Example sentences of "[noun] that [adv] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A flicker of recollected pleasure that swiftly turned to the pain of regret crossed his face . |
| 2 | Without a word he left her and it was his failure to make a suitable response that really got to her . |
| 3 | Unfortunately the letter to Sarah Catt arrived first and it was she who was the first to break the news — by phone — to Charman , a circumstance that only added to the unpleasant situation . |
| 4 | It appeared to be heavily used and had a large , sandy carpark that simply begged to be searched . |
| 5 | The sailor would hold the egg to his mouth and let the albumin form a string that eventually extended to the large intestine . |
| 6 | The things that still needed to be done here were : Guttering to be replaced . |
| 7 | He spoke irritably , his mind filled with figures that still needed to be written down . |
| 8 | He passed the walls of monasteries that once echoed to the chants of the Greyfriars , the Whitefriars and the Blackfriars , past guildhalls where merchants had convened to discuss the business of the world when Henry VIII was executing his wives down the road at the Tower , past delicate little churches designed by Wren in the aftermath of the Great Fire of 1666 . |
| 9 | The traditional doctrines of ‘ inspiration ’ and ‘ inerrancy ’ were posed in terms that actually added to the problems . |
| 10 | But it was n't sex that really mattered to either of us ; he used to say that I was his insurance and consolation in old age . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You know , if you read the collected letters of any writer — if you read her biography — you will always get a sense that there 's something missing , something biographers do n't have access to , the real thing , the crucial thing , the thing that really mattered to the poet herself . |
| 12 | The important thing , the only thing that really mattered to her in those tense and anxious moments , was to reach and be united with Edward … |
| 13 | After all , had n't these past weeks taught Merrill that business was the only thing that really mattered to him ? |
| 14 | Now he 's going through those same school gates that once opened to a 19 year old RAF aircraft engineer . |
| 15 | On a more serious level , Clinton was more in tune than his rival with the political issues that really mattered to women . |
| 16 | Even with all the Newcomen engines that still continued to be made , and the piracies of Watt 's engine , the use of steam-power was neither general nor extensive in 1800 . |
| 17 | And even this journal has rejected papers that subsequently proved to be of exceptional significance . |
| 18 | When they appeared before her , she shifted her ground , with an agility that occasionally suggested to Shirley that perhaps she was not after all impenetrably stupid , but on some dismal level quite intelligent . |
| 19 | It was n't said that there were cells that actually corresponded to those features , not but nonetheless the output from the system could be thought of as a feature detection system . |