Example sentences of "[that] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The atmosphere of grey repression that clung to the eastern side of the city is being purged at an astonishing speed . |
| 2 | The later theory of instincts , which included the death instincts , as well as the sexual instincts which were retained from the first formulation , seemed to solve the theoretical difficulties that arose with the first theory of instincts . |
| 3 | On all the imperial and foreign policy issues that arose over the succeeding years ( the Cold War , Germany , the Atlantic Alliance , Indochina , Korea , the European Defence Community ) , he insisted on defining a " party line " . |
| 4 | The ‘ council movement ’ was especially vigorous , and was widely debated among socialists in the years immediately preceding and following the First World War ( Renner , 1921 ; Pribicevic , 1959 ) ; and more recently it again aroused growing interest as a result of the experience of workers ' self-management in Yugoslavia , some tentative steps in that direction in other East European countries during the 1970s , and the formulation of ideas about ‘ participatory democracy ’ that arose from the new social movements of the late 1960s . |
| 5 | The USSR as such was held to have ‘ ended its existence ’ , but the members of the Commonwealth pledged themselves to discharge the obligations that arose from the 15,000 or so international treaties and agreements to which the USSR had been a party . |
| 6 | Now that he had arrived at the wildest part of Britain , he wished to use his adventure in the same spirit as that in which Montaigne wrote his famous Essais — as trials of himself , as investigations of the ideas that arose in the non-stop chatter of his mind . |
| 7 | Two kicks of his big flippers were sufficient to send him drifting back up towards the surface that quivered in the harsh sunlight like a sheet of liquid mercury . |
| 8 | It was these two towns therefore that became of the utmost importance and , as Royalist and Parliamentarian forces fought to gain supremacy , the surrounding villages and hamlets became the scene of many violent skirmishes . |
| 9 | Edward 's only extant will is that made before the French expedition of 1475 , and on internal evidence it had been modified , if not superseded , by 1483 . |
| 10 | Edward 's only extant will is that made before the French expedition of 1475 , and on internal evidence it had been modified , if not superseded , by 1483 . |
| 11 | All saw the shudder that rippled through the big man like a wave ; the way his chin jutted forward and his face contorted in agony as he steeled himself to strike . |
| 12 | While not giving details of the pricing , he said that the price-performance curve on the 80486 is the basis for pricing of the Pentium and that he expected the sort of dynamic that applied to the 80486 to apply to the Pentium as well — the 80486 being introduced at $900 to $1,000 and falling to $200 over a period of four years — at a rate of 30% per year . |
| 13 | Robyn twisted her head with difficulty and saw the white shirt , with legs attached presumably , going back down the path that led through the grand herbaceous borders towards the house . |
| 14 | He went down the corridor that led off the central area . |
| 15 | ‘ Willingly , ’ Rose agreed , and led the way to a small antechamber that led off the main saloon . |
| 16 | We walked naked along the path that led across the ice-covered sea . |
| 17 | My last charter had begun ; I had one week to work , then it would be back to Masquerade , and then to the long winds of the southern ocean that led to the uttermost ends of the earth , and thus to happiness . |
| 18 | This comment reveals where many of the misconceptions that led to the official radicalization of land policy towards which ended up in the land October nineteen forty seven . |
| 19 | The doors to the great white stone building that led to the palatial rotunda were open , the lobby empty except for a single security guard sitting and reading behind the circular information desk . |
| 20 | Bacci and the Marshal were staring in at the uncurtained window below the steps that led to the front door . |
| 21 | They walked up the steps that led to the front door . |
| 22 | ‘ This way , ’ he was instructing , leading her on brisk strides up the double stone staircase that led to the front door . |
| 23 | Tony 's feet crunched over white pebbles , on the path that led to the front door of the insurance company where he spent seven hours a day hunched over claim-forms . |
| 24 | Indeed , it was the attempt by American political science to construct a framework for the comparative analysis of modern , transitional and traditional societies under the guidance of structural-functionalism , that led to the logical inevitability of the bureaucracy , particularly in developing states , being regarded as ‘ multifunctional ’ . |
| 25 | It is said that 60 per cent of the human genome codes for proteins that are only expressed in the nervous system , so the real reason that human brains are different may be because greater genetic control has allowed them to evolve more rapidly ; if that is the case , taking to the trees may have freed the smell-brain , but it was its susceptibility to rapid evolution that led to the neopallial explosion . |
| 26 | Our journey was to take us from one end of the village to the Bar-Tabac at the other end , a trip of some 200 metres down the straight street that led to the plump , vine-studded hills in the distance . |
| 27 | Looking back on years that the Yorks were together , it is easy to pick out the really bad moments that led to the complete breakdown of their marriage . |
| 28 | Father showed Duncan the path that led to the grassy slopes of the hills . |
| 29 | The Purple Hour was descending as the Robemaker thrust Nuadu Airgetlam before him down the final stretch of road that led to the grisly Workshops . |
| 30 | The sequence of the research that led to the final publication is as follows . |