Example sentences of "[that] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commonsense view that to proceed with care is to proceed slowly can also be reversed in high level skills , there are instances where speed seems to be an essential accompaniment of delicate discrimination ( Lacy , 1978 ) . |
| 2 | Regan is right to the extent that to talk of recognition in such circumstances does have a purpose , as it would of a dog 's staccato barks and tail-waving on hearing its master 's voice , but he fails to realise that the same form of words now features in a related , but different , language-game . |
| 3 | At the end of the second edition of Social Theory and the Urban Question he argues that to focus on consumption is to focus on an area of social life where individuals can gain maximum control over their lives . |
| 4 | It was considered that to focus on penetration would be to continue to emphasise the sexual as against the violent aspects of the offence . |
| 5 | As time went on , however , its curative uses were regarded with more and more suspicion , not assisted by tales such as that of Svengali which helped to convince an already uncertain public that to submit to hypnosis was to give up all free will and to place one 's mind in the power of another . |
| 6 | People thought he was doing this deliberately , because people never really believe that the beautiful lack confidence ; looking back , I think that to start with Boy must have been frightened almost all of the time . |
| 7 | Battells have also pointed out that they very often receive separate orders from the same areas and it is suggested that to save on carriage etc . |
| 8 | erm I must confess I 've always had rather a soft spot for macro mutations , I do n't know why , it may have had something to do with Goldsmith 's prose , which is sort of rather moving when you get into it , erm and partly , and this is an interesting comment as an aside , that I knew as an undergraduate that to argue in favour of Goldsmith would make my teachers in general , and Professor J B S Halldane in particular , exceedingly angry and making one 's teachers angry is , after all , one of the activities into which undergraduates should occasionally go . |
| 9 | In Siskina , the plaintiff 's major claim for compensation was not itself justiciable in England ; Lord Diplock pointed out that to argue in effect that it could be treated as justiciable because , if it were , an interlocutory injunction might be granted was a logical fallacy , petitio principii ( pulling oneself up by one 's own bootstraps ) . |
| 10 | But it must be recognized that to teach about Christianity though it entails teaching about Christian doctrine , with the gospels and at least part of the Old Testament as the source and background of that doctrine , in no sense involves proselytizing . |
| 11 | All our discussions of faith as trust , venture or wager have accepted that to subscribe to theism must represent a reasonable commitment on the part of the believer . |
| 12 | I suppose the heat had made me edgy : though I knew that to ask for money as a loan was the only way she could keep her dignity , I held an angry conversation with her in my mind . |
| 13 | It is generally accepted now that to speak of self-sufficiency in the face of such quantities of material is absurd . |
| 14 | In the debates over proposed changes to the criminal law , politicians continued to argue that to speak about sex was to corrupt . |
| 15 | Disillusioned with the ministry before he had even entered it , Vincent now said damningly that to trade in religion was on a par with trading in art or tulip bulbs . |