Example sentences of "[to-vb] [indef pn] that [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A speech in which the epochal scale of change in the East was acknowledged and yet also modified by President Bush 's innate caution , it was meant to include nothing that would alarm Mrs Thatcher . |
| 2 | But Birmingham Labour MP Robin Corbett said : ‘ The hope must be that the police have now been able to find something that will help identify the real culprits . ’ |
| 3 | In the drawing the box is open at the search end and in the search we hope to find something that will fit exactly into that box . |
| 4 | Now I want you to find something that will do for guns and fur caps and a saucepan for Emily to cook wolf stew in — ; |
| 5 | Old stopcocks were not made to a standard size and it may take some searching in plumbers ’ merchants to find something that will enable you to connect new copper pipe . |
| 6 | Derek Owen tried many legumes to find one that would grow , and fix nitrogen for other plants , in the all-but-sterile conditions in these mica lagoons . |
| 7 | The principle must be whether it is right to use public money to reward something that has happened anyway or to encourage something that might not happen if we do not use that public money . |
| 8 | Previous explorations , in 1987 and 1988 , failed to discover anything that could help explain why the plane crashed on its routine flight from Bologna to Palermo in June 1980 . |
| 9 | The general aim is to pick something that wo n't take long , get them fed quickly and get them out without their inflicting any major damage . |
| 10 | WHEN Robert Napier bought four acres of Carntyne and added it to his Parkhead Forge , it was to create something that would become a cross between Hell and Armageddon for the thousands who worked there . |
| 11 | This is important since the brief was always to destroy anything that may leave incriminating evidence . |
| 12 | All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have occurred . |
| 13 | All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have occurred . |
| 14 | In fact , I 'm about to suggest something that would simplify matters . ’ |
| 15 | In any case , I did not linger long enough — as I was obliged to explain to his lordship shortly afterwards — to hear anything that would give a clue as to M. Dupont 's attitude to Mr Lewis 's remarks . |
| 16 | I refuse to hear anything that might disrupt my own plans . |
| 17 | I think they were so nervous to play anything that would imply for the space shot or against the space shot — whether the guys were going to come back or not . |
| 18 | The cost for a single user of a committee feed is a real deterrent , particularly for individual ITV regional companies , and the Committee was anxious to avoid anything that might inhibit regional coverage . |
| 19 | Besides , its new paymaster — the Russian leadership — is keen to avoid anything that would embarrass Britain , just when it 's asking for Western aid . |
| 20 | They are indeed a couple able to avoid anything that could be construed as A Masculine Ending ( BBC1 : 7.45–9.20 pm ) . |
| 21 | ‘ You 'll have to carry something that could be the money . |
| 22 | As one teacher put it to me , ‘ on a bad day I have the feeling that I am struggling hard to do something that may not be worth doing at all ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ Too busy to do something that might benefit your mother ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ You ought to do something that 'll bring some proper money in , ’ she told him , ‘ and take that stuff out the back where I 'm not forever tripping over it . ’ |
| 25 | By reversing his previous stand and meeting the Dalai Lama , Mr Bush was perhaps taking the steam out of a growing congressional effort to do something that would injure a lot more than China 's pride : the cancelling of China 's most-favoured-nation ( MFN ) trading status . |
| 26 | Then she realized it was her own desire to be valued , noticed even , that made her want to do something that would n't take a minute once she 'd started . |
| 27 | Good God , he thought , I should like to do something that would really make her jump out of her skin for once . |
| 28 | She looked wistfully up the companionway to the square of blue sky , but fought the urge to go up on deck , scared he might ask her to do something that would reveal her ignorance . |
| 29 | After consultations with other Western governments the United States adminstration on April 24 drew back from any punitive measures against the Soviet Union over its blockade of Lithuania ( officials having previously hinted at possible limited economic sanctions ) , when President Bush gave a clear indication at a press conference that the administration considered Gorbachev 's political survival and good Soviet-US relations to be more important than Lithuanian independence , explaining : " I am concerned that we do not inadvertently compel the Soviet Union to do something that would set back the whole process of freedom around the world . " |
| 30 | Plan to do something that will take you out of the house and , perhaps , go for a long walk . |