Example sentences of "that [noun] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Lorna Woodroffe gave them a great send off by defeating Mandy Wainwright ( Essex ) , the National 's 16 's champion , 6–3 , 6–4 , Wainwright gained revenge in the doubles , which was the only reverse that Woodroffe suffered in the series . |
2 | He certainly used methods of etching and aquatinting that Sandby introduced from the continent . |
3 | His widow , Betty , told Esquire that MacDonald worked on the team for only a year before he was fired by Hill . |
4 | Then she put the apple pie into the range oven and slammed the door so hard that coals fell into the grate . |
5 | It has already been noted that contemporaries complained of the prevalence of this crime . |
6 | To a large extent that ideology looked to the Roman past . |
7 | The title ‘ administrative criminology ’ is of significance in that it is the title that Vold gave to the classical criminology of Beccaria and Bentham ( as we saw in Chapter 1 ) . |
8 | ‘ I started screaming so loudly that crowds ran to the scene which eventually made the policemen stop . ’ |
9 | It is curious that it should have happened , that Michel came upon the scene the very instant she was really free for the first time in her life . |
10 | This obstinate refusal to be a conformist explains not only the difficulties of integration that Nizan experienced within the party , but also — and this needs stressing — underlines the extent to which he succeeded in retaining intellectual autonomy and integrity within the party itself . |
11 | There can be little doubt that Nizan departed for the Soviet Union in January 1934 in a crusading spirit . |
12 | The moral justice that Nizan attributed to the Soviet state was heightened by the rise of fascism on the international scene , by the need for a popular front anti-fascist movement . |
13 | On Saturdays , after dinner , concerts of classical music were so popular that artists sat on the floor or perched on tables to listen . |
14 | So blackly venomous was his expression that Perdita fled towards the next pitch , scattering the polo balls which lay like a hatch of goose eggs near the goal posts . |
15 | Even ITN has had to turn to CNN for some footage of the Gulf , but that does n't cause Phillis any problems : ‘ I 'm a great admirer — Turner 's done a marvellous job , ’ adding that while the US network has received plaudits for its Gulf coverage , it is merely returning the coverage that ITN provided of the Conservative leadership contest . |
16 | While Dace said that recession continued in the UK and became more visible in continental Europe , exchange rate movements meant that revenues were maintained in all sectors of Riva 's business . |
17 | The second impact came , like the slamming of a huge underground steel door … and just like the sound that Cardiff remembered from the basement . |
18 | It is significant that Kerschensteiner insisted on the practical and the theoretical being part of the same syllabus , with the former leading on to an appreciation of the latter : it meant that ‘ civic virtues ’ had to be practised in order for them to become meaningful . |
19 | The coiled roots bit into his flesh , dragging against the skin , so that blood welled to the surface . |
20 | We only possess one piece of information with which to lend precision to the general statement that Richard went through the rebels ' lands with fire and sword , capturing and demolishing their fortresses , and this suggests that Geoffrey de Rancon 's castle of Taillebourg was once again at the centre of events . |
21 | She knew that Richard came from the castle and understood that his family was the family to which all the others deferred , but now instead of intimidating her Richard 's status seemed to impart a sense of protection . |
22 | Banknote paper was then prepared with a colouring agent made from cobalt , silex , salt and potash : if you set light to a bundle of money , the cinder would take on the extraordinary tint that Musgrave saw on the Caen dockside . |
23 | His expression was inscrutable , but his hands were clenched so tightly into fists that Meredith marvelled at the man 's ability to keep the muscles of his face so impassive . |
24 | In the last a frontal foot shows that Hermes stood on the right above the head of the emerging monster , like Athena in fig. 121 ; and the placing of the hero is very similar though the movement ( straight across the field as in the other ) is pulling instead of pushing . |
25 | Press reports noted that Mugabe had during the March 1990 general election campaign promised public-sector pay increases and salary restructuring , but that senior staff had been the main beneficiaries . |
26 | During the interim decision on the AWA negligence case against Deloitte Ross Tohmatsu — in which AWA had alleged that DRT contributed to the $50m in foreign exchange losses the company suffered — trial judge Mr Justice Rogers asked the court why it should be that ‘ the whole burden of possibly insolvent wrongdoers falls entirely on a well-insured , or deep-pocket , defendant ’ ? |
27 | This is because when the tetrads that Michell found on the one-inch map are investigated on a 6-inch sheet , they become distressingly ‘ crooked ’ . |
28 | It is the more remarkable that Pound , no more than any one else for fifty years after Hardy died , pondered the Virgilian epigraph that Hardy put at the head of his ‘ Poems of 1912–13 ’ , originally in Satires of Circumstance , ( London , 1914 ) . |
29 | The USSR became India 's main external source of weaponry and rendered extensive economic aid ; Soviet support was in part a response to the support that Pakistan received from the Chinese , with whom the Indians had an unresolved border dispute . |
30 | Jenkins is observant , and knowledgeable on strategy , as when the reports on Gooch 's plans for containing Salim Malik , or draws one of the key post-match lessons that Pakistan paid in the end for their lack of a medium-pace bowler . |