Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [vb past] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no shrub and palm cover bound by creepers as there had been in the rain forest so that the track was little protected from the squalls that struck up the mountainside , screeching like banshees , as they bowed the slender treetrunks almost to the ground . |
| 2 | Wars came early to Shanghai , overtaking each other like the tides that raced up the Yangtze and returned to the gaudy city all the coffins cast adrift from the funeral piers of the Chinese Bond . |
| 3 | It has been postulated that it was either the dinosaurs that opened up the way for the angiosperms , or instead it was the changing nature of the flora itself that was in some way the prime mover of evolutionary trends ; that , in spite of all the advances in jaw structure discussed above , they somehow speeded up trends towards extinction . |
| 4 | It was like coming home and the first thing she did was to walk to the pictures that hung on the wall and look at them all over again . |
| 5 | A quiet woman in a large white apron brought them cold white wine in a red earthenware jug , and they sat at the edge of the patio looking out at the rows of vines , of lemon trees , tomatoes and capsicums that straggled down the hillside , shaded in places by tall cypresses and stunted white-trunked olive trees . |
| 6 | Well , each of the seven great churches had a peel of six bells that hung on the outside wall of the church tower . |
| 7 | As yet it was only eight o'clock and the sun reluctant to leave without treating its worshippers to a pyrotechnic display of rose and gold flames that burnt up the whole western sky . |
| 8 | Under Franco , they used to be distributed among representatives of the different political groups that made up the regime 's base of support ; under democracy , incumbents in such posts have tended to be replaced with each change of government . |
| 9 | The reason I started writing tunes was because I could n't find tunes that set up the kind of guitar playing I wanted to do as an improviser . |
| 10 | The seven communities that made up the population of Møn in those days ranged round one or other of the churches and each community made itself known to the others in a common language of bells . |
| 11 | This chapter begins by considering the circumstances that brought about the so-called imperial presidency . |
| 12 | ‘ Ours was a humble part of the operation but we were all full of admiration for the crews that carried out the raid in such difficult conditions . ’ |
| 13 | Gradually , he led her through the centuries to later years , years that brought about the attempt to overthrow the Faith by the English under Henry , and of the increasingly repressive measures that had been taken by the Lord Deputies under Elizabeth in the last fifteen years . |
| 14 | The palace of ‘ Black Ab ’ , the grandfather of King Hussein , overlooked the mosque , the bazaar and the huddle of insanitary buildings that made up the capital . |
| 15 | The port of Anjer quite simply ceased to exist as the succession of great waves washed over it , carrying away all the flimsy wooden buildings that made up the town . |
| 16 | She had reached the place where the Dalek Killer had entered one of the six squat buildings that made up the central complex . |
| 17 | He went from one end to the other of the U-shaped hotel , up and down steps that marked the boundaries of the three separate buildings that made up the Steam Packet Hotel . |
| 18 | February was wet , with gales that howled up the valley and rattled the glass doors leading to the verandah . |
| 19 | Current rating legislation is contained in three Acts of Parliament ( the Local Government Finance Act 1988 , the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 and the Non-domestic Rating Act 1992 ) and about 100 items of associated secondary regulations that lay down the processes and procedures governing the system . |
| 20 | The declining popularity of bonfire night in the back garden is having two effects : a dramatic cut in the number of people hurt by fireworks , and booming business for the firms that put on the big public displays . |
| 21 | Professor Khan had been a crucial cog in the great mesh of wheels that made up the whole for the creation of an Iraqi nuclear warhead . |
| 22 | In other words , it was the agencies that carried out the repressions that were analyzed , as well as the repressions themselves . |
| 23 | The bearer plunged at once into the warren of tiny streets , alleyways and passages between stalls that made up the area loosely known as the Bazaars . |
| 24 | They had n't heard the scratching sounds since Daak had straightened out the protesting shuttle and lowered it serenely towards the whorled ridges that made up the top of the space station . |
| 25 | When she was alone in it , she would , in affection and gratitude , pat the squat stone pillars that held up the nave roof . |
| 26 | Instead of joining the press of bodies that jammed up the aisle towards the crush bar , he took my arm once again and drew me in the opposite direction . |
| 27 | Dr Kevin O'Kane worked in Baidoa for the Irish agency , Goal ; his wife , a doctor with Médecins sans Frontières , was evacuated last week because of death threats that shut down the MSF programme . |
| 28 | Now that we knew the line , we progressed quickly into the wild world of the seemingly blank walls and hanging stances that made up the meat of the route . |
| 29 | And when her tears mixed with the salty tears that fell down the great beast 's cheek , the spell was released , and he stood before her , a golden-haired young man in hunting-costume . |
| 30 | About the exchange of bird species between closely adjacent islands Wallace noted : ‘ Birds offer us one of the best means of determining the law of distribution ; for though at first sight it would appear that the watery boundaries that kept out the land quadrupeds could be easily passed over by birds , yet practically it is not so ; for if we leave out the aquatic tribes ( seabirds ) which are preeminently wanderers , it is found that the others ( and especially the passeres , or perching birds , which form the vast majority ) are often as strictly limited by straits and arms of the sea as are quadrupeds themselves . ’ |