though I knew that to ask for money as a loan was the only way she could keep her dignity , I held an angry conversation with her in my mind . |
| 10 | If then your paper proves suitable you will be told that to register for Advances in Fermentation ‘ 83 , organised by Process Biochemistry , Penn House , Rickmansworth , Herts WD3 1SN would normally cost £152 . |