Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [that] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE WELSH are closing in on the standards of play that immortalised the sixties and seventies as the golden age of their rugby . |
| 2 | Entire families , forced off the land and driven to the cities , found themselves tied to a treadmill of existence that involved the entire family working , quite literally , night and day . |
| 3 | This is a much lower threshold of liability than the notion of violence that underlay the common law concept . |
| 4 | This is where the spectacular forms of regeneration that characterised the 1980s ( Harvey , 1989 ) were not so much a postmodern discontinuity as a logical extension of the tradition of symbolically rich , effectively marginal , policy palliatives that were offered to the urban crisis from the 1960s onwards . |
| 5 | This , however , was only one example of the kind of issue that required the concerted action of states with different social systems . |
| 6 | The party had quietened in the half-hour since Belinda had turned into the driveway , but music , laughter and conversation still flowed over her with a welcome wave of sound that drowned the thudding pulse in her ears and the silent clamour of her thoughts . |
| 7 | I do n't think that I was in a minority of one in finding this performance , particularly the absolutely shattering playing of the Finale , incredibly moving — the thunderous howl of approval that greeted the final chord bears that out . |
| 8 | It was not only gifts of cash that kept the voluntary hospitals going , but the donation by leading doctors of their services . |
| 9 | Attempts to reform the education service in the 1930s had been frustrated by financial stringencies ( of the kind , for example , that led to the substitution of special for free places in secondary schools ) , by the conservative indifference towards education that marked the National Governments of the decade , and , perhaps most decisively , by the persistence of religious difficulties . |
| 10 | The barrage of criticism that greeted the consultative paper persuaded both Ministers and mandarins of something that schools and parents had known experientially all along ; that the problem of curriculum planning is not deciding what to put in , but what to leave out . |
| 11 | In Britain these anxieties , warnings and qualifications intensified in the period of debate that preceded the 1867 Reform Act . |
| 12 | He established territory over a cave roof in the middle of the tank and proceeded to carry out a reign of terror that had the other residents hugging the ends of the tank in various stages of nervous collapse . |
| 13 | Her voice was judicial , but she quailed inwardly at the flare of anger that lit the blue eyes . |
| 14 | ‘ Fowler ’ was inserted for ‘ Tebbit ’ on the placards and the demonstration went ahead with a degree of intimidation that made the front page of every national newspaper the next day . |
| 15 | I vividly remember the familiar scent of sawdust that perfumed the first hug . |
| 16 | Rather , my aim is to look at the kinds of assumption that informed the various strands of positivist criminology , and at the way they differed from classical assumptions in both theory and practice . |
| 17 | Semer Water was formed when the last glacier to carve its way down Wensleydale melted , leaving behind a bank of moraine that formed the nether end of a lake that is now nearly three miles in circumference and , at its deepest part , forty-five feet deep . |
| 18 | Imagine a suite of software that used the central core concept controlling integrated modules and gave you the ability to run your own software as well . |
| 19 | They were off the road , parked on a wide area of land that overlooked the next valley . |
| 20 | She knew her mother 's moods ; she recognised the strain of annoyance that drew the long delicate features of her face into a severe mask . |
| 21 | Back and forth between its two summits , Points 265 and 295 , swayed the opposing forces , locked together in a crescendo of desperation that typified the worst of the months of ceaseless combat on the Left Bank . |
| 22 | Although Mensch 's theory is in the same tradition as Schumpeter 's , the mechanism that triggers the clustering of innovations is industry 's common experience of low rates of profit as the profitability of the old family of technology that fuelled the last boom is exhausted . |
| 23 | Ramsay MacDonald was beaten by such a campaign in 1921 with language that made the general election of 1918 seem tame . |
| 24 | The Wheel Tapper was a cider pub , and the only one in town that tolerated the hard core of tomato-faced cider drinkers who , outside licensing hours , sat talking garrulously on public benches or passed out surrounded by flagons on the lawns of the Floral Gardens . |
| 25 | If redundancy was the leading form of change to 1981 , it was gains in productivity that made the greatest inroads from then . |