Example sentences of "[to-vb] of the [noun sg] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Metzinger who , in his Note sur la Peinture of 1910 , was the first to write of the fact that Picasso and Braque had dismissed traditional perspective and felt free to move around their subjects , studying them from various points of view . |
| 2 | You might put it this way : We are human beings , not because we have souls but because we are able to conceive of the possibility that we might have souls . |
| 3 | It was useful to know of the expectation that Business and Communication check local papers regarding any adverts relating to the Centre . |
| 4 | But there is a need to beware of the assumption that they have as direct an impact upon the political system as they do in the United States . |
| 5 | ‘ It is so very tragic and it really does tug at your heart to think of the state that her poor mother must be in that she feels she can no longer look after her child . ’ |
| 6 | By and large people who are healthy and alive do not wish to think of the possibility that they are going to die cardiac or cancer deaths . |
| 7 | We know from the housing benefit system that there is a backlog of cases , I think hundred and a , quite a considerable number of people of where people are having problems producing wage receipts and evidence of income now and one dreads to think of the burden that will be putting on the letting section by erm inventing yet another system o of this kind erm I think people we know that people are wary already of applying for benefits because of means testing and I think that there 's that it would simply discourage people who really are in need from coming forward . |
| 8 | Where indexicals can be routinely treated truth-conditionally , we will therefore continue to think of the theory that handles them as part of semantics . |
| 9 | We would n't let them meet on the corners because the people in the houses on the corners always used to complain of the row that they made — used to chase them . |
| 10 | And what are we to make of the claim that the twentieth century has seen no philosophical achievements on the scale of Locke and Descartes ? |
| 11 | This , incidentally , at the same time seems to dispose of the view that existential propositions might be interpreted as involving an ascription of the property of existence to certain objects of thought . |