Example sentences of "that [vb past] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found that amendments that sought to divert young people from criminal activity would not fit into the Bill because of what an Officer of the House described as ’ the curious geography of the Bill ’ . |
| 2 | The Imperial Governor could only ever heed truly weighty wasps that sought to tear that web apart — not the myriad mites that bit one another . |
| 3 | In giving evidence , Michael Bichard , Chief Executive of the SSAB , listed the 14 offices ( out of around 470 ) that failed to reach tolerable standards . |
| 4 | Her mouth was opening and closing , spewing words at him that failed to make any contact in his mind . |
| 5 | Not surprisingly , those of them that tried to reverse this fate have sometimes prospered . |
| 6 | If he had not had this picture in his mind , he might inadvertently have written in a way that tried to satisfy different types of individual in the same book . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , his energy of observation remained constant and again inclined towards the economics of the area : he contemplated one piece of land , a ‘ watery flat ’ , that seemed to have natural drainage possibilities — ‘ it had a visible declivity ’ ; although he allowed that even if he felt it could be reclaimed without ‘ difficulty or expense ’ , these were relative terms . |
| 8 | In the longer term , it was Reformed rather than Lutheran theology that came to dominate Elizabethan Protestantism . |
| 9 | The Campaign of Real Ale was started in the early 1970s by a small group of beer lovers who was appalled by the heavily promoted keg beers that threatened to replace traditional draught ales . |
| 10 | Given the number of left journals that declined to review Distant Voices , Still Lives , my summary of them will be all too brief . |
| 11 | Some years ago , IBM bought into the videodisk business only to withdraw after it was tweaked by the press for backing a recording that purported to explain healthful massage but actually featured the kind of body rubbing one would n't show to anyone young enough to be dramatically influenced , Woody Allen 's romantic inclinations notwithstanding . |
| 12 | Ca n't you see a reincarnated Grace lashing the Long Room with scorn and fury on hearing the vapid 68 words that purported to explain this summer 's vilest scandal . |
| 13 | Timber , that were all loose timber that was during the war , six weeks , six weeks that took to unload that ship . |
| 14 | In fact MI5 was wasting its time because Khrushchev and Bulganin were well aware of this and spent much of the time in their suite holding nonsensical conversations that appeared to include tantalising references to important matters but were in reality pure rubbish . |
| 15 | The Eastern Daily Press together with the Eastern Arts Board also gave money for a competition that hoped to find new art critics . |
| 16 | We need a public commitment today from the Government that they will be prepared to give technical and financial assistance to any buyer that wished to develop thin slab technology at Ravenscraig . |
| 17 | A big ego so utterly ungracious and another big ego , Niki 's , that had to swallow that kind of shit . |
| 18 | Honestly if it was them that had to stuff those navy blue fitted sheets into the automatic after he 's been home they 'd be Under No Delusions . |
| 19 | It was the child that had to have first consideration , and what had I got to offer it that justified my bringing it into the world ? |
| 20 | There was a sizeable part of him that wanted to exit this Dominion once and for all . |