Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Sole 's action that caused the collapsed scrummage , not ‘ lowering ’ by Probyn . |
| 2 | Kent , taking full advantage of the disciplinary action that ended the 11 year reign of Essex as boys ' champions , won the Midland Bank Junior County Cup for the first time since its inception in 1967 , at Bournemouth during April . |
| 3 | The declining appeal of socialist ideas was openly acknowledged , for instance , by Anatolii Dobrynin , the veteran US ambassador and later Central Committee Secretary , and by the commentator Alexander Bovin , for whom the changes in Eastern Europe were evidence that ‘ the great socialist experiment that spanned the entire twentieth century had failed ’ . |
| 4 | We drive the car that 's reckoned to the capable of 0–60mph in less than 4secs and talk to the driver/navigator partnership that rattled the established names in international rallying . |
| 5 | This is where the spectacular forms of regeneration that characterised the 1980s ( Harvey , 1989 ) were not so much a postmodern discontinuity as a logical extension of the tradition of symbolically rich , effectively marginal , policy palliatives that were offered to the urban crisis from the 1960s onwards . |
| 6 | The terrible tandoori oven of the womb , the essential kindling of sex , the force that woke the dormant dog of philoprogenitive penis . |
| 7 | Creative football that created the big chance — a second chance at Wembley . |
| 8 | It is only in the pursuit of important goals that he may see himself in a negative light , and only during the recurrence of situations similar to the childhood loss that brought the negative schema into existence . |
| 9 | It was a murder that shocked the local community . |
| 10 | But he controlled himself — there was a force of mandroids that would have done the controlling , otherwise — and merely snarled a reply that left the old pirate fuming . |
| 11 | It seems to have been enough , as was the amount delivered by the big but war-disrupted relief programme that followed the 1987 drought . |
| 12 | Consequently it was the huge anti-fascist demonstration that created the major problem of public order . |
| 13 | Anne flipped the switch that opened the front gate , and the ironwork brushed the bottom of the video image . |
| 14 | I thought it was the fella that had the nervous twitch . |
| 15 | There are those who argue that it was the desperate attempts made by the Soviets in the last decade and a half to match the US , especially in Star Wars research and development , which brought about the economic collapse that dismantled the communist monolith . |
| 16 | Although he had marvelled at it many times , Ludovico had never become blase about the stupendous vista from the Villa Battista and its famous terrace that ran the whole length of the low , pale yellow house . |
| 17 | The UN mandate that authorised the American-led ‘ Operation Restore Hope ’ talks of providing a secure environment for relief operations . |
| 18 | She was wearing check trousers and a red polo-necked sweater that accentuated the perfect roundness of her bra-less small breasts . |
| 19 | Anna Freud ( 1943 , 1960 ) , who had been one of the first to call attention to the emotional difficulties of small children separated from their mothers , attacked from yet another angle , affirming the emotional need , not only in the baby but in his mother , to be together during the first weeks of the child 's life , and criticizing maternity hospital practice that separated the two . |
| 20 | Luca Ciferri remembers the car that presaged the immortal Ferrari Dino and which still influences the design of today 's sports cars |
| 21 | If I had to design an attractive luxury car that gave the optimum compromise between performance , space , noise level and fuel economy , it would quite probably resemble the 605 SVi . |
| 22 | Also there was Stirling Moss driving the car that won the 1961 TT Race . |
| 23 | She held the lead and quietly plodded upward through the crisp snow that covered the long Baskan Glacier . |
| 24 | It led , for example , to the quest for the nature of the signal from the organizer that caused the second embryo and the second nervous system to form . |
| 25 | It was a flying boat that started the transatlantic aeroplane service in 1937 , which the Americans kept running even during the war . |
| 26 | Greece 's brand-new , post-1945 middle class is the product of the brutally rapid urbanisation caused by the German occupation , the civil war of 1946–49 and the Marshall-aid boom that followed the civil war . |
| 27 | But eventually selective breeding turned the tables on quality , and the economic boom that followed the First World War brought an explosion of demand for fur , for the first time a high-fashion commodity . |
| 28 | The only sour note was the electrified fence that marked the forbidden border zone . |
| 29 | For another industry that followed the same path one has to look no further than the world 's steel industry . |
| 30 | the light that led The Holy Elders with the gift of myrrh . |