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 | One that fits this description to a T is the T-shirt . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Peter Scudamore is riding the horse that lives next door to him in Naunton . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Notebook pages run from page A to page IV but these names can be changed to something that has more relevance to the spreadsheet . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Sometimes the act has been carried out in a hostile fashion that causes maximum distress to the staff . |
| 12 | While the first and last pitches are pleasant , it is the steep , sustained middle section that elevates this route to a climb of memorable quality . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And obviously that adds certain constraints to sort of erm income . |
| 15 | Hi-Lo ( about £5 ) is a device that allows hanging baskets to be lowered for watering and then returned to their positions . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The mouse has a two-position switch that allows this rodent to be switched between its two personalities — Microsoft or Mouse Systems mode . |
| 18 | It 's part of the same thing that allows Royal marriages to break-up and sex before marriage . |
| 19 | a method of recording on floppy disks using a modified frequency modulation process that allows more data to be stored on a disk . |
| 20 | 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. |
| 21 | Show how software that allows alternate indexes to be created can be used to set up an inverted file system |
| 22 | Shot , as a result , in sporadic bursts , it combines awesome monochrome compositions with abysmal post-synchronised dialogue that bears little relationship to the character 's lip movements . |
| 23 | Having smilingly watched Palmer acknowledge his footsoldiers , then go through a practice swing that bears little relation to the actual flurry and flourish , Wolstenholme 's start was nervy , understandably , and inauspicious . |
| 24 | The larger transcript may correspond to either an unprocessed version of the 2.6-kb species or a distinct RNA species that bears some homology to the atk cDNA . |
| 25 | In a hypothesis that bears some similarity to ours , McKenzie and O'Nions suggested that the lithosphere underlying continents might detach itself , sink to a convective boundary layer , and ultimately rise as mantle plumes . |
| 26 | He told a key meeting in Dunkirk at the end of August : ‘ You must find the nerve to ask for a better treaty ; one that hands less power to Brussels , controls bureaucracy more stringently and leaves France her autonomy in foreign and monetary policy . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Similarly , requests for calculations or analysis will generate a response that requires mass data to be extracted from the model on the designing workstation . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | 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 . |