Example sentences of "that [noun pl] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Right-Ons fired back the unanswerable reply that meetings belonged to those who attended them . |
| 2 | Extending this aim meant that signs had to be invented when no obvious word — sign equivalent existed . |
| 3 | It is crucial that researchers aim to be more participative in the way they frame research questions and their methodologies and at the same time be more sympathetic to the subject(s) they are researching . |
| 4 | In 1991 , Jan Mitchell gave the Metropolitan Museum of Art a hoard of Pre-Columbian gold from Columbia , Peru , Costa Rica , Panama and Ecuador that experts estimate to be worth more than $3 million . |
| 5 | He assumes that entities referred to will remain constant , that the temporal setting will remain constant , that the locational setting will remain constant , unless the speaker indicates some change in any of these , in which case the hearer will minimally expand the context . |
| 6 | It is essential , though , that attempts continue to be made to allow for differing intakes . |
| 7 | Since there is a waiting list for places on the course for better driving , readers may be interested to know that groups affiliated to the Institute of Advanced Motorists hold such classes all over the country . |
| 8 | Indeed , the Treasury worked skilfully to maintain its separateness by ensuring that CEPS worked to the financial year ( April to April ) whilst the Economic Section prepared its Survey on a calendar year basis . |
| 9 | Signals , sitreps and diaries of the time contain no hint that a massacre had taken place , or that Tito 's Yugoslavs at Bleiburg had in any way breached their assurances to Brig Scott , and this may be regarded as significant in assessing the extent to which 5 Corps subsequently continued to accept Yugoslav assurances that prisoners surrendered to them would not be indiscriminately killed . |
| 10 | The fact that adjectives have to be placed in front of nouns in English , for instance , means that their occurrence in this position has little or no significance because it is not the result of choice . |
| 11 | It is only when quantities have to be produced and time is short that activities need to be planned . |
| 12 | ‘ I started screaming so loudly that crowds ran to the scene which eventually made the policemen stop . ’ |
| 13 | The contenders for a tribe 's leadership come from the group of especially large Orcs known as Big'uns — the closest that Orcs get to a ruling class . |
| 14 | But the " bottom line " is that excesses lead to illness . |
| 15 | the requirement that returns conform to a normal distribution ; |
| 16 | This stipulated that products had to be fit for their purpose and meet standards of appearance and finish being free from minor defects as well as safe and durable . |
| 17 | I have no doubt that those same consumers , when exercising their choice about what to buy , will want to be absolutely sure that products imported to the United Kingdom have had to undergo precisely the same levels of checks and monitoring as products exported from the United Kingdom . |
| 18 | They say a lethal cocktail of lorries and cars has caused more than fifty fatal accidents in recent years , and that improvements need to be made now . |
| 19 | I stress the exuberance because most of the literature on anorexia nervosa stresses that anorexics tend to be ‘ good ’ little girls . |
| 20 | I am aware — and so are local social workers — of at least one large housing estate in a provincial town where incest is thought to be the norm rather than the exception even today ; and such is the difficulty of its location and proof that cases coming to light are probably only the tip of an iceberg . |
| 21 | The NRA admits that there are no easy solutions to the problem , and says that cases need to be looked at individually , but agrees that ways have to be found of reducing phosphate levels in the water . |
| 22 | A much more widespread resurgence has since followed , especially in South-East Asia , so that cases reported to WHO rose from 3–1 million in 1972 to 13–5 in 1980 ( although the latest figures include 3–3 million cases from China , from which no figures were available in 1972 ) . |
| 23 | They found that futures tended to be overpriced , that the average size of the mispricing tended to fall over time , and that the absolute size of the mispricing declined as maturity approached and increased as the dividend yield increased . |
| 24 | Does the Minister appreciate that tomorrow there will be an opportunity to ensure that proposals put to the House could be accepted , could go into Committee and could form the basis of discussion for any Government returned on 9 April ? |
| 25 | Slowing down means that roads have to be crossed with more care and that bad road and pavement conditions are greater hazards . |
| 26 | The poll asked : ‘ In building roads it sometimes happens that roads have to be built through or across sites of natural beauty or historical interest . |
| 27 | Mrs Castle 's contribution to this cornucopia of political wisdom and strategic insight was that policies had to be put in their philosophical context to win consent . |
| 28 | At this point we must note that policies need to be put into practice — a theme that will be developed later in the chapter . |
| 29 | In the earlier regime it was accepted that rules had to be general to some extent , and open to change to allow for adaptation to changing circumstances . |
| 30 | Chairman Howard Wilkinson said : ‘ There is a strong feeling among managers and players that rules applying to them are not being applied to other people , namely supporters around the dug-outs . |