Example sentences of "to [be] [verb] that [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reference may be made to the National Code of Local Government Conduct , para. 3 ( Appendix D , post , p. 105 ) although it has to be said that that paragraph is not , in the author 's view , well drafted since it fails to indicate with sufficient clarity the difference between disclosing personal pecuniary interests ( failure to comply being a serious criminal offence ) and disclosing other interests ( which is simply a matter of prudence , but involves no breach of law ) . |
| 2 | Whilst owing his debt to Lorca , it has to be said that this volume is markedly conservative . |
| 3 | It is to be hoped that all steam enthusiasts will perhaps make an effort to support this railway at some time during the present season to help to ensure that it remains in being into the future . |
| 4 | It is always to be hoped that this charism will be active in popes and bishops , but it is not , nor can it be , reduced solely to their authority . |
| 5 | It is to be hoped that some day this fruitful field will be explored and the results given to us in English . |
| 6 | It is to be hoped that some day this fruitful field will be explored and the results given to us in English . |
| 7 | It is greatly to be hoped that some version of the censorship hypothesis holds because close to naked singularities it may be possible to travel into the past . |
| 8 | This word universal is never the name of anything existent in nature , nor of any idea or phantasm found in the mind [ my italics ] , but always the name of some word or name ; so that when a living creature , a stone , a spirit , or any other thing , is said to be universal , it is not to be understood that any man , stone etc. , ever was or can be universal , but only that the words , living creature , stone , etc. , are universal names , that is , names common to many things ; and the conceptions answering them in the mind are the images and phantasms of several living creatures or other things . |
| 9 | It is to be noted that that footnote has been rephrased in the current edition of Stone 's Justices ' Manual , 123rd ed. ( 1991 ) , vol. 1 , p. 139 , para. 1–1566 . |
| 10 | It is to be noted that this proposition appears to have been doubted by the Court of Appeal subsequently in Francome v. Mirror Group Newspapers Ltd , where Sir Robert 's remarks were distinguished as relating to a case involving the detection of crime . |
| 11 | It is to be noted that this sentiment comes from a great prose writer . |
| 12 | It remains to be demonstrated that this theory can overcome such difficulties . |
| 13 | It is not to be expected that each sentence written will obey grammar rules . |
| 14 | So it was to be expected that this sight should arouse some curiosity , and after putting their heads together the women put down their bowls and kettles and went over to ask the painter who was coming to live there . |
| 15 | It has to be stressed that this method of connection is only acceptable if the mains transformer is a type which has accurately matched secondary windings which are intended for use in this way . |
| 16 | But to be told that he could not make it was to be told that this gift could disappear as unpredictably as it had arrived . |
| 17 | Again it needs to be remembered that this sort of coding is designed to be read by a machine , not a human . |
| 18 | It needs to be allowed that this reply is of a certain kind . |