Example sentences of "that [vb mod] [vb infin] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nature of the problem can be illustrated by giving a few examples of the types of conflict that may arise in a financial conglomerate . |
| 2 | A few precautions are advisable to eliminate any risk that may exist in a domestic situation . |
| 3 | Even so , it is possible for a court to interpret a statute as covering what looks at first sight as a casus omissus if it can find or invent some plausible general principle of interpretation , an exercise that may call for a little ingenuity . |
| 4 | What is more of a worry for them is the damage that may ensue from a significant and hostile minority which now feels entitled to speak its mind . |
| 5 | Jeanette Lamb , a research team member at the Institute of Molecular Medicine , John Radcliffe Hospital , Oxford , said : ‘ We have found a cause for mental retardation that may account for a large proportion of the unexplained cases . ’ |
| 6 | Colleagues and I recently reported a case that may point to a possible adjunct to treatment for these patients . |
| 7 | To acknowledge any such standard would be , in effect , to accept a principle that might lead to a lesser religious or other liberty , if not to a loss of freedom altogether to advance many of one 's spiritual ends . |
| 8 | Such official intervention may in theory reduce the degree of exchange rate volatility , and so partially reduce the uncertainty in world trade that might result from a free float . |
| 9 | The other inhibition is more pragmatic : fear of unlimited losses on short positions that might result from a sudden market rally . |
| 10 | The model to this point has assumed fixed factor prices , an assumption that might apply to a small open economy ( although even then constancy over time is unlikely ) , but that in a closed economy leaves out of account the general equilibrium effects discussed in earlier Lectures . |
| 11 | Do they have sexist , ageist or racist attitudes that might emerge at a critical point in your work together ? |
| 12 | It offers continuing education not only in the continuous sense , but also continually , in response to changing needs that might emerge with a different life-style , increasing age or acquired disabilities . |
| 13 | I sang songs to myself , made up stories , got hungry , rolled around in the sand a bit , rubbed a little of it into my eyes and generally tried to psyche myself up into something that might look like a terrible state for a wee boy to be in . |
| 14 | From beautiful alpaca wool jumpers to a handcrafted rocking chair — from puzzles that 'll confound to a traditional tribal face mask … |
| 15 | From beautiful alpaca wool jumpers to a handcrafted rocking chair — from puzzles that 'll confound to a traditional tribal face mask … |
| 16 | I think I 'm making my point , I have been saying for some time now that given the fact that all that security has n't produced the results , the logic of that is dialogue , and when I see the opportunity as I saw it , of dialogue , direct dialogue with Mr Addams that could lead to a total cessation of this violence , I felt it was my duty to do so . |
| 17 | Mr Christie 's complaint to the commission , the first of its kind over GCHQ 's activities , is the initial stage in a process that could lead to a full hearing by the European Court of Human Rights . |
| 18 | Far from capitulating to this new thrust of American trade policy , Japan is taking a stand that could lead to a trans-Pacific confrontation . |
| 19 | ‘ I forced myself to write a chapter or two about the good things he did : getting rid of dead wood in the bureau ; eliminating corruption among his agents ; setting up a fingerprint system , an FBI laboratory that could serve as a technical resource for police forces all over the country . |
| 20 | Few , if any voters are going to opt for a high-risk economic strategy that could result in a real cut in living standards . |
| 21 | At present theoretical physicists expect other new heavy particles that could decay in a similar way , such as the so called ‘ top ’ quark . |
| 22 | It is designed to act out potential accidents that could occur in a full-scale , commercial reactor , and it claims to come closer to recreating the real thing than any other testing facility . |
| 23 | Similarly , a photographer who also occupies a ground-floor unit needed a huge room that could operate as a photographic studio . |
| 24 | Perhaps that was the worst thing that could happen to a human being . |
| 25 | Where amounts are included in debt representing instruments in respect of which the claim that would arise on a winding up is significantly different from that at which the instrument is stated in the financial statements , the amount of the claim that would arise on a winding up should be stated . |
| 26 | Where amounts are included in debt representing instruments in respect of which the claim that would arise on a winding up is significantly different from that at which the instrument is stated in the financial statements , the amount of the claim that would arise on a winding up should be stated . |
| 27 | The introduction of governments that tax goods and incomes in various ways is of course one of the major ‘ imperfections ’ , and economic theory is concerned to show what kinds of tax would interfere least with allocations that would arise in a free market . |
| 28 | This chapter examines a study , where , at the outset , the analysts were not entirely clear what could be achieved by using soft systems analysis , but felt it would provide an overview of the situation , enabling ideas to be formulated about new relationships that would arise from a fundamental change in role . |
| 29 | They chose a reactive group that would bind to a solid surface with hydroxyl groups ( — OH ) sticking out . |
| 30 | He knew that what he was seeing meant jobs for Cork , wage-packets for its workers , money for its shopkeepers , business for its tradesmen ; but , more than that , more even than the commerce that would result on a national scale , he saw it as history in action . |