Example sentences of "that [adj] [noun pl] [vb base] to " in BNC.

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1 It is a common observation that spatial disparities tend to be reduced when national economies as a whole experience growth and vice-versa .
2 If the cytoplasm of the egg has a well-defined pattern of constituents which determines the later organization of the embryo then cleavage may just be a way of partitioning this cytoplasmic pattern in the egg so that specific constituents go to specific cells .
3 It is argued that political programmes have to be worked out by actors within the state , rather than emerging automatically from the ‘ needs ’ of the economic system .
4 Other philosophers argue that free agents need to be self-directed ( or ‘ autonomous ’ ) and hence need to choose in a sense not cashable as the effective satisfying of desires .
5 Like another release in the same series — Benedict Mason 's Lighthouses of England and Wales , which I 've reviewed at length below — Birtwistle 's work is also , for all its contemporary superstructure and substructures , a species of tone-poem in a genre that British composers tend to be good at : in this case the quasipantheistic dark-pastoral in the tradition of North Country Sketches , In the Faery Hills , Enter Spring and , perhaps especially , the ‘ Ritual dances ’ from Tippett 's Midsummer Marriage .
6 I have n't been around this long without learning that funny things happen to people who know too much about mob business . ’
7 In conclusion , we have demonstrated the presence of M tuberculosis DNA in sarcoid lung and lymph tissue and shown that archival specimens seem to be suitable for research based on polymerase chain reaction techniques .
8 Within any particular language-system that English users subscribe to , and these may include different dialects , different phonological relationships and different lexical choices , it is possible , argues Lyons , to make statements without qualification of the speaker 's commitment to their truth .
9 Which means that ontological object-categories have to be analysed in conjunction with certain experiential modalities .
10 It requires either a full repeat survey to identify the life style-groups again if any follow-up research is to be done , or else the creation of a sort of shorthand classification for research and analysis ; it seems that different products tend to be best looked at in terms of rather different life style groupings , so that , ideally , each requires its own major survey — which rather loses the point of the exercise — and researchers have had some difficulty in replicating the results .
11 Administrators , on the other hand , are entirely the creatures of statute and it is possible that different considerations apply to administrators than apply to administrative receivers on the question of unregistered companies .
12 It is consequently scarcely surprising that Somali men tend to be very ambivalent in their attitudes towards these women 's ailments , especially since some impatient husbands find that the best cure is often a good beating !
13 Scientists can adjust the rate of flow so that positively-charged molecules drift to the inside while negatively-charged molecules travel to the outside .
14 He says that bored youngsters turn to crime — joy riding cars etc .
15 If there is one thing that Japanese managers respond to , it is this sort of pressure .
16 It is in these schools that personal contacts begin to be built up and these help to produce the ‘ old-boy networks ’ .
17 Many farmers have found that similar benefits apply to calf rearing .
18 A psychologist develops an approach to the shaping of animal behaviour and demonstrates its effectiveness on rats and pigeons and then takes the reckless step of assuming that similar solutions apply to human behaviour .
19 There is evidence that verbal reprimands tend to be less effective in various disciplinary encounters than other techniques .
20 Confrontation with a novel or unexpected event , in which few replicative aspects are evident , may mean that inappropriate constructs come to be applied as when a viewer orientated towards figurative painting attempts to discover recognizable content with an abstract work .
21 Many studies have demonstrated that genetic factors contribute to susceptibility to duodenal ulcers .
22 This means that fibre-rich foods swell to a greater bulk , to fill the stomach , than any other foods .
23 But Russell does not distinguish , as McTaggart does , between the Humean ‘ bundle ’ view and the view that mental states belong to the same self if they are causally related to the same body .
24 Anglo-Saxon archaeology has n't come to a crisis point as did prehistoric studies in the early 1960s ; rather it is gradually slipping into new directions with the establishment of a generation of archaeologists more aware that alternative approaches exist to be tried and which have been available for 20 years .
25 Ensuring that non-elected officials conform to the wishes of their elected superiors presents difficulties in all democratic systems of government .
26 I have not always found it easy to counter my wife 's complaints that frozen peas have to be eaten the same day .
27 I remind the House that multiple questions lead to multiple answers and take up time .
28 It has been well observed that classical revivals tend to be of short duration .
29 This means that initial conditions need to be specified so as to provide the data for the first set of calculations .
30 The British Home Office still takes the line affirmed in its committee report ( 1979 ) that live animals need to be used and the statement of the British Medical Research Council , included in it , that ‘ the LD50 test is the only reliable measure of acute toxicity and yields a result with the least possible expenditure of life ’ ( 1979 : 16 ) .
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