Example sentences of "that [vb mod] [verb] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Well , she was very beautiful , and they 'd start a family soon , presumably , and that ought to make Edouard happy
2 Over the coming weeks the government will make up its mind on a programme of computing research that could cost £350 million .
3 Manager Lennie Lawrence has delayed a final decision but he can not take a risk for a game that could clinch Boro automatic promotion .
4 Reportedly , the list of things that could pop fills two pages single-spaced , a melange of hardware , software , services and ISV testimonials .
5 SOUTH AFRICA 'S National Party government and the African National Congress agreed yesterday on a course that could delay majority black government until the end of the century .
6 Frain should have joined Sunderland for £350,000 but the move collapsed when Birmingham chairman Samesh Kumar demanded a clause be inserted in the deal that would give Birmingham 25 per cent of any sell-on fee .
7 Hart exhorts us that ‘ we should not cherish even as an ideal a rule so detailed that no new choices arise at the point of application ’ .6 Unger remarks that ‘ language is no longer credited with the fixidity of categories and the transparent representation of the world that would make formalism plausible in legal reasoning or in ideas about justice ’ .
8 They were cross with each other because of him , and now Nanny was saying bad things about Smallfry that would make Buddie very , very angry .
9 It is true , of course , that the category was never intended to deny the existence of other racisms , nor as an all-encompassing identity that would make ethnicity invisible or irrelevant .
10 Now it seemed like the only thing that would make Christmas tolerable .
11 There was to be no self-dramatisation and nothing that would set Amnesty International apart from the very people that it was seeking to protect from the same potential threat .
12 The extent of our devastation is changing the chemistry of the planet on a scale that would take nature hundreds of millions of years .
13 If the condition is a recurrent one such as migraine or period pains , it is perfectly possible to use a book like this to find remedies that will give relief each time the pain occurs but it will not prevent the pain recurring next time .
14 Memories of Loma Prieta are not the only incentive ; the US Geological Survey a 50 to 60 per cent chance of a major quake in California in the next 30 years that will cost $50 billion in property losses alone .
15 They are considering setting up an organisation called Eumetsat to plan three new satellites that will cost £250 million over eight years .
16 It is not just the OEMs that will bring Solaris 2.1 for Intel to market .
17 To pick off some of the wandering DEC herd , Hewlett-Packard has signed a joint marketing pact that will put Raxco Inc 's VAX/VMS data centre management products on HP 9000 Series 800 and Series 700 machines : the Rockville , Maryland company has its Security Assessment software immediately available for HP 's 9000s .
18 Hospitals were to become a setting later in the decade for ‘ Doctor ’ films , ‘ Carry Ons ’ and such tepid dramas as Behind the Mask ( 1958 ) , but the genre can be traced back to White Corridors ( 1951 ) where , amidst the routine romantic squabbles , and an occasional lecture on the working of the NHS , two strong stories evolve : a researcher develops a drug that will kill infections resistant to penicillin and his lover secures herself a registrar 's post against nepotistic competition , by skilfully operating on a patient her rival has misdiagnosed .
19 Chemical filters are the only ones that will remove gases such as carbon monoxide , nitrogen oxides from tobacco smoke and unvented gas cookers , formaldehyde and benzene .
20 One teacher 's despair may tempt them to fall into the ‘ rescuer ’ role ; other teachers may strike them as ineffective so that the supporters become judgmentally prescriptive with those ‘ why do n't you … ’ bits of advice that can make things worse by letting the teacher feel how others can handle them better .
21 ‘ This is probably my most important game to date , certainly I have never played in front of the kind of crowd that is expected , and I have never played at Twickenham , though I have heard about the swirling wind that can make life uncomfortable for kickers .
22 Yet still they work in improving the mood from where it is now and still there may be no perception that the depressed mood and damaging consequences of use could possibly be the responsibility of the very substances and processes that seem to be the only things that can make life better .
23 Isotopic methods provide geochronometric methods of dating to support stratigraphic investigations which are radiometric to complement the use of varves , dendrochronology or palaeomagnetic evidence that can give chronology relative to a floating scale .
24 Pacific Parallel Research Inc of Cardiff by the Sea , California has a T9000 interface for NuBus Macintosh computers with its Pac8 and Pac2 boards that can accept Inmos Ltd 's T9000 DevTRAM module .
25 From what you say , a science that can bend reality any way it wants . ’
26 It also features acoustic technology from Groveland , California-based Crystal River Engineering Inc , involving high performance signal processors that can localise sounds such as ringing telephones and voices at their visual sources — whether these are moving or still .
27 It 's a familiar scene that can cause workers untold misery and loss of self-confidence .
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