Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A state religion that included all others obviously conduced to this objective .
2 The Banks have totally rejected IBOA members ' concerns and have advised the Association that Extended Opening Hours are working without any difficulties .
3 They have reflected the wishful thinking that informed liberal development politics in the post-War period .
4 A proper respect for the Modern thinking that underlay such tools of social and economic experiment as the centre of Zlin , the original Bauhaus buildings , the Weissenhof , the Maison Savoye and many more , demands that their documentation should be preserved , but they themselves should be allowed to die .
5 He too is a newcomer to Portrush , but who would have guessed it from a three-under card that showed 16 pars , one eagle and one birdie .
6 From his small office , the solicitor explains that deals similar to that offered to the Salvation Army — where they invested $10 million in a deal that promised high interest returns — are kept secret among high-ranking individuals in the world of finance .
7 The crumbling of the old idea of a state based on obligations and obedience may have helped increase the dynamic force that enabled European countries to spread their authority over most of the world ; the very widespread acceptance of the new idea of a state based on independence and equality gave people outside Europe political principles which helped them in the later struggle to dismantle the European empires .
8 The PLO escorted the British through west Beirut and they were replaced at Khalde by Major Hassan Kassar of the Libyan army , a reconnaissance officer for a Libyan-sponsored Arab League peace force that disintegrated some days later .
9 But in the Philosophie zoologique Lamarck had subordinated this to his belief in a progressive force that pushed living things steadily up the scale of organization .
10 After 113 minutes of attacking football that had Second Division Swindon reeling from the start , Third Division Bolton finally took the lead through Brown .
11 In the shooting that followed Special Constable Goodman was killed and Pc Kelly wounded .
12 Until well into the 1970s , the almost universal conventional wisdom — except perhaps in the United States — was that the government should stand ready to act as a deus ex machina , stepping in to save the capitalist system from its inherent defects of inequality in the distribution of the wealth it created , of unbalanced investment that created private affluence and public squalor , and or vulnerability to cyclical downturn , slump and unemployment ( for example , Shonfield , 1965 ; Galbraith , 1956 ) .
13 In a sense Spanish clerical conservatives were correct in thinking that there was no such thing as a ‘ safe ’ Enlightenment ; however respectable the proponents of luces appeared , at the root of their creed lay a rationalism that denied Divine Providence and that must lead to an attack on the position of the Church in society , even if they professed to respect dogma .
14 The movie that provoked most debate around rape and its representation before The Accused , was Lamont Johnson 's 1976 film Lipstick , which at least did make some attempt to make connections between the rape and the wider social implications of how society constructs images of women .
15 For Washburn 20 years of visual carnage has meant increasing mental instability and a compulsion to uncover the truth behind a murder that occurred 120 years before .
16 But even these clubs are influenced by major companies ; for example , Grumpas Eight , the club that invited English striker Gary Lineker , was once the soccer club of Toyota , whose rugby club has Japanese centre , Eiji Kutsuki .
17 A second way in which Lakatos 's methodology could conceivably be supported is as follows : The methodology might serve to identify a programme that received strong support from the scientific community but which does not conform to the methodology of research programmes , and this identification might subsequently lead to the novel discovery of some external cause , such as the intervention of some government or industrial monopoly .
18 There used to be a programme that introduced new records on the radio , and my father was sailing somewhere and he had this little transistor all primed up , and he said proudly to his friend , ‘ This is my sons ’ record' and at that moment a wave hit the boat and the radio went overboard .
19 1 A gardener planted a special kind of water lily in the middle of a lily pond that measured 1 5m across .
20 The mixtures were gently rocked for two minutes and the lowest final concentration that gave macroscopic agglutination when read against a dark background was recorded .
21 Cimetine reversed the histamine stimulated proliferation of the first two cell lines , however , at a concentration of 10 - 5 M , which corresponded to the cimetidine concentration that induced complete inhibition of histamine on cAMP accumulation in guinea pig fundus and antrum
22 Those Israelis whom this behaviour most appals have long been likening it to the earlier stages of Nazism , an analogy that found startling vindication with the recent disclosure that some units in the occupied territories draw on Nazi precedents for their own self-image , one calling itself the ‘ Mengele detachment ’ and another ‘ the Auschwitz company ’ .
23 That it is proceeding at all , despite the intense financial and media scepticism that followed last summer 's initial announcement , is a tribute to Sir Denys Henderson and his team .
24 Moreover , even in eschatology and its presentation in terms of history , the idea of the future that dominated Hebrew thought involved a return to the primeval state that the Jews believed they had lost .
25 Of course , after all the hard work and extensive consultations carried out by the Mandate Review Committee , it was matters of the mandate that aroused most interest .
26 Tony , 22 , suffered brain damage when he was crushed at Sheffield Wednesday 's football ground in the tragedy that killed 95 people .
27 According to one study that utilized multivariate analysis , its effect is large and significant even after many other factors have been taken into account .
28 One study that investigated this idea found that there was little difference between first babies and later ones .
29 ( For a distributive study that allocated all taxes and public expenditures in the UK , see O'Higgins and Ruggles 1981 . )
30 Of particular interest was the Indonesian community study that used fortified monosodium glutamate , rather than capsule supplementation , in five programme villages , with five other villages used as controls .
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