Example sentences of "that be [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Important steps had already been taken that were to lead to the decision . |
| 2 | I ca n't give any guarantee whatsoever that we will , but at least we will try and if that were to meet with your Lordships approval , then er I would be content to go on that basis . |
| 3 | The maintenance of the status quo by default ; that is to say through apathy , impotence or ignorance . |
| 4 | At the same time as this was happening , that is to say between the late to midseventies , the Government announced its ‘ fight against inflation ’ with all its consequences for local government spending . |
| 5 | Between 1931 and 1939 — that is to say between the ages of 26 and 34 — Nizan published two polemical essays , Aden Arabie ( 1931 ) and Les Chiens de garde ( 1932 ) , three novels , Antoine Bloye ( 1933 ) , Le Cheval de Troie ( 1935 ) and La Conspiration ( 1938 ) , one historical text , Chronique de septembre ( 1939 ) , an adaptation of a Greek anti-war play by Aristophanes , Les Acharniens ( 1937 ) , an edition of Greek materialist philosophy , Les Materialistes de l'antiquite ( 1938 ) , an edition of Marx , Morceaux choisis de Marx ( 1934 ) , and two translations of extensive and important contemporary texts on America and the Soviet Union , L'Amerique tragique ( 1933 ) by T. Dreiser , and Les Soviets dans les affaires mondiales ( 1933 ) by L. Fischer . |
| 6 | Well the first thing is to make sure that the magistrates and the police use their licencing powers to crack down on illegal drinking , that is to say under age drinking , and to crack down on unruly pubs and the hours that discos are open and that 's beginning to happen . |
| 7 | Obviously frost-free models which mean you never have to defrost are as useful as self-cleaning ovens , and additional luxuries include iced water and crushed ice dispensers , automatic ice makers and the kind of American model with almost instant ( that is to say about an hour ) automatic ice cream and sorbet or sherbet-makers . |
| 8 | Christians were baptized into ‘ Christ ’ , not into ‘ Jesus ’ , that is to say into a relationship to Jesus as God , not into the human Jesus . |
| 9 | Can it be true that , master of an essentially observational science , he has only ever made one observation in his life ( that is to say down the mines in Lancashire ) ? |
| 10 | In the ‘ dependent ’ world of the first half of the 20th century , movements for national liberation and independence were the main agents for the political emancipation of most of the globe , that is to say for an elimination of imperial administration and , more significantly , direct military domination by the imperial powers . |
| 11 | Most of the marks will be awarded for demonstrating more sophisticated skills , that is to say for analysis , judgement , interpretation and assessment of knowledge . |
| 12 | Sir Thomas remonstrated with him , as was his duty , reminding him of his high calling and how he will be required , in accordance with royal custom , to make a match advantageous to the realm — that is to say with a foreign princess . ’ |
| 13 | The notion of thinking , as soon as it appears , becomes confused with that of voice , that is to say with words , either spoken or heard . ’ |
| 14 | And to justify the ways of God to men with such honesty , that is to say with such a complete account of what the price is which would have to be paid , is of course no longer to justify but to enact the actual conflict . |
| 15 | But it becomes clear that Krashen is not thinking of theory in general , that is to say of a theoretical perspective on pedagogy , but of a theory in particular which can be applied directly ; not , therefore , of the process of referring actual problems to abstract ideas but the process of making practice conform to a preconceived conceptual pattern . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , yes : two sources actually ; a dry extract of nux vomica — that is to say of the ground-up seeds of the plant ; this contains about five per cent strychnine ; and a preparation known as liquor strychnine hydrochloride which contains about one per cent of the hydrochloride . ’ |
| 17 | They beat Middlesbrough three two er three one rather , three one on their own ground in the first round er of the first leg that is to say of the er four matches in this particular round of the competition . |
| 18 | In these circumstances I think that Darwin can rest quietly in his grave , that is to say of the acidulous palaeontologists have n't already been trying to dig him up to prove something . |
| 19 | Every separatist movement in Europe that I can think of bases itself on ‘ ethnicity ’ , linguistic or not , that is to say on the assumption that ‘ we ’ — the Basques , Catalans , Scots , Croats , or Georgians are a different people from the Spaniards , the English , the Serbs or the Russians , and therefore we should not live in the same state with them . |
| 20 | On the other hand , we do not mean to deny that such intelligence may act according to law ( that is to say on a preconceived and definite plan ) . |
| 21 | Locally , that is to say on a scale small compared with the radius of curvature r of the surface . |
| 22 | In one sense they may be regarded as the successors to , sometimes the heirs of , the small- nationality movements directed against the Habsburg , Tsarist and Ottoman empires , that is to say against what were considered historically obsolete modes of political organisation , in the name of a model of political modernity , the nation-state . |
| 23 | Although the Geneva Convention was not signed until 29 April 1958 , that is to say after the E.E.C . |
| 24 | If the tenant 's death is untimely , that is to say within one year of the date of the letting , there is no reason why the potential successor should lose his home if he has in fact resided with the tenant for 12 months . |
| 25 | That is to say upon the documented and officially described features of the organisation . |
| 26 | Although a researcher in a particular discipline , that is to say in a particular academic culture , will work within conventions of enquiry defined by that discipline , these will obviously in part be shared by other disciplines and in part shared also by the wider community within which the academic culture is located . |
| 27 | The cellulose chains which are laid down in the cell-wall are long and they have their length more or less parallel to the length of the cell or fibre , that is to say in the direction of the applied stress . |
| 28 | It claims to have been made ‘ on the advice of prelates ’ as well as of ‘ earls , barons and other faithful subjects of our realm who are of our council ’ , that is to say in the parliament which was then sitting . |
| 29 | However , in its reply in Commission of the European Communities v. United Kingdom ( Case C 246/89 ) , which was lodged after the judgments were delivered , the Commission discussed the compatibility of the nationality requirements with Community law also in the light of those judgments , that is to say in relation to the aims of the quota system . |
| 30 | It follows that the approach of the coroner was : whatever other facts there may be , whatever the impact on the cause of death of any extraneous supervening or concurrent event , the death must be regarded as ‘ natural ’ and an inquest will not be held , unless it qualifies , in the opinion of the coroner , as something equivalent to gross negligence , that is to say in effect , manslaughter either by act or by neglect . |