Example sentences of "[that] [verb] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It is no coincidence or mistake that it was the Conservative party that applied to take Britain into the Community , and which took Britain in . |
| 2 | My branch submitted a motion to the Apex conference two years ago that sought to draw attention to unemployment amongst the white collar workers . |
| 3 | A production environment that sought to minimize expense was not especially stimulating to creativity , and some idea of the cynicism involved is evident from the instruction given to Adrian Brunel by the bosses at MGM that he could n't make any improvements in the film he had made for them lest his cuts shorten the film below the act 's definition of a full-length picture . |
| 4 | But even that failed to disturb Ferguson 's philosophy . |
| 5 | In 1807 he was in the expedition that failed to take Buenos Aires and subsequently went with his battalion to India . |
| 6 | THE MAGIC that failed to lure Alan Shearer to Manchester United worked its spell on second-choice striker Dion Dublin yesterday . |
| 7 | Moreover , following a study that failed to show superiority of intravenous nutrition over polymeric feeding or oral food with parenteral supplementation , it is now apparent that complete bowel rest is not essential for achieving remission in acute Crohn 's disease with nutritional treatment . |
| 8 | Barclay ( 1978 ) argues that the existence of surplus profits in the financial services industry will attract new entrants , and that it is the influx of new entrants that tend to cause problems for regulators . |
| 9 | As against this view , however , Jensen and Murphy suggest with some plausibility that ‘ there are strong political and organizational forces that tend to define success in dimensions other than shareholder wealth and exert pressures for actions that reduce firm value . |
| 10 | It is clear that this change is highly evaluated in Belfast in terms of social class hierarchy and status , as it is the more prestigious groups that tend to adopt it and the more ‘ advanced ’ ( generally female and younger ) group who introduce it to the conservative inner-city communities ( which are characterized by dense and multiplex network ties that tend to resist innovation and maintain conservative forms ) . |
| 11 | The Conference adopted two recommendations that call attention to the fact that the health sector is not the only one that should be concerned with mortality and that , in addition to primary health care , there are other factors that tend to reduce mortality and enhance health of mothers and children . |
| 12 | Suppose it is recognized that economies of scale may lead to monopoly or other forms of imperfect competition that tend to misallocate resources . |
| 13 | In their places ‘ Spirit Of Eden ’ offered spontaneous improvisation , yearning wails of pain and desire , pregnant pauses , psychedelic meanderings , mournful strings , discordant guitar feedback and all sorts of other lost-in-my-muse soul searching noises that tend to make record company executives twitch their fingers inside their shirt collars and shift about in their leather swivel chairs a lot . |
| 14 | It 's the sort of question that a man and a woman might very well give different answers to , but it seems to me that there are different sorts of things that erm some women tend to notice , different sorts of ideas that tend to assume prominence in the imaginations of some women , and erm to that extent I think that George Eliot 's sympathy for other people , including people that she does n't actually agree with , is perhaps a characteristic that one might tend to find more in a women novelist than in a male novelist , although I 'm not sure that one can be absolutely dogmatic and say that one would never find a male novelist who could write the way that George Eliot does . |
| 15 | You could 've used that wind to scour pans . |
| 16 | In addition , the Prayer Book include a communion rubric , known as the Black Rubric , which contained an explicit denial of the real presence ; it stated that the bread and wine ‘ remain still in their very natural substances ’ , and that kneeling to receive communion did not signify that ‘ any adoration is done or meant to be done ’ . |
| 17 | Last October George Bush was asked to sign a bill that tried to restore things to the more liberal way they were between 1971 and 1989 . |
| 18 | So probably a total stock of a dozen or more White Clouds , a dozen Zebra Danios , five female and one male American Flags ( females have a dot on the dorsal fin ) , six Black Widows and Six Red Eyes , with perhaps six Rosy or Aurulius barbs ( though I have my doubts about the later having once come across three three-inch specimens that tried to eat Corydoras for breakfast ) and the pair of sluggard cats . |
| 19 | It has been ‘ very disappointing ’ , she says in a brave , and painful , understatement of her involvement with the business that tried to recreate Anita Roddick 's success . |
| 20 | If you are a creature that needs to locate things rapidly in a three-dimensional world , whether as a hunter or for other purposes , binocular vision or ‘ binocular sonar ’ are essential . |
| 21 | Christmas trees , and I have two small children that to try to sustain Christmas for three or four days is very difficult , to do it for three months is impossible ! |
| 22 | It 's Man that has to put Nature right , you know , and not vice versa . |
| 23 | Oxfordshire is one of few counties in the south-east in which we have a surplus of holes in the ground and so Oxfordshire is one of those counties that has to help London out . |
| 24 | In tiny flats and bedsitters it 's more often the living room that has to make space for dining , in which case it 's a good idea to separate the two functions with either a physical division — like an arch , trellis or shelving — or with visual treatment like different lighting or flooring , or perhaps a change of colour or mood created by wall coverings and soft furnishings . |
| 25 | But those that want to sell Solaris-on-Intel are going to have to be reauthorised . |
| 26 | Large organisations that want to do business via EDI can provide valuable assistance to their trading partners in getting online . |
| 27 | Under the policy , companies that want to import computers to India have to show that they also have export orders for software . |
| 28 | The technology for monitoring absenteeism is there for the companies that want to take control of what can be a major expense and loss of competitive edge . |
| 29 | Smartstream , Smartstream Analyzer and InterQ are aimed at organisations that want to reduce host computer cycles , automate application workflow and provide better information access to users at the desktop , while enabling customers to re-engineer business processes . |
| 30 | Currently independent software vendors that want to build applications pay $15,000 , and hardware vendors building Distributed Computing Environment code into their operating systems pay $150,000 for full distribution rights . |