Example sentences of "to a [noun] that [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Locus M corresponds to a circuit that exhibits real positive feedback at a frequency represented by the point Q but , as the length of OQ is less than unity , oscillation can not occur . |
| 2 | Erm it is quite unfair , and illegal , for a shop to try to duck out of their responsibilities to you by pointing to a sign that says no refunds , no money refunded . |
| 3 | A row also broke out in the Dexter lines at the show after the judge awarded the breed championship to a cow that came only second in its class . |
| 4 | From the tarn , I followed my nose down to a cairn that stands on the shoulder above Deepdale Side where the view down Deepdale into Dentdale was so good that I sat and looked at it for a good half-hour until the thought that I needed to be home by late afternoon pushed me on down to the green lane of the old Craven Way . |
| 5 | If the visual cortex of a monkey is exposed to a stain that highlights the enzyme cytochrome oxidase it is possible to identify densely labelled blobs , which indicate high concentrations of the enzyme , in the upper layers of the visual cortex ( Livingstone and Hubel 1984 ) . |
| 6 | I looked up and saw him clinging to a pipe that ran the length of one wall , high up . |
| 7 | The didactic exercise culminates in front of a J.E.H. MacDonald landscape , a painting visible if , and only if , the visitor sits in a booth ( maximum capacity of two ) and listens to a voice that tries , according to a museum official , ‘ to stimulate the visitor 's imaginative powers ’ . |
| 8 | Today , kd lang is changing her tune again , forsaking country music for torch songs and giving free range to a voice that reaches from Alberta to Berlin . |
| 9 | The Video Electronics Standards Association in San Jose is not too pleased with one of its members , Dell Computer Corp , which has suddenly jumped up to claim that some VL-Bus products to its standard infringe one of Dell 's patents : ‘ We are both surprised and saddened that one of the companies involved in ratifying the VL-Bus standard would take such an action , ’ said Association chairman Scott Vouri ; the patent appears to claim rights to a computer system receptive to a board that plugs into both a system input-output bus and a high speed expansion memory bus ; Dell has been a member for over a year , having joined the club in February 1992 , and voted to approve the standard ; the group also says that like all the other members , Dell signed a statement indicating no knowledge of any conflicts with its patents . |
| 10 | Their theme , as given in the conference invitation , was : ‘ Can some modern nation show the way to a change that goes deep enough to deal with hate and fear and greed ? |
| 11 | The return of rock means not so much a crashdown as a return towards rock , a departure from planet pop to a self-sufficiency that matches pop . |
| 12 | Also an agency broker objected to a proposal that orders currently crossed within a firm be exposed to market-makers first . |
| 13 | One is getting through parliament changes to a law that protects small shopkeepers at the expense of big stores , the chief outlets for foreign goods . |
| 14 | Bulford , where the Avon and the Nine Mile River meet , is just a short distance from Stonehenge , and was one of the first sites on Salisbury Plain to be bought by the War Office at the turn of the century and turned into a garrison , bringing new industry to a village that had previously been dependent on agriculture . |
| 15 | But if a matter came to a head that withdrawing my labour was the only way to resolve it , that I thought was the only way to resolve it , I 'd go out and do it again . |
| 16 | ( 2 ) For purposes of this section " liability " means legally enforceable liability ; and subsection ( 1 ) shall not apply in relation to a liability that had not been accepted or established to pay compensation for a wrongful act or omission . |
| 17 | ‘ We shall tes-ti-i-i-fyy ’ , sang Mrs Quigley , to a tune that seemed to be completely of her own devising , ‘ to-o-o the-e-e Lor-or-ord ! ’ |
| 18 | You ca n't write a song to a tune that 's been written by someone else ’ . |
| 19 | This realisation is already expressed in the bible story of Paradise , providing the occasion for the concept of original sin , as well as the Eastern belief in Karma , equivalent to a debt that has to be paid , which the individual brings with him into his present life . |
| 20 | Stok was sitting there speaking to a telephone that looked like a prop from The Young Mister Edison . |
| 21 | HOW does a globular protein adapt to a mutation that forces a surplus residue into a helix ? |
| 22 | It is common for students to return to a part that has given them many ideas , and to rework a passage fruitfully . |
| 23 | It was a good start to a day that had already seen the Liberal Democrats improve by two points in the latest opinion polls . |
| 24 | It 's an explosive climax to a day that begins with the 65-strong Sky crew , 40 technical staff and a 25-man production team , parking their giant mobile studios outside the stadium at first light . |
| 25 | The laxative dose was gradually decreased after two to three months to a dose that maintained one bowel movement daily . |
| 26 | Yet in the first half of the century the number of unmarried women increased substantially , so that they formed a significant minority group Spinsters maintained an anomalous social position and were often seen as a threat to a society that assumed all women would marry and be subject to the control of their husbands [ Hill , 229–30 ] . |
| 27 | It is an orientation compatible with the others already identified and it is eminently congenial to a society that stresses the responsibilities as well as the rights of the individual . |
| 28 | In the end you came to a door that said ( and this was equally inexplicable ) 3D . |
| 29 | The second-hand boat market is saturated ; yachts seem to drop in value to a level that lasts for decades , never entirely disappearing from the market . |
| 30 | If you come across an answer to a question that does n't fit the headings you 've already got , summarise that answer and write it on the master sheet : thereafter put a tally mark against it every time an answer fits it . |