Example sentences of "that [vb past] [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A good churchman , he is a Church Warden — but of a church that ceased to exist in the late 18th century . |
| 2 | Because Miguel , in the same incident , has been bitten but not seriously injured , Sarah tries to save him by cutting off his infected arm with a machete — an effect that failed to work with the first model , until an assistant of Savini 's used a spare rubber arm with the cut prefilled with wax . |
| 3 | They had some beliefs and practices that seemed to link with the early days of the Old Testament , possibly due to some earlier Christian influence , believed by some missionaries to trace back to Nestorian missionaries moving through parts of Burma into China . |
| 4 | The moon was high overhead — a bright , full moon that seemed to float in the dark mirror of the water . |
| 5 | The rest of the day was n't very clear to Benny because of the heavy cloud of disappointment that seemed to hang over the whole proceedings . |
| 6 | ‘ Primarily , it was attacking that extraordinary wave of nostalgia that seemed to occur in the early and mid-Sixties for how great it was in the war . |
| 7 | Suddenly I heard a piercing whistle that seemed to resound through the whole universe . |
| 8 | Nonetheless , working in the artificial intelligence centres that began to open in the 1950s and 1960s , computer scientists began to make progress of a sort . |
| 9 | The picture that began to emerge in the early 1980s was not encouraging . |
| 10 | The two main rivals that began to emerge in the early 1980s were Thomson , the traditional market leader , and Intasun , a fast growing holiday and leisure group of companies . |
| 11 | The Masterpiece , a collection of folklore about the body and its functions , was probably the single most popular source of information on sex relations and childbirth , and the continuing publication of this work was possibly the last remnant of a much stronger popular demand and usage that began to grow in the nineteenth century with increasing literate audiences demanding knowledge . |
| 12 | The British Shorthair , descended from generations of felines that struggled to survive in the bleak climate of their island home , is stocky and sturdy and much more massive in build than , say , the lean-bodied Siamese from the steamy heat of Bangkok . |
| 13 | The deluge of letters that continued to arrive in the Social Work Department eventually made personal replies an impossible task for the Department . |