Example sentences of "that [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Molly Malone was right : the gangway was little better than a ladder that clung to the ship 's side with fragile tenacity . |
| 2 | The atmosphere of grey repression that clung to the eastern side of the city is being purged at an astonishing speed . |
| 3 | The lean hand gripping his arm thrust him in at a door in the long encrustation of buildings that clung to the curtain wall on the sunny side , where the best light fell and the day lingered longest . |
| 4 | The stand-up collar was lace , too , as was the diamond-shaped inset that plunged to the V of her breasts . |
| 5 | Who knows , Mrs. Chamberlayne , The differences that made to the natives who were dying Or the state of mind in which they died ? |
| 6 | The response made to a sign ( word ) and that made to the object represented by that word . |
| 7 | This requires that when a record is added to the file it is stored in its home bucket if any record that is a synonym is at present in the home bucket , and that if space becomes available in a bucket , any synonym that randomizes to the bucket in which space is now available is moved into the home bucket . |
| 8 | While not giving details of the pricing , he said that the price-performance curve on the 80486 is the basis for pricing of the Pentium and that he expected the sort of dynamic that applied to the 80486 to apply to the Pentium as well — the 80486 being introduced at $900 to $1,000 and falling to $200 over a period of four years — at a rate of 30% per year . |
| 9 | AT THE time of the last Gusher , the Safety project team were actively investigating trends in accident type and frequency that applied to the platforms and trades particularly relevant to WGEC . |
| 10 | The commitments data that we 've been dealing with to date , for the Greater York area , that was supplied by the County Council , was that data that applied to the what we 're now calling the the the the greenbelt area , or was it the area of search as well ? |
| 11 | At Paternoster Square , Lipton was involved in the competition that led to the appointment of Arup Associates , whose scheme was promptly criticised by Prince Charles . |
| 12 | There are some very good photographs and some intriguing snippets of information — Michael Bowyer tells how the Operational Requirement that led to the Hampden and Wellington specified that the aircraft should have folding wings for hangar storage ! |
| 13 | What it could not agree on was how the budget was to be balanced ; and it was this disagreement that led to the break-up of the government . |
| 14 | In the beginning there was carbon , and after several generations of Super Novae there was the solar system and then there were a whole lot of trees and they all fell down plonk into bogs and got turned into coal , and that led to the dinosaurs and that led to the mammals and that led to humans and that led to the miners . ’ |
| 15 | In the beginning there was carbon , and after several generations of Super Novae there was the solar system and then there were a whole lot of trees and they all fell down plonk into bogs and got turned into coal , and that led to the dinosaurs and that led to the mammals and that led to humans and that led to the miners . ’ |
| 16 | In the beginning there was carbon , and after several generations of Super Novae there was the solar system and then there were a whole lot of trees and they all fell down plonk into bogs and got turned into coal , and that led to the dinosaurs and that led to the mammals and that led to humans and that led to the miners . ’ |
| 17 | A brief moon between clouds outside sharpened the lines of boxwood that led to the wooden gate . |
| 18 | When he passed the entry that led to the bathrooms and toilets , he became more circumspect . |
| 19 | Together with the agreement that led to the lifting of the Ad Valorem duties , which required US companies to invest a certain proportion of their earnings in Britain , Eady led to a considerable increase in British-based American production . |
| 20 | The occasions that stand out in the three decades of our post-imperial era are : Duncan Sandys ' 1957 decision to recommend the end of National Service , which almost halved the Army ; the Kennedy/Macmillan Polaris agreement at Nassau in 1962 that led to the RAF losing responsibility to the Royal Navy for the British nuclear deterrent ; Denis Healey 's scrapping of the TSR2 in 1965 , which threatened to ‘ unhorse ’ the RAF 's knights ; his cancellation of the aircraft-carrier replacement programme in 1966 , which did much the same thing to the Royal Navy ; and John Nott 's attempt in 1981 to maintain the strength of the Rhine Army and RAF Germany at the expense of our maritime capability . |
| 21 | 1957 : Duncan Sandys ' ‘ Big Bang ’ philosophy , that led to the end of National Service ; 1965 : Denis Healey 's rolling Defence reviews , ending in the withdrawal from East of Suez ; 1974 : Roy Mason 's concentration of resources on Western European Defence , taking the withdrawal from empire to its logical conclusion ; 1981 : John Nott 's intended sacrifice of Maritime in favour of Continental capability , that was aborted by the Falklands Campaign . |
| 22 | His energetic , though convoluted , diplomacy gave reality to ‘ containment ’ with the formation of SEATO in May 1954 ; the extension of the Brussels Treaty in 1954 to include the rearmament of West Germany and the British pledge to keep four divisions on the Continent ; and the signing of the Baghdad Pact in February 1955 that led to the formation of CENTO in 1957 . |
| 23 | It was Ali 's martyrdom that led to the great schism in Islam between Sunni and Shia ; but here the Victory Arch becomes confusing . |
| 24 | Facing him was the main front door , the door that led to the outside world . |
| 25 | They walked together up the slope from the gate , passing the long high wall of Brooke Parker 's chemical works and the wide opening that led to the top of Thorpe Street . |
| 26 | Eve , picking up on some of Ari 's melancholy without understanding the cause , hugged her as they thundered along the straight , smooth road that led to the city . |
| 27 | A young , innocent man , very knowledgeable about ferrets , the driver had led me across a scrubby field that led to the riverbank and had then triumphantly pointed to a weathered stone below a thorn bush . |
| 28 | It was an awareness of this contrast that led to the Cubists ' interest in the violin and the guitar as plastic forms around 1910 . |
| 29 | Slowly she dragged herself along one of the paths that led to the house . |
| 30 | Among the material contained in the KGB files are the Soviet version of the attempted CIA assassination of Fidel Castro ; the biography of a high-level Soviet scientist known as Tolkachov whose spying on behalf of the CIA during the 1980s led to a devastating penetration of the Soviet radar defence system and , in 1987 , Tolkachov 's execution ; and the revelation of joint CIA–KGB operations during the Gulf war that led to the pre-emptive destruction of much of Saddam Hussein 's offensive missile power . |