Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] to [noun pl] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has given rise to fears that the electoral process in the US has become corrupted , as money increasingly ‘ buys ’ political influence through elaborate election campaigns that concentrate power in hands of a ‘ small monied minority ’ [ Alexander ] . |
| 2 | The white-painted Land Rovers had clear UN marking and the attack has given rise to fears that Serb forces have targeted British troops . |
| 3 | The increasing domestic and industrial use of a number of stable chlorine-containing compounds has given rise to claims that these compounds may diffuse upwards into the stratosphere where they are dissociated by solar radiation to yield atoms of chlorine which act to destroy ozone through a complex chain of chemical reactions ( Crutzen , 1974 ; Molina and Rowland , 1974 ) . |
| 4 | The resignation in March of two senior economic ministers [ see p. 37316 ] following a visit by the President of the World Bank , Barber Conable , lent credence to reports that almost US$500,000,000 in credits were being withheld by the Bank and the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) because of dissatisfaction with the government 's short-term economic policies . |
| 5 | In fact the Allies were ill-fitted to assume this responsibility and unlikely to find solutions to problems that were largely of their own making . |
| 6 | On the contrary , the TEI community is a particularly demanding one : the purpose of research is to discover solutions to problems that have not yet been posed , and any scheme designed to support research must therefore place more emphasis on flexibility and extensibility to cope with the unforeseen than on highly optimized solutions to well understood problems . |
| 7 | Could that be for example because males with resources would want normally to acquire youthful wives , or perhaps it might in other words it could be could n't it that if males provide resources to females that they can use for primal investment , this would then have selective effects on females who will want certain things in order to get erm the investment and one of the things they might want to do is to look youthful . |
| 8 | Many employees are using the excuse of falling sales to impose changes to previously agreed conditions , often using the excuse to impose changes to conditions that have been fought for for many years . |
| 9 | for example , planning likes forecasts and figures arid this would tie strategy to areas that could provide these . |
| 10 | The indexer has access to schedules that the searcher in general does not have available online or even in printed form ; thus there is likely to be a mismatch between the indexers ' and searchers ' perspectives . |
| 11 | ‘ He told us to write letters to governments that were direct and to the point . |
| 12 | We also aim to prepare more four year olds for full-time education and we aim to provide incentives to schools that wish to diversify the fourteen to nineteen curriculum . |
| 13 | Unlike classical behaviourists , functionalists believe that is not possible to explain intelligent behaviour unless we make reference to processes that are taking place inside a person 's head . |
| 14 | Furthermore , confidence in the exchange value of the dollar was essential since it provided the bulk of the reserve assets in the system : any devaluation of the dollar would give rise to fears that it might be devalued again , and hence there would be a reluctance to hold dollars as a reserve currency . |
| 15 | Most sets of values would give rise to universes that , although they might be very beautiful , would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty . |
| 16 | If not paradoxical , however , arms races can give rise to situations that strike the economically minded human as wasteful . |
| 17 | This would give effect to clauses that seek to define the rights and obligations of the parties , for example , a clause which indicated that no partnership or agency relationship was created , and clear clauses would abrogate the prohibition on , for instance , self-dealing or the necessity to disclose all relevant information to the customer . |
| 18 | The one thing I remember taking from that report was the recommendation about how one should present drama to children that you do n't patronise , you do n't talk down . |
| 19 | Via the appropriate graphical interface ( the product provides Windows , OS/2 Presentation Manager , or Macintosh ) , users can send documents to users that are local , distant or outside the enterprise . |
| 20 | Second , on a tour of the provinces in the summer of 1858 Alexander made plain to backwoodsmen that their committees should take a positive view of the reformist enterprise . |
| 21 | Marshal Pétain has traced in our history pages some of which remain luminous while others give rise to interpretations that still conflict and arouse lively passions . |
| 22 | Space does not permit a full account of the highly complex arrangements for providing milk to schoolchildren that developed out of the 1934 ‘ milk-in-schools ’ scheme . |
| 23 | De Gaulle used the Interministerial Councils in order to inform himself more fully on important issues or to give momentum to policies that he favoured . |
| 24 | Although it has been argued that nectar might contain repellents to ants that otherwise predominate on sugary substrates in the tropics , it is found that ants will take this nectar when it is presented to them , though the floral parts of such flowers may be less palatable . |
| 25 | I believed I could use that electricity to give life to things that were dead . |
| 26 | Rather , the aim of the semantic processor is to give preference to words that are semantically acceptable over those that are not . |
| 27 | The Accounting Standards Board has issued a statement setting out its policy on the applicability of accounting standards to transactions that had been entered into before the standard had been issued . |
| 28 | They have been in Perth now for nine years and in business as McKays for three , providing , as Lesley McKay explained , ‘ accounting services to companies that have grown big enough to need an accountant or finance director , but not big enough to afford one full-time ’ . |
| 29 | Taking a bizarre leaf out of the Grand Old Duke of York manual of management , Digital Equipment Corp has disbanded the engineering group it created only in February , giving rise to perceptions that the company is in a deeper crisis than observers had previously realised . |
| 30 | Previous losses have fallen heavily on members of some syndicates , giving rise to claims that insiders have diverted the best business to selected syndicates and channelled the higher risks and charges to ‘ dustbin ’ syndicates , with a high proportion of investors with little or no knowledge of the business . |