Example sentences of "[that] [vb past] [pron] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Election Comment : Never forget the damage Labour did Ambrose Evans-Pritchard recalls the chaos of the 1970s that led him to leave the country |
| 2 | The observations that led him to make the distinction are deceptively simple . |
| 3 | So I suppose it was frustration that led me to break the cardinal rule of any diplomat behind the Iron Curtain in the good old days . |
| 4 | I knew Nour was beautiful with the same sort of tutored , obedient awareness that led one to comprehend the merits of , say , the head of Nefertiti , but I did n't care . |
| 5 | It was this kind of evidence that led us to use the social network model in a systematic way : as Ballymacarrett is the most stable and well-established of the communities , we can conclude that the social conditions there are favourable to the emergence of a close-knit network structure of the kind often found in low-status communities ( Young and Wilmott , 1962 ) , and there is ample ethnographic evidence that a close-knit structure of this kind is capable of imposing normative consensus on its members . |
| 6 | He had been an army officer once and there had been trouble that caused him to leave the army . |
| 7 | It was taking up the game at such a young age that caused him to hold the racket with both hands , rather than playing tennis , which he did to county standard at the age of 12 . |
| 8 | As I hastened to go upstairs , I happened to encounter Miss Kenton in the back corridor — the scene , of course , of our last disagreement — and it was perhaps this unhappy coincidence that encouraged her to maintain the childish behaviour she had adopted on that previous occasion . |
| 9 | BHC engineers came up with a floppier , tapered skirt that allowed them to reduce the pressure of the air cushion . |
| 10 | Then , in the last four years of her life , working with a small devoted group of students and collaborators , she succeeded in obtaining spectacular X-ray patterns of the virus that allowed her to determine the precise helical geometry of the protein sub-units , and , above all , to show that the ribonucleic acid ( RNA ) of the virus — the carrier of the genetic information , and hence the infectivity — formed a long single chain embedded deeply within the protein framework . |
| 11 | In entertainment I 'd think the reduc cost reductions there were pretty well , er restricted to good housekeeping , but from fine china er , we managed to transfer the , the er , work in the Minton factory to the Knowle Street factory and that allowed us to close the Minton factory and quite apart from the redundancies that entailed , we saved something like two hundred and fifty thousand er , non staff related overhead . |
| 12 | Because of the potential importance of the association , as well as to overcome methodological limitations of the original study , we analysed data from a prospective study that allowed us to assess the association between dental disease and coronary heart disease . |
| 13 | In fact , the envelope the film sample came in carried a completely different company name and it was only our knowledge of the market that allowed us to recognise the source . |
| 14 | Mr Sullivan says it was this incident that prompted him to stage the break in . |
| 15 | The brontosaurs had long necks ( lower picture ) that enabled them to reach the high-growing conifers prevalent in the Jurassic . |
| 16 | On 1 November , the Germans again attacked the salient 's belly , but this time at night , a ruse that enabled them to capture the Messines Ridge . |
| 17 | It was a faculty common to all good sailors , the essential extra that enabled them to meet the seas whatever the conditions so that their craft ran straight rather than in the long zig-zags of the helmsman imprisoned by the compass and only reacting to the swing of its needle . |
| 18 | England 's Jamie Spence and David Gilford contrived to lead the British assault on this £62,500 title at the halfway stage , but Montgomerie is now back among the infantry after a second-round 77 that enabled him to beat the halfway cut by just one stroke . |
| 19 | Some of the sound tests were done by a computer and luckily I had access to a computer from my dealer in Bath that enabled me to set the sound up perfectly . |
| 20 | ‘ We knew well in advance when the Subject Assessors would be visiting Wester Hailes , and that enabled us to prepare the staff . ’ |
| 21 | It was only the threat of banishment from the game that persuaded him to wear the sponsors ' bibs at the tournaments . |
| 22 | And it was only the brave pleading of hostage Barbara Brady that persuaded him to hand the ammunition over , the Old Bailey was told . |
| 23 | He said it was worthless having a respected financial sector that did nothing to help the economy and added that the vested interests of the sector needed to be tackled so that the benefits could be accrued by everyone in Scotland and not just a selected minority . |
| 24 | At least by the time he received a freak , soccer-kickabout leg injury last month that forced him to miss the Test against South Africa , he had enjoyed a double-try England debut against Canada . |
| 25 | Nevertheless the conservatives who manned the Juntas were not provincial separatists : they were inspired , not merely by a vague programme of reform on a national level , but by a sense of order that forced them to see the necessity of a central government . |
| 26 | Apprised of this information , the computer print-outs ( ’ it 's all down to you , the draw will be made by the same computer that picked you to join the two out of every 100 households in the Barnard Castle area ’ ) are on their way by first-class post to Tom Champagne . |