Example sentences of "that [vb -s] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He argues that all other forms of therapy are simply tranquillizers , helping people to adapt rather than change , or else to find an addiction like meditation or relaxation that offers temporary relief to which we will always need to return . |
| 2 | Football thrives on scandal , it is a highly competitive game that offers untold wealth to the most talented players , sudden and often tragic decline in the lives of those whose youth or skills desert them , and the extremes of pain and passion to those who follow the game . |
| 3 | There has been much recent work by psychologists and linguists on these early stages of acquisition that has direct relevance to pragmatics , but is not reviewed in this book ( see e.g. Ervin-Tripp & Mitchell-Kernan , 1977 ; Snow & Ferguson , 1977 Ochs & Schieffelin , 1979 ; and the critical account of such work in M. Atkinson , 1982 ) . |
| 4 | In one of their experiments they first find the region of the visual field that causes electrical activity to be recorded through an electrode placed in a particular patch of neocortex , and then they map the receptive field for a single cell , as illustrated for a retinal ganglion cell in Figure 4 . |
| 5 | Sometimes the act has been carried out in a hostile fashion that causes maximum distress to the staff . |
| 6 | Their Shine Tonic is an excellent spray-on , leave-in conditioner that adds instant gloss to any style and leaves hair feeling soft and manageable too . |
| 7 | And obviously that adds certain constraints to sort of erm income . |
| 8 | Hi-Lo ( about £5 ) is a device that allows hanging baskets to be lowered for watering and then returned to their positions . |
| 9 | Streep is splendidly narcissistic as Ashton , lashing all-comers with her viper 's tongue in a script that allows full rein to her over-mannered acting style . |
| 10 | It 's part of the same thing that allows Royal marriages to break-up and sex before marriage . |
| 11 | As well as co-operating with software houses , Aldus will be introducing a range of filters itself together with a programmers kit that allows special versions to be generated by the user — given that he or she can write programs in C. |
| 12 | Show how software that allows alternate indexes to be created can be used to set up an inverted file system |
| 13 | Nevertheless , it is fairly clear that he saw the democratic political movement as the principal force creating this new social order , for it is the democratic regime that assigns pre-eminent value to the wellbeing of the greatest number , establishes an open and mobile society by destroying the old hierarchy of ranks , and encourages the development of trade and manufacture . |
| 14 | Similarly , requests for calculations or analysis will generate a response that requires mass data to be extracted from the model on the designing workstation . |
| 15 | He suggests that Marx 's interpretation of Hegel ( even without the benefit of access to the Jena lectures ) produced an account of the formation of the human species that reduces communicative action to instrumental action — labour ( Habermas 1974 : 169 ) . |
| 16 | In his paper he exemplifies an approach to the teaching of stylistics that keeps technical jargon to a minimum and that aims to develop in the students a keen sensitivity for the way in which all levels of language , including grammatical choices , can contribute to the creation of aesthetic effects . |
| 17 | In short , the fundamental rule that accords legal validity to Acts of Parliament is not itself the foundation of the legal order , beyond which the lawyer is forbidden to look . |
| 18 | There was thus some political pressure from Conservative Ministers to ensure that Boards allocated overheads to their contracting activities properly and secured an economic profit , but the contractors ' association director was so politically inept in following this up that Citrine had no difficulty in exposing him to Whitehall as a biased anti-nationaliser who was unwilling to accept a reasonable accommodation . |
| 19 | The Oyster case is the epitome of strength , carved from a solid block of Stainless Steel , Gold or Platinum , in no less than one hundred and sixty-two separate operations with a further thirty-two operations required to produce the Twinlock winding crown , a hermetic seal that ensures perfect waterproofing to a depth of one hundred metres . |
| 20 | A system that presents ethical problems to the experimenter is the demographic system . |
| 21 | Duckhams Oils , like the companies nominated for this award , is a specialist company that manufactures high-performance products to the highest standards |
| 22 | Neo-Realists see states as able to control international economic transactions in a way that restores explanatory power to Realist assumptions about the role of the power-maximizing state . |
| 23 | Arbitan gives each of them a ‘ Travel Dial ’ , a wrist-watch shaped device that permits instantaneous teleportation to the zones where the keys are hidden . |
| 24 | I shall argue that he overstates the significance that can be attributed to literacy in itself : that he lends authority to a language for describing literacy practices that often contradicts even his own stated disclaimers of the ‘ strong ’ case ; that he understates the qualities of oral communication ; that he sets up unhelpful and often untestable polarities between , for instance , the ‘ potentialities ’ of literacy and ‘ restricted literacy ’ ; and that he polarises the differences between oral and literate modes of communication in a way that gives insufficient credit to the reality of ‘ mixed ’ and interacting modes . |
| 25 | Act at all times in a manner that gives full effect to your obligations under the law and the regulatory framework . |
| 26 | QuickTime support is offered via AliasTime , a Macintosh utility that converts Alias-format animations to QuickTime movies . |
| 27 | It would like something similar to the G-24 that co-ordinates western aid to Eastern Europe . |
| 28 | For these reasons it is seldom used for current measurement nowadays but it does find application in a modified form of operation that enables electrical power to be measured in both direct and alternating-current circuits at frequencies up to a few hundred hertz . |
| 29 | Drawing No. 78 has this comment : ‘ This Plate exhibits one of these new buildings which afford comforts the poor inhabitants of the picturesque seldome enjoy ; but it is but just to observe that the wealthy residents in Ambleside , natives and strangers , are exceedingly attentive to the wants of the needy , and supply them with a discriminating kindness that does equal honour to their heads and to their hearts . ’ |
| 30 | They start like ‘ Too Tough To Die ’ -era Ramones , with ‘ Deadhead ’ and the tell-tale ‘ Ein , zwei , drei , vier ’ countdown to ‘ Slide ’ — and then pummel through three or four numbers with a brightness and lethal-pop-edge that brings new life to their bludgeoned ‘ Bricks Are Heavy ’ album ( particularly the lurching ‘ Everglade ’ , which as a 45 was as devoid of pizzazz as Catchphrase is of wit and wisdom ) . |