Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb -s] [indef pn] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , unsurprisingly , she ensures that she does nothing to cross the ‘ important ’ people on which she is dependent . |
| 2 | State Trooper McNamara reassures her that she has nothing to worry about because there are police there already . |
| 3 | The young mother may feel that she has nothing to offer — after all , much as she loves her children , their conversation may be less than stimulating . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , even in Minnie , who 's so unlikely that she 's probably true — there probably has been someone who grew up as she did , saloon-wise and card-sharping yet quite sure that she wants nothing to do with the kind of messing around she 's seen under her parents ’ roof . |
| 5 | One advantage of the Chart is that it allows one to represent both complete analyses ( as inactive edges ) and partial analyses ( as active edges ) . |
| 6 | The advantage of this argument is that it allows one to define literature 's relation to reality in a much more positive and coherent way : both literature and the reality which it represents are of the same order and , according to Bakhtin , this order is ideological . |
| 7 | What is important about this contribution to linguistic theory is that it allows one to analyze the personal or ‘ subjective ’ elements of language without having to resort to any real correlative outside language . |
| 8 | From such a quarter this is significant testimony ( though it prompts in me the reflection that it takes one to know one ) . |
| 9 | Another benefit of such a system is that it enables one to learn about the human resources of the organization in a different way : |
| 10 | A people without religion will in the end find that it has nothing to live for . |
| 11 | You might decide to watch television , listen to music or read a book — but make sure that you enjoy it and that it has nothing to do with your work . |
| 12 | Whatever the true origins of grammatical gender , it can not be true that it has nothing to do with sex . |
| 13 | Of course , we could argue that obese parents eat too much , and are thus likely to overfeed their children , making them obese , and that it has nothing to do with genetics or inheritance . |
| 14 | According to Henderson ( 1979 ) , ‘ no school can reasonably be so bold as to suggest that it has nothing to learn from other schools , from professional teacher-trainers or from educational scholarship and research ’ . |
| 15 | But it is charitable to assume that it has something to do with the kind of critic that Pound is . |
| 16 | But if we are to understand it , and , particularly , if we are to distinguish within it between cynical accommodation and genuine playfulness , we are going to have to go beyond the embarrassingly inappropriate assumption that it has something to do with ‘ Brechtian ’ distanciation or ‘ modernist ’ self-reflexiveness . |
| 17 | I feel certain , however , that it has something to do with predators ; the human kind included . |
| 18 | ‘ But I think the most likely is that it has something to do with a girl . ’ |
| 19 | One view is that it has something to do with the energy , drive and willingness to take risks associated ( in the ‘ up ’ phase , at least ) with traits underlying manic-depression . |
| 20 | This means such writers also reject the notion that it has anything to do with the development and logic of a capitalism as an economic system of production . |
| 21 | I well understand why Opposition Members are looking rather depressed today , but I do not think that it has anything to do with catering facilities in the House . |
| 22 | yes and I 've just verified that this witness agrees on that matter and that he has nothing to do with it , is that right ? |
| 23 | M Beregovoy may claim that he has nothing to reproach himself with , but his acceptance of an interest-free million franc ( £125,000 ) loan from a shady businessman looks suspicious to say the least . |
| 24 | He ( or she ) feels that no one could possibly like or appreciate him and that he has nothing to offer . |
| 25 | To make matters worse , because he always does fail in his attempts to improve the situation , the sufferer convinces himself that he has nothing to look forward to but a lifetime of misery . |
| 26 | It 's not as though what Kenneth Clarke has done in the Health Service has actually done any good for our hospitals and medical services , and I do n't believe that he has anything to offer education either . |