Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Gorbachev called for superpower collaboration to " make [ the world ] more calm and reasonable " , Bush sought to assure the Soviet Union that " the West [ sought ] no advantage from the extraordinary changes under way in the East " . |
| 2 | This ground-level opposition meant that the mining companies never got to prospect the total area that they wanted to investigate , as they would have needed to get court injunctions to get on each farmer 's land . |
| 3 | At this point , planning provided little guidance to what would follow ; the difficulties of extemporizing new manoeuvres were enormous and helped to reinforce the prevailing view that the overriding aim must be an early victory obtained essentially by good initial deployment . |
| 4 | Some dealers tried to convey the false impression that the two markets were in cahoots . |
| 5 | The abolition of Pomgol was greeted with so many protests from the affected areas of Russia that Kalinin had to issue two statements in which he tried to show the stricken population that it had not been abandoned by the government . |
| 6 | ‘ They tried to tell the Irish delegation that we did n't have the power to negotiate without Jim Molyneaux , but it did n't work . |
| 7 | The opinion evidence was not admissible as it sought to answer the very matter that was for the Special Commissioner 's decision , a question for which the witness was not qualified as an expert . |
| 8 | He was standing in the doorway , his lean frame clad in a loose-fitting tawny-coloured suit that seemed to emphasise the taut muscle that lay beneath it . |
| 9 | Of course , she had n't been joking when she 'd told the English girl that a marriage between two highly charged Leos could be an explosive situation . |
| 10 | Oh , by the way , ’ Luke said , locking the door behind them , ‘ Bob Tilling in Accounts just happened to mention the other day that you had settled an invoice for a piece we made for a client in Sherwood Forest . ’ |
| 11 | They got a nasty shock : real bush pilots had been attracted to the UK from the four corners of the earth to get these well-maintained examples , and the high prices they fetched reflected the great demand that still exists for these superb workhorses . |
| 12 | Soon it began to create the steady whine that she had come to associate with this strange instrument . |
| 13 | It was when the draft for a document on revelation was presented in November 1962 that the Council really began to experience the creative polarization that was to shape its whole history . |
| 14 | She looked down , smiling , then nudged her horse forward , following him , watching as he began to climb the steep path that cut into the overhang above , his horse straining to make the gradient . |
| 15 | They drove towards Lulling , Harrison still barking , and Agnes returned to break the dreadful news that Dorothy might never see the pair again . |
| 16 | She began to follow the same path that they had taken before . |
| 17 | They had boosted the strength of the signal they were bouncing off the troposphere and started transmitting the pre-coded programme that would override the telemetric signals being sent from Bacton to the offshore gas platforms . |
| 18 | It was five minutes before he stopped yelling , before he started to absorb the terrible pain that burnt through his flesh . |
| 19 | We decided to use the same system that we used for hospitals , making referrals to team leaders in the same way that we do to consultants . |
| 20 | Astronomers at JTL , afraid of being scooped by the amateurs , put out a press release claiming IRAS discovered it first — but they failed to mention the British team that found it for them . |
| 21 | Allen , who has missed the last four games , said : ‘ I must admit I was a little concerned and went to see the same specialist that did the operation on my groin before . |
| 22 | Celsus reports that his father managed to persuade the consular consilium that it was still due . |
| 23 | Although successful , it failed to change the popular belief that ‘ Condy 's Crystals ’ are potassium permanganate . |
| 24 | It is sour grapes , they say , because the candidates no doubt sent in many copies of their CV without response ; fell by the wayside in competition with better candidates ; failed to convince the would-be employer that they were right for the job ; or were just plain unlucky and not in the right place at the right time . |
| 25 | On reaching Khiva , however , he failed to convince the local khan that Uzbek goods ought to travel due west instead of north-west to Astrakhan . |
| 26 | It is true that the initial rhetoric of the statutory curriculum , with its emphasis on keystages and age-related testing , appeared to confirm the traditional belief that pupils have of necessity to be taken through their learning like an army in the field , moving in step through the year group fronts . |
| 27 | With regard to husbands voting as proxy for their wives , the government had wanted at least the wife 's written authorization to be necessary , but the deputies voted to retain the existing stipulation that the proxy voter must present the family registration book . |
| 28 | Nevertheless the Levellers did challenge the traditional view that political rights belonged exclusively to property- or landowners , and asserted the democratic proposition that those persons whom Cromwell loftily described as having " no interest but the interest of breathing " had political rights too . |
| 29 | He had hated the little brochure that described it — the pathetic attempt to make it look glamorous , the photographs of it , posed , doors open , doors shut , desperately trying not to look like what it was — a square box with hideous speckled seats . |
| 30 | Thus the Central Powers had conquered the neutral region that separated them from their ally in the east , Turkey . |