Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] that [vb past] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fire , apparently caused by a short circuit , triggered an automatic safety system that shut down the plant . |
| 2 | Once out of the village they picked up speed and took a road that would zigzag through five hamlets before bringing them to the only cart track that wound up the lower slopes of the mountain . |
| 3 | And even in deposits such as the flysch of northern Spain or the Polish Carpathians , there is a great deal of evidence of erosion by the turbidity currents that laid down the sediment . |
| 4 | The lamps were out and the curtains open , letting in an aquarium light that showed up the room for what it really was : a cold , colourless tomb . |
| 5 | The wretched towns of lower Aragon , detested by liberal soldiers , became strongholds of Carlism and it was the desolation of decaying artisan towns that set off the polemics on the effectiveness of ecclesiastical charity . |
| 6 | The businessman was staring in angry disbelief at the glittering computer graphic that hung on the screen before him . |
| 7 | As yet it was only eight o'clock and the sun reluctant to leave without treating its worshippers to a pyrotechnic display of rose and gold flames that burnt up the whole western sky . |
| 8 | He could see the grassy wilderness forming a high bank beyond the old bulging stone wall that held back the encroaching hillside . |
| 9 | When she was alone in it , she would , in affection and gratitude , pat the squat stone pillars that held up the nave roof . |
| 10 | Dr Kevin O'Kane worked in Baidoa for the Irish agency , Goal ; his wife , a doctor with Médecins sans Frontières , was evacuated last week because of death threats that shut down the MSF programme . |
| 11 | This switch to feature films inevitably led to a new preoccupation with fiction and with developing screen fictions that took up the themes and conventions of respectable literary and theatrical tastes . |