Example sentences of "that [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1950 , in a curious or consistent coincidence ( as Castedo Pointedly calls it $ , Pope Pius XII declared the Archangel Michael patron of police — a decision that may well diminish the archangel 's prestige in Latin America . |
| 2 | Rather , it is to say that Gusfield 's theory may continue to have explanatory power , particularly with regard to the initial motivation of participants in such a movement , and that where Wallis ' work is important is in pointing to the cultural concerns that may also underpin the rise of specific moral entrepreneurial groups . |
| 3 | Work like this requires continuing enthusiasm of a kind that may not outlast the departure of the original members , and their replacement with new people . |
| 4 | We have adopted aims that may not win the war against poverty , but we hope we 'll win battles to ease the burden on those older pensioners , especially those living alone on low incomes . |
| 5 | The one chain that may yet escape the decline is the John Lewis ( ‘ never knowingly undersold ’ ) Partnership , which continues to outrun its rivals . |
| 6 | There are two circumstances that may potentially reduce the diagnostic accuracy of this technique . |
| 7 | There is a danger that a voluntary organisation may become involved in trying to run services that should properly remain the responsibility of a statutory organisation . |
| 8 | But what Roger Cook and his researchers entirely failed to do was to use the interesting current developments within WWF to highlight a crucial debate of which we are all a part — namely the values that should now guide the work we do in our respective movements , and how to make those values germane and relevant to people the world over . |
| 9 | I clutch my wad of sketches that , one day , I hope to turn into pictures that might somehow express the essence of this strange topsy-turvy continent where , believe it or not , there are birds that are scared of heights . |
| 10 | America might be a superpower , as the Iranians kept saying , but Iran — as Hakim put it — was a ‘ super religious power ’ , one that might easily find the pretext of some religious occasion to persuade Hizbollah to set the captives free . |
| 11 | Curran also revealed that the Dublin soccer writers , most of whom appear to have written-off Derry 's challenge , have provided the motivation that might just make the difference . |
| 12 | It is a trick that might just save the life of the bird if a cat has caught it and then placed it on the ground for a moment before starting to pluck it . |
| 13 | ‘ I want to avoid creating ivory towers that might not benefit the coalface , ’ he says . |
| 14 | They explained that in no way could it have come from the plant because it had the best preventive system for any smell , dust or poisonous substances that might otherwise destroy the environment . |
| 15 | Dwarf-bean bushes grew contentedly beside cabbages , overlooked by climbing nasturtiums , grown to attract the insects that might otherwise attack the vegetables . |
| 16 | Hitherto he had felt such a step to be premature , and one that might dangerously provoke the USSR . |
| 17 | I said , and it is engraved on my mind , ‘ you should get an inorganic chemist to make some interesting compounds that might possibly show the dd fusion and wait . |
| 18 | A RESEARCHER with IBM has come up with a device that might possibly replace the transistor in integrated circuit devices . |
| 19 | ‘ Maybe that would help the lower ranked people to have the motivation and to get eager , ’ she added , while acknowledging that might merely have the effect of less ambitious ones accepting good money for being relative failures . |
| 20 | Reflecting on the missed chance that could yet change the whole course of Wexford 's season John O'Connor said : ‘ I did n't feel any pressure . |
| 21 | It has also pledged the pair to establishing NT-on-Alpha as ‘ a premier RISC-based systems platform ’ and has them promising machines ‘ that could fundamentally change the face of computing ’ as we know it . |
| 22 | Grim and forbidding were the two well-used words that came to mind as she looked up at the building for the first time ; but there were no words that could easily describe the helpless terror that she felt as the side-gate opened before them and the ambulance had driven through . |
| 23 | What is the point of having a bomb that could instantly destroy the city of Glasgow ? |
| 24 | " She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years . " |
| 25 | Finally there was the ticket for the left-luggage office at Paddington station , something that could only cross the Atlantic by hand . |
| 26 | That is an issue that could usefully form the basis of a CD compilation . |
| 27 | The US International Trade Commission has upheld the ridiculous decision that Japanese manufacturers are dumping active matrix liquid crystal displays on the US market to the detriment of a handful of tiny US manufacturers that could never meet the demand from the likes of Apple Computer Inc and IBM Corp , but that alleged dumping of electroluminescent displays has not hurt the US electronics industry ; the active matrix displays carry prohibitive 62.7% tariffs , which apply to imported screens but not to assembled machines that include them , while the electroluminescent displays carried only a 7% tariff . |
| 28 | Two sets of findings in particular suggest preventive strategies that could considerably reduce the prevalence of acute psychotic episodes . |
| 29 | The US General Accounting Office ( 1979 ) sampled 243 monitoring stations and revealed that 81 per cent had one or more problems that could adversely affect the accuracy and reliability of air quality data . |
| 30 | It seems reasonable to assume that changes in the steady-state responses , as measured in the above experiments , reflect alterations that would also affect the response to synaptically released L-glutamate ( for example , changes in the number , or conductance properties , of AMPA receptors ) . |