Example sentences of "that [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I detached her gently from her twig and she writhed in anger , exposing her paler stomach and all her spiky little paws that clung leechlike to the branch to which I returned her . |
| 2 | IT WAS the moment that laid bare the myth that Princess Diana could ever be Queen . |
| 3 | On their sitting-room wall hangs a big calendar illustrated by glossy colour photographs of Mr Deng 's visit to southern China in early 1992 — the pilgrimage that relaunched radical economic reform in China . |
| 4 | The document said the Government was aware of concern about the time taken to complete assessments and that admitted unnecessary delays caused ‘ undue anxiety ’ to parents . |
| 5 | A friend of mine recently found a beauty that became redundant and unloved when a local school closed down . |
| 6 | Council officers told the works and health committee that the scheme would help the many pupils that became involved in the food industry after leaving school . |
| 7 | The Concorde cost over £1.2 billion in tranches that became necessary exactly in this manner . |
| 8 | Table I shows the distribution of the women according to waist-hip ratio , body mass index , and age , and the percentage that became pregnant in each category . |
| 9 | These , then , were the books that became required reading for those who came to Cumberland Lodge to debate such issues . |
| 10 | When Neville Chamberlain became Prime Minister , in 1937 , he had as the Foreign Secretary , Anthony Eden , a very able minister of considerable repute , which fact probably accounted for the fact that he remained as Foreign Secretary despite the clear differences of opinion that became apparent between them . |
| 11 | Just as officialdom saw the legendary return of salmon to the Thames as evidence that Britain 's water pollution was cured , so it gloried in the Clean Air Acts of the 1950s and turned a ‘ blind eye ’ to dying lakes , moribund trees and the links between car exhaust and human health that became apparent in the 1980s . |
| 12 | In both areas , a candidate may be accepted but their bureau manager may be asked to pay particular attention to some area of weakness that became apparent in the interview . |
| 13 | This last finding was one that became apparent very early on in the reviews . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , these conditions did not produce the consequences that became apparent in the industrial towns . |
| 15 | The relative lack of success was due in large part to the lack of consistency with other policies — a fact that became apparent in 1990 , when Collor abolished national import quotas , and threatened to cut tariffs too . |
| 16 | The one-off posters featuring slogans that became familiar parts of the electoral joust also appeared on a single billboard in south London for photo-opportunity launches . |
| 17 | Certainly , Lear chose the most charismatic subjects for his plates — the owls , eagles , cranes , pelicans , geese , swans and flamingos that became familiar in his nonsense rhymes — and left the less-dramatic little perching birds , such as the thrushes , robins , and wrens to Mrs Gould . |
| 18 | Celomer drafted in French consultancy Creci , the organisation that became familiar to laymen after helping the French national soccer management . |
| 19 | CHARLES Keating , a prominent figure in the $500 billion savings and loan scandal in the United States , has been jailed for a total of 10 years for deceiving depositors into buying junk bonds that became worthless . |
| 20 | And I found that in some respects that became negative you know … in some ways that also screwed the lesson |
| 21 | I thought it was better to put my own thing forward so I dismissed his comment by saying that his rude attack on me was like being savaged by a dead sheep — and that became famous . |
| 22 | Those that became extinct were replaced by better adapted ones . |
| 23 | Those that became extinct included gomphotheres ( mastodon-like proboscidians ) , ground sloths and equids . |
| 24 | The face make-up was known as ‘ fleshing ’ ; it was then a natural colour , not the tan that became popular later on . |
| 25 | A mutation that became popular in Victorian times was called the ‘ Moss Rose ’ because of a minute thorny , moss-like growth that forms on and around the bud scales , in some cases very heavily , and which is coloured . |
| 26 | This seaworthy offshore cruiser is a modified design that became popular in its own right . |
| 27 | In the bull markets of the eighties long term investment funds were attractive to investors , and there was also a steady demand from new businesses starting up and from management buyouts that became popular . |
| 28 | This prompted big airlines to dominate the nation 's largest airports and then to devour the fleet of small carriers that became airborne soon after deregulation . |
| 29 | I stated with authorial authority that only people who knew about the way the murder was committed ( a complicated affair using an invented tree-bark that became hard when wetted ) could have done it and I implied , but with fearful fair play nowhere explicitly stated , that this knowledge could only have been gained by one of a small circle who had watched the Maharajah play a certain practical joke . |
| 30 | It was the time spent with this woman that became instrumental in deterring Millie from making her escape from this prayer-ridden , ignorant set of women , from which Mother Francis must be excluded . |