Example sentences of "that [verb] [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intention movements are activities that tend to precede some other activity , which is presumably why they often evolve into signals . |
| 2 | Anorexia nervosa patients seem unable to identify and to respond accurately to their emotional state , a deficit that has received some empirical support . |
| 3 | Perhaps it is the extraordinary popularity of The Color Purple that has led some critics to accuse it of being an uncontentious , sentimental and harmless piece of libertarianism , a family homily that is not just optimistic but eventually even utopian . |
| 4 | This is a style of abuse that has excited some natural envy among professional satirists . |
| 5 | A good example of this would be a site that has seen some activity in Saxon times , and where scarcity of metal finds would be normal . |
| 6 | It is this that has made some Americans say that , if Iraq agreed to withdraw from Kuwait , it must abandon its tanks and other heavy equipment . |
| 7 | Mr Coleridge inherits a market that has made some sensible moves to improve its competitive edge . |
| 8 | The smooth pillars which support it in the centre have capitals of a style that has made some art historians suppose that they may originally have come from the Roman villa or palace presumed to have existed on this site in the fourth century . |
| 9 | The natural tendency is to try harder with the project that has gone some distance . |
| 10 | I wish to correct a wrong impression that has gained some credence amongst the ignorant and unreasoning public , that sign language — the agency through which we inter.exchange thought and opinion — is calculated to do injury to the intelligence of the deaf and dumb . |
| 11 | We will end the neglect that has allowed some former patients to end up sleeping rough and led to others being placed on remand . |
| 12 | For example , in the US , two that appear to have some merit are the Certified Human Service Worker assessment procedure ( National Commission for Human Service Workers , 1983 ) and the Child Development Associate training and assessment programme ( Office of Child Development , 1974 ) . |
| 13 | Another facoured delivery system , or vector , is adenovirus : this is a bit bigger , and enters the cell via specific receptors that seem to provide some protection from breakdown of the nucleic acid once inside the human cell . |
| 14 | Computers That Think raises some socially important and intellectually fascinating questions about the relation of man and machine , and its intelligibility will prompt discussion on these important matters . |
| 15 | Erm if it 's more , well this is ridiculous because we were getting , that means getting some more current going through there has sort of changed everything else , so it 's going to be less than fifty ohms . |
| 16 | Realising that means asking some fundamental questions about what we are actually after , with a lot on offer if we get it right , and disaster if we do not . |
| 17 | Everything changed in the late summer of 1958 when I went to " the convent " , Elmwood , my senior secondary school , and began to lose sight of all these children , now separated by age or by the hurdle of the " qualie " that had kept some back and relegated them to the junior secondary where school ended at fifteen , divided girls from boys and clever from less clever . |
| 18 | It struck a devastating blow at the presidency as an institution and gave powerful new impetus to the collapse of trust in government that had begun some years previously . |
| 19 | The early Byzantine pendants and a necklace that had graced some medieval nobleman 's wife . |
| 20 | It was the cars that had started some new idea … |
| 21 | In the early stages we started off with perhaps Minor schools which could almost have been Major ones , because you were just trying to find any school that had got some kind of life , or interest , or things happening … really in many ways it was rather a matter of chance because of the way it happened at the time . |
| 22 | So was , was it also you that had got some , some , some dates in the references that had n't happened yet like the erm pe there was somebody it might have been you had actually referred to things that , you know , sort of twenty first of the fourth ninety four and things like that and it was sort of |
| 23 | Those people that had found ways of structuring their time , of organising themselves round routines , or having particular sorts of appointments to make _ and this could take many forms , like , for example , just getting up early in the morning to play a sport game , for example , or arranging to meet other people at particular times _ those people that had got some sort of time structure in their lives and some sorts of regular activities to carry out in their lives erm tended to be a lot less severely affected by unemployment than those people that did n't have these sorts of activities , this sort of time structure . |
| 24 | An important series of research projects that does allow some judgment to be made between selective and non-selective schools in the comprehensive system has been undertaken at the Centre for Educational Sociology at Edinburgh University . |
| 25 | One could go on almost indefinitely finding examples of sudden dramatic natural events within the memory of man that help to explain some aspects of the geological past . |
| 26 | The need to separate the functions of chairman and chief executive has been a raging debate in City of London parlours for the past couple or years , and companies at which the two roles are combined in one person have been under enormous pressure to accept a separation of powers : now the same debate could take off across the Atlantic as Compaq Computer Corp 's ( non-executive ) chairman Ben Rosen tells the House Telecommunications and Finance Subcommittee that the troubles that have beset some of America 's largest companies can be traced to cozy relationships between their boards and their chief executives — he declares that the boards of most US companies are chaired by the company 's chief executive , who picks the board members and controls the agenda — ‘ With an appropriate form of corporate governance , I fully believe that the current problems of IBM , Digital Equipment , Westinghouse and other major American corporations could have been addressed and probably solved far earlier with much reduced ill effects , ’ Rosen told the legislators , adding that a company 's chairman should be a ‘ truly outside independent director , ’ not the chief executive or a former chief executive , and that all board members , with the exception of the chief executive , should also be outsiders , who should get their directors ' fees in the form of shares or options . |
| 27 | A reason why a number of companies that have adopted some form of matrix management have declared it a failure is to be found in inadequate preparation and briefing of those involved . |
| 28 | Whether the graptolites were not living near shore , or whether the conditions were not right for their preservation , are questions that have excited some argument . |
| 29 | I did n't know the east coast well , and having to live in London at least gave me a chance to explore its fascinating creeks and swatchways , and those turbulent , shallow waters of the North Sea that have nurtured some of the finest of English seamen . |
| 30 | So our achievements are significant , but they are fragile , and I want to conclude by outlining what I think are the principal features of our work that have bought some success . |