Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] that [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The answer is that even if everyone playing cards always had a certain sort of feeling when they trumped an opponent 's card and had another , different , feeling when they revoked , it would still be the case that to understand what it is to trump , and to revoke , we would have to look at the game itself , that is , at the use of trump-cards in the game . |
| 2 | It could also well be the case that to allege that sponsorship and consultancy are permitted because they offer a lucrative source of additional income would be a contempt . |
| 3 | Such has been the division that to describe a sociologist as a theorist is almost to suggest that he does not engage in field studies . |
| 4 | First , there is the recognition that to trade in categories and interpretations must necessarily be to trade a way not just of perceiving but also of constructing situations . |
| 5 | However , the second element must always be present : typically there are at least short-run gains from reneging on an agreement and so tacit collusion requires the perception that to do so would in the end turn out to be unprofitable because of punitive reactions by the other firms . |
| 6 | There are other arguments that have been made along the same general lines , to the effect that to capture regular processes ( e.g. syntactic regularities ) one must refer to pragmatic concepts ( see e.g. Ross , 1975 ) , arguments that will arise from time to time in the Chapters below . |
| 7 | The definitionalist might seek to save his position by arguing for a general principle of law to the effect that to intend an act is to intend it under a full description and that therefore in all crimes where the actus reus contains not only a conduct element but also circumstances and consequences , mens rea is to be taken as being ‘ coextensive with the actus reus . ’ |
| 8 | So complex and unpredictable is the work that to articulate any formal course of instruction which would remotely address the variety and nature of the problems routinely encountered is thought hardly possible . |
| 9 | In this case the mother submitted to the judge that to order the removal of the child from the United Kingdom back to Canada would expose him to a grave risk of being placed in an intolerable situation . |
| 10 | The involuntary expansions and contractions have the consequence that to hold on to the most aware response it may be a practical necessity to numb oneself to a local awareness which distracts from it . |
| 11 | Stalin is reported to have remarked at the end of the war that to establish communist rule in Poland would be like ‘ trying to saddle a cow ’ and Soviet relations with that country ( the largest and most populous in Eastern Europe ) have borne out these apprehensions . |
| 12 | The spectacle of modern investment markets has sometimes moved me towards the conclusion that to make the purchase of an investment permanent and indissoluble , like a marriage … might … force the investor to direct his mind to the long-term prospects , and to those only . |
| 13 | When it gets to the point that to reach your greenhouse you have to run the gauntlet of a thousand bristling spines , it is time to make a major decision . |
| 14 | I , on the other hand , held the opinion that to draw such a parallel tended to demean the ‘ dignity ’ of the likes of Mr Marshall . |
| 15 | Third , the justices were strongly of the opinion that to separate the children would be harmful to them . |
| 16 | His readings of heroic poems made him especially scornful of the notion that to say ‘ evil must be fought ’ is the same as saying ‘ might is right ’ . |
| 17 | She told the court that to save Ryan she had to kill Ben . |
| 18 | These constructs constrain the individual 's view of the world , and whereas everyone is potentially able to make their own choices and decisions , they are restricted by the knowledge that to do so has an impact on other members of their family . |
| 19 | In some industrial marketing situations , suppliers work with buying organisations to solve technical problems in the knowledge that to do so will place them in a very strong negotiating position . |
| 20 | The grounds of the appeal were , inter alia , that ( 1 ) there was no sufficient evidence that the requirements of section 31 of the Children Act 1989 had been satisfied ; ( 2 ) the justices had made the order on the ground that to do otherwise would cause harm to the boy , when the Act required the justices to find that ‘ significant harm ’ would be caused before making the order ; and ( 3 ) the justices failed to state their reasons adequately . |
| 21 | But what if a school wished to ban Sikh girls from wearing trousers , and sought to justify its action with the argument that to create an exception from school rules for Sikhs would cause resentment from whites and thus work to the detriment of racial harmony ? |
| 22 | The experience of trying to force one 's perceptions into preconceived categories , and the pain and distortion that this has often led to , is now used as a basis by feminist theorists for the argument that to see feeling as ‘ contaminating ’ objective , scientific knowledge points to a distortion of conceptualisation . |
| 23 | The NSF 's response to opposition criticism of the treaty on this issue depended on the argument that to raise the Moldavian question would open up other territorial issues , such as possible Hungarian claims to Transylvania . |
| 24 | From 1865 William Booth , founder of the Salvation Army , grounded his East End missionary work in the belief that to save souls it was essential to save bodies ; he did not discriminate between ‘ deserving ’ and ‘ undeserving ’ poor . |
| 25 | To understand why , argues Gilbert , we need to understand the construction of the sodomite , his association at that time with evil , rebellion , and insurrection , and the belief that to tolerate his sin was to court the possibility of divine revenge ( as with Sodom and Gomorrah ) . |
| 26 | An instance of the second sort could be derived from the claim that to understand this or any proposition is to know under which conditions it is true and under which it is false . |
| 27 | Often enough , restrictions are imposed in terrorem so as to discourage the more blatant activities of the outgoing partner but with the realisation that to hold him to the letter of the restraint might well be impracticable . |
| 28 | This was accompanied by the realisation that to isolate handicapped children from their contemporaries was to harm both groups . |
| 29 | He never could grasp the logic that to see Trevor it was obvious to the teacher that his own eyes must have been open . ’ |
| 30 | One underlying issue , however , troubles me , Throughout there is the implication that to partake wittingly in an arms race is a perversion of science — as the conclusions say , ‘ the role of scientists in the arms race is of crucial importance . |