Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [be] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The park authority itself has few powers over agricultural change — control of the largest and a few other farm buildings but little else — and must operate by giving counter advice and offering compensation to the Farmer who proposes an action that is seen to be damaging . |
| 2 | Hoffman highlights a variety of peculiar stylistic traits in a corpus of German texts written by Turkish immigrants , and shows that stylistic analysis needs to be sensitive not only to formal linguistic devices , but also to the way in which such devices operate within wider patterns of action that are linked to social and situational contexts . |
| 3 | At the outset of a partnership that was to lead to great success , Allison was placed on the front line of the band 's paranoid attitude to outside influence . |
| 4 | A rates reduction for a certain period is inadequate to compensate for the great disruption that was caused to people seeking to make a living in that area — people who do not have the wherewithal or the ability to use the court system against the Minister . |
| 5 | It lies with his distinction between a form of consciousness directed to ‘ practical ’ , ‘ material ’ or ‘ real ’ activity and a different form of consciousness that is directed to social relations and is taken as constituting ideology . |
| 6 | I do n't want to jump into the first movie that 's offered to me . |
| 7 | It formed the basis of the ten-year development programme that was submitted to the government in 1973 . |
| 8 | The cause of the retention needs to be determined and therapy aimed at alleviating the stress and tension that are contributing to it . |
| 9 | Moreover , the economic cleavage that was perceived to be developing in this society did appear to correspond to the religious tensions that were generating party strife , and to anxious High Church Tories seemed to be yet another part of the process whereby Dissenters were thriving in the changed political climate after the Revolution at the expense of the Anglican interest . |
| 10 | This is done so that the formulae will still be correct when you copy from F5 to every other cell that is going to be required . |
| 11 | We drive the car that 's reckoned to the capable of 0–60mph in less than 4secs and talk to the driver/navigator partnership that rattled the established names in international rallying . |
| 12 | The alternative version has the same two properties together making up a property complex that is applied to the immediately adjacent subject of the sentence ; moreover in both cases the complex as a whole is assigned syntactically to the subject E ; the sole difference is in the matter of which property is taken as " senior " to the other within the bounds of the complex , as in ( 63 ) , and in such a case this will produce an infinitesimal semantic difference : ( 63 ) However this sort of syntactic trading is only possible where the language contains suitable lexical items ; it must have an adverb and verb with the appropriate meanings ; thus , in the absence of an adverb equivalent to after a change and a verb meaning to be orange , for instance , English can not offer such an alternative for ( 64 ) : ( 64 ) in spring , their skin turns orange 5.8 The range of verbs which can occur with postverbal adjectives is in fact quite wide . |
| 13 | It is a fitting that is suited to both submersible and surface pumps , but the more powerful the pump the higher and wider the sprays produced , with a proportionate acceleration of the time lapse between each change of spray pattern . |
| 14 | It was apparent from that day that he had a natural talent that was waiting to be developed . |
| 15 | Almost immediately I ran across the news that the French telephone monopoly , PTT , is well on the way with a scheme for putting all the phone numbers in France into a computer that a subscriber will be able to communicate with from a terminal that is connected to his instrument . |
| 16 | A pet pig that was taken to school could have spread disease through Britain 's pig population , according to health officials . |
| 17 | A pet pig that was taken to school could have spread disease through Britain 's pig population , according to health officials . |
| 18 | Meanwhile — and here is a term that is proving to be particularly confusing — we have had a veritable flurry of activity in the area , or more precisely areas , designated as ‘ information management ’ . |
| 19 | A horse that is returned to the paddock after working may only visually check that its normal companions are there , even if they are some distance away , before starting to eat the grass . |
| 20 | ‘ She is not without intelligence , but the harm that was done to her at birth is irreversible . ’ |
| 21 | Similarly , an instrument that is expressed to be " supplemental " to a previous instrument is construed as if the supplemental instrument contained a full recital of the previous instrument ( Law of Property Act 1925 , s58 ) . |
| 22 | We wanted to build a pyramid that was going to be slightly bigger than the biggest pyramid in Egypt . |
| 23 | We er emphasised to him the impact this would have on Oxfordshire 's er spending requirements and er the hope that the er spending that we get , and we get it in two ways ; one is through , called the standard spending grant , that is a general grant that was given to authorities to spend as they wish , and the other is a specific grants which are given for particular purposes , and some of them cover the legislation that I have mentioned , which we are required to spend specifically on the items for which they 're given . |
| 24 | But , Peter Edwards asks , are we approaching a customer relationship from a strait-jacket that is seen to be contrived and without spontaneity ? |
| 25 | This is based in part on the growth of effective party organisation , which has steadily weakened parliament 's original critical role , and in part on the emergence of a complex civil service structure with access to information and technical expertise that are denied to ordinary Members of Parliament ( Poggi , 1978 ; Crossman , 1963 and 1975–7 ) . |
| 26 | An exceptionally attractive pub , it 's housed Tardis-like in a cottage that 's said to be Leyburn 's oldest building . |
| 27 | Erm well I 've got a little cottage that was left to me up in erm North Wales that we rent out . |
| 28 | Bob Tanner 's dark eyes were stern beneath the thick beetle brows that complemented the precisely cut head of black hair that was starting to silver at the temples . |
| 29 | you know this is the sort of thing and really , you know , sort of cropped hair and enormous moustaches like yard brushes , or this is the story that was told to me , and , and then there was this , all this , all this chortling about why their moustaches were so lubricant , oh yes , er so , so luxurious er rather , I beg your pardon , and erm |
| 30 | The Northern Ireland BBC fought back with a ferocity that was frightening to anyone with theories about impartiality by state-owned broadcasting bodies . |