Example sentences of "that [modal v] [vb infin] [adv prt] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dobson , ugly and cretinous , was compensated by a sense of animal cunning that could smell out weakness in others and advantage to himself . |
| 2 | AT&T Co says it is studying a device that would turn an ordinary television set into a terminal that could call up films , shows and information or act as a video telephone , but it insisted that it is only in the prototype phase and denied a Los Angeles Times story that a field test of the technology would be announced next month ; it would neither confirm nor deny that it is teaming up with BellSouth Corp and Viacom International Inc in the interactive television work . |
| 3 | On four , there was a proposal to establish a two hundred and fifty thousand pound contingency capital sum , against which bids could be made for schemes that would bring down action grant , and I would 've su thought that scheme number four would be a bid against that two hundred and fifty thousand erm , contingency . |
| 4 | For two years the colony staggered along , with much the same problem as the early English settlements in Virginia which had failed to find any line of activity in the first three or four years that would bring in money . |
| 5 | At first Clare kept in touch with Annabel after her sister returned to New York , but as her own life became increasingly difficult , she found herself unable to write the sort of letter that would prop up Annabel 's crumbling self-esteem . |
| 6 | Patten promised last year a paper that would set out Britain 's agenda for the environment to the end of the century . |
| 7 | Not that Airdrie 's football is the sort that would pack out stadia on a regular basis — the bulk of the near-40,000 who went along to Ibrox on Saturday were there to see ritual slaughter — but in the context of this confrontation with the glitzy Rangers , the Broomfield side 's special brand of grim resistance was undeniably compelling . |
| 8 | ‘ I suppose it must also have a public telephone that can be used in private and a post office that will send out mail ? |
| 9 | Our answer divides into three parts , involving , first , the completion by the end of 1992 of the single market set out in the EC White Paper of 1985 ; second , the plans that stretch beyond 1992 for changes to the Treaty of Rome that will set up EMU and further increase the legislative power of the Community ; and third , the difficulties of bringing East Germany into the EC . |
| 10 | The various business that will make up Zeneca , the new company being created out of the biosciences activities of Britain 's Imperial Chemical Industries ( ICI ) , spent £457 million ( US $640 ) on research and development last year , according to figures released last week in preparation for the company 's stock market launch in June . |
| 11 | It consists of a plastic bin with a lockable lid that will keep out flies , children and so on . |
| 12 | The information in the Labour party 's document all comes under the new education standards commission that will take over responsibility for Her Majesty 's inspectorate of schools and co-ordinate the work of local inspectors . |
| 13 | Any plan at the $9 billion level , though , must include details of cuts to be made elsewhere at NASA that will free up $2 billion . |
| 14 | What are the ‘ new forces in health ’ that can bring about change ? |
| 15 | RJB is run by Richard Budge and its main asset is not coal but its Big Cats huge Caterpillar machines with shovels that can pick up tonnes of coal at a time . |
| 16 | It specialises in spot-welding and fixed-sequence robots , but will soon market arc-welding machines and robots that can pick up items such as lumps of metal . |
| 17 | Fighting the terrorists : Technology that can track down letter bombs . |
| 18 | It is its delay that can store up trouble , for there can be no escape from the reality that society will eventually exact civilised behaviour from its members at whatever cost . |