Example sentences of "[that] [vb past] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE WELSH are closing in on the standards of play that immortalised the sixties and seventies as the golden age of their rugby . |
| 2 | If it develops too fast York may kill the goose that laid the golden egg and no one will want to live there — just as tourists are beginning to avoid Lake Windermere because of its commerciality and crowds of people . |
| 3 | These various factors combined to ensure that the local elite ( even if they were capable of considering it ) would not attempt to kill the goose ‘ that laid the golden eggs ’ . |
| 4 | But , knowing that a great war would kill the goose that laid the golden eggs , the bankers could probably be relied upon to use their enormous influence to prevent it : |
| 5 | Are n't you worried that you 'll kill the goose that laid the golden egg ? |
| 6 | All of them around they kill the goose that laid the golden egg . |
| 7 | In the end , as we shall see , the cost of decommissioning became a vital part of the accountants ' nightmare that laid the nuclear beast to rest . |
| 8 | Asked to select all the objects in an array that shared a particular attribute and to name the attribute , these children could provide an answer but the grammatical form revealed , according to Greenfield , inferior cognitive facility . |
| 9 | From Los Angeles came a report of a film theatre that shared the same building with an undertaker and where the hall itself was squalid and narrow with grease spots on the wall where ‘ delighted spectators have leaned their enraptured heads ’ . |
| 10 | The countries that were under the control of ruling Marxist-Leninist parties represented , for the USSR , the ‘ world socialist system ’ , a community of nations that shared the same political , social and economic interests . |
| 11 | In 1960 the Rat Pack — Sinatra , Lawford , Martin , Davis and Bishop — came together to make Ocean 's Eleven , a caper that became a classic only because it featured for the first time the nucleus of the clan . |
| 12 | There is also Hitsville , the Motown museum , housed in the tiny two-storey house that became a 60s legend . |
| 13 | A passenger looking out of the right-hand window of the carriage after the train for Bishop 's Castle had clattered over the pointwork away from the Shrewsbury and Hereford joint line , to curve westwards into the Onny valley , would have seen a small timber platform marking the site of a temporary station that became a permanent feature . |
| 14 | Dissident chairmen were , however , frequently able to gain the support of other chairmen on specific issues of Area Board independence , and it was these issues that became the substantive ones between the central regime and the Boards . |
| 15 | Childhood instincts caused the individual to turn , on those occasions when his self-confidence failed him , to animate and inanimate objects to which he ascribed comforting powers similar to those originating in his parents , and these real objects eventually gave way to the imaginary ones that became the first ‘ gods ’ . |
| 16 | For the monarch , that became the exclusive role ( that is , in respect of legislation ) . |
| 17 | Meteorology is probably the most international of the sciences , and Scott played a significant part in establishing the tradition of ready co-operation between countries that became the accepted norm . |
| 18 | Over the aeons they have become so thoroughly integrated into the cooperative unit that became the eukaryotic cell , that it has become almost impossible to detect the fact , if indeed it is a fact , that they were once separate bacteria . |
| 19 | During the 1960s , and what became known as the ‘ permissive society ’ , it was perhaps sexuality that became the dominant form of hedonism . |
| 20 | Just before the publication of the Bill that became the 1988 Education Reform Act , opinion in Great Britain was evenly divided over whether control of the curriculum should be in the hands of local education authorities or of central government ; this is shown in Figure 10.4 . |
| 21 | Steve , with the instinct that marks him out as a real mountaineer , not just a climber , had searched for and seen an abseil that avoided the First Brittle Ice Traverse , It took us past the Pocket Hanging Glacier seracs , where the ropes twisted into corkscrews and jammed tight . |
| 22 | Firms that avoided the worst excesses of the wheeling-dealing 1980s are making steady profits , and much of the loss was due to expensive restructuring at Shearson Lehman ( which spent $640m ) and Prudential-Bache ( $370m ) . |
| 23 | The dogs followed hard on their heels up the deep-treaded , creaking staircase that made a gradual ascent to the first floor . |
| 24 | In chapter four below , there will be an examination of her poetry to demonstrate what sorts of books Leapor read , and especially those that made a strong impact on her work . |
| 25 | Damp , fragrant veils that made a cool tent around the central space of heat where Rose began to ply the heavy iron . |
| 26 | There was something about this part of France that made a powerful appeal to her imagination and emotions . |
| 27 | Somewhere among the crags of limestone that made a broad shelf along part of the foin 's lowest slopes . |
| 28 | There was a spaciousness and simplicity of line that made a perfect foil for the few touches of vibrant colour that drew the eye , and yet the whole effect was completely uncontrived , as if it had all come together naturally . |
| 29 | He was accustomed to it from his schooldays since his was n't a memory system that made a good impression on harassed teachers or impatient examiners , especially as it did n't work at all with books . |
| 30 | Carson liked her because she seemed to display the ideal mix of warmth and distance that made a good neighbour . |