Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [to-vb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our central initiative has been to urge that Labour , with others , should mobilise a major national demonstration , plus cultural activities , that would provide a unifying focus for campaigners . |
| 2 | The history of the imposition of obligations without compensation has been to push that point progressively further on and to add to the list of requirements considered to be essential to the well-being of the community . |
| 3 | What a privilege it has been to share that trip with so many wonderful people . |
| 4 | The NHS Management Executive has now created a prescribing team , one of whose first actions has been to require that prescribing is a priority for medical advisers . |
| 5 | Within the English tradition of radical , ‘ Marx-influenced ’ , sociology the tendency has been to concede that social mobility is in principle important ( large-scale mobility would make a difference to one 's analysis ) , but to deny that really significant social mobility has taken place . |
| 6 | Althusser 's procedure has been to show that , within a notion of history that seemed as if it could be invoked on its own as self-evident , there rests an entire presupposition about the conception of the social whole that is not derived from Marxist theory . |
| 7 | His achievement has been to cross that hitherto unrepresented culture into the mainstream ; to disrupt the patina of early evening viewing simply by being himself . |
| 8 | I am sorry I ca n't be any more help with that at this stage what I can do is to take that question away and circulate the information after I 've done some sums . |
| 9 | Perhaps the best one can do is to say that communication from the letter detector to the word detector level , which is normally both fast and parallel , has become slow and serial , but this is a rather ad hoc explanation , and certainly much less satisfying than the interpretations offered by the model for surface dyslexia and phonological dyslexia . |
| 10 | Oh all you got ta do is to hold that white , hold both ends of it and pull it , it 'll come out . |
| 11 | and what you can do is to keep that one for best |
| 12 | Now parental investment is a technical concept which we do n't need to go into in this course in too great detail , suffice is to say that parental investment represents everything a parent sinks into its offspring which promotes its offspring 's reproductive success . |
| 13 | The worst she could do was to bring that Tuscan adventurer into the family , since when none of us has had a moment 's peace . |
| 14 | What we are now trying to do is to explain that variation in cost . |
| 15 | If the big parties do not like it the remedy is in their own hands : all they have to do is to steal that third party 's votes . |
| 16 | Yes , I think for a lot of people that 's true and I do n't denigrate that because I think a lot of good work goes on in the Women 's Institute , but what we are particularly interested in is in the professional craftsman , the craftsman who has trained for a number of year to produce extremely good work , and what we try to do is to make that work more available to the public in a number of ways . |
| 17 | All you have to do is to fly that aircraft to Turkey . |
| 18 | It 's grown up like topsy , and what we 're trying to do is to equalize that . |
| 19 | This clearly might have been proceeded against as an affray , and counsel 's argument before the Court of Appeal appears to have been that once violence had actually been used , the proper course would have been to charge that offence . |
| 20 | Another possible way of resolving the difficulty where the sole evidence is that the defendant was actually fighting is to say that , in the course of the fight , there is a series of threatening gestures , each one of which constitutes a fresh offence . |
| 21 | All you do is to move that decimal point two places . |
| 22 | It 's called the N tuple method is because the first thing we do is to take that image and break it up into a set of tuples each of N in size . |
| 23 | To his surprise she named a reputable dealer in fine art that he had been to see that afternoon . |
| 24 | Colonel Windsor 's initial reaction had been to discount that , no matter how trustworthy the source ; but now , as he reflected on it , he felt it could well be true . |
| 25 | Winchelsey 's pre-eminent objective had been to ensure that clerical taxation by the crown — conceded in principle at the Third Lateran Council in 1179 — was subject to clerical consent and was collected and managed by the clergy , a necessary corollary to their freedom of consent . |