Example sentences of "[vb pp] that [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though there were many writers before Leapor who had made a similar affirmation , not least Katherine Phillips and Mary Astell , it must be recognized that to make such claims was to dispute a widely held belief , based on Aristotelian physiology , that women were by nature soft and therefore inconstant The best known statement of this view of women is Pope 's ‘ Epistle to a Lady ’ . |
| 2 | However , it might be said that to require additional disclosure from all companies as a means of addressing the lack of it from a few is to force rules on the majority for the sake of the minority . |
| 3 | Already , after the American War of Independence , Aranda had argued that to retain any sort of hold in America , Spain must abandon the old theory of Empire and set up local independent Bourbon thrones or even slough off Peru . ’ |
| 4 | If it is agreed that to regulate corporate crime the level of intervention should be organizational ( although individual offenders should be prosecuted in tandem ) and different judicial principles to increase the state 's chances of securing conviction should be instituted , then what ? |
| 5 | Although all the words have at least one sense bearing the property for which the root was originally selected , it must be noted that to locate all words bearing a particular semantic feature must involve the careful selection of several roots ( e.g. to find nouns with a [ +female ] feature , sprouts should begin from ’ female ’ , ’ woman ’ , ’ girl ’ and possibly ’ wife ’ ) . |
| 6 | Many companies have already found that to maintain commercial confidentiality they have had to register for VAT and appoint agents in other member states just to comply with the new reporting regime . |
| 7 | Leaving aside the question of a total reform of the education system , it is estimated that to provide all children with roughly the same standard of provision as white children have now would entail at least doubling or trebling the education budget . |