Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Animals that produced insufficient milk were sold . |
| 2 | By default he alerts us to the fact that it was the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that saw individualist arguments gravitate to the political right and become , however marginally at first , a vocabulary and strategy available to the Conservative party . |
| 3 | In the centuries that followed such shadings were shown to be transitory , and from these and other observations it became clear that Venus is completely and continuously covered in clouds . |
| 4 | But it was skewed development priorities that forced people into a continued dependence on livestock in the first place and huge , often foreign-owned ranches that pushed those people and their herds onto fragile , marginal land . |
| 5 | For after the rain came hail , to batter and crush what the water had left undamaged , and after the hail , snow , sudden freezing squalls that piled white drifts in every cranny and across every open space . |
| 6 | TransTools ' latest product is MultiBase , an applications development tool for relational databases that took four years to develop . |
| 7 | this water was full of waves — small ones from the stiff breeze that destroyed the reflections , larger waves that had recognisable reflections in each of their troughs . |
| 8 | But it was her eyes that drew most attention . |
| 9 | Treves wrote : ‘ As a specimen of humanity , Merrick was ignoble and repulsive ; but the spirit of Merrick , if it could be seen in the form of the living , would assume the figure of an upstanding and heroic man , smooth browed and clean of limb , and with eyes that flashed undaunted courage . ’ |
| 10 | There are also worries that increased public spending not only pushes up government borrowing to fund a high PSBR , but also leads to higher taxes , thereby reducing the incentives to work , save and take risks . |
| 11 | In the half-fictional The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans , and in the pruned record of The Childhood , Thomas has left detailed accounts of his extending interest in ‘ Butterflies , Moths and Pigeons ’ , in fishing , in birdnesting of all kinds , with the skills and making of implements that accompanied these activities . |
| 12 | It was the opposition of the clergy that gave this resistance of the privileged orders a country-wide leadership and a cause equal in emotive appeal to the myth of the sovereign people . |
| 13 | Like Irving Berlin , Fain became part of that group of early 20th-century American songwriters with a talent for producing simple melodies that remained popular decades after they were first heard . |
| 14 | On the other hand , parties that jettisoned old-fashioned socialism have fared better . |
| 15 | Because 74.3 per cent of the Scottish people who voted , opted for parties that supported constitutional change , and if they all blew hard enough in the direction of St Andrew 's House , the walls were eventually bound to fall down . |
| 16 | Prussian canal-building projects meant that by 1914 Danzig was linked to a network of waterways that allowed inland trade with the Rhine , Bordeaux , Le Havre , Brussels , Antwerpen , and northern Germany up to the Danish border . |
| 17 | Mendel points out that this helped pave the way for economic crises that aggravated social discontent before 1905 . |
| 18 | Positive transfer was , however , observed by Mackintosh and Holgate and by Siegel , the comparison being made in each case with control subjects that received initial training on a discrimination between stimuli other than those that were relevant in the transfer task but with the latter stimuli being present but irrelevant . |
| 19 | These , then , were the books that became required reading for those who came to Cumberland Lodge to debate such issues . |
| 20 | Steel-Maitland 's method was the systematic collection of information by the Central Office district agents in constituency books that recorded all income , expenditure and political activity . |
| 21 | Mr Hutton 's desk was a shaped piece of black wood with a single file on it , and the heavily bound books that covered one wall appeared to be held there by the power of faith , no shelves being visible . |
| 22 | But it was only about two shops that showed any signs of life . |
| 23 | The 63 was one of a handful of four-wheel-drive cars that saw brief service in 1969 before they were parked in at the end of the blind alley into which their manufacturers had ventured . |
| 24 | He was essentially a European filmmaker , and he was drawn to pictures that featured lavish costumes and spectacular sets . |
| 25 | Drawing on the verbal and musical skills of comedians and other performers who were established in theatre and the music hall , filmmakers were able to make up for their failure to develop indigenous styles of visual comedy , and to produce relatively cheap pictures that enjoyed genuine popularity . |
| 26 | The relation of patron to artist is examined , as are the stylistic influences that shaped Mughal art : the Persian heritage , the discovery of western art , the elegance and aestheticism of the Mughal court , the painters of ascetics and the India of the mystics , the development of realistic portraiture during the seventeenth century and the discovery of chiaroscuro . |
| 27 | Patrick went on to build irregular , non-symmetrical shapes with the connector rods that maintained perfect balance . |
| 28 | Cohune palms with nut pods that resembled huge wasp-nests stood sentry . |
| 29 | Conservative ideologists had had much to say about the case for bringing market conditions more effectively to bear upon the distribution of social services , but only in the housing field had Conservative governments taken steps that represented major responses to this viewpoint . |
| 30 | When repeated reflux episodes resulted in repetitive simultaneous oesophageal contractions that followed each other at short intervals , the pattern resembled that seen in primary oesophageal motility disorders . |