Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | That a computer can be taught to work like that has always been a controversial proposition ; even today there are observers who believe that it is impossible to build a machine ( at least with current programming techniques ) that can plan even remotely as well as a human . |
| 2 | ‘ Nobody can predict what will happen over the next decade , particularly with all the agricultural changes brought about by the EC , but East Anglia can grow some of the best and cheapest grain in Europe and we are well placed to benefit from that ’ . |
| 3 | During the day there was a factory and you used to have to make boxes , or if you were a cleaner you used to have to scrub the landings and everything , or there was a farm and you could work there — but you used to have to be really trusted to work on that . |
| 4 | He could see that his life was n't at issue ; she had n't come to hear about that . |
| 5 | What am I expected to do about that ? |
| 6 | I only had one bit to do on that section ; it did n't seem worth it . ’ |
| 7 | it has come to seem like that only by accident . |
| 8 | His sort of realism just could not be expected to compete with that of the gangster film and especially now with that being offered by James Cagney . |
| 9 | They could n't be expected to argue with that . |
| 10 | As biological bias is increased toward one choice as opposed to another in the course of genetic evolution , the mode of the ethnographic curve can be expected to shift in that direction . |
| 11 | Our basic model is developed from the circular flow relationship that was established in Chapter 1 , and so the reader is recommended to refer to that chapter as a background for the present discussion . |
| 12 | Every species has a slightly different solution to the problem of getting about , and the amount of work required to go at a particular speed depends in part on how well an animal has been designed to move at that speed . |
| 13 | And time after time after time , there have been cases prepared and whenever they came to court , there was nobody prepared to go into that courtroom . |
| 14 | Opponents frequently struggled to cope with that type of galvanising influence as Howard Wilkinson 's team may discover for themselves on their return to Villa Park tonight . |
| 15 | Except I think just to emphasize one or two minor issues but the savings from last year , that was the underspendings from ninety two ninety three were , as you recall last year er used to support this year 's budget er those savings underspending are no longer available and therefore have been taken out of the consideration The staff costs for T S G schemes that are mentioned at the bottom of page five erm , the programme this year which is actually listed over the page at table two does erm indicate that erm we are now contemplating link road and bypass next year and staff available are needed to complete that work or fortunately we 've been able to secure a start on which enables some of the staff to be transferred to work on that scheme . |
| 16 | Once youth was seen to figure in that problem , it became illogical to suppose that it could be kept separate from the collectivist response . |
| 17 | Then we ask , as a further and subsidiary question , how the various members and agents of the corporation should be seen to share in that fault or responsibility . |
| 18 | Treloar smoked for a while in silence , then he said : ‘ I suppose that was the man 's nature but I 've wondered sometimes whether it was why Francis turned out so bloody useless … if he was made to feel like that from childhood — insignificant , a bit of a joke . ’ |
| 19 | In Very small farms — a distinctive role ? some attempt is made to reply to that question . |
| 20 | She made a deliberate effort to relax : they would both have blown up if they had had to sit like that all evening , she thought . |
| 21 | Yeah well it probably will be cos but it I mean they 've never had to go to that extension have they ? |
| 22 | He 'd had to go through that wrench of premature separation alone ; now I had to . |
| 23 | My local authority has had to cope with that problem for many years , as I did when I was housing chairman of my local authority . |
| 24 | Erm in the early stages , I mean you 've got to go through all the ranks , you 've got to go through that physical side , even if you want to get on , there 's no direct promotion into the higher ranks so you 've got to go through it , every Chief Officer , every senior officer that you , you come across in the fire service , has started as a fireman and will start as a fireman on like er the forces where you get direct entry into the forces , you do n't get them in the Fire Service . |
| 25 | started she 's got to go through that gate |
| 26 | Spirit and flesh both quailed before so difficult and rowdy an audience on so difficult and perilous a subject … as I sat in the committee room while the order of the meeting was being arranged , and heard my audience shouting , singing , crowing like cocks … and keeping up a continuous uproar , I thought to myself , ‘ I have got to go into that and control it somehow so as to be heard ’ … |
| 27 | You say you got to go to that golf club or you 've got to go to that school . |
| 28 | ‘ You mean we 've got to go on that ? ’ he said . |
| 29 | You 've then got to go below that and say , this was achieved through actual and it is the advertising making the public aware that we are prepared to employ females providing they 're good enough . |
| 30 | Erm , parent involvement , there is no mention in this report about parent involvement , and I think this is absolutely essential that the , it 's often the families who are poor parenting , because they 've been poor parent people , and you have succession , and we 've gone somewhere along the line , we 've got to go down that road . |