Example sentences of "[that] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A government that sought to remain in office after losing a vote of confidence in the House of Commons would find its position politically intenable : it would lack the political authority to govern . |
| 2 | The decade began with congress passing various bills that sought to cut off funding for the Vietnam War and in 1973 legislators moved on to pass the War Powers Act over president Nixon 's veto . |
| 3 | This is in itself unremarkable and can be explained if , of the two types , the carbon-free granulites have a higher porosity , a weaker matrix or a greater proportion of long thin cracks that tend to close on application of small confining pressures . |
| 4 | With the stressed plants there was a problem in ‘ seeing ’ narrow leaves of the sort that tend to occur under stress . |
| 5 | that tend to appear at Christmas , |
| 6 | ‘ Be careful not to wake the crowd that has to go to school in the morning . ’ |
| 7 | The only kind of entity that has to exist in order for life to arise , anywhere in the universe , is the immortal replicator . |
| 8 | I feel they are rooted in something that has to do with culture , with a sense of history , a sense of past , a sense of tradition . |
| 9 | The Communists reacted by attacking " the half-Trotskyite ILP , a party that loves to talk of revolution and to shriek out " Left " phrases on every possible occasion " . |
| 10 | It is not only track-owners who want machines ; it is any community that wants to tap into tourism , or ( especially round desert retirement cities ) into the boredom of senior citizens puttering from one amusement to the next . |
| 11 | Is there something in the English soul that wants to bond with land ? |
| 12 | She would have to control that urge to speak without thinking , would have at least to look cool and controlled , even if that was not how she felt . |
| 13 | Feeling unutterably depressed , she wandered round the empty cottage that seemed to echo with loneliness . |
| 14 | There was a silence that seemed to last to eternity , then her pride brought her to her feet and filled her cheeks with hot , angry colour . |
| 15 | They approached what appeared to be a massive green wall , where the sun highlighted tall trunks and sent blue shadows among the tree-tops that seemed to stretch into infinity . |
| 16 | The air felt storm-charged and Jessamy 's nerve-ends responded with a prickling that seemed to warn of danger ahead . |
| 17 | Photographs , ornaments jammed anyhow on to whatever might accommodate them ; furniture , chairs and tallboys that seemed to fight for space . |
| 18 | It was a stray that came to beg for food in the garden of a town house . |
| 19 | In consequence , the only land-living creatures likely to be fossilised are those that happen to fall into water . |
| 20 | One was a spontaneous mêleé of the kind that tends to erupt at pub closing times or in dance halls . |
| 21 | The facts that seem to emerge from analysis of the recent controlled studies are : ( a ) pure ethanol given intravenously , orally , or by an intragastric route , in different concentrations does not stimulate gastrin release whether or not it stimulates acid secretion ; ( b ) among the alcoholic beverages beer and wine produce pronounced stimulation of gastrin release whereas whisky , gin , cognac , and vodka do not have any effect on gastrin concentrations . |
| 22 | Male geladas may thus obtain a harem in several ways that seem to depend on age . |
| 23 | Leave aside , for the moment , the social , economic , demographic and other shifts that continue to operate to Labour 's disadvantage , shrinking its traditional electoral base . |
| 24 | But , where it 's a proposal that seems to call for persuasion , should n't we be thinking of letting the inhabitants of the city decide for themselves ? |
| 25 | The research will concentrate on the possibility of systematizing and standardising a procedure that seems to emerge from experience hitherto with econometric models . |
| 26 | As we narrow down the proportion of the labour market that appears to benefit from lifetime employment in Japan , we get closer to the proportion of labour in Western countries employed by large companies who work to seniority wage profiles that offer accumulating reward for experience . |
| 27 | A court that tries to decide as Parliament would have wished is more likely to be right than a court that follows the words believing it was not what Parliament intended . |
| 28 | There appear to be two types of modifiability in cortical neurons : a slow , irreversible process that occurs during early development , and a rapid , reversible one that continues to operate through life . |
| 29 | She 's the sort of woman that likes to stop at home and watch soap operas and and gossip about this person , that person and the other person . |
| 30 | In his inaugural address , Garcia praised the informal workers as ‘ modern heroes ’ , who shun delinquency and terrorism to make a decent living , and are ‘ the expression of honest people that wish to work in equality and well being ’ . |