Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an association that made him an appropriate keeper at Loseley of Montague 's imprisoned son-in-law Henry Wriothesley , second Earl of Southampton [ q.v. ] in 1570 . |
| 2 | It was the therapy that gave me the strength to leave my girlfriend because through it I established the fact that I was prone to passivity , always waiting for other people to call the shots . |
| 3 | There have been many doubts that Gazza could n't make a come-back at club level or even contemplate straddling the international scene again with the outrageous talent that made him a folk hero . |
| 4 | But it was working as a computer specialist in the insurance industry that gave him the necessary experience , most notably the motor insurance experience , he needed . |
| 5 | In a world of single parents , almost all of them female , it is the relationship that the young man has with a solid male figure that gives him an edge and keeps him on the straight and narrow . |
| 6 | And I chose a conception that promised me a child of certain defined personality characteristics as well as physical ones . |
| 7 | and he goes that 's that fucking arsehole that called you a slut is n't it ? |
| 8 | Those in the East End included a half-share in Chandler 's Wiltshire Brewery in the Hackney Road , Bethnal Green ( via the Lion brewery , Lambeth , the brewery that gave us the South Bank lion ) ; some of the pubs belonging to the Commercial Brewery Co in Commercial Road , Stepney , in 1927 ( the rest went to Hammerton 's brewery , Stockwell ) ; and West and Co , of the Three Crowns brewery , Hackney Road , Bethnal Green , with 60 pubs , in 1929 . |
| 9 | Beccaria uses just such an argument against capital punishment ( in addition to his rational , effectiveness arguments ) ; we simply would not enter into a social contract that gave someone the right to kill us . |
| 10 | In modern times interest has centred around what it is about the owl that makes it the target for this hostile treatment . |
| 11 | I ca n't find a bit that Give me the pencil and let me show you . |
| 12 | Although it looked completely different , it was this truck that gave me the concept for ‘ MiniMag ’ , the 27ft ( 8m ) articulated truck that we used for Mrs Thatcher 's open-air meetings in the 1987 election . |
| 13 | ‘ That headache has tightened you up all over — or perhaps it was the tightness that gave you the headache in the first place . ’ |
| 14 | And it 's earning the chocolate-coloured Labrador that wrote it a worldwide reputation . |
| 15 | They were looking into each other 's eyes with a tenderness that brought her a cruel , twisting anguish . |
| 16 | With a tenderness that surprised her the Frenchman put his arms around her and lifted her onto the cot beside him . |
| 17 | And it is this struggle that showed us a way . |
| 18 | Hidden away , pushed to the darker recesses of her mind , it was a tangible presence that gave her a degree of comfort in the terrible loneliness of her marriage . |
| 19 | Bolton , still smarting from a controversial refereeing decision that denied them a penalty and , they believe , victory at the County Ground at Swindon , had their opponents well and truly cornered at the start . |
| 20 | During Worswick 's time there , Harwell — as part of the AEA — made the transition to a trading fund ( effectively a nationalised company rather than a government department ) , an experience that taught him a great deal about finance . |
| 21 | A dimension that gives you a more effective heating system that 's cheaper to run — Total Heating with Central Control . |
| 22 | A basic skill that gives them the greatest start in life . |
| 23 | It means the League champions have gone 11 games unbeaten , a run that offers them a final placing that would erase much of the disappointment of a frustrating season that includes two defeats by Coventry . |
| 24 | They came up with a vision of work that offered them a challenge , was interesting and in which they were in charge . |
| 25 | It was often said that her new-found reputation was a bubble that would burst once people realized it was just the raunchiness of her work that got her a wide readership . |
| 26 | ‘ What is it about work that gives you the most pleasure ? ’ |
| 27 | There are currently nearly ninety Remploy factories up and down the country which employ disabled people in productive work that earns them a reasonable wage . |
| 28 | Many firms using the bubble policy have found that the resulting pollution was less than what the law allows , a circumstance that grants them a credit towards added pollution in the future . |
| 29 | A series of injuries slowed his progress but ultimately , it was attitude that cost him the chance of blossoming into a great player . |
| 30 | If the doctor helped Mr Mansur , he could be charged under a new Michigan law that makes it a crime to assist a person to commit suicide . |