Example sentences of "that [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously such methods are far from sufficient ( an apocryphal example of the problems that arose involves the translation of the sentence ‘ The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak ’ into Russian and then back-translated to English as ‘ The vodka is strong but the meat is rotten ’ ) . |
| 2 | The British Motor Industry Heritage Trust is appealing for drawings , sketches and artefacts relating to the companies that amalgamated to form the Rover Group . |
| 3 | The Harter Act voided any bill of lading clause that sought to relieve the carrier from the consequences of negligence in proper loading , stowage , custody , care , or proper delivery of the goods . |
| 4 | But while it would be wrong to minimize the hold of this movement , particularly in the south of France and in the Balkans , and especially between Bulgaria and Constantinople , the major threat to the future of the Church was not from the heretics but from the popular movements that sought to restore the laity 's role in the life of the Church . |
| 5 | It was also within the Special Commissioner 's discretion to exclude opinion evidence that sought to answer the question before him . |
| 6 | I remind the Minister of the take-up campaign that sought to improve the lot of mentally handicapped people attending adult training centres . |
| 7 | Thus in 1969 the Lords rejected a bill that sought to free the Home Secretary from a legal obligation to present to Parliament the report of a commission that had reviewed parliamentary constituencies : the more equitable redistribution of seats it proposed was likely to cost the Labour Government up to twenty seats at the forthcoming general election . |
| 8 | The Dorchester crowd that sought to rescue the Pretender 's effigy from being burnt by the Dissenters on George I 's coronation day were encouraged by a certain gentleman who gave them half a hogshead of beer . |
| 9 | Injections of 5nl of the antibody ( 40μgμl -1 ) generated embryos that failed to form the furrow between midbrain and hindbrain in 50–60% of cases , whereas injection of 2nl of antibody led to hypertrophy of the furrow region in 12–15% of cases . |
| 10 | Assemblyman Richard Brodsky , who introduced the disclosure requirement for house bids ( and other proposals that failed to win the support of his colleagues ) rejected the notion that the bill 's passage in the assembly was a hollow victory at the legislative eleventh hour . |
| 11 | After a career spanning Ipswich , Sunderland and Carlisle he now turns out ‘ only when they 've eight men ’ for the Oak , a love of the game that failed to prevent the pub team finishing bottom of their league . |
| 12 | His early work about the alleys of Gamalliyya was fundamentally on the side of the revolution-the one that failed to dislodge the British in 1919 , and that finally threw out Farouk and brought Neguib and later Nasser to rule Egypt . |
| 13 | He found that not only did the States that failed to ratify the amendment have larger populations of both religious fundamentalists and political conservatives , but also that States which had opposed earlier civil rights amendments ( the 19th on women 's suffrage and the 26th on youth suffrage ) also tended to oppose the ERA . |
| 14 | The time was ripe for an approach that promised to apply the methods of natural science to the international environment . |
| 15 | The most common proposition was that designed to limit the number of terms which could be served by legislators . |
| 16 | THE rise in share prices that followed the return of the Tories to power sharply reversed the falls that occurred following the announcement of a General Election . |
| 17 | As well as important historical events that helped to shape the town , the walks show how people lived , worked and enjoyed themselves . |
| 18 | And it was works like these , where the kitchen table was strewn with the un-washed remains of breakfast , that helped to give the movement its name . |
| 19 | The point is that I made a mistake — oh , I do have a feeling for him , that helped to confuse the issue , we do like one another — what I have come to see is that my falling for Lewis was not what I took it to be . ’ |
| 20 | In order to create sufficient headroom within the studio , it was necessary to remove an existing tie-beam which spanned between two timber posts that helped to support the roof structure and to adapt and re-site this member at a higher level , just below the soffit of the ceiling ( Plate 11 ) . |
| 21 | It 's space age technology that helped to snatch the order from under the noses of major American competitors . |
| 22 | Mr Guerin , who sold his International Signal and Control company to Ferranti in 1987 for £420m , has admitted creating numerous fictitious arms contracts that helped to create the illusion of prosperity . |
| 23 | To take the philosophical one first , it was actually Nietzsche 's isolation at a critical period of his life that helped to create the need which Schopenhauer was to satisfy . |
| 24 | Again , one of the main sources of supply today and one that helped to put the Whitby industry out of business during the late nineteenth century , is centred on Oviedo in Spain , which draws its supplies from Lower Cretaceous marls in Asturias . |
| 25 | They are paying tribute to Prime Minister Robert Mugabe 's policy of reconciliation , which had forestalled the kind of ‘ white flight ’ from the commercial sector that helped cripple the modernizing economies of African countries in the 1960s . |
| 26 | She was cut off tragically at the height of her powers , but she had already made her mark : a crucial contribution to one of the most important discoveries of the twentieth century , and work on two major biological problems and the techniques for solving them , that helped lay the foundations of structural molecular biology . |
| 27 | It meant that , by carefully counting and scoring different animal actions in given time periods , I could make complicated analyses that helped to unravel the intricate behaviour patterns that existed in so many species . |
| 28 | This is the image , from Whitley Strieber 's Communion book , that helped sell the book that launched the film that … |
| 29 | It was the second Unionist lever against Home Rule that helped to involve the King , for it assumed that Home Rule would become law , would be repudiated in Ulster , and that then the army would refuse to enforce it . |
| 30 | Maybe these are the qualities that helped to build the company in the competitive marketplace . |