Example sentences of "that [vb -s] [vb pp] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Of all the existing means of mass communication , it is only the press that has spawned a set of ‘ theories ’ to explain and to justify its actions and its purposes . |
2 | There is still a wonderful tolerance about a place that has spawned the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence headed by Sadie the Rabbi Lady ; Dykes on Bikes ; the Pagan Drumming Circle ; the prostitutes ' rights group COYOTE ; and the Ethel Merman Memorial Choir . |
3 | But first there 's the small matter of a semi-final clash that has split the household down the middle . |
4 | Mr Smith condemned him as the man who ‘ designed and delivered the disaster ’ that has pushed the nation into economic crisis and into the Second Division of Europe . |
5 | In a country that has pushed the technology to the limit , the French confidence that nuclear power is safe and unproblematic was overwhelming and saddening . |
6 | Now , after a battle that has intrigued the City for weeks , Owners will be free to put to its shareholders its originally-proposed link-up with another holiday giant , Thomas Cook . |
7 | Appearing during a period that has seen a stream of reassessments of the discovery and development of penicillin , Gordon 's work is his fictional version of the same episode — together with some real events and characters . |
8 | I should like to see the new Techniquest look out across a natural estuary that has seen the tide rise and fall for a million years . |
9 | That is yet more Tory doublespeak for a decade that has seen the Government inspire a decline in coal production from 120 million tonnes per annum to 91 million tonnes ; for a decline in employment from 223,000 jobs to 74,000 jobs and for the closure of more than two thirds of our collieries . |
10 | Chairman Ken Bates acted after a run of 12 matches without a win that has seen the club eliminated from both major cup competitions and slump from title-chasing territory to mid-table . |
11 | Last Friday 's shambles , when Joyce Gould effectively re-wrote the leadership contest nomination rules to try to ensure that a leadership contest actually took place , was merely the nadir of a process that has seen the people 's party acting according to the slogan of ‘ all power to the apparatchiks ’ , and losing its soul , its sense of purpose , much of its membership — and the general election — along the way . |
12 | There has been no area , there 's been no need or entitlement that has escaped the Thatcher and the Majorite acts . |
13 | The declining importance of religion in social life in general , and in particular the declining influence of Christianity on the great moral questions of the day was ( and is ) the spur to action that has kept the NVALA going for over twenty years . |
14 | The West 's new weapons do not represent a new dimension in warfare ; rather , they continue the strategy that has kept the peace in Europe for 40 years |
15 | It is not just their passionate hatred of the Vietnamese that has kept the Khmer Rouge together in the malarial jungles for 10 years . |
16 | The food must not only be disguised , but also given in sufficient quantity , a task that has taxed the ingenuity of many a researcher ( see p91 and p92 ) . |
17 | A site that has adopted a state of the art approach to its payroll systems will have : |
18 | The ground squirrel is another mammal that has adopted the practice of throwing things — primarily at its main predators , snakes . |
19 | COMPLETED FERTILITY — The number of live births born to a woman or to a female cohort that has reached the end of the childbearing age or become sterile . |
20 | There is a tedious pounding at the heart of this music , a sincerity that allows for only one angle of delivery , a passion that has created a pop atmosphere in which it 's impossible to be clever , cool or cynical , a soul whose impulse is NOT to embrace the avant-garde , like Faustus , and be cut into a thousand pieces by a sampling machine . |
21 | Also the project that has hit the news quite a bit recently is the talking newspaper for the blind . |
22 | And he has given the club back its pride , passion , and the kind of penetrative football that has awoken the North East . |
23 | In April 1961 , when making recordings on the Carlisle-Edinburgh ‘ Waverley ’ route that has made a niche in the hearts of so many railway enthusiasts , Peter Handford had spent the day on Whitrope summit , but had eventually abandoned attempts at recording because of the unfavourable direction of the wind . |
24 | It is not just cost that has made the DIY holiday so popular , although traditionally they have been the break for those on a tight budget . |
25 | And in the aftermath of the February elections the worry is that Violeta Chamorro 's new UNO government might stray off the positive mental-health track that has made the contrast between these two countries so striking . |
26 | The appointment of Charlton would be seen in Manchester as the perfect solution to the damaging public wrangling that has made the club a public farce over recent weeks . |
27 | ‘ When I die , put me near something that has loved the light , and had the sky above it always . ' ’ |
28 | In some cases referral is essential , but this chapter will show that for many the CAB is developing specialist in-depth expertise that has turned the tables such that the CAB is now becoming the agency to whom clients are referred . |
29 | As part of a comprehensive training programme that has touched the Le Havre company from top to toe , special emphasis has been given to improving motivation . |
30 | It is the fear of frightening off investors that has stopped the government investing in water quality . |