Example sentences of "[adj] that [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the mightiest indoor rally ever held in Britain , Mosley had no sooner begun to speak than it became clear that organised Red gangs , each hundreds strong , were occupying positions in every part of the huge arena … with the sole intention of preventing the speech being heard . |
| 2 | The high that resulted produced sensations of flying , often accompanied by fantastic visions of strange lands . |
| 3 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that there was nothing in the policy of the Insolvency Act 1986 that indicated that Parliament intended to give the words ‘ carried on business ’ in section 265(1) ( c ) ( ii ) of that Act a meaning different from that which they had been held to bear in section 4(1) ( d ) of the Bankruptcy Act 1914 ; that a debtor did not cease to carry on business for the purposes of section 265(1) ( c ) ( ii ) until all the trading debts of the business had been paid ; and that , accordingly , the registrar had been right in holding that since the tax liability had not been discharged the debtor was still carrying on business and that he had jurisdiction to make the bankruptcy order ( post , pp. 122B–E , H — 123A ) . |
| 4 | Princess Di — the National Dish was the title of an irreverent book in 1984 that examined this phenomenon . |
| 5 | The human cancer cells from the cell line colo 205 that expressed colonic antigens detected by anticolon antibody positive serum was used as the target cells and PBMCs from healthy controls were used as effector cells . |
| 6 | ‘ We are confident that had these words [ sc . |
| 7 | Eight o'clock now , everyone gone , everything cleared up , pile of brown envelopes already in pillar box , reading this quite dense exceptionally good book on cities before 8.30 in the morning , get those seeds in today , but now vigorous black letters on smooth white page , really getting down to it ; all in gear , everything clicking in evenly going round , peace and activity suspended in an active stillness like a basket on a wave , Moses rocking in the rippling bullrushes all that coiled sleeping force . |
| 8 | He still lives it , you see , all that lost frothy fecklessness of his youth . |
| 9 | Back at the house , in the library , I tell a DI from Tayside all that happened that day , twenty years ago . |
| 10 | My husband 's not all that bothered one way or the other . |
| 11 | Employees ' representatives counter that many that accepted early retirement offers would never have done so without the promise that medical expenses would be covered for life . |
| 12 | It was the plumbing of the latter that required some thought . |
| 13 | No 27 in the Historical Arms series , Allied and Enemy Aircraft is a reprint of a rare identification manual published by the French government in 1918 that illustrated 60 aircraft of French , English , American , German , Italian and Belgian origin ( in three-view drawings ) that may have been seen over the trenches during World War One . |
| 14 | Some Americans still recall the terrible fire at the Triangle shirt factory in New York in 1911 that killed 145 people . |
| 15 | It was concerned that proposed new arrangements should not lead to undue development in sensitive areas and it favoured a degree of continuing Government control over minimum standards at motorway service areas . |
| 16 | The Woburn order included dwarf plums and cherries , French pears , an Elruge nectarine , and other fruit , with more young trees ‘ to make good those that died last year ’ in accordance with Gurle 's guarantee to supply ‘ the best of every sort in case any fail or die ’ . |
| 17 | Those that had any length of time in , they had a hand-out . |
| 18 | The limestone seems to be exactly the same as that at the head of the pass , so the seas in which it was laid down must surely have been very similar to those that produced fossiliferous rocks . |
| 19 | Six years later , the Duke of Suffolk was murdered whilst in custody for embezzlement and public feeling turned against the House of Lancaster , The common soldiers were left without pay , so a revolt occurred in 1450 that threatened royal London and Westminster . |
| 20 | Increased aid was not going to discourage people immediately and it was inconceivable that increased voluntary repatriation could suffice on its own , he said . |
| 21 | It is probable that paired pectoral fins were present as in cephalaspids . |
| 22 | In the Lincolnshire fens he had public responsibilities as a commissioner for sewers and private interests as an early ‘ adventurer ’ , ‘ one of the very first that inned any marsh in Holland ’ , and a pioneer of windmills and other ‘ engines ’ , ‘ toys ’ , and ‘ gewgaws ’ . |
| 23 | Is my hon. Friend aware that despite the success of local management of schools , staff are still very worried that experienced older teachers who qualify for the higher salary scales will be discarded in favour of less experienced younger staff ? |
| 24 | He hit a single that brought two runners home , and San Francisco held on to win 3-2 and take the National League title 4-1 . |
| 25 | It was something apparently irrelevant that had enough secret bearing on Albert 's situation to push him into action . |
| 26 | The samples were eluted using phosphate buffer 0.1 M pH 7.2 that contained human albumen 0.1 g% ( RIA grade ) . |