Example sentences of "that [vb past] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Are n't you worried that you 'll kill the goose that laid the golden egg ? |
| 3 | All of them around they kill the goose that laid the golden egg . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | For the monarch , that became the exclusive role ( that is , in respect of legislation ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | During the 1960s , and what became known as the ‘ permissive society ’ , it was perhaps sexuality that became the dominant form of hedonism . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But it was guarding the Japanese prisoners in Changi Jail that made the deepest impression on the 20-year-old sergeant from Billingham . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Ramsay MacDonald was beaten by such a campaign in 1921 with language that made the general election of 1918 seem tame . |
| 17 | It was only the breeze when the car was moving that made the warm air breathable . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | If the borrower should default , the investor has legal recourse to the bank that made the first acceptance . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The crucial invention that made the mechanical clock possible was the ‘ verge-and-foliot ’ escapement . |
| 22 | ‘ Are you really all right ? ’ he said with a seriousness that made the familiar question matter . |
| 23 | Rondar 's 370 , designed by Stephen Jones specifically for the competition , was one of the two boats that made the final selection . |
| 24 | And when he went on teaching practice , Liang Heng found himself transmitting the same old dogma : ‘ The blind obedience that made the Cultural Revolution possible was being fostered still . |
| 25 | It was Smarties that made the coloured hand prints on the wall ; with Smarty ‘ buns ’ she would charm all the grown-ups , and with Smarty ‘ prezzies ’ they would encourage her performances and tricks ; with Smarties she would entertain her invisible friends ; Smarties bribed her to bed , to bath , to the toilet . |
| 26 | She quickly began to sketch , and at the same time tried to imprint on her mind the combination of colours that made the whole scene so eerily effective . |
| 27 | He said : ‘ I 'm desperate to regain a Cup place , and that made the whole episode even worse . ’ |
| 28 | It was , however , the Robbins Report in 1963 on higher education that made the strongest case for investment in education to aid economic growth . |
| 29 | The size of the holes , and the thickness of the surrounding bubbles of enriched galaxy formation , depend on the details of the perturbations fed in to the idealised model calculations , and this offers hope that better observations of these holes in the Universe may reveal information about the kinds of disturbances that made the big bang of creation develop irregularly . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'll put the kettle on , ’ Claudia said ; she wanted something to do — it was silly to feel shy , but there was something between them today that made the very air vibrate . |