Example sentences of "that [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The earliest land plants , to be found in Silurian and Devonian rocks , had simple shoots that arose from a creeping ‘ axis ’ , which were little different in structure from the shoots themselves . |
| 2 | Yet every time he laughed and his grin dazzled her she flinched with the deep-rooted need that stabbed like a vengeful sword . |
| 3 | I think that often it was jealousy — mixed with booze — that made for a lethal cocktail , with Bogie as the stirrer . |
| 4 | He had the revolutionary idea that gravity was not just a force that operated in a fixed background of space-time . |
| 5 | For the sake of clarity , one possible solution is to provide that the SSAPs to be used are those that applied at a specified date even if changed subsequently between exchange and completion . |
| 6 | I am sure it was the pressure from the warrior class and the impending general election that led to a final figure of 63,500 , which is a cut of about 17 per cent . |
| 7 | The road was beginning to rise slightly , an incline that led to a gentle crest . |
| 8 | As both polyester and polyamide are ultimately derived from oil , the industry suffered a major trauma ; raw material prices went up between three and four times — and that led to a rapid revision of growth rate potential . |
| 9 | He indicated a rough path that led to a sturdy wooden cabin , and she dug her heels into the ground . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , that led to a minor accident involving the property of the Hauxwells which I suspect even Hannah will not know about . |
| 11 | And those last months , when strike leapfrogged strike , were the catalyst that led to a Conservative landslide and the desperate recasting of Labour policies . |
| 12 | In one recent enquiry into the electricity supply industry , Lord Wilberforce asked the Treasury to submit a memorandum on the significance of the dispute to the interests of the national economy and the Treasury responded with a document that argued for a progressive and substantial reduction in the levels of settlements . |
| 13 | I have had no problem with them — nor did I when I originally starting keeping fish when I kept three that lived to a ripe old age . |
| 14 | A much broader common core has been designed than just that experienced in a formal group setting . |
| 15 | He would recognise the need for utility , the same need that provided for a discreetly-concealed compost and refuse heap in the ancient gardens of his homeland . |
| 16 | One illuminating example of the usefulness of behavioural homework targets is that provided by a lift-phobic whom we saw . |
| 17 | Chang was muscular , unemotional , self-contained , with a smile that flickered like a defective light bulb . |
| 18 | It is noteworthy that the Committee received only one complaint about political balance , and that referred to a single item in one news programme . |
| 19 | The Heineken effect this research has identified is that created by a confiding trusting relationship , which accompanied by appropriate services , achieves more than any other managerial skill they could identify , to encourage elderly people to believe they could manage independent living and avoid admission to residential care . |
| 20 | But all that changed at a phenomenal pace . |
| 21 | The positive transfer that occurred to a subsequent , simultaneous black-white tasks must , therefore , derive from some other source such as an increase in the distinctiveness of the cues . |
| 22 | Of course , one could say one need not care about the breakdown in predictability that occurred in a distant star . |
| 23 | With or without Campbell the Blues should have few problems against an Ards side that crashed to a 5– defeat at the hands of Cliftonville in their first TNT cup tie at the weekend . |
| 24 | Hardly a star showed , for the sky was veiled by a lacy wrack , bleached snow-white by the moon that rose in a clear unclouded patch . |
| 25 | Sharpe urged his horse down the rutted lane that dropped into a shallow valley before climbing between two unhedged pastures . |
| 26 | that 's , that seemed like a total hundred percent that was |
| 27 | Again they said yes , that seemed like a good idea , great , marvellous . |
| 28 | a sort of kit that came with a small bone |
| 29 | FLEXIPOP : Brilliant , ahead-of-its-time pop mag that came with a free flexi ( Blondie , The Jam , Adam And The Ants etc ) on the cover . |
| 30 | He was planning on a shave and a slow , hot bath ; he might even throw in some of that stuff that Wayne had bought him for his birthday , that came in a dubious-looking novelty bottle shaped like a tiger 's head . |