Example sentences of "that [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The atmosphere of grey repression that clung to the eastern side of the city is being purged at an astonishing speed . |
| 2 | A major problem that arose at an early stage was the reconciliation of the local authority 's requirements for one car-parking space per flat with the DoE 's refusal to fund a scheme in which the entire ground floor would be used for parking . |
| 3 | The later theory of instincts , which included the death instincts , as well as the sexual instincts which were retained from the first formulation , seemed to solve the theoretical difficulties that arose with the first theory of instincts . |
| 4 | On all the imperial and foreign policy issues that arose over the succeeding years ( the Cold War , Germany , the Atlantic Alliance , Indochina , Korea , the European Defence Community ) , he insisted on defining a " party line " . |
| 5 | Now that he had arrived at the wildest part of Britain , he wished to use his adventure in the same spirit as that in which Montaigne wrote his famous Essais — as trials of himself , as investigations of the ideas that arose in the non-stop chatter of his mind . |
| 6 | Two kicks of his big flippers were sufficient to send him drifting back up towards the surface that quivered in the harsh sunlight like a sheet of liquid mercury . |
| 7 | It was these two towns therefore that became of the utmost importance and , as Royalist and Parliamentarian forces fought to gain supremacy , the surrounding villages and hamlets became the scene of many violent skirmishes . |
| 8 | Yet every time he laughed and his grin dazzled her she flinched with the deep-rooted need that stabbed like a vengeful sword . |
| 9 | I think that often it was jealousy — mixed with booze — that made for a lethal cocktail , with Bogie as the stirrer . |
| 10 | On the negative side , funerals were becoming so much more secular in outlook , appearance and context that the surviving guilds and fraternities found themselves hard-pressed to provide all that made for an average funeral of the new type ; the rules were being rewritten by a public which no longer wished to perpetuate the simple ritual hitherto provided and which were looking for a pageantry close to that of the great baronial funerals as performed by the College of Arms , a corporation of heralds and part of the Royal Household . |
| 11 | For the client , the advantage was that he could go direct to those various tradesmen who , collectively , could provide all that made for an average funeral . |
| 12 | Edward 's only extant will is that made before the French expedition of 1475 , and on internal evidence it had been modified , if not superseded , by 1483 . |
| 13 | Edward 's only extant will is that made before the French expedition of 1475 , and on internal evidence it had been modified , if not superseded , by 1483 . |
| 14 | He had the revolutionary idea that gravity was not just a force that operated in a fixed background of space-time . |
| 15 | All saw the shudder that rippled through the big man like a wave ; the way his chin jutted forward and his face contorted in agony as he steeled himself to strike . |
| 16 | For the sake of clarity , one possible solution is to provide that the SSAPs to be used are those that applied at a specified date even if changed subsequently between exchange and completion . |
| 17 | He went down the corridor that led off the central area . |
| 18 | ‘ Willingly , ’ Rose agreed , and led the way to a small antechamber that led off the main saloon . |
| 19 | We walked naked along the path that led across the ice-covered sea . |
| 20 | I am sure it was the pressure from the warrior class and the impending general election that led to a final figure of 63,500 , which is a cut of about 17 per cent . |
| 21 | Northumberland had their outside-half Ian Chandler to thank for the late drop goal that led to a 13–11 victory over Alberta on a day when a freak Arctic airflow brought snow and near freezing temperatures to Calgary . |
| 22 | The road was beginning to rise slightly , an incline that led to a gentle crest . |
| 23 | As both polyester and polyamide are ultimately derived from oil , the industry suffered a major trauma ; raw material prices went up between three and four times — and that led to a rapid revision of growth rate potential . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , that led to a minor accident involving the property of the Hauxwells which I suspect even Hannah will not know about . |
| 25 | And those last months , when strike leapfrogged strike , were the catalyst that led to a Conservative landslide and the desperate recasting of Labour policies . |
| 26 | It was in Silesia that a marvellous Tottenham Hotspur team , League champions and FA Cup winners in 1961 , were first introduced to the hazards of European competition , their ambitions in disarray until Dave Mackay inspired a partial recovery that led to a 8-1 success in the return at White Hart Lane . |
| 27 | My last charter had begun ; I had one week to work , then it would be back to Masquerade , and then to the long winds of the southern ocean that led to the uttermost ends of the earth , and thus to happiness . |
| 28 | This comment reveals where many of the misconceptions that led to the official radicalization of land policy towards which ended up in the land October nineteen forty seven . |
| 29 | The doors to the great white stone building that led to the palatial rotunda were open , the lobby empty except for a single security guard sitting and reading behind the circular information desk . |
| 30 | Bacci and the Marshal were staring in at the uncurtained window below the steps that led to the front door . |