Example sentences of "[that] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once myth was destroyed , the metaphysical drive survived at best in attenuated form in the Socratic search for knowledge ; and at worst in a religious syncretism that led only to complete triviality or exotic superstition . |
| 2 | ‘ I think it is fair to say ’ , mused Abrams , that everyone involved in the RIG ( the Restricted Inter-agency Group that met regularly to discuss policy in Latin America ) knew that Ollie was somehow connected with this but did n't know why … |
| 3 | The diversity of organizations and associations that joined together to form Gold EIA shows how widespread concern had become ( see table 3.2 ) . |
| 4 | The 15 companies that banded together include Sun Microsystems Inc , Hewlett-Packard Co , Tivoli Systems Inc , Hyperdesk Corp , Novell Inc , Digital Equipment Corp and all of the object database concerns . |
| 5 | His brief , in short , was the owners ' brief — to build a lamp that would work in the methane-rich atmospheres that existed in crept workings . |
| 6 | It was not that Nelson had died there , nor was it because many years ago the crucifix that hung there demanded obeisance . |
| 7 | The teams that went in had street cred . |
| 8 | Where his friend Charles Williams had achieved only phantasmal fictions that struggled implausibly to marry realism and the supernatural , Lewis turned that improbable formula into stories that compel attention . |
| 9 | He tried , and felt himself falling into the tree , confused , unable to find a stance that did not give way into clutching twigs and flailing branches . |
| 10 | Hands that did not hold banners and placards were thrust deep into pockets , and every street was thronged with lines of men pouring into the heart of the city past the ‘ Chambers ’ . |
| 11 | So long as there is coal in the United Kingdom that can be extracted efficiently from the ground , I see no day when we could envisage an energy policy that did not embrace coal . |
| 12 | The first commercially available products from this group of drugs for anti-bacterial chemotherapy were the fluoroquinolones , which bore very little resemblance to the nalidixic acid derivatives that did not contain fluorine . |
| 13 | We can explain that they come from an age when theology and the natural sciences were not divorced from one another , when God was held directly responsible for disasters we would now call ‘ natural ’ , and for which we would have scientific explanations to hand that did not mention God at all . |
| 14 | The original title-page was replaced with one that did not mention Shakespeare 's name . |
| 15 | A high-rise block of flats had been clamped down on a street that did not think well of itself at the best of times . |
| 16 | However , it is important to recall the full list , in order to emphasize the factors that did not influence perceptions . |
| 17 | The EISA bus was originally developed by a consortium of nine companies led by Compaq Computer Corp that did not want IBM Corp 's pricey-to-license Micro Channel wished upon them . |
| 18 | Early in the year , SCS could report a record quarter for increases in sales , capital and membership , reflecting a picture of growth over the year that did not dispel fears of the adverse influence of political involvement on trade . |
| 19 | That was how she saw things , and although she tried to foresee other ways in which events might turn out , she could not imagine any future that did not include Tristram . |
| 20 | She urged nurses to question authors of all material on child protection that did not include children with disabilities . |
| 21 | The hallway was sleazy in the extreme , plaster falling from those portions of walls that did not have posters holding them together . |
| 22 | Adam appeared in the distance ; he hurried through the bar , the summer salon , and the television room before he finally reached the privacy of Buzz 's office , which contained the only telephone that did not have extensions all over the chateau . |
| 23 | The Spurs Club was aimed at a deaf membership that did not use sign language . |
| 24 | Yel'tsin caused a great deal of concern in this connection by authorising a statement that Russia would not necessarily recognise existing boundaries with states that did not become members of the same political union ; this , at least implicitly , raised issues such as the status of the Crimea , transferred to the Ukraine by Khrushchev in 1954 as a political gesture . |
| 25 | To put it another way , ancestors of stick insects that did not resemble sticks did not leave descendants . |
| 26 | The report also criticises company secretary Bruce Gray , for preparing minutes of board meetings that did not take place without checking the fact of the meetings and the decisions reached . |
| 27 | The authors argue that ‘ attempts to evaluate effectiveness have shown little or no benefit , ’ although among the references they quote are three studies that did not entail counselling in the accepted sense of the term at all , two of which produced distinctly positive results . |
| 28 | In addition a 25 second burst of delta activity was seen that did not cause panic or disturbed behaviour . |
| 29 | However , the cancers associated with strictures in our series tended to be more advanced than those that did not cause strictures . |
| 30 | By the time that I began to work with Ahmed and Amitha , I had resolved within myself that I could n't be anything other than a Black lesbian and that was in itself its own political identity , one that did not require validation from either the women 's , gay or Black movements . |