Example sentences of "that [vb base] [verb] [prep] the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can only be good for the G M B and it would hopefully bring on board some , if not all of the doubting Thomases , that have said in the past that we do nothing for them . |
| 2 | I 'm quite sure that the way forward for teachers and parents is within some kind of co-operative framework , and the only way that can work effectively is for each to be aware of other 's needs and difficulties , and the kind of barriers that have existed in the past for parents to get into schools I think are being lowered by the schools , but it takes almost a generation , I think , for parents to stop being frightened about what school is doing and the kind of parents who 've had bad experiences themselves in schools , I think , have enormous difficulties in approaching teachers and I 'm sure the answer is in terms of co-operative activity — children and schools , schools and parents , and all of them together with myriad of outside agencies that are available for children with severe problems . |
| 3 | In deciding whether or not the conditions exist for the issuing of conditions , the chief of police may take into account such factors as disturbances that have arisen in the past when the same organisation processed on a previous occasion . |
| 4 | However , we have to acknowledge the considerable benefits that have accrued in the past because people have hunted — benefits to conservation in general , not to the individual animals being hunted . |
| 5 | These may be interpretations of current experiences , predictions about future events , or recollections of things that have happened in the past . |
| 6 | That 's taken , i i it refers to Pagan festivals that have happened in the past , i i I mean we 've invented our own rituals as well , but based on the May Queen figure . |
| 7 | The City of London is important to the invisible exports of this country , and we can not allow scandals such as those that have happened in the past . |
| 8 | To a certain extent that was inevitable as a result of the changes that have occurred over the past three or four Governments and I am certain that it will continue to improve . |
| 9 | He is critical of some of the excesses of self-protection that have occurred in the past , but is firm in his commitment to the cab-rank rule , under which , quoting Rumpole , it is the barrister 's ‘ sacred duty . |
| 10 | Costs and revenues that have occurred in the past can not be changed . |