Example sentences of "that [verb] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they stressed that bringing civil servants to Canary Wharf would not necessarily save the project and added that the Government wanted Canary Wharf or any future owner to pay the £400m needed for an extension of London Underground 's Jubilee Line to Docklands . |
| 2 | There are impressions that bring immediate satisfaction to the senses , for example those that have charm , brilliance or simple musical rhythms . |
| 3 | The national awards will offer two categories : the first will recognise management initiatives that bring environmental benefits to Britain , while the second award will be for the export of appropriate technologies that bring environmental benefit to developing countries . |
| 4 | The national awards will offer two categories : the first will recognise management initiatives that bring environmental benefits to Britain , while the second award will be for the export of appropriate technologies that bring environmental benefit to developing countries . |
| 5 | One that made perfect sense to Ron and made perfect sense to me . |
| 6 | Had n't he understood that she had given herself to him for the only reason that made any sense to her . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Given that the subjects were trained not to raise the negative flap at all , we may say that the difference between associates established to the two stimuli was greater in the case in which the more extensive motor response was required — that is , in the condition that produced superior transfer to a test discrimination involving the same stimuli . |
| 10 | We would also like to make contact with schools that make special efforts to interest students in science either within the class room or in extracurricular activities . |
| 11 | also like to make contact with schools that make special efforts to interest students in science either within the class room or in extracurricular activities . |
| 12 | ‘ Did all that make any sense to you ? ’ |
| 13 | The drives that bind one person to another are primitive and intense , and can be disturbing to our normal perceptions if we allow ourselves to see what is going on . |
| 14 | There are also many nerve cells within the brain that connect one part to another , and these are the ones I shall mainly talk about . |
| 15 | Rather complicated interactions can occur at the synapses that connect one cell to another , so the dimensions of a synapse are also of interest . |
| 16 | Durkheim , as an ardent positivist , urged and pioneered a way of thinking sociologically that lent quantitative data to the testing of theoretically derived hypotheses . |
| 17 | Lapsley and Prowle ( 1978 ) carried out comprehensive surveys that lent considerable weight to the reforms suggested in the working group 's report . |
| 18 | One that fits this description to a T is the T-shirt . |
| 19 | What we need to arrange is that control subjects perform some sort of task in the first phase — not one , of course , that requires them to attach different labels to the critical stimuli , but one that guarantees that attention to these stimuli is maintained . |
| 20 | As we will see later in this chapter , there is evidence that relating new information to earlier information is an important aspect of language comprehension . |
| 21 | COMPANIES that supply optical fibres to British Telecom are stepping up their efforts to cut the price of the fibres in the face of international competition . |
| 22 | Peter Scudamore is riding the horse that lives next door to him in Naunton . |
| 23 | Third , ‘ theories that attach moral significance to difference ’ : these approaches regard inequality as morally important , whenever in a person 's life it occurs . |
| 24 | One possibility would be for the analyst to invent a large number of sentences and try saying them with different intonation patterns ( i.e. different combinations of head and tone ) , noting what attitude was supposed to correspond to the intonation in each case ; of course , the results are then very subjective , and based on an artificial performance that has little resemblance to conversational speech . |
| 25 | This is a pattern that has some similarities to the breakage produced by predators , due mainly to the abundance of isolated teeth , but the absence of mandibles and the good preservation of the major limb bones are points of difference . |
| 26 | Notebook pages run from page A to page IV but these names can be changed to something that has more relevance to the spreadsheet . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Sometimes the act has been carried out in a hostile fashion that causes maximum distress to the staff . |
| 30 | ‘ No , you may not , ’ she said with a calmness that bore little resemblance to the chaos inside her . |