Example sentences of "that [verb] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , Schell et al. ( 1989 ) point out that it is now possible to engineer plants , by introducing B. thuringiensis genes encoded for toxin production , that develop resistance to tobacco hornworm ( Manduca sexta ) and the large white butterfly ( Pieris brassicae ) . |
| 2 | The former is making quite a name for itself , as it works well under Windows and as its device driver can be set up as a ‘ printer device ’ within Windows , the output of almost any Windows application that produces output to a printer , can be ‘ diverted ’ and sent as a FAX . |
| 3 | It 's tough work staging the Battle of Edgehill , with an eye for authenticity and tough on the props that bring realism to a 350 year old battle . |
| 4 | Within the brain it is usually only 1 mm or less , but the cell bodies of the neurons that bring information to the brain from the skin lie close to the spinal cord , so in a whale or dinosaur the dendrites could be 10,000 mm long , and this also applies to the axons of the motor fibres , which carry commands from the spinal cord telling the muscles to contract . |
| 5 | A transaction that conveyed title to readily marketable staples by endorsement of the bill of lading or warehouse receipt to the commercial , and subsequently to the central banker was encouraged . |
| 6 | Bull that made love to a Volvo |
| 7 | Some of them did n't read music or tablature and they just needed chord symbols and little expressions that made sense to them . |
| 8 | She wrote long letters home to Antonia in which she translated the other girls ' lives in terms that made sense to her . |
| 9 | It is this evidence that led West to the cautious conclusion that ‘ it is reasonable to assume that in the nineteenth century education played some part in economic growth . ’ |
| 10 | And it was thinking of Barbara Coleman , what she had enjoyed and what she had become , that led Rain to a disturbing idea . |
| 11 | When it comes to evangelising , Michael Green reminds us , ‘ Evangelism is never proclamation in a vacuum ; but always to people , and the message must be given in terms that make sense to them ’ ( Green 1970:115 ) . |
| 12 | They understand what is going on in ways that make sense to them and , if we want to understand their behaviour , and perhaps to explain it , we have to start from where they are . |
| 13 | So again , we find that Chewong reaction to perceived violence — which is how I would describe the abuse of the jealous woman — is to retreat from it . |
| 14 | Anything that involves hand to eye co-ordination , Andy 's your boy ’ . ’ |
| 15 | One could say the same sort of thing about Captain Maxwell and the 26 banks that lent money to his enterprises . |
| 16 | He added : ‘ It was evident that repair work to the chimney had been carried out . |
| 17 | The concentration of chloride in interstitial water in the unsaturated zone is a chemical record that represents recharge to the saturated zone covering more than a century . |
| 18 | You mean she 's actually washed the hand that lay palm to palm with Rainbow 's as they danced ? |
| 19 | I do not suggest that to restore benefit to 16 to 18-year-olds would solve this problem overnight , but it would go far down the road to alleviating this problem which surely must be unacceptable in 1993 . |
| 20 | It comes out on the road that joins Cambo to the small town of Hasparren , a Roman foundation but a nondescript place today . |
| 21 | By concentrating on the value and significance of their experience , the counsellor will generate not only an important historical and social insight , particularly if a physical record is kept , but will learn about the impact of the war on the individual , that is , from the only perspective that has relevance to the counsellor . |
| 22 | In its submission dated September 1984 to the Council of Ministers , the UK Government proposed the addition of a new Article , 19A to 19F which would provide support for the continuation of farming in a manner that has regard to the countryside in certain environmentally sensitive farming areas . |
| 23 | Coeliac disease is an extreme sensitivity to wheat that causes damage to the structure of the small intestine ( see p l36 ) . |
| 24 | As the abrasive words poured into her ears , he was moving her against an ornamental lacquerwork cabinet of hip height and bending her backwards , a hand dealing with the intricacies of her bustier with a sure skill that bore witness to a wealth of experience with even the most esoteric of feminine garments . |
| 25 | He has made comedies , but seems quite without the vision that elevates humour to satire . |
| 26 | Customers with 30 or more 3270 terminals that want access to Unix are the targets . |
| 27 | There is an air of prosperity , faded somewhat since the closing of the lead mines that contributed wealth to the community after the discovery of the metallic element strontium . |
| 28 | In collisions at relatively low energies of PETRA ( the electron-positron accelerator at DESY ) the quark and anti-quark produce two streams of particles that appear back to back in apparatus surrounding the collision point . |
| 29 | Mining Awareness produced a leaflet that drew attention to the problems of blasting , dust , chemicals , silting , erosion , water supply , pollution of the area and waste disposal problems associated with gold mining . |
| 30 | And she was always turned out with the meticulous make-up and clothes of a Barbie doll , an arch exponent of power dressing with padded shoulders to her grey suit and a tight pencil skirt that drew attention to her long , shapely legs . |