Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of the considerable achievement of Michael Mann 's imaginative but faithful treatment is that it manages to make acceptable for the 1990s some of the outmoded attitudes of its characters , and yet refuses to go for that eco-trendiness that will make Dances With Wolves look dated by the turn of the century . |
| 2 | And in order to write about those things that upset him he would have to think about them . |
| 3 | Such a tax is seen as having lower disincentive effects than an income tax because it relates to past effort ; i.e. there is no disincentive effect to work for additional income that is to be consumed . |
| 4 | ‘ I doubt whether you could understand how it feels to know for all eternity that the creations of hell are pursuing you , ’ Kopyion said . |
| 5 | But at least they did n't need to worry about any area that came under Michael Stein 's remit . |
| 6 | After the intensive twelve months support with the project , girls need somewhere to come with any problems that may occur later . |
| 7 | A number of tradesmen in the timber , textile and tin-plate industries looked upon coffin-making and funeral furnishing as something by which they could profit , and it was not unknown for some to meet with such success that they abandoned their established trade to go into undertaking full time . |
| 8 | The Application Systems Line of Business used to work under political constraints that made sure that it did n't tread too heavily on the mainframe business . |
| 9 | It is a waste not only of your valuable time but also of your press space to work with cheap flowers that are obviously past their best . |
| 10 | It is difficult to infer from this passage that Strabo trusted Timagenes about the Cells and never made use of the original text of Posidonius — who had been directly or indirectly his own teacher . |
| 11 | I believe , therefore , that it is not implausible to infer from these findings that a substantial fraction of Labour voters reckoned merely that the party would be able to form a more competent and moderate government , and would be better able to defuse the crisis , although one should not discount the continued existence of a ‘ class reflex ’ vote owing little to any elaborate political calculation . |
| 12 | We should park a little of our funds in those societies either tipped to convert to a public company or ripe for takeover to benefit from any freebies that may be on offer . |
| 13 | No doubt it is because of the vision to train in this way that Ichthus has been able to grow in the way that it has done . |
| 14 | It comes as no surprise to discover from another source that in 1921 the Kursk guberniia party committee had tried to deal with these problems ; ‘ the purge of the party was the first basic step towards the strengthening of the personnel of the party and yielded enormous results . ’ |
| 15 | Again she was giving him the opportunity to ask her to lengthen the period — or to indicate in some way that he had no wish for her to leave . |
| 16 | These figures are n't showing an upturn , and there is nothing to indicate from inter-company comparisons that anybody else in the industry is experiencing anything different . ’ |
| 17 | Is it the opportunity to slip in some data that are not strong enough to form a peer-reviewed paper or the liberty to digress and speculate which entices authors ? |
| 18 | By comparing the rate of occurrence of particular words in the disputed papers with the rates in known Hamilton papers , and rates in known Madison papers , the authors were able to establish beyond reasonable doubt that Madison wrote the disputed papers . |
| 19 | At most , therefore , there is in evidential burden on the defendant , and it would be for the prosecutor to establish beyond reasonable doubt that the report was unfair or inaccurate , or that the proceedings were not before a tribunal exercising judicial authority . |
| 20 | In seduction situations of this kind , where a woman fails to register lack of consent and no violence is used or threatened , the decision in Morgan is largely irrelevant , for in such cases the prosecution will be quite unable to establish beyond reasonable doubt that the woman 's consent was lacking . |
| 21 | After brushing thoroughly , it is important to concentrate on specific areas that get particularly dirty . |
| 22 | I was an unreceptive boy to teach , disinclined to concentrate on any subject that bored me . |
| 23 | The minute our engagement is announced the gossipmongers in this little hotbed of a colony will be ready to pounce on any evidence that this is — as they have long predicted — a marriage of convenience ! ’ |
| 24 | So it is particularly refreshing to come across one company that not only recruited its company secretary and main board director when she was four months pregnant , but also waited for almost a year for her to join full time . |
| 25 | I only pause to observe at this stage that the decision , although obviously of great importance , was not concerned with the terms upon which interim relief in the form of an interlocutory injunction should be granted . |
| 26 | You ought to know by this time that — in the language of popular fiction — he has eyes for no one but you . ’ |
| 27 | A friend and I spread the maps out , moved the cats , and decided to pick off five Munros that form a horseshoe ridge culminating in Sgurr a' Mhaim , and including something ominously titled the Devil 's Ridge . |
| 28 | Under the Treaty of Rome , it takes only a majority of EC members to launch a constitutional conference that obliges heads of government to talk about central powers that some would call non-negotiable . |
| 29 | The 1992 programme has begun to falter amid growing evidence that it has become rigged with national interests , disadvantaging those countries who play by the rules . |
| 30 | The 1986 Act was seen by many as a missed opportunity in that it failed to state in positive terms that there was a right to protest peacefully . |