Example sentences of "[det] that [vb past] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Knowledge plc had failed to get in by the back door , it was this that brought the ideology of the market-place marching in the front . |
| 2 | My Lord er in paragraph three fourteen of the statement of claim there is an important fact er which is a fact that is admitted by the defendant which is this that had the defendant on the plaintiff 's behalf taken the opportunity which was open to the plaintiff by virtue of national condition twenty two which should say and served a special notice to complete upon the vendors on about the eighteenth or the twenty second of October , the contract would in fact have been rescinded on the thirteenth or the nineteenth of November nineteen eighty five and the plaintiff would therefore have been able to get out of the contract and that , as I say , is admitted in the amended dissent . |
| 3 | Experiencing joy through suffering is a paradox , and yet it was this that marked the life of Jesus . |
| 4 | It was scenes like this that prompted the MP for Hereford to call for a review of flood defences . |
| 5 | ‘ We cast for type not names ’ said director Archie Mayo and it was this that clinched the film 's impact . |
| 6 | There would be a fire in the grass on the dunes , or a plane would have crashed , and all that stopped the cordite in the cellar from going up would be me diverting some of the water from a dam system down a channel and into the house . |
| 7 | All that hit the floor was a glossy leaflet inviting her to discover the magic of Christmas at the local hypermarket . |
| 8 | The presence of wading birds was all that defined the place at which the river joined with the sea . |
| 9 | The pale paint splashes , the next one ahead visible all the time , were n't all that marked the trail : it showed signs in broken twigs and scuffed ground of our passage the day before . |
| 10 | Cancers that developed in the bones were called Sarcomas , those that affected the blood were called Leukaemias and it was Lymphomas that attacked the lymph system . |
| 11 | With a career spanning seventeen years and almost as many albums , it 's hard to deny that Motorhead have earned a bit of a breather , but those that feared the sun and the swimming pools of their self-imposed LA exile might dilute the band 's full-on thrust can finally rest easy . |
| 12 | Indeed it might almost be conjectured that those families in which political nous was widely distributed were just those that found the principle of primogeniture unpalatable . |
| 13 | Those that survived the crash were ferried to the Kent and Canterbury Hospital in a fleet of ambulances . |
| 14 | Apparently , some years later the whole story broke and Rod and the crew — those that survived the war — were awarded the Freedom of the Town of Boston . |
| 15 | Those that worked the land grew rye and potatoes , beetroot , blueberries , apples and cherries ; they fattened pigs and kept large flocks of geese who were indifferent to the Pomeranian damp . |
| 16 | Those that hated the familiarity rarely went out and left the States as soon as their initial contract was completed . |
| 17 | As we have noted , many countries had no press to speak of at the time of independence , and in those that did the press has undergone a considerable amount of change . |
| 18 | They were so different from the dustman 's horses and those that pulled the water carts . |
| 19 | It took all the courage he had to thrust his head and shoulders into the mouth of that entrance , but he closed his eyes and twisted and turned and after a time tumbled out into a great stone chamber , lit with a soft light of its own that dimmed the glitter of his shining key . |