Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Gorbachev called for superpower collaboration to " make [ the world ] more calm and reasonable " , Bush sought to assure the Soviet Union that " the West [ sought ] no advantage from the extraordinary changes under way in the East " . |
| 2 | This ground-level opposition meant that the mining companies never got to prospect the total area that they wanted to investigate , as they would have needed to get court injunctions to get on each farmer 's land . |
| 3 | Thirdly , he encouraged health improvements in an effort to raise the standards of hygiene and sought to contain the sweeping epidemics that intermittently tore through the population . |
| 4 | This already small and still dwindling breed needs to acquire the comprehensive training that such a course provides . |
| 5 | The name is designed to emphasise the vital energy that comes from fresh fruit and vegetables . ’ |
| 6 | Perm Revitaliser from TiGi Linea is designed to counteract the relaxing effects that everyday shampooing can have on your perm . |
| 7 | One therefore has to find a new theory that combines general relativity with the uncertainty principle . |
| 8 | To do this we would need to know the maximum payment that can be made without overfunding the scheme . |
| 9 | Further codes are added to indicate the functional groups that use the information , the source and/or destination of the information item , and whether it is generated from within the system , or received from an external source . |
| 10 | Older characterizations of ‘ speech community ’ , such as that of Wyld ( 1927 : 47 ) , assume that everybody speaking a ‘ dialect ’ speaks in the same way : these scholars would therefore have believed that inner-city Belfast is homogeneous and would simply not have expected to find the enormous diversity that actually does exist , so they probably would not have bothered to investigate it . |
| 11 | By contrast , historians want to unpick the public face that is presented . |
| 12 | You 're expected to remember a whole process that you 're asking to you know explain how to fill in the form or use another system . |
| 13 | Will my hon. Friend note that I , for one , want to receive the superior care that our patients receive ? |
| 14 | Such figures appear to challenge the conventional assumption that the way to improve standards is to give the subjects deemed most important more and more time . |
| 15 | Mr Milosevic tried to persuade the Bosnian Serbs that , if they rejected the Vance-Owen plan , they would risk losing their territorial gains . |
| 16 | Oh , heavens , she thought , and tried to discount a dreadful feeling that it was n't his secretary so much that he was furious to see , but her ! |
| 17 | PINPOINTING a tiny airport in Dallas as an ‘ island of non-competition ’ , Senator Robert Dole wants to repeal a quirky law that bars direct flights from there to his home state of Kansas . |
| 18 | Nothing , he found , was more effective — as he tried to devise an inner world that at the same time avoided the black hole of dejection — than work , solitary work , work in which one was gladly buried . |
| 19 | But why would someone who recognised that they were expected to derive the contextual implication that B did n't do the reading go on to produce the utterance in [ 15c ] ? |
| 20 | He will use the platform provided by the Tory Women 's Conference to try to reassure the Tory Right that the Left has not taken over the Government . |
| 21 | At this point , planning provided little guidance to what would follow ; the difficulties of extemporizing new manoeuvres were enormous and helped to reinforce the prevailing view that the overriding aim must be an early victory obtained essentially by good initial deployment . |
| 22 | Carson pulled out his pad and tried to read the shaky notes that he 'd made on the Underground . |
| 23 | Instead , one has to adopt the effective theory that one has free will and that one is responsible for one 's actions . |
| 24 | Bernice tried to recall the initial lessons that Cheryl had given her , soon after the TARDIS had landed on Belial . |
| 25 | Opponents of rearmament in the Labour Party ( and until 1938 this included the leader Attlee ) argued that , however desirable under a Labour Government , the Party could not support Chamberlain 's rearmament without appearing to endorse the foreign policy that went with it . |
| 26 | Taiwan is one of the most Westernised countries in this region , and our last few surveys have shown that we 're attracting an extensive local listenership now , covering an age-group ranging from mid-teens to late thirties , so we want to ditch a lingering perception that we exist solely for the benefit of non-nationals . |
| 27 | The move to get more defendants declared sane came as two suspected IRA gun-runners tried to convince an American court that they are insane . |
| 28 | The smell of antiseptic , and the helpless waiting , brought back powerful memories of the visitors ' room two years ago , where the doctor had come to break the mind-numbing news that during a routine operation to remove her appendix her mother had died of heart failure . |
| 29 | Without this practice at dealing with other children , the ‘ only child ’ has to learn the hard way that they may push and shove , cry and scream , and grab her spade . |
| 30 | And he wants to , at the very least I think it 's reasonable to say , he wants to influence the Communist Party that , that this is the way you should be looking at the world and it , it is different to the way you were looking at it . |