Example sentences of "[subord] something that [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The treaty gave no indication of what a common agricultural policy would be other than something that would increase agricultural productivity , ensure a fair standard . |
| 2 | Second , while two thirds of respondents espoused an open systems policy , in reality few are adopting it — again , open systems is regarded as a technology to keep the computing professionals amused rather than something that will show real business benefits . |
| 3 | A crash or a motoring conviction was viewed as unlucky , rather than something that should have been avoided . |
| 4 | and so sometimes the , the calls do seem unreasonable but you should n't get cross , and when you go and see them sometimes you realize why they 're anxious because something that might seem quite trivial to you they might know somebody who had similar symptoms and it actually turned out to be meningitis or something so you 're then able to put their minds at rest . |
| 5 | Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates said in a televised interview with CNBC-TV that he knows of no effort by the US Federal Trade Commission to force a restructuring of Microsoft , despite its ongoing probe : ‘ I certainly have n't heard any suggestion that they 're even considering something that would change the structure of our company , ’ Gates said ; he also warned on the Business Insiders programme that Microsoft Corp will not be as profitable in the long-term as it has in recent years — ‘ The kind of profit margin we 've had in the past will be very unlikely for us to achieve in the future ; we 've said after tax margins probably wo n't stay over 20% in the mid to long-term , and they could go quite a bit lower than that in the short-term , ’ the company 's chief executive declared . |
| 6 | He envisaged a Soviet return to the position of leading exporter of grain as something that would make ‘ Messrs Imperialists ’ sit up and take notice . |
| 7 | While some British officials were interested in the Schuman Plan , the Labour Party rejected it as something that would limit its ability to strive for democratic Socialism in Britain ‘ and to apply the economic controls necessary to achieve it ’ . |
| 8 | Mr Reed maintains that , even if such a late take-up did not happen often , ‘ it was common currency among merchant bankers as something that could happen ’ . |