Example sentences of "[that] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The document said the Government was aware of concern about the time taken to complete assessments and that admitted unnecessary delays caused ‘ undue anxiety ’ to parents . |
| 2 | The well-anticipated under-$5,000 Sun Microsystems Inc colour workstation that materialised last month as the $4,300 SparcClassic is being depreciated in some quarters as a bait-and-switch box for the more expensive $8,000 Sun LX . |
| 3 | These , then , were the books that became required reading for those who came to Cumberland Lodge to debate such issues . |
| 4 | The one-off posters featuring slogans that became familiar parts of the electoral joust also appeared on a single billboard in south London for photo-opportunity launches . |
| 5 | An earlier alternative economy was based on the jogo de bicho , an illegal lottery that became big business . |
| 6 | One that made perfect sense to Ron and made perfect sense to me . |
| 7 | Selection favoured beaver genes that made good lakes for transporting trees , just as it favoured genes that made good teeth for felling them . |
| 8 | Selection favoured beaver genes that made good lakes for transporting trees , just as it favoured genes that made good teeth for felling them . |
| 9 | This perception of Reagan as an ideologue had its beneficial side for ‘ the strong beliefs that made many voters fearful of Reagan also attracted voters to him , since they suggested leadership and decis-iveness — qualities widely felt to be lacking in the Carter presidency ’ . |
| 10 | It was the notion of literariness that made Russian Formalism scientific and systematic , and more than an eclectic set of insights into the workings of literature . |
| 11 | Butler had an easy manner but his searching cross-questioning gave him a reputation as a somewhat intimidating examiner or assessor for appointments , duties that made frequent calls on his time . |
| 12 | Pine resin , collected by tapping , dried to lumps that made brilliant firelighters . |
| 13 | Two Swedes came to a town near here with a grant , and started a factory that made micro-electric parts or something — anyway , it would supposedly employ hundreds of local people . |
| 14 | Strategically that made little sense , for the Wilds were almost empty , yet it was as if the City 's architect had known that this vast , jagged hole — this primitive wilderness at the heart of its hive-like orderliness — would one day prove its weakest point . |
| 15 | As a consequence , the question of where to eat was one that made little impression on her . |
| 16 | The third element that made Easy Rider the runaway , roaraway success that it became in the counter-culture movement was Jack Nicholson , angry and surely envious — though he denied it — at seeing some of his flash contemporaries and some younger actors making it very big indeed in the legitimacy of more sumptuous surroundings of Warners , Paramount , MGM and the rest . |
| 17 | Something that made small noises , but even in the pitch blackness gave the impression of hugeness . |
| 18 | But there was nothing conservative about the way in which Louis and his successor exploited the bishop of Clermont 's complaints against the count of the Auvergne to secure a foothold in the county ; it was their preparatory work that made possible Philip Augustus ' annexation of the Auvergne to the royal demesne . |
| 19 | If there were any volatile-rich bodies that made late impacts on the Moon then the weak gravitational field of the Moon would have allowed nearly all these volatiles to escape to space . |
| 20 | And then of course er when I got to New York we were quite friendly with all the people on the boat you know that made great friends with some of them and er I had two or three places to go , I had spent a few days at the World Fair and then I flew down to Washington and er then I came back again . |
| 21 | I remember erm was n't it Eyre that made great mileage of saying that just because there 's a word for beauty does n't mean to say that there 's such a thing as beauty . |
| 22 | There are some unavoidable costs er on that account , particularly on the engine programme where delays to the aircraft programme which result in extra costs on the engine side , are the customer 's liability , erm but the main increase in cost is actually in the equipment area and results I think , from the fact that the equipment prices turned out to be higher than was originally estimated at the start of the programme and also the fact that U K industry won a higher work share on equipment that we had originally been entitled to and budgeted for and lastly the point you mentioned that Germany has withdrawn from some parts of the requirement and that made certain equipments non-common and we have had to take a larger share of the costs of those equipments than originally planned . |
| 23 | Erm , but the main increase in cost is actually in the equipment area and results I think from the fact that the equipment prices turned out to be higher than was originally estimated at the start of the programme and also the fact that U K industry won a higher work share on equipment than we had originally been entitled to and budgeted for and lastly the point you mentioned that Germany has withdrawn from some parts of the requirement and that made certain equipments non common and we have had to take a larger share of the cost of those equipments than originally planned . |
| 24 | Northgate was the only foreign mining company that made major attempts to raise capital locally in Ireland . |
| 25 | … being the book that made black women 's writing popular |
| 26 | Yes , that made more sense . |
| 27 | That was written twenty years and more before the trial and acquittal of D. H. Lawrence 's Lady Chatterley 's Lover in October–November 1960 — an event that made more headlines than practical difference , though it marks a convenient turning-point in British official attitudes to literary obscenity . |
| 28 | The adoption , for instance , of Darwinian views of evolution depended not simply on the intellectual breakthrough of a brilliant mind but on the conjuncture of social movements that made these propositions more acceptable then than they might have been at other periods . |
| 29 | No longer the excuse of keeping low profile actions , hoping for a Labour government because if we have n't got the guts to stand up and fight the government that made these laws , then we 've got no right to challenge a future Labour government that inherits 'em . |
| 30 | It had such incredible dignity and power , and it was something that made these villagers , these people who were being so tiresome , give way to her as she walked through them , and it 's in the music . |