Example sentences of "machine that [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A machine that would imitate , however crudely , human thought . |
| 2 | His lithographs of Palestinian villages and of Lebanon , of Tyre and the peninsula of Ras Naqourra , of the temples of Baalbek , are bathed only in the peace of antiquity , a nineteenth-century dream machine that would become more seductive as the decades saw the collapse of the Turkish and then of the British Empire . |
| 3 | Practical matters also reared their head when 15 teams were given three hours and a selection of Meccano , paper cups , cotton reels and other bits and pieces to make a machine that would take a bag of coins all in one go , and dispense them one at a time for sorting . |
| 4 | For mums it was the era of the cheap washing machine that would free them from drudgery . |
| 5 | Within a year , Dall had devised a machine that would reduce handwriting to the scale of 140 bibles to the square inch . |
| 6 | As he lay in a grassy field near Cambridge in the Thirties , Alan Turing , a young logician , day-dreamed about a machine that would operate on symbols , according to the rules of logic . |
| 7 | Hugh Flynn , Maintenance Fitter , received £50 for developing a machine that would strip waste yarn from used bobbins using only air pressure . |
| 8 | but there again it 's only hand feed , you 've , you got to have a , a machine that can feed on to take this tubing |
| 9 | If one imagines a machine that can travel from junction to junction almost instantaneously , finding a path to the exit would take only seconds . |
| 10 | Like big monsters and chariots they will become the target of every bowman and war machine that can fire at them , so it 's no use sending a Pump Wagon out on its own as it will just get shot up . |
| 11 | CESR is the only machine that can produce reasonably large numbers of the heaviest upsilon , so its collisions between electrons and positrons provide the most promising hunting ground for B mesons . |
| 12 | In other words , imagine a machine that can look ahead one move . |
| 13 | WHAT do the following have in common : a machine that can write the Bible on a pinhead ; a single-lens microscope that magnifies 1000 times ; a barometer that measures the difference in atmospheric pressure across the thickness of a book ; a 15-cm ( 6-inch ) telescope that fits into a jacket pocket ; and the first bicycle crossing of the uninhabited central region of Iceland ? |
| 14 | Community partners will soon need to start work on a new machine that will build on its results and bring commercial fusion a step nearer . |
| 15 | The Harwell scientists , headed by Chris Lambe , have produced a machine that will separate large protein molecules from the complex soupy mix that forms the product of many biochemical reactions . |
| 16 | Roland seem to be almost alone in their grim resolve to produce a usable , glitch-free machine that will coax the average guitarist through that door marked MIDI . |
| 17 | The fine gauge machine has a lace carriage , but as yet no one has developed a chunky machine that will take a lace carriage . |
| 18 | It is very easy to devise a machine that will punch one rivet hole every six inches , but imagine a column of newsprint in which every letter o was a hole through the paper , and then imagine that the paper was magnified to a width of two feet and pasted onto a sheet of wrought iron , half an inch thick . |
| 19 | To summarise , the problem was to build a machine that could examine enough positions in three minutes to give it some protection against the clumsiness of its evaluation functions . |
| 20 | Fifteen years later , when everyone believed that computers were designed for advanced scientific work , business unexpectedly showed an interest in a machine that could do payroll . |
| 21 | We designed a new machine that could pick up the in-can system and position it within the can , without damage . |
| 22 | Research into computer chess began with the hope of making a machine that could operate with ideas , generalisation and expectations , the way humans do . |
| 23 | Unable to pump in compressed air to equalise the water pressure — the air pressure required would have exceeded legal limits — Fairclough and Thames had to find a machine that could operate under such conditions . |
| 24 | Cornelius did not possess a machine that could predict the future , but he felt certain he knew just how this tale was going to end . |
| 25 | ‘ And the villagers let a complete stranger drive off with a machine that could play music from the future … ’ |
| 26 | THOUSANDS of women are using a washing machine that could kill , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 27 | Apple Computer Inc has always jealously guarded its Macintosh environment , but it made a striking gesture when it allowed IBM to build machines that would run the PowerPC version of Macintosh System when the chip is ready . |
| 28 | Physical examples include equipment designed to make components that will fit into the product of only one buyer ( for example , exhausts for Rolls-Royce cars ) or dispensing machines that can handle packsizes peculiar to one supplier . |
| 29 | The Japanese education ministry has launched a five year project to produce machines that can repair themselves , thus reducing the need for human intervention . |
| 30 | Historically the computational approach has been most actively pursued by engineers eager to build machines that can do the same things as humans . |