Example sentences of "that [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These various factors combined to ensure that the local elite ( even if they were capable of considering it ) would not attempt to kill the goose ‘ that laid the golden eggs ’ . |
| 2 | But , knowing that a great war would kill the goose that laid the golden eggs , the bankers could probably be relied upon to use their enormous influence to prevent it : |
| 3 | If it develops too fast York may kill the goose that laid the golden egg and no one will want to live there — just as tourists are beginning to avoid Lake Windermere because of its commerciality and crowds of people . |
| 4 | Are n't you worried that you 'll kill the goose that laid the golden egg ? |
| 5 | All of them around they kill the goose that laid the golden egg . |
| 6 | In the end , as we shall see , the cost of decommissioning became a vital part of the accountants ' nightmare that laid the nuclear beast to rest . |
| 7 | From Los Angeles came a report of a film theatre that shared the same building with an undertaker and where the hall itself was squalid and narrow with grease spots on the wall where ‘ delighted spectators have leaned their enraptured heads ’ . |
| 8 | Dissident chairmen were , however , frequently able to gain the support of other chairmen on specific issues of Area Board independence , and it was these issues that became the substantive ones between the central regime and the Boards . |
| 9 | For the monarch , that became the exclusive role ( that is , in respect of legislation ) . |
| 10 | Meteorology is probably the most international of the sciences , and Scott played a significant part in establishing the tradition of ready co-operation between countries that became the accepted norm . |
| 11 | Over the aeons they have become so thoroughly integrated into the cooperative unit that became the eukaryotic cell , that it has become almost impossible to detect the fact , if indeed it is a fact , that they were once separate bacteria . |
| 12 | During the 1960s , and what became known as the ‘ permissive society ’ , it was perhaps sexuality that became the dominant form of hedonism . |
| 13 | Just before the publication of the Bill that became the 1988 Education Reform Act , opinion in Great Britain was evenly divided over whether control of the curriculum should be in the hands of local education authorities or of central government ; this is shown in Figure 10.4 . |
| 14 | Firms that avoided the worst excesses of the wheeling-dealing 1980s are making steady profits , and much of the loss was due to expensive restructuring at Shearson Lehman ( which spent $640m ) and Prudential-Bache ( $370m ) . |
| 15 | It was , after all , the absence of free trade unions that made the Soviet Union such an effective tyranny , for there was no protector of the individual against the system ; and it was Polish Solidarity that began the unravelling of the communist tyranny . |
| 16 | Agricultural prosperity rested on secure tenures that made the substantial farmers feel themselves to be full proprietors . |
| 17 | But it was guarding the Japanese prisoners in Changi Jail that made the deepest impression on the 20-year-old sergeant from Billingham . |
| 18 | The only road was a quarter of a mile away up a track , leading down to the campsite itself , so that made the immediate area pretty safe . |
| 19 | Miss Murdock , who appears to have had a sense of humour , expressed her high regard for the autochrome process , the delights of which she said , were mainly due to the high number of failures that made the occasional success all the more thrilling . |
| 20 | Miss Murdock , who appears to have had a sense of humour , expressed her high regard for the autochrome process , the delights of which she said , were mainly due to the high number of failures that made the occasional successes all the more thrilling . |
| 21 | Even Riven laughed with the rest as they piled into the inn Finnan had told them of , and Ratagan wished the landlord good day in a roar that made the poor man cower . |
| 22 | Ramsay MacDonald was beaten by such a campaign in 1921 with language that made the general election of 1918 seem tame . |
| 23 | If redundancy was the leading form of change to 1981 , it was gains in productivity that made the greatest inroads from then . |
| 24 | It was only the breeze when the car was moving that made the warm air breathable . |
| 25 | ‘ Fowler ’ was inserted for ‘ Tebbit ’ on the placards and the demonstration went ahead with a degree of intimidation that made the front page of every national newspaper the next day . |
| 26 | If the borrower should default , the investor has legal recourse to the bank that made the first acceptance . |
| 27 | This is the pencil that his kindergarten teacher possessed ; the pencil that made the blue ticks and the red crosses in the register ; the pencil that he wept for , that his mother went all over town to find , and failed to find , because they were all gone , or not made any more , or kept for teachers , or only imagined ; the pencil which he knew would make him happy , if only he possessed it , for evermore . |
| 28 | His illusions started with reality too , that made the jumping-off point , in the same way that an illusionist on stage has a real girl ; they had to have near possibility , nothing too extreme , not at the beginning anyway . |
| 29 | The crucial invention that made the mechanical clock possible was the ‘ verge-and-foliot ’ escapement . |
| 30 | The gait of the creatures that made the four sets of trails has been described in detail , two weeks ago , at a conference in Berkeley , California . |