Example sentences of "[that] [verb] a [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The structure of the turbulence is thus changing in a way that produces a faster approach to laminar motion , perhaps because the generation of eruptions ( Section 21.6 ) is suppressed . |
| 2 | The dogs followed hard on their heels up the deep-treaded , creaking staircase that made a gradual ascent to the first floor . |
| 3 | There was something about this part of France that made a powerful appeal to her imagination and emotions . |
| 4 | And that made a big difference to my life . |
| 5 | Western countries should be prepared to open themselves far wider to East European countries that make a real move to democracy and free markets : let the shameful visa queues at western embassies disappear , welcome Gastarbeiter from these countries , open up to any exports deserving East Europeans are capable of selling in the West 's competitive markets . |
| 6 | We will review the charitable status of independent schools with the intention of ensuring that the benefits of charitable status are only awarded to those institutions that make a genuine contribution to the wider community . |
| 7 | She would never be a great beauty , he knew , but she had a natural charm and personality that lent an extra depth to her character , and he imagined that this would have been how his mother would have looked at a similar age . |
| 8 | Griffith-Boscawen introduced in 1912 a Bill to make improvement grants for rural housing , a proposal that provided a Unionist response to Lloyd George 's Land Campaign . |
| 9 | Hogarth devised a line of beauty that has an uncanny similarity to a woman 's back ! |
| 10 | Converted markets can offer a different facility that adds a new dimension to urban life . |
| 11 | And we were heading towards a sector containing a world that seemed a beneficial place to be , for a while . |
| 12 | One day , something happened that added a new idea to the ideas that I already had . |
| 13 | views that hold a good life to be readily achievable only in certain well-defined types of social structure , or only in a society that works concertedly for the realization of certain higher human capacities and the suppression of baser ones , or only given certain types of economic relations among men . |
| 14 | The first is that Luftwaffe defences became better , too , and that caused a high price to be paid in terms of casualties . |
| 15 | ‘ Boggers ’ ( no , I do n't know why , though I suspect it may have something to do with a haircut that bears a passing resemblance to a bogbrush ) may have a couple of incisive seasons left in him at best , but opponents will rarely get a moment 's peace when he combines with Bicknell and Waqar Younis next year . |
| 16 | Several wild song thrushes in different parts of Britain — and some blackbirds too — have been heard singing a new song that bears a striking resemblance to the distinctive electronic warble of British Telecom 's ‘ trimphones ’ . |
| 17 | The final sting in the tail , however , is that adding a decent keyboard to your Spectrum is , while adding to its usefulness , going to raise its price to a level where you 'd have got a decent keyboard included in the cost . |
| 18 | Luna 2 are masters of understated melodies , rippled with smooth guitar lines that lend a spooky groove to the jaunty introspection of Wareham 's songwriting . |
| 19 | Even those alarms that emit a piercing bleep to momentarily stun the attacker lack the visual impact of a screaming human . |
| 20 | In the 82nd minute , Hateley guaranteed Rangers ' win with a goal that heralded an unfortunate end to the night for Dykstra . |
| 21 | Sherwin Hall has contributed introductions that add a historical perspective to parts II and III . |
| 22 | It worries me that turning a blind eye to the deliberate starvation of these patients is portrayed as contributing in some way to the high ethical standards of the nursing profession . ’ |
| 23 | At the centre of Piaget 's theory lie a number of basic concepts that owe a great deal to his interest in biology . |
| 24 | For 25 minutes , fabulous figures and floats that owe a great deal to fibre optics and underlit , liquid-nitrogen smoke glide past in a dazzle of light and changing colour . |
| 25 | I was , therefore , intrigued to learn of a new scheme from Bryant Homes that allowed a prospective purchaser to ‘ road test ’ one of its newly built homes . |
| 26 | Nevertheless there are important factors that give a strong impetus to a reductivist reasoning . |
| 27 | For example , we would expect to find cells that give an excitatory response to long wavelength light shone on one part of the retina and an inhibitory response to long wavelength light shone on to an adjacent part . |
| 28 | The elective nature of the papacy slowed the development of the Papal State — in away that showed a marked contrast to the development of hereditary monarchies , in England for example . |
| 29 | He was able to tolerate this because he did have a kind of ultimate theological perspective of his own : in a style that owed a good deal to Hegel , he believed that all history is a movement of the spirit which is on the way to a return to God , and will at the last find its home in God . |
| 30 | At the same time , a filmmaker was directing an underground picture that owed a certain amount to The Four Feathers and Lawrence of Arabia . |