Example sentences of "that [verb] [adj] of [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ You 've been found guilty of a breathtaking fraud that cheated thousands of people .
2 Once again the train loops inland through moors that make those of Lewis look like playparks .
3 Despite an awful muddy sound that renders much of Chuck 's vocal incoherent , ‘ Rebel ’ still sounds uniquely pugilistic — a crucial call to arms that never fails to move .
4 Despite an awful muddy sound that renders much of Chuck 's vocal incoherent , ‘ Rebel ’ still sounds uniquely pugilistic — a crucial call to arms that never fails to move .
5 Typically , Sulawesi , the island that defies many of Wallace 's rules of animal distribution , has two hornbill species of its own .
6 If we 're right , he also loathed the complete destruction of Stalinvast — even though he co-operated with Obispal in kindling the hydra , a task that cost millions of lives . ’
7 FastPort will give your printers the plug and play functionality of printers that cost thousands of dollars more .
8 Soft acid waters , from the peaty hills that supply much of Britain 's water , are eating into the iron water mains of many towns .
9 The largest drops in ozone in the northern hemisphere were in the region stretching from latitude 10° North , the area that covers most of Europe , Asia and the US .
10 Yesterday , workers and bosses celebrated the dawn of a bright new era at an official opening that drew hundreds of VIP guests and GM bosses from Europe and the United States .
11 Ruth Finnegan , in a recent article that challenges many of Goody 's contentions regarding literacy , expands the area of the world to which this comment can be applied :
12 Here we have a dry , laconic and completely unsentimental style that spawned hundreds of imitations .
13 There was a dreadful silence , then Robert said , in a voice that seemed drained of emotion , ‘ Dawn — go away .
14 Lyn went first up the stairs and into the set of big , shabby rooms with arched windows that seemed full of sky .
15 With a sound that seemed full of pain and anger and disgust , he picked up the poker and quickly raked them out into the hearth .
16 The company operates its own radio network in the UK with a system that allows thousands of users to operate on a single UHF or VHF channel .
17 Then the rebels captured Huambo , Angola 's second-biggest city , in a battle that claimed thousands of lives .
18 It will replace a temporary unit set up by the RSPCA at Docking , Norfolk , in 1988 to deal with victims of the virus that plagues thousands of North Sea seals .
19 They do n't haunt because they want to wring their hands and wail about something that happened hundreds of years ago .
20 There are some good enough families , some fairly balanced families and a whole lot of families that resemble one of Mike Leigh 's bleaker casts .
21 The rioting underlined continuing political and security problems facing the allies , who arrived ten weeks ago to end devastating clan warfare so that relief agencies could help ease a famine that threatened millions of lives .
22 The rioting underlined continuing political and security problems facing the allies , who arrived ten weeks ago to end devastating clan warfare so that relief agencies could help ease a famine that threatened millions of lives .
23 No one mentioned it was essential training as a motoring correspondent to have a car crash , but it happened to me in the same gruesome circumstances that confront hundreds of motorists every week .
24 The party 's convention in March paid special tribute to its founder , Roberto d'Aubuisson , the man most closely associated with the death squads that killed thousands of people during the civil war , who himself died of cancer last year .
25 In her most fundamental expression , the Queen of the Night draws on primitive currents of energy and uses them to fulfil instinctive drives that know little of honour , justice , compassion , or other civilized values .
26 Many admitted to having a doze through a meaningless movie presentation that talked more of light and energy , love and space than the car .
27 Every item in the cabinets has been stolen , in the same burglaries that netted thousands of tools and pieces of garden equipment , and recovered by the same team of detectives .
28 To the low- 187 Os/ 188 Os end of the arrays , the picrite basalts have γ Os values that overlap those of MORB and approach the characteristic negative γ Os of lithospheric mantle xenoliths .
29 In the 1960s the Labour government legislated to restore security of tenure and to allow rent levels to rise only to levels that fell short of market prices .
30 No , even that fell short of truth ; there are degrees that can not be accurately plotted .
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