Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] that [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally she chose a plump boiling fowl , in deference to that great Gascon King of France , Henri Quatre , whose ambition it had been to see that all his subjects were well fed enough to have a chicken in their pot each week , and had made La Poule Au Pot a loved and traditional name for restaurants . |
| 2 | In each case , if I am to claim that this revelation or experience is of ‘ God ’ , and is not simply an expression of some form of mental delusion which should be referred to a psychoanalyst , then I am forced to debate the interpretation that I am giving . |
| 3 | The educational background and training of chartered librarians in Britain has not been well understood by teachers , and in particular it has been noticeable how reluctant spokesmen of the School Library Association have been to acknowledge that some librarians have received a special training in work with children of school age , with materials for children of school age , and involving more than an acquaintance with the study of educational systems and methods and of child development . |
| 4 | With the flat , disciplined North German plain rattling past , he suddenly remembered when he had first been posted to Germany how surprised and even unnerved he had been to find that all the buildings seemed familiar . |
| 5 | A problem with this idea is of course that most dreams are not remembered , so that even if solutions to problems are achieved during dreams they can not be regarded as adaptive , unless we are to believe that these solutions are somehow incorporated unconsciously . |
| 6 | Part of his technique for staying in power has been to ensure that all the people closest to him get their hands bloody by sharing in the hangman 's work ; he calls it ‘ democratic execution ’ |
| 7 | In the case of the Brixton gang , the prolific use of photographs of the accused after conviction seems to be to emphasise that these were black youths . |
| 8 | If we do so we may deny our pain , it would be to pretend that all is well , and that would mean to deny the biblical faith . |
| 9 | It made him seem altogether too human , and the safest thing for her to do would be to remember that this man was very nearly the devil incarnate . |
| 10 | The simplest way of recording answers was therefore felt to be to assume that all those answering ‘ yes ’ to question 1 were also in principle against the proposal in question 2 , thus making the overall response to this question negative . |
| 11 | The initial reaction of an efficiency expert may be to suggest that each adviser has the information system in their interviewing room in order to save time and energy . |
| 12 | I 'm to forget that half of me is different . |
| 13 | The role of Government should be to ensure that such pensions met sensible regulation so that the public interest was protected . |
| 14 | A key area of the service will be to ensure that all readers are kept up to date on developments in the completion of the internal market . |
| 15 | The ref 's job will be to ensure that these guys stay on-side . |
| 16 | A broad position would be to hold that any threat may negative consent , and this might include a threat to send a compromising photograph to someone , a threat to report a driver for exceeding the speed limit , and so on . |
| 17 | Similarly , the excursion into the scheming phase may just be to check that such a mechanism or structure can be accommodated in the overall product or project . |
| 18 | My Lords I I 'm to say that this is of course erm a very controversial area and it is quite frank that it should be controversial too . |
| 19 | A major contribution here has been to demonstrate that such social problems are the product of social structural arrangements and not the consequences of individual or personal qualities ( see above on individualistic versus sociological explanations ) . |
| 20 | They were to discover that these country lads were the equals — perhaps the superiors — of their Indian counterparts in political sagacity . |
| 21 | Compared with Barry 's Board of Trade , the Broad Sanctuary houses were hideous and it ‘ would excite one 's horror , if one were to imagine that any portion of London was to be covered with such edifices ’ . |
| 22 | Um I think that um y'know it 's often quite intimidating to be confronted with y'know sort of say eighty odd questions , if you were to use that many , erm so if you if you kind of break it up a bit in some way and have different headed sections with slightly different format questions it might y'know kind of help people through it as it were . |
| 23 | In the autumn of 1950 the French put forward the Pleven Plan , their aim being to ensure that any German forces were split into small units and integrated within a European Defence Community ( EDC ) . |
| 24 | In this connection , it is interesting that many of the restrictions on economic life in the Pentateuch were to ensure that each family always had access to part of the society 's capital — namely a plot of land and some animals . |
| 25 | Finally , and most significantly , the public would be seriously worried , whatever the prevailing view in the laboratory , if it were to chink that little of moral significance separated the killing of animals from that of certain groups of human beings such as babies or imbeciles . |
| 26 | The second aspect of the school meals changes are with that alternative meal saving and would best be introduced erm if members were to decide that this is the way we wanted to go from April ninety five rather than in Sept September ninety four as suggested and attached to the report and that delays the savings , but achieves the same saving but not until nineteen ninety six seven and you will see that the figures have been amended and to take that into account and that 's on line fifty four B appendix ten . |
| 27 | The approach adopted has been to say that all integral items of the plant described in the schedule are covered and then list those parts excluded in general exception which fall into three categories i.e. |
| 28 | The agency 's responsibility is to see that those children are properly paid for . |
| 29 | The silliest and the most sinful of the many heresies of pseudo-democracy is to pretend that all studies and all learning are ‘ created equal ’ . |
| 30 | Whilst some theists like to bask in their own linguistic confusions , the more dangerous temptation is to pretend that some simple formula like ‘ love ’ or ‘ supreme being ’ — or even ‘ infinite potential ’ — can somehow solve all theological problems . |