Example sentences of "[adv] [vb mod] [be] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To do so might be to meet a lot of the problems of youth in our society before they become social problems as well . |
| 2 | As Lord Wilberforce said in Suisse Atlantique : One may safely say that the parties can not in a contract have contemplated that the clause should have so wide an ambit as in effect to deprive one party 's stipulations of all contractual force : to do so would be to reduce the contract to a mere declaration of intent . |
| 3 | Perhaps Althusser was unwilling to acknowledge this outright , because to do so would be to run the risk of departing from the fundamental Marxist doctrine asserting the primacy of the economic in social explanation . |
| 4 | Sinn Fein , the political wing of the IRA , did not co-operate because to do so would be to recognize the partition of Ireland . |
| 5 | To burst it now would be to risk the messiness of it re-grouping , possibly cloning itself across the infected area and returning in a small battalion . |
| 6 | But she was trying to wean herself off them and to give in now would be to acknowledge the potency of the nightmare . |
| 7 | Video 's role now can be to provide the variety , interest and stimulation which are very important at this stage when motivation is often beginning to wane . |
| 8 | The aim here would be to enable the patient to recognize the common precipitants of the feelings which precede cutting and then to take appropriate action to prevent these feelings mounting up to the state of extreme tension which is associated with cutting . |
| 9 | The operative sense expressed by know and the reason for the occurrence of the bare infinitive having been defined above , our job here will be to delimit the use of the to infinitive construction . |
| 10 | Its motto was ‘ Service , Sacrifice , Suffering ’ — not , one might have supposed , very different from the teaching of Christ — but its final goal was announced as ‘ a political party embracing the whole of West Africa , whose policy then shall be to maintain the Union of African Socialist Republics ’ . |
| 11 | A way forward would be to adopt a test of reasonableness or rational basis . |