Example sentences of "[noun pl] [that] [adv] [vb past] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this first phase of DIP development vendors offered solutions that merely handled the archival and retrieval of images . |
| 2 | They came to a clearing and Nicky slumped on to the trunk of a felled tree , shaded by the overhanging branches that almost covered the space it had made . |
| 3 | T. Rex and his relatives also had large , curved tails that never touched the ground when the animal was in motion . |
| 4 | But it was the omnipresent manufacturer 's logo woven into increasingly complex designs that really offended the fashion police . |
| 5 | The crate was full of heavy objects that really needed the attention of a strong man . |
| 6 | Humankind , to summarise , has been moving shoddywards since about 480 BC , when Confucius , Buddha , the Second Isaiah and Pythagoras died : to be succeeded , sages of wisdom and toleration that they were , by a return to superstition not unlike the reactions that tragically followed the Enlightenment or Victorian rationalism . |
| 7 | But for the true enthusiasts that simply heightened the sense of anticipation . |
| 8 | As for the benign intent : whereas dashes for growth in the 1960s and early 1970s were engineered by governments that deliberately overestimated the economy 's ability to grow , last year 's boom was the result of a miscalculation , which probably erred on the right side . |
| 9 | Supporting this work are the government 's Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) and the US Air Force , which are responsible for cleaning up poisoned communities like love canal , or old plants that once made the herbicide Agent Orange . |
| 10 | Her handling of paint , which had always been close-knit , was redirected in order to build the honeycombed structures that now spanned the surface of her canvases . |
| 11 | The vintage machines that once ruled the world . |
| 12 | And I found that in some respects that became negative you know … in some ways that also screwed the lesson |
| 13 | The trees that once sheltered the man of the forest have been chopped down and sold to shelter the man of the city in Tokyo and Nagasaki . |
| 14 | They gave way to blackened and gnarled olive trees that rhythmically criss-crossed the sweep of the valley . |
| 15 | By 1933 , the audience was already sophisticated enough to enjoy , in The Fatal Glass of Beer , scenes that deliberately emphasized the artificiality of the process , as when W C Fields half-heartedly drives his team of male mute dogs across the frozen Northern wastes of the Yukon , prospecting for gold — though one of the dogs is too small for its legs to reach the ground . |
| 16 | The wind came in tiny puffs that hardly stirred the sea 's surface . |
| 17 | While much was achieved in improving safety standards , towards the decade 's end there was a series of accidents that perhaps shocked the public more than anything since Harrow & Wealdstone in the very early days of nationalisation . |
| 18 | The toes pointed slightly outwards and so did the shoes , a pair of the finest winkle-pickers that ever threaded the eye of a needle . |
| 19 | Like the Royal Navy , the RAF sought and found a gap in the Sandys doctrine , and it was the Army 's requirements that again provided the case . |
| 20 | Looking at City at Southampton on Saturday and thinking back to the Everton sides that twice won the championship , Kendall appears just the man to implant the discipline and experience needed around some otherwise exciting talent . |
| 21 | He used a stretched string to plot ray paths that just grazed the book in their transit from the source of the screen . |
| 22 | He was counting his blessings having backed the first 3 horses that actually finished the race . |
| 23 | It was small and skinny , with breasts that scarcely shaped the bodice of her dress — nothing like the tall comely women of his tribe . |
| 24 | These new measures are the ones that truly anticipated the success of this business . |
| 25 | This would seem a clear inducement to revive the share-rigging practices that so embarrassed the finance ministry when a host of securities scandals broke in 1991 . |
| 26 | Only those negative outcomes that directly involved the pupil were included . |
| 27 | His three fours in an over from Gladstone Small were perhaps the statistical highlight , but it was his running between the wickets that really caught the eye . |