Example sentences of "that [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't really believe that eating a McDonald 's a couple of times a week , as I do , is bad for anybody , ’ said commercial director Lee Soden . |
| 2 | Well , oh yes , I 'm sure I 'm not saying that 's the only thing that controls people 's food intake I mean clearly there are things cultural some cultures , the Japanese seem to love eating raw fish , I mean how they can bring themselves to do it I do now know , I mean the raw is I do n't think I 'd want to eat again , but er erm not always if they were cooked either , but erm the , the er and certainly if you look at the Australian Aborigines even though we take the Australian Aborigines as our kind of primeval people , they have astonishing food taboos , I mean their attitudes to food are very very culturally er effective to , to a quite extraordinary extent , some so that somebody somebody discovered that eating a tabooed food by accident , they 'll get very ill , a kind of psychosomatic illness . |
| 3 | RULE Number One : If you hold shares in a company that receives a take-over bid , never sell out early . |
| 4 | Latest results from Europe 's centre for particle physics point to the possible discovery of the W , a particle that plays a key role in theoretical attempts to unite two of nature 's forces |
| 5 | Manchester United fail to win the Championship for 25 years in a row , but attract the biggest crowds of all ; Everton supporters turn up in their thousands week after week , ignoring the better , winning team that plays a matter of yards away ; the absence of Gascoigne and Lineker will not deter the Tottenham faithful . |
| 6 | ‘ It seems that we need to have things both ways : we need a central representation that plays a role in processing every phoneme and every word and that is subject to learning , retuning and priming . |
| 7 | Asked to select all the objects in an array that shared a particular attribute and to name the attribute , these children could provide an answer but the grammatical form revealed , according to Greenfield , inferior cognitive facility . |
| 8 | As they age , many climbers — especially the ‘ climbing sport ’ variations of H.T.s and other bush forms that develop a liking for wanderlust and travel — get into the habit of flowering mostly , if not only , at the growing extremities of their stems . |
| 9 | Trow ( 1974 , p. 6.3 ) has distinguished between elite and mass systems of higher education and argues that ‘ Countries that develop a system of elite higher education in modern times seem able to expand it without changing its character in fundamental ways until it is providing places for about 15% of the age grade . ’ |
| 10 | But what we find in the resurrection of Jesus is not something that originates from the natural processes of life , but something that constitutes a unique event . |
| 11 | According to Robyn ( or , more precisely , according to the writers who have influenced her thinking on these matters ) , there is no such thing as the ‘ self ’ on which capitalism and the classic novel are founded — that is to say , a finite , unique soul or essence that constitutes a person 's identity ; there is only a subject position in an infinite web of discourses — the discourses of power , sex , family , science , religion , poetry , etc . |
| 12 | I want to suggest that it is the centrality given to this concept of sexuality that constitutes a problem for historians , for it ignores the great variety of cultural patterns that history reveals , and the very different meanings given to what we blithely label as ‘ sexual activity ’ . |
| 13 | Style , then , pertains to parole : it is selection from a total linguistic repertoire that constitutes a style . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , failures will be encountered and such failures can eventually attain a degree of seriousness that constitutes a serious crisis for the paradigm and may lead to the rejection of a paradigm and its replacement by an incompatible alternative . |
| 15 | The issue for the court to decide is whether or not the constable is doing anything that constitutes a prima facie interference with the person 's liberty , person or property , as by detaining him , searching him or otherwise touching him , or constraining his behaviour in some other way . |
| 16 | ‘ The best design strategy is not to program a computer directly with the wealth of descriptive detail that constitutes a natural language but rather to give it the basic set of expectations and abilities that are needed to learn a language . ’ |
| 17 | ( 7 ) Where an instrument under seal that constitutes a deed is required for the purposes of an Act passed before this section comes into force , this section shall have effect as to signing , sealing or delivery of an instrument by an individual in place of any provision of that Act as to signing , sealing or delivery . |
| 18 | The needle and sample are chosen so that they form a thermocouple : a device that produces a voltage if the point at which the two materials meet is hotter than its surroundings . |
| 19 | An important complement to lemon grass is kaffir lime leaf , the leaf of the tree that produces a wrinkly lime . |
| 20 | As Theroux commented , ‘ There is something about the very fact of survival that produces a greater vitality . ’ |
| 21 | Cough that produces a raw , splitting sensation in the larynx that is so acute and severe that they make every effort not to cough . |
| 22 | The launcher for the medium-range version will incorporate a projector that produces a beam of infrared radiation . |
| 23 | Bacillus thuringiensis var israelensis ( BTI ) , otherwise known as serotype H-14 of B. thuringiensis , is a spore-forming bacterium that produces a crystal of toxic protein which paralyses the mouthparts and gut and destroys the gut epithelium of any mosquito larva that ingests it . |
| 24 | A dreadful pregnancy or birth that produces a healthy baby can make it difficult for a mother to allow her baby to cry even for a few minutes . |
| 25 | The sequence of decisions that produces a crime statistic may be presented diagrammatically , as in Figure 5 . |
| 26 | It makes a 6ft ( T.8m ) shrub that produces a second fine display in autumn with masses of dark red hips . |
| 27 | An organism that produces a skeleton of stone and lives in an environment where deposits of ooze and sand are being laid down , is an ideal subject for fossilisation . |
| 28 | It is the nature of the work that produces a tendency among men to see it as essential and elemental , all those images of men down in the abdomen of the earth , raiding its womb for the fuel that makes the world go round . |
| 29 | ‘ What do we know that produces a smell like that ? ’ |
| 30 | We 've got another plant at Darlington that produces a smaller series of engines . |