Example sentences of "that [verb] [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be the song of the curlew that recalls childhood holidays on the moors and dales , the calls of oystercatchers that bring to mind the seaside , the smell of the salt , the sunshine and ice cream ; or the song of the thrush that brings back the memory of a walk , a place , a friend who shared a memorable day . |
| 2 | The British Motor Industry Heritage Trust is appealing for drawings , sketches and artefacts relating to the companies that amalgamated to form the Rover Group . |
| 3 | The Harter Act voided any bill of lading clause that sought to relieve the carrier from the consequences of negligence in proper loading , stowage , custody , care , or proper delivery of the goods . |
| 4 | But while it would be wrong to minimize the hold of this movement , particularly in the south of France and in the Balkans , and especially between Bulgaria and Constantinople , the major threat to the future of the Church was not from the heretics but from the popular movements that sought to restore the laity 's role in the life of the Church . |
| 5 | It was also within the Special Commissioner 's discretion to exclude opinion evidence that sought to answer the question before him . |
| 6 | I remind the Minister of the take-up campaign that sought to improve the lot of mentally handicapped people attending adult training centres . |
| 7 | Thus in 1969 the Lords rejected a bill that sought to free the Home Secretary from a legal obligation to present to Parliament the report of a commission that had reviewed parliamentary constituencies : the more equitable redistribution of seats it proposed was likely to cost the Labour Government up to twenty seats at the forthcoming general election . |
| 8 | The Dorchester crowd that sought to rescue the Pretender 's effigy from being burnt by the Dissenters on George I 's coronation day were encouraged by a certain gentleman who gave them half a hogshead of beer . |
| 9 | The prospect of a national curriculum with prescribed core and foundation subjects covering about 70 per cent of timetabled time , marks a departure from earlier recommendations that sought to delineate a core of subject studies or areas of experience within the secondary curriculum . |
| 10 | Most practitioners undertake reviews of procedures at some time or other , whether they are procedures in the commonly accepted sense of the term , ie low-level processes or activities with a set order of steps ( Collins Standard Reference Dictionary ) , or the total activities of an organisation that combine to achieve the purpose of the business as a whole . |
| 11 | Injections of 5nl of the antibody ( 40μgμl -1 ) generated embryos that failed to form the furrow between midbrain and hindbrain in 50–60% of cases , whereas injection of 2nl of antibody led to hypertrophy of the furrow region in 12–15% of cases . |
| 12 | Assemblyman Richard Brodsky , who introduced the disclosure requirement for house bids ( and other proposals that failed to win the support of his colleagues ) rejected the notion that the bill 's passage in the assembly was a hollow victory at the legislative eleventh hour . |
| 13 | After a career spanning Ipswich , Sunderland and Carlisle he now turns out ‘ only when they 've eight men ’ for the Oak , a love of the game that failed to prevent the pub team finishing bottom of their league . |
| 14 | He found that not only did the States that failed to ratify the amendment have larger populations of both religious fundamentalists and political conservatives , but also that States which had opposed earlier civil rights amendments ( the 19th on women 's suffrage and the 26th on youth suffrage ) also tended to oppose the ERA . |
| 15 | An interesting , yet largely unexplored area relates to protective factors that tend to prevent the expression of eating disorders . |
| 16 | It was , nonetheless , a film that tried to solicit an understanding of the emerging drug culture , and , for good or evil , persisted with its apologist tone that acid was OK when used with caution . |
| 17 | It is n't just football that needs to keep an eye on its spectators . |
| 18 | It was a Labour government that proposed to implement a process of ‘ organic change ’ to accommodate the demands of the former county boroughs ( DOE 1979 ) . |
| 19 | Note that the target must be an infantry or cavalry Mob of the kind that has to take an Animosity test itself — not a chariot , war engine , etc and not a Mob that is already engaged with the enemy . |
| 20 | Note that the target must be an infantry or cavalry Mob of the kind that has to take an Animosity test itself , not a chariot , war engine etc , and not a Mob which is already engaged against the enemy . |
| 21 | This is fine , but clarify whether it 's you or the manufacturer that has to foot the bill for sending the machine back . |
| 22 | Both BR and RENFE , in common with railways elsewhere ( Bouley 1985 ) , have stressed the new ‘ reality of competition ’ and the need ‘ to shift the emphasis from ‘ running a railway ’ to providing a value for money service to the customer' ( BRB 1985r : 5 ) ; in these conditions , it was ‘ the market that has to give the orders ’ ( RENFE chairman , cited in El Nuevo Lunes , 16 December 1985 ) . |
| 23 | Real genes , that encode proteins , are transcribed by an enzyme ( polymerase II ) that has to recognise a DNA sequence outside the gene itself : once it has located that , it will travel along the DNA until it has copied the entire gene into RNA . |
| 24 | The overlap with the districts needs to be eradicated , it 's a black hole at the moment , every district can pass a its surplus on to another district , and indeed it would be the last district to prepare a district wide local plan that has to meet the residue of the Greater York requirement , it may maybe a good stimulus for the districts to get on with their local plans , but that 's not an planning way . |
| 25 | Oh on Mondays and Saturdays two or three times a week and it was er available for anyone that want to hold a dance they could rent it there was no jitterbugging it was just the waltz or foxtrot and two step and then we got er one they used to kick their legs about |
| 26 | It is offering optimised Pentium compilers for those that want to do the job themselves , but Santa Cruz claims performance increases by 170% on Pentium from an 80486 even without recompiling — and around 230% with recompilation . |
| 27 | It is offering optimised Pentium compilers for those that want to do the job themselves , however SCO claims performance increases 170% on Pentium from an 80486 without a recompile — around 230% with recompilation . |
| 28 | Thus , how Gorbachev finally called for a free market , free elections and freedom from the Soviet Republics that want to leave the Union . |
| 29 | Their toughest problem will be that of free riders ( see page 71 ) : countries that want to enjoy the benefits of an agreement without curbing their own output of global-warming gases . |
| 30 | Organisations that want to keep the law are effectively being invited to watch their competitors steal their trade , which is not on . |