Example sentences of "that [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tests show that eating lots of fibre or switching to polyunsaturated fats has about as much chance of prolonging your life as wearing a wig , but a kipper two or three times a week will have your life assurance rep collecting the premiums for ever . |
| 2 | What we have there is nothing strikingly original , just a fantastically good club record that enforces nothing more than that irresistible urge to jack your body . |
| 3 | But to enable him to concentrate on it , the government services that arose one after the other in the nineteenth century ( forestry , irrigation , the archaeological survey , public health and sani-tation , roads ) were organized outside the administrative structure , and had virtually no contact with the district officer . |
| 4 | Is there anything here that constitutes anything approaching a confession ? |
| 5 | ACT is now a separate computer maintenance company that was split off from Apricot before it was bought by Mitsubishi , the Japanese conglomerate that produces everything from the four-wheel Shogun to equally rugged Nikon cameras . |
| 6 | Kids too sick to raise their heads , lying soft and limp beneath the burden of heart disease , kidney failure and cancers that eat everything but innocence . |
| 7 | It 's just some people that eat everything they live till they 're ruddy seventy or it 's makes you wonder ! |
| 8 | That was when she first realized that to lose someone you love is not to feel instant separation . |
| 9 | We therefore want units that bring something qualitatively new , and valuable for most classrooms — an aspect of in-service education , if you like . |
| 10 | I sought a way of fudging it , of drawing a two-dimensional picture that conveyed something of what it feels like to move from point to point in the nine-dimensional genetic space of Biomorph Land . |
| 11 | Bobby Robson was there to assess World Cup candidates , but nothing positive emerged from 90 minutes of scuffling that made one almost yearn for the more measured boredom of Rangers ' European Cup exit in Munich three days earlier . |
| 12 | It reminded her again of the woman who had drifted from window to window waiting for Luke — her unadorned face , the limp that made one shoulder dip as she hurried to meet him . |
| 13 | There was a Puritan austerity about him that made one doubt whether he ever enjoyed anything at all . |
| 14 | The woman was slim , dark , and well made , with an air of reserve that made one take her seriously . |
| 15 | There was a power in him , a suppressed vigour that made everything he did one hundred per cent positive . |
| 16 | Now , as his mouth covered hers and his hands slid down to cup her breasts and tease the nipples into eager life , she felt again the power and the passion that made everything right . |
| 17 | I wanted to know what it was … what it was … that made everybody like you so much . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ She never stopped chattering through the entire performance and of course that made everybody look at her . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Actually , that was the first thing that made somebody show me something about Manson , when I was wondering who Jack Benny 's neighbours might have been . |
| 20 | He was still looking at her ; appraisingly , with a sort of lazy sensuality that made something inside her twist tight . |
| 21 | He also came kitted out with his very own soundtrack theme , a funk-filled affair crafted by Isaac Hayes , that made everyone aware of his presence . |
| 22 | He 'd loll in his chair as he was doing then , and suddenly come out with some remark that made everyone else uncomfortable . |
| 23 | Her mouth tight , she hurried into the cottage and slammed the door , but that one brief glance had been more than enough for her to take in the fact that he 'd removed his shirt as though quite impervious to the chill wind that made everyone else shiver , and was digging over the colonel 's vegetable patch with an economy of movement that she might have admired if it had been anyone else but him . |
| 24 | They can be prey to several diseases at once , a possibility that led one to describe himself as ‘ a walking time bomb ’ . |
| 25 | I knew Nour was beautiful with the same sort of tutored , obedient awareness that led one to comprehend the merits of , say , the head of Nefertiti , but I did n't care . |
| 26 | Below : Amblestone is a charming Victorian-style conservatory that offers plenty of space and light . |
| 27 | Larousse Gastronomique is considered the bible for chefs but now Larousse has produced a new , practical cookbook that offers lots of inspiration and advice for the enthusiastic amateur cook . |
| 28 | At the office I put in a call to Connors that produced nothing . |
| 29 | Like word processors , however , it 's not so much what a spreadsheet can do in common with others , but what it does that others ca n't , and how it does things that make one stand out from another . |
| 30 | The COB Rules do not define the relevant transactions that make someone a customer . |