Example sentences of "that [verb] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notably , the Northcote-Trevelyan reforms helped to root out political patronage and corruption in the state bureaucracy in the second half of the nineteenth century , and to establish a public administration that operated according to principles of professionalism and the ethos of ‘ public service ’ . |
| 2 | An America that stopped trying to ‘ solve ’ the conflict could still try to keep it manageable : by promoting arms control , say , or making Israel treat the Palestinians more gently . |
| 3 | And that involved talking to the client to find out what it was they wanted ? |
| 4 | Just keep social engagements that involve eating to a minimum . |
| 5 | This epitomises the current debate that exists relating to causal factors : while the issue remains unresolved , most of the available evidence points to human activity as the more important catalyst . |
| 6 | It was based on achieving a realistic occupancy target at rates that vary according to season . |
| 7 | The studies with tyr T and ptyr 2 DNA suggest that actinomycin dissociates from each of its GC binding sites with rates that vary according to the surrounding sequences . |
| 8 | The company is also planning a major investment programme that includes moving to a new £24m building in Wythall , on the outskirts of Birmingham in 1994 . |
| 9 | Later , he showed her around and told her in detail the things that needed doing to the house , and she imagined her father here , sliding down the banisters or across the ballroom floor , and she felt a sentimental attachment to the place creep over her like the muffling fog . |
| 10 | Even for philosophers , one suspects , it is less the philosophy than these episodes that give meaning to their own lives . |
| 11 | They are part of an armoury of concepts , conventions and practices that give meaning to and protect the writer 's own social formation and specifically their own place within it . |
| 12 | What they are writing about in reality are the ideal standards of their own social group , those that give meaning to their work practice even if they do not always live up to them . |
| 13 | A significant difference in natural connected speech is the way that sounds belonging to one word can cause changes in sounds belonging to neighbouring words . |
| 14 | The caller also was extremely annoyed that calls relating to valuation matters were being passed to her but Media Action had been given no alternative numbers to filter these calls to . |
| 15 | Basically , the system comprises twin-tube dampers that operate according to three different settings — comfort , medium and sport , which is manually selectable by the driver . |
| 16 | Horror stories abound : of the rogue 's law that prevented any port agent who sold directly to fishmongers from ever trading with a Billingsgate merchant again ; of the nepotism that determined who could have a stand in the market ; and of prices that varied according to who you were and whether you had a good introduction . |
| 17 | And that meant going to the local airfield . |
| 18 | You feel as though you must have become very bad , because the destructive thoughts that keep coming to you are most uncharacteristic and not at all the sod of thing you usually feel . |
| 19 | All that went according to the plan . |
| 20 | And the w the road might have been widened but the houses are the same and er the er of course with a lot of The old factories have been pulled down , Mills was pulled down , that was a v very prosperous f factory at one time , when I was a boy , but er I 'm afraid that went according to you know the lack of trade . |
| 21 | Lang 's film was immediately hailed as a masterpiece especially with regard to its frighteningly real depiction of the prejudices and hysteria that lay waiting to be released in a typical Midwestern town . |
| 22 | In response to Mr Fothergill 's letter concerning Carlton amps , we enjoy being in the music business , and to us that means listening to what guitarists want and doing something about it . |
| 23 | But without another job , a hobby or some activity that gives meaning to their lives there is danger . |
| 24 | This should be done in a way that enables cleaning to be efficient without interfering . |
| 25 | This structure is not , as might at first be imagined , derived from a fantasy of power relations modelled on a medieval joust but from the phenomenological account of the constitution of knowledge that works according to the structure of a subject perceiving an object , a same/other dialectic in which the other is first constituted by the same through its negation as other before being incorporated within it . |
| 26 | Measurements on the shape of the Sun are difficult to interpret ( see Dicke 1983 ) , but it appears that the taking of the small oblateness does not spoil the agreement between the observed precession and that calculated according to GR ( see Claverie et al. |