Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] [prep] [adj] [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Financial intermediaries have the specialist knowledge to be able to channel funds to those areas that yield the highest return . |
| 2 | He was also unhappy about Pound 's own obstinacy and arrogance in the matter of his eventual release ; he was raising objections to schemes that seemed perfectly sound and , as Eliot told his daughter , " I fear your father does not want to accept freedom on any terms that are possible " . |
| 3 | It was to meet cases of this kind that Equity invented the great remedies of specific performance and injunction : specific performance to compel a man actually to do what he has promised — to give you the land in return for the money , to pay you the purchase money in return for the land ; injunction to forbid him to do what he has promised not to do or what he has no right to do — to forbid him to open the public house or the music-school , to forbid him to build so as to block up your light , even to compel him to pull down the objectionable wall ; the last sort of injunction is called mandatory . |
| 4 | Broadly speaking , it is easier to obtain funding for explanatory research that seems to provide guidance to policy-makers than for purely academic research , and for research that is statistically based than for research that is more qualitative in its approach . |
| 5 | In order to set any lingering doubts about pro-nuclear bias at rest , the CEGB will therefore have to provide justification for some assumptions that are , at present , not transparent . |
| 6 | Many offer aeration and flow control facilities to increase the amount of essential oxygen in your water ( PFK May ) Tuck them away in corners and use the outflow to provide currents for those fish that like them — or defect the outflow onto the tank side and disperse it , for fish that like calmer surroundings . |
| 7 | The International Telecommunications Satellite Organisation , Intelsat , owned by some 120 nations worldwide , is under such pressure to increase capacity that for the first time , it is to lease capacity on three satellites that it does not own . |
| 8 | It was to celebrate recovery from this illness that he wrote his Hymn to the Supreme Being , on Recovery from a dangerous fit of Illness . |
| 9 | The European Commission has said that it is prepared to apply sanctions against non-Community countries that discriminate against EC banks , securities firms and insurance companies . |
| 10 | Thus , far from wanting punishment for young people , between 80 per cent and 90 per cent of Scots supported measures such as ‘ counselling to help offenders with personal problems that may have led them to offend ’ , community service orders and welfare support ‘ as an alternative to sending offenders to court ’ . |
| 11 | Looked at from the other side , it should be realized that blandly-flavoured foods reduced the strong and exotic taste of many herbs , and this is where the secret of using herbs in cooking lies — to use herbs in such quantities that the strength of their flavours balances the strength and flavour of the food to which they are added . |
| 12 | Thank you Chairman , erm I 'm delighted to be the last person to present a set of budget proposals as it gives me the opportunity to draw attention to some facts that seems to have been overlooked by the representatives of the other two groups . |
| 13 | Nothing can excuse a teacher of history who fails to draw attention to local things that are of historical importance . |
| 14 | I know that whenever I 've tried to put paint on any cars that we 've ever had , it 's never looked right has it ? |
| 15 | It is a good practice for a member to give notice at one meeting that he wishes to discuss a certain matter at the next meeting . |
| 16 | There has been a fair amount of half-hearted canvassing by Wales to try to persuade members of other unions that South Africa is not really stable enough as a country to host the 1995 World Cup . |
| 17 | Article 100A has in fact been used in the context of measures relating to health , such as food additives , in the context of consumer protection , such as the indication of prices , as in the legislation on air pollution by gaseous emissions from motor vehicles , to give examples from important areas that could otherwise be subject to national legislation which would have the effect of hindering the free movement of goods . |
| 18 | The aid would come mainly through training schemes that channel to Third World engineers knowledge about , for instance , how to use imagery from remote-sensing satellites that scan the land and oceans . |
| 19 | Besides , there have been so many opportunities for growth in countries that do not require local equity sharing that they have had little incentive to try to build businesses in those countries that do . |
| 20 | As I have already observed , feminists are concerned both to draw out the implications of sexist language and to consider changes in linguistic practice that might mitigate the effects of this particular form of sexism . |
| 21 | To study changes in rectal mucosa that might be attribtable to the effects of gluten , rectal biopsy specimens from untreated and treated gluten sensitised subjects were analysed morphometrically and by immunohistochemical techniques and were compared with a series of disease control mucosae . |
| 22 | High-speed centrifuges generate large inertial forces which are used to separate materials from liquid suspensions that would sediment only slowly , if at all , under gravity . |
| 23 | One method which has previously been tried , albeit unsuccessfully , seeks to invoke principles of international law that would allegedly relieve taxpayers from their liability to pay tax on the ground that their assessments are rendered invalid by the unlawful purposes to which the taxes levied are to be applied . |
| 24 | This involves helping pupils so to develop skills of reflective thinking that they can be generously affirming of others without losing their own footing . |
| 25 | But it 's in the small firms where the growth is and it 's usually hard to get people on any courses that a small company . |
| 26 | Also throughout the branches of physical geography it was necessary to convince members of other disciplines that physical geographers had a contribution to make and this had to be done by showing what could be done rather than by simply stating in advance that a physical geographer had much to contribute . |
| 27 | The short-term objectives of the network are to raise women 's awareness of their image in the mass media , to obtain relevant information from research and networking that would motivate women to lobby for change , and to equip women with specific skills that would help build and strengthen alternative communication for and by women . |
| 28 | Then he has to seek agreement from all groups that the force can actually operate . |
| 29 | Here you will not get a test , but they will often want to see proof of any qualifications that you may have . |
| 30 | According to analysts , Souto had been forced to take responsibility for recent revelations that several high-ranking officers were deeply implicated in a vast network dealing in stolen cars from Brazil and Argentina , most of which were being passed on for sale in Bolivia . |