Example sentences of "[that] [vb mod] [vb infin] to [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Granulocytes and mononuclear cells relax precontracted distal colonic circular smooth muscle in vitro by the release of NO that may contribute to motility disorders of the gut associated with inflammation . |
| 2 | ‘ It puts an extra strain on your entire body , ’ points out Heartwatch co-ordinator Andrew Smart , ‘ causing damage to joints and increasing the chances of illnesses that may lead to heart attacks or strokes or diabetes . ’ |
| 3 | Pragmatism may appropriately be referred to as a via media between , on the one hand , an empiricism and positivism that may lead to inhumanism and , on the other , a rationalistic Idealism that may become out of touch with contemporary realities . |
| 4 | There are fashions among professionals that may lead to decisions lay people would justifiably avoid . |
| 5 | All we can do here is to draw attention to the existing divorce , and to suggest measures that may lead to reunion . |
| 6 | We reserve the right to edit correspondence for length and to remove potentially libellous statements , or other matter that may lead to litigation . |
| 7 | As Menachem Begin recalled ‘ Ben Gurion used to say that if you 're pursuing a policy that may lead to war , it 's vital to have a great power behind you . ’ |
| 8 | What about any claims that may come to light in the future , for instance in relation to products that you may already have bought from the company ? |
| 9 | The Council of Ministers is split on the amount of cash aid that should go to projects , now at the demonstration stage , which would provide an alternative to imported oil . |
| 10 | An opening at the Met Despite resistance by its more conservative elements , the Metropolitan Police has begun a process of reform that should lead to improvements in the way it operates and encourage better relations with the public . |
| 11 | It is as if Blake is taking our hand and compelling us to see what he sees : streets mapped out , chartered , known , possessing no vital life of their own but owned ; a river that has been forced to fit into this scheme , that is likewise owned , and hence deprived of some intrinsic quality that should belong to rivers . |
| 12 | As far as council support goes , we 've been granted the use of both the station centre itself , so that we can have a retail outlet for furniture , bric-a-brac , books , the kind of thing that might go to landfill , but which people might very well want to use . |
| 13 | As you say it 's the sort of thing that might appeal to people because then they can go and look at their poster . |
| 14 | She did not specify , even to herself , the harm that might come to Alice , but it was bound up with love , with loving a man . |
| 15 | Hewlett-Packard Co has beaten both the incumbent mainframe supplies , IBM Corp and Unisys Corp to a contract with Televerket of Stockholm to an initial $4.6m contract that could grow to $100m by 1996 . |
| 16 | The first second source to be announced for the Digital Equipment Corp Alpha RISC looks like being a real surprise : Mitsubishi Electric Corp , not noted up to now as a fabricator of microprocessors , is negotiating a tie-up with DEC that could lead to Mitsubishi making and selling the Alpha , Reuter reports from Tokyo . |
| 17 | The first second source to be announced for the Digital Equipment Corp Alpha RISC looks like being a real surprise : Mitsubishi Electric Corp , not noted up to now as a fabricator of microprocessors , is negotiating a tie-up with DEC that could lead to Mitsubishi making and selling the Alpha , Reuter reports from Tokyo . |
| 18 | In brief , the good leader , the man who could inspire his army , not merely he who could avoid the obvious pitfalls of generalship which Frontinus had pointed out , might be born with certain inherent qualities , but these had to be developed in the only way that could lead to success , through practice and experience . |
| 19 | Indeed , if they were to announce their decision to desist , it would be an important confidence-building measure that could lead to others — for example , the suspension of the Arab boycott . |
| 20 | They waited … waited before the edge that could lead to eternity . |
| 21 | consider inspection procedures which could lead to early detection of damage that could lead to failure of a blade |
| 22 | DO NOT USE PUNISHMENT THAT COULD LEAD TO AVOIDANCE OF DESIRED BEHAVIOUR |
| 23 | Europe 's leading primate centre , which pioneered bone-marrow transplantation in the 1960s and which now supplies animals for AIDS research , faces a financial crisis that could lead to closure . |
| 24 | As in an Indian raga , a particular sequence of notes serves as the basis for variations that could continue to infinity ; eventually , however , it returns to its theme . |
| 25 | Well joking apart that 's the sort of thing that could happen to kids and er you you know you wonder why parents let them out . |
| 26 | It 's a very basic vertical scroller that would fail to enthral most people , simply because ( a ) it looks bad , ( b ) it sounds worse , and ( c ) it plays terribly . |
| 27 | One person whose eye he did catch was Patrick McGoohan , who recommended him for the role of cabin boy John Drake in Sir Francis Drake , a twenty-six-part adventure series made by ITC , whose boss , Lew Grade , was expert at making programmes that would sell to America ; one of them was Danger Man , starring McGoohan . |
| 28 | He invariably had some spicy piece of information to impart that would add to Preston 's meagre understanding . |
| 29 | Other countries , especially those in surplus , were facing an inflow of dollars in exchange for their currencies because of the potential capital gains that would accrue to speculators if the dollar was devalued . |
| 30 | During the French referendum , those urging the French to vote Yes argued that the alternative was a Europe that would revert to nationalism and division . |