Example sentences of "[that] [vb past] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Shildon had a tidy card-index mind that produced substantiating evidence for what he said . |
| 2 | My branch submitted a motion to the Apex conference two years ago that sought to draw attention to unemployment amongst the white collar workers . |
| 3 | Moreover , following a study that failed to show superiority of intravenous nutrition over polymeric feeding or oral food with parenteral supplementation , it is now apparent that complete bowel rest is not essential for achieving remission in acute Crohn 's disease with nutritional treatment . |
| 4 | I was numb , but it was a numbness that promised to give way to an agonizing pain quite soon . |
| 5 | The buying of a teapot was part of the Burton ritual that helped to give variety to the East Anglian 's stay in the Midlands . |
| 6 | They also remarked on the frequent riotous assemblies that seemed to take place in or about the city of Glasgow . |
| 7 | Murtach had learned of a great wolf pack that seemed to roam west of the Skriaig and had been seen by a few desperate hunters seeking deer beyond Ralarth 's borders . |
| 8 | Countries that signed receive compensation for spills , however they occur . |
| 9 | It was only the last and biggest headline-grabber — Sir James Goldsmith 's failed bid in 1989 for B.A.T Industries — that threatened to bring junk to London . |
| 10 | The idea evolved when producer Ned Sherrin was looking for a sequel to That Was the Week That Was , the irreverent series that dared to poke fun at the Establishment and made stars of David Frost , Roy Kinnear , William Rushton , Eleanor Bron and Millicent Martin . |
| 11 | Doyle had known Jack Stone before the bank job that had sent Stone to earth , and it was Ray Doyle , not Bodie , who Stone ‘ trusted ’ , as much as he could ever trust anyone . |
| 12 | To many the Report failed to take account of the lack of homogeneity among LDCs and overlooked various NICs that had achieved success through capitalism , i.e. private enterprise . |
| 13 | In part this was due to the public-sector controls on investment , but it was also because of the natural priorities that had operated year after year inside British Rail . |
| 14 | He never ceased to wonder at the irony of expecting miracles from a reliquary in which her bones had once lain for only three days and nights , before being returned reverently to her native Welsh earth ; and even more to be wondered at , the infinite mercy that had transmitted grace through all those miles between , forgiven the presence of a sorry human sinner in the coffin she had quitted , and let the radiance of miracle remain invisibly about her altar , unpredictable , accessible , a shade wanton in where it gave and where it denied , as the stuff of miracles is liable to be , at least to the human view . |
| 15 | No longer would youth and its culture have such a power to affect society as it had had for those brief few years from 1963 to 1967 : although the sharp end of youth culture was confusing purchasing power with political power and demanding change , many of its constituents were caught by the freeze that , introduced the previous year , signified the end of the ten-year boom that had thrust youth into prominence . |
| 16 | Yes , we had drivers that had to do sort of timed deliveries or whatever in the morning , and they , so basically that was the time . |
| 17 | Again , in terms of the quantitative restrictions that had bedevilled trade in the past , many of these had already been swept away or modified by OEEC . |
| 18 | The perfume that had breathed sweetness over the cool stream was coming from the delicious brown girl . |
| 19 | And then she remembered why she was there , because the Mahon virus had been joined with humanity , had been introduced into the genes as the same batch of fluid that had given life to Piphros . |
| 20 | A third notion is that organic life — carbon-based life — was preceded by ‘ living ’ clays , based on silicon , as described by Professor Cairn-Smith that some of these clays gathered organic molecules around them , which increased their chemical versatility , and that the organic components eventually abandoned the silicon-based templates that had given rise to them . |
| 21 | This increased the ease with which the police could prosecute prostitutes , as they no longer required the assistance of an ‘ offended ’ member of the public , despite the fact that it was the supposed ‘ public nuisance ’ of street prostitution that had given rise to the need for legislation . |
| 22 | The distinctive characteristic of these writers was their belief in progress : the belief , in particular , that the system of international relations that had given rise to the First World War was capable of being transformed into a fundamentally more peaceful and just world order ; that under the impact of the awakening of democracy , the growth of the ‘ international mind ’ , the development of the League of Nations , the good works of men of peace or the enlightenment spread by their own teachings , it was in fact being transformed ; and that their responsibility as students of international relations was to assist this march of progress to overcome the ignorance , the prejudices , the ill-will , and the sinister interests that stood in its way . |
| 23 | Several of the planks , including those that had given way under Harry 's weight , had without that beam 's support simply been hanging out in space , resting like a seesaw over the previous beam but otherwise supported only by the tight fit of each plank against the next . |
| 24 | To remove the distinction completely would seem to undermine the insights that had given force to Bakhtin 's earlier criticism . |
| 25 | Amongst those that had received assistance in completing forestry plans , Cameroon and Colombia have had difficulty obtaining funds , partly because of the prominence given to logging . |
| 26 | The September sun , proclaiming early spring in New Zealand , cast shadows between the millions of pine trees planted to cover hills that had become wasteland after the removal of native bush . |
| 27 | The creatures that had made meat of them in earlier ages were zoo specimens now , brooding behind bars for the entertainment of the victorious ape . |
| 28 | The suppressed energy radiating from the man before him reminded him again of McAllister , who possessed all those traits which women were not supposed to share — and how difficult that had made life for her . |
| 29 | That in turn has worried the commercial banks that had lent money to the finance houses . |
| 30 | Although some of his referees had said he was ‘ extremely zealous ’ and needed to be kept within specific guidelines , at the time , that had struck Shaughnessy as a commendation rather than a reservation . |