Example sentences of "[that] [vb past] [art] [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steve , with the instinct that marks him out as a real mountaineer , not just a climber , had searched for and seen an abseil that avoided the First Brittle Ice Traverse , It took us past the Pocket Hanging Glacier seracs , where the ropes twisted into corkscrews and jammed tight . |
| 2 | The biggest Complication of mid-Cretaceous times were the circumstances that produced the first great spasm of the Alpine orogeny . |
| 3 | Robert Julius Matson had guessed right : the first train had come through just nine years after the town was founded in 1858 , pulling behind it the fertiliser works , the com mill , the seed-com warehouse , and with them the quiet prosperity that spawned the first Masonic lodge in 1871 , a voluntary fire brigade in ‘ 75 , the telephone in ‘ 84 and the first sewer in 1920 . |
| 4 | But it was neither safety , monopoly nor dangerous debt loads that precipitated the first major intervention in the industry by Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner last week . |
| 5 | It does n't matter that fears of massive redundancies among office staff that greeted the first large computers proved groundless . |
| 6 | The 1940s were a decade split by the great peace that ended the last European war in May 1945 , but it has its own domestic character — a character soon to be forgotten by succeeding decades , though in The Girls of Slender Means ( 1963 ) Muriel Spark aptly called it a time when ‘ all the nice people were poor ’ . |
| 7 | Soomers in 1990 described 26 patients in whom this approach was used , six ( 23% ) patients developed late procedure related complications five requiring surgery and one replacment of the endoprosthesis , thses included duodenal perforation in one , endoprosthesis clogging in two and stent migration in two , the patient that underwent a second endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography also had endoprosthesis clogging . |