Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] that [vb past] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under Franco , they used to be distributed among representatives of the different political groups that made up the regime 's base of support ; under democracy , incumbents in such posts have tended to be replaced with each change of government . |
| 2 | The port of Anjer quite simply ceased to exist as the succession of great waves washed over it , carrying away all the flimsy wooden buildings that made up the town . |
| 3 | But little of the necessary reading for " Schools " interested me : I had little interest in constitutional development , political theory or economic growth , none at all in the Industrial Revolution and the technical and scientific achievements that ushered in the modern age . |
| 4 | He went from one end to the other of the U-shaped hotel , up and down steps that marked the boundaries of the three separate buildings that made up the Steam Packet Hotel . |
| 5 | Terry sat looking anxious while Ellie carefully unpicked , altered , moved all the tiny buttons that ran down the back , rearranged the small bustle , put little tucks into the bustline to make it fit more snugly . |
| 6 | They had n't heard the scratching sounds since Daak had straightened out the protesting shuttle and lowered it serenely towards the whorled ridges that made up the top of the space station . |
| 7 | The palace of ‘ Black Ab ’ , the grandfather of King Hussein , overlooked the mosque , the bazaar and the huddle of insanitary buildings that made up the capital . |
| 8 | Current rating legislation is contained in three Acts of Parliament ( the Local Government Finance Act 1988 , the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 and the Non-domestic Rating Act 1992 ) and about 100 items of associated secondary regulations that lay down the processes and procedures governing the system . |
| 9 | They rode in single file , for the ground became broken as they climbed higher and the hoofs of their mounts dislodged loose stones that clattered down the hillside . |
| 10 | Now that we knew the line , we progressed quickly into the wild world of the seemingly blank walls and hanging stances that made up the meat of the route . |
| 11 | About the exchange of bird species between closely adjacent islands Wallace noted : ‘ Birds offer us one of the best means of determining the law of distribution ; for though at first sight it would appear that the watery boundaries that kept out the land quadrupeds could be easily passed over by birds , yet practically it is not so ; for if we leave out the aquatic tribes ( seabirds ) which are preeminently wanderers , it is found that the others ( and especially the passeres , or perching birds , which form the vast majority ) are often as strictly limited by straits and arms of the sea as are quadrupeds themselves . ’ |
| 12 | She made for the fires and the sudden yellow flashes that lit up the central complex of buildings . |
| 13 | She had reached the place where the Dalek Killer had entered one of the six squat buildings that made up the central complex . |
| 14 | And when her tears mixed with the salty tears that fell down the great beast 's cheek , the spell was released , and he stood before her , a golden-haired young man in hunting-costume . |
| 15 | DoE and the Department of Trade and Industry have asked the British Standards Institution to revise any analytical standards that lay down the use of either of these compounds . |
| 16 | The room was bare , except for the staircase , and a pair of indifferent watercolours of dead flowers that hung on the wall opposite the door . |