Example sentences of "[that] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was space that lamed the prospects of a truly national economy ; it was distance by land that doomed the government 's expensive attempt to re-create , in the eighteenth century , a great wool industry in central Spain and hampered the creation of an internal market in the nineteenth . |
| 2 | Although he wanted a physical astronomy that would deal with real motions , there were too many ‘ great inconveniences ’ in a system that saddled the earth with three separate motions : an orbital revolution , an axial rotation , and a change in the orientation of the axis itself . |
| 3 | Local authorities have distinctive features , however , that complicate the application of managerial theories . |
| 4 | Stigwood turned a local scene into an international sensation , launched John Travolta as a box office star and cult hero and masterminded the biggest-selling soundtrack album of all time with a movie that encapsulated the energy and release of the disco age . |
| 5 | Indeed McLeish reflected , that encapsulated the trouble with Tristram — everything that he could do , Perry , two years his senior , could apparently do just that bit better . |
| 6 | The role of the state in services for old people should be to create conditions that maximize the ability of the individual , families and the community to cope independently . |
| 7 | Presumably these sites were protected from the kinds of influence that normally destroy fish remains , such as the activity of scavenging animals that disarticulate the skeletons , or currents . |
| 8 | Then he made out the thousands of tiny rings that studded the ceiling . |
| 9 | Lungs initially develop from an outgrowth of the sheet that lines the gut near the mouth and then this outgrowth branches repeatedly to give the millions of microscopic lobes in the lung . |
| 10 | It is a palatial residence , and occupies a worthy sire , like the magnificent piles of masonry built in our forefathers ' days , to guard the people 's home ; this stronghold raises its proud walls and towers , and commands alike the bay and every house that lines the shores . |
| 11 | Tom O'Neill was in the outer office looking at one of the pictures that lines the walls — Rena , Hugo 's favourite house model , wearing a loose cut trench coat over a tailored shirt and doe-skin pants . |
| 12 | A scion is the growth that arises from an implanted bud or graft , whereas the stock — sometimes referred to as the root- stock — is the host plant that receives the bud or graft , with its own top growth removed so that its sap and energies are made to support the new guest . |
| 13 | I think too that we should reflect upon who it is that receives the blame er when policing falls below the standards which we would all think appropriate . |
| 14 | Ah yes I have looked after it for ever since it was new and er and it was the one that reopened the station after the boat 's lost here , but as I say you 've got to look forward and I think it 's a good idea to have a new boat here . |
| 15 | Political constraint is one of the problems that undermine the capacity of the mass media to appropriately and effectively fulfill their function of building democratic societies and protecting and defending human rights in Africa . |
| 16 | Ooh , how many Tuesdays is this in the row that plays the dad ? |
| 17 | But the team that plays the Dutch is playing for the future — for the 1992 European finals . ’ |
| 18 | They buy a cot , a changing table , a convertible buggy/pram , a baby seat to go in the back of the car , a changing mat , a night-light , a sterilizing unit , five large bottles plus teats , five small bottles plus teats , five baby-grows ( newborn size ) , three undervests ( newborn size ) , three pairs of socks ( newborn size ) , a mobile with four fluffy ducks dancing around a clockwork mechanism that plays the Brahms Lullaby , a wallpaper frieze with chickens on it which Paul has to put up in the nursery , a van-sized packet of newborn nappies , a tub of cream to put on the kid 's bottom , a bucket of white emulsion to freshen up the nursery walls , a lampshade with more chickens on it to brighten up the nursery light , a parasol to go on the buggy and a breast pump for expressing milk . |
| 19 | It was from there that he also issued his first denunciations of the Pahlavi dynasty that laid the foundations of his revolution . |
| 20 | The young Einstein was unable to find an academic position , went to work in the Bern patent office , and in one incredible year ( 1905 ) , at the age of 26 , wrote a number of research papers that laid the foundations of no less than three major branches of modern physics — statistical mechanics , the quantum theory and special relativity . |
| 21 | Over the next few years , the coalition government worked on the framing of a federal law that laid the foundations of a much larger system of higher education — and opened the door to far more state control over the universities . |
| 22 | It was to these crucial years , therefore , that I turned attention in an endeavour to understand not the triumphal march of the party as such , but rather the broader cultural structures that laid the foundations for its success . |
| 23 | Keynes was influential in persuading King 's to make him a fellow , despite his criticisms of Keynes 's A Treatise on Probability ( 1921 ) culminating in his ‘ Truth and Probability ’ ( 1926 ) , the classic paper that laid the foundations for modern subjective interpretations of probability and related theories of games and decision making . |
| 24 | The Feeleys are just the sort of family William Beveridge was trying to proivide for when , exactly fifty years ago , he presented the Governemnt with a report that laid the foundations of the welfare state . |
| 25 | One of my officials chairs the experts committee that laid the groundwork for this achievement . |
| 26 | THE HEN THAT LAID THE SILVER EGG |
| 27 | The report said that of 1,330 active oil wells , about 700 were on fire at the end of April , with between 2,000,000-6,000,000 barrels lost a day , and it estimated that bringing the fires under control " may take up to 18 months " . |
| 28 | the fraction of civilizations that develop the ability and desire to communicate with others |
| 29 | It contains a wide variety of stimulating material to be used both for intensive viewing and for extension activities that develop the language areas covered by the video . |
| 30 | The present study shows that substantive uniformity , whether in the message that constitutes the text of the bill , or in the legal consequences attached to the recording , is only attainable when the various participants in the transactions arrive at a consensus with respect to the fairness of their rights and duties . |