Example sentences of "that [verb] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , Schell et al. ( 1989 ) point out that it is now possible to engineer plants , by introducing B. thuringiensis genes encoded for toxin production , that develop resistance to tobacco hornworm ( Manduca sexta ) and the large white butterfly ( Pieris brassicae ) . |
| 2 | Cataclysmic first quarter figures from MIPS Computer Systems Inc — a loss of $12.7m on sales that plunged 46% to $23.7m underline how much the company needs rescuing by Silicon Graphics Inc . |
| 3 | The former is making quite a name for itself , as it works well under Windows and as its device driver can be set up as a ‘ printer device ’ within Windows , the output of almost any Windows application that produces output to a printer , can be ‘ diverted ’ and sent as a FAX . |
| 4 | Its effect is that states in the tails of the distribution N(e) become traps that confine electrons to limited regions of the semiconductor . |
| 5 | It 's tough work staging the Battle of Edgehill , with an eye for authenticity and tough on the props that bring realism to a 350 year old battle . |
| 6 | Within the brain it is usually only 1 mm or less , but the cell bodies of the neurons that bring information to the brain from the skin lie close to the spinal cord , so in a whale or dinosaur the dendrites could be 10,000 mm long , and this also applies to the axons of the motor fibres , which carry commands from the spinal cord telling the muscles to contract . |
| 7 | A transaction that conveyed title to readily marketable staples by endorsement of the bill of lading or warehouse receipt to the commercial , and subsequently to the central banker was encouraged . |
| 8 | Bull that made love to a Volvo |
| 9 | Some of them did n't read music or tablature and they just needed chord symbols and little expressions that made sense to them . |
| 10 | She wrote long letters home to Antonia in which she translated the other girls ' lives in terms that made sense to her . |
| 11 | Phil Evans consigned one heifer , Linton Judy , that made 1000gns to W D Roberts , Tregaron , Dyfed . |
| 12 | It is this evidence that led West to the cautious conclusion that ‘ it is reasonable to assume that in the nineteenth century education played some part in economic growth . ’ |
| 13 | It was the logic of their medium ( the camera filmed what it saw ) and the need for stories that led producers to film aspects of their times but in the movies themselves the supremacy of fiction relegated society to a background . |
| 14 | Hall guides us through the far more tortuous path that led Newton to his discoveries and explains why not all his many critics can be dismissed simply as benighted traditionalists . |
| 15 | And it was thinking of Barbara Coleman , what she had enjoyed and what she had become , that led Rain to a disturbing idea . |
| 16 | Some of the same thinking that led Balcon to MGM persuaded Hitchcock , in 1939 , to sign a deal with David O. Selznick and emigrate to Hollywood . |
| 17 | It is called fear — massive , overwhelming , paralytic fear that turns legs to jelly , hands to castanets , and hearts to pumping turbines . |
| 18 | When it comes to evangelising , Michael Green reminds us , ‘ Evangelism is never proclamation in a vacuum ; but always to people , and the message must be given in terms that make sense to them ’ ( Green 1970:115 ) . |
| 19 | They understand what is going on in ways that make sense to them and , if we want to understand their behaviour , and perhaps to explain it , we have to start from where they are . |
| 20 | I 've just mentioned the taunt that drives Sonya to prostitution . |
| 21 | So again , we find that Chewong reaction to perceived violence — which is how I would describe the abuse of the jealous woman — is to retreat from it . |
| 22 | Anything that involves hand to eye co-ordination , Andy 's your boy ’ . ’ |
| 23 | More still are for sale legally over the counter in shops like the Brass Rail on La Brea , the store that sold guns to the Black Panthers in the 1960s and where I watched white and Korean men wearing jeans queuing to buy . |
| 24 | These are the letters that raise questions to which there are , indeed , well-known answers , but answers of which the writers are ignorant . |
| 25 | One could say the same sort of thing about Captain Maxwell and the 26 banks that lent money to his enterprises . |
| 26 | He added : ‘ It was evident that repair work to the chimney had been carried out . |
| 27 | The concentration of chloride in interstitial water in the unsaturated zone is a chemical record that represents recharge to the saturated zone covering more than a century . |
| 28 | You mean she 's actually washed the hand that lay palm to palm with Rainbow 's as they danced ? |
| 29 | I do not suggest that to restore benefit to 16 to 18-year-olds would solve this problem overnight , but it would go far down the road to alleviating this problem which surely must be unacceptable in 1993 . |
| 30 | It comes out on the road that joins Cambo to the small town of Hasparren , a Roman foundation but a nondescript place today . |