Example sentences of "that [verb] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The coincidence between the ordinary predicative and clausal positions is all the more striking in that the inherently restrictive adjectives can not be so used in predicate qualifying position ( where restriction for identification is not appropriate ) ; this is why there is a further contrast between ( 57 ) and ( 59 ) , even though the adjective is one of this inherently restrictive group in both cases , and despite the fact that the property THIRD is certainly compatible in itself with the noun ox : ( 57 ) she considers the Admiral ( to be ) the worst ( e.g. of the village 's gardeners ) ( 58 ) she declared the squire ( to be ) the lazy ( 59 ) the revellers had eaten the ox the third ( 60 ) they ate their steaks well done Example ( 60 ) shows that eat can support predicate qualifiers , so that incompatibility between the verb and the construction can not be given as a reason for the ungrammaticality of ( 59 ) . |
| 2 | He thought that to remain would look ‘ unsporting ’ and would count against him the next time . |
| 3 | some young people do n't realise that sniffing may be all that they need |
| 4 | It 's called the Hotel Leisure and Conference Centre , it 's actually based at Chorley or Charley if you come from that neck of the woods and er everybody that goes will be able to use the lagoon swimming pool er or challenge someone to a game of squash on one of our six courts . |
| 5 | The tops of ling heather ( Calluna vulgaris ) , produce yet another shade of yellow dye when boiled in water , and in fact that entire plant is wonderfully versatile : it was commonly used for thatching houses , and even today the few Highland thatchers that remain will swear it is the best thatch in Gaeldom ; it provided beds to sleep on , with the ‘ tops up and roots down ’ arrangement of the mattress assuring a pleasantly aromatic and sound sleep ; it was used in part of the process of tanning leather ; and the fresh , young tops of the heather were ( and at times still are ) brewed into a kind of ale . |
| 6 | Though the companies that remain will no doubt respond to increasing demand when the upturn comes , imports could be sucked in faster and the trade gap widen . |
| 7 | The Marine Conservation Society claims that potting can damage fragile and rare seabed species , including the sea fan and black cave sponge . |
| 8 | Brian felt that sleep need not have been too much of a problem : he could go to sleep , but the staff would not let him . |
| 9 | The explosion was a direct consequence of the breach of duty , therefore the damage was not too remote , although the kind of property damage that occurred could not have been foreseen . |
| 10 | Less readily acknowledged are the social and emotional problems that ageing can bring . |
| 11 | Several authors have suggested that ageing should be confined to organisms with ‘ … a clear distinction between soma and germ plasm ’ . |
| 12 | In the three Baltic republics and in Georgia it had been decided that to participate would be to acknowledge Soviet constitutional legitimacy , thereby forfeiting the key argument in their independence campaigns , namely that they had been illegally occupied and annexed to the Soviet Union . |
| 13 | And those that die will be the lucky ones ! ’ |
| 14 | For this the sore is gently scraped and any fluid that exudes can then be looked at under the microscope . |
| 15 | England defenders Rob Jones and Mark Wright came on in a wholesale reshuffle of resources , but any danger that United would feed off the disruption was dismissed by McManaman 's leggy skills . |
| 16 | The enthalpy change that occurs can be attributed to two factors . |
| 17 | All I 'm saying is that worry can make you thin . ’ |
| 18 | Now , how can it be that believing can be ‘ reckoned ’ as righteousness ? |
| 19 | One cause for this ambiguity is the specification of the particles that put can occur with to form phrasal verbs . |
| 20 | It is also meant that Yearn shall or may be sold on the other Mercat days in Isla , viz — Whity. , Lammas , & Hallow day Mercats . " |
| 21 | An exception is always of part of the thing granted , and only a thing that exists can be excepted ; a reservation is of a thing not in existence , but newly created or reserved out of land ( Halsbury 's Laws of England , 4th edn , vol 12 , para 1529 ) . |
| 22 | In his opinion , although everything that exists must be like its cause , the fact that one thing is produced by another implies that they are different . |
| 23 | The finished result will be a Fortran-90 mathematical library tool that NAG will likely market and that it is hoped will encourage the use of parallel machines in non-linear programming such as scheduling , planning and optimisation . |
| 24 | On the basis of Mr Freeson 's letter , SAVE 's solicitors advised that SAVE should take out an action for mandamus , a court order to force a minister to do what he is obliged to do under statute . |
| 25 | Since there is relatively little research available on which to base assumptions about the type of information a subject will have available in memory it seems that recall should be as free as possible in terms of overall content . |
| 26 | And so I figured that Complete must mean continue on . |
| 27 | The version of ‘ The Harder They Come ’ that closes wo n't cause Jimmy Cliff any sleepless nights . |
| 28 | Some of the things that happened may have been misguided , that 's all . ’ |
| 29 | However , even those who do not doubt the terrible things that happened can still squabble about their meaning . |
| 30 | It just seemed that the Ferrari superiority was such that racing must be terribly boring for all the rest of the drivers . |