Example sentences of "to [be] [verb] that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Though we must be careful not to attempt to deny the responsibility which ultimately lies with ourselves , it has to be said that certain employers have done much to encourage these sorts of trends .
2 However , it has to be said that local authorities on the whole frown on totting and many ban it outright so caution is advised .
3 It has to be recognised that syllabic consonants are a problem — they are phonologically different from their non-syllabic counterparts .
4 It is to be hoped that recent changes within the SDA ( notably its drift towards self-help , business-orientated projects ) will not allow it to lose sight of wider goals in Scotland , where extensive areas of economic decline and outright poverty can still be identified .
5 It is to be hoped that future titles will move on from here and handle some of the visionary , imaginative and fantastic possibilities of fiction also .
6 But this is the penalty all pioneers must suffer , for we all operate within the narrow confines of the knowledge and attitudes of our day , and before condemning us entirely , it is to be hoped that future students will appreciate that their own work would be that much more difficult , but for the solid foundations so meticulously laid down by John Pearson Gillam .
7 One might say that the ‘ candid camera ’ technique used for some television programmes , where people have tricks played on them for the benefit of the viewers , is rather in this mode of observation , though it is to be hoped that social researchers would not encourage people to make fools of themselves in the way television producers do .
8 As part of the background it has to be understood that large numbers of Koreans lived outside their own country and emigration was encouraged by the Japanese , at any rate to Manchuria .
9 Serial composers generally avoid octaves altogether , and it is to be noted that meticulous workers such as Webern always contrive to form unisons when the same note occurs in two parts .
10 The examples of Denmark or of the other members of the Community may in some respects be encouraging , in others not ; but certainly to look into classrooms beyond the Channel , however superficially , is to be reminded that written curricula and centralised administrations do not have to be unwieldy , dictatorial or reactionary .
11 To the idealist , the whole world is a manifestation of a rational pattern in the mind of its Creator , and thus it is to be expected that natural forms should reveal a harmony and an underlying unity .
12 Nor does it impress Freud to be told that religious propositions are ‘ as if ’ types of proposition , and that one should live ‘ as if ’ it were true that there were gods , or God , for there is nothing to lose this way .
13 It is to be recommended that full reasons are given to the third party solicitor .
14 At the same time it has to be admitted that pecuniary considerations are only a guide and there is authority that defective goods can be unmerchantable per se , for example as in the case of underpants impregnated with sulphate ( Grant v Australian Knittings Mills Ltd [ 1936 ] AC 85 ) .
15 We can look at the relationship between perceptions of paper bias and the electors ' own partisanship amongst ‘ readers of right-wing papers ’ , though it has to be remembered that different Voters are Evaluating different individual papers .
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