Example sentences of "that [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As Klein had so cruelly observed , he was a technician without a vision , and that made these days of meandering difficult . |
| 32 | Under the Brady deal , the banks that made these swaps were asked to tear up the old loans and choose among three new deals in their place . |
| 33 | Economic expansion in seventeenth-century Europe , and the growth of the mining industry in particular , are given special prominence in an analysis that made generous allowance for the role of technical problems in defining areas of scientific research . |
| 34 | Third , the political turbulence of the seventies born of economic failure and increasing unemployment , destroyed consensus and brought " conviction politics " and real choice back to the fore with a vengeance : the Conservatives rediscovered old roots in their opposition to state intervention and their commitment to the free market ; the Labour Party rediscovered socialism and attacked the free market of capitalism at the same time as they were eager to fashion an interventionist state ; the specifics of nationalist sentiment ebbed and flowed in unpredictable ways ; and only the Liberal-SDP Alliance seemed eager to try and recreate the moderate consensus politics and policies of the fifties , and they did this despite growing signs that the social and economic conditions that made those policies viable had ceased to exist . |
| 35 | But the longer she stared at that tiny betraying smudge , the more she realised that it was the only explanation that made any sense at all . |
| 36 | Yet — there was an enduring lone voice among the internal babble which held out strong and true for Dane , and somehow its message was the only one that made any sense . |
| 37 | Had n't he understood that she had given herself to him for the only reason that made any sense to her . |
| 38 | The central problem developed when the participatory nature of ritual was destroyed and replaced with a concept of a god who had no need for the feelings of people , who was placed above them in ways that made any behaviour other than worship and penitence irrelevant . |
| 39 | Inevitably , though , these were not the questions that made any impact on the ‘ mainland ’ electoral agenda . |
| 40 | The blackness enveloped so warm and close and , I believed , extended infinitely away from the street on all sides , something that made any street plan impossible . |
| 41 | Where less than full disclosure suffices , for example , as a matter of custom , a clause that made adequate disclosure might , if subject to UCTA , be rendered ineffective as an unreasonable exclusion clause . |
| 42 | It was directed by Charles Crichton , a veteran from Ealing , the studio that made Kind Hearts and Coronets , which treated serial killing as a joke almost half a century ago . |
| 43 | It was the circumstances that made this achievement even more outstanding . |
| 44 | My real interest — beyond my own cancer — was the world I had just entered , those twin factors that made this visit so very different from my last one , age and illness . |
| 45 | Last Wednesday 's heavy New York papers , the Times and the Wall Street Journal , devoted acres of newsprint to the disastrous turn taken in the tide of IBM Corp 's affairs — but alongside , IBM still ran a chirpy RS/6000 ad with a picture of computer-generated bubbles , with a blurb entitled The Computer That Made This Picture is Also Making History . |
| 46 | But it was not only the work of Vredeman de Vries that made this garden so remarkable . |
| 47 | That one line was an example of the writing and rewriting that made Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em such a success . |
| 48 | Putting his coffee down with a violence that made some slop into the saucer , Michele jumped to his feet . |
| 49 | Maybe , it is argued , the Creator does not control the day-to-day succession of evolutionary events ; maybe he did not frame the tiger and the lamb , maybe he did not make a tree , but he did set up the original machinery of replication and replicator power , the original machinery of DNA and protein that made cumulative selection , and hence all of evolution , possible . |
| 50 | This influential book was full of recipes that made imaginative use of the lightness and freshness of vegetables , which sounded the death knell of the heavy , sweet , spiced dishes of medieval cookery , and which appeal just as much today . |
| 51 | It was this sweetness of tone that made National Tri-Plates a favourite of Hawaiian lap-steel players , although — bizarrely enough — the National company had much higher ambitions for their guitars . |
| 52 | He was a squat muscular man with freckled brown skin , strong arms and dry sand-coloured palms that made rasping sounds when he rubbed them together . |
| 53 | I predict you 'll find that we are not insensitive to the needs of our licensees , or to the culture that made open systems a reality ; neither Roel Pieper nor Ray Noorda are Grinches ; and the Unix System , as a result of this merger , will be stronger than ever . |
| 54 | She supposed it was magic , probably it only happened when you swung your head up in a certain way , she would test that tomorrow , and as she dropped asleep it lay alongside the tickets of paper with the numbers she had written , and the tar bubbles and the sun that made red horses and brown splotches when she closed her eyes . |
| 55 | In 1953 , Francis Crick and James Watson had a discovery that made genetic engineering possible : they uncovered the famous ‘ double helix ’ structure in deoxyribonucleic acid ( DNA ) , the molecular code for all life and reproduction . |
| 56 | Somehow the leader 's speeches , though full of the passionate phrases , could not summon from Majorism the spectre that made past invocations against Thatcherism so memorable . |
| 57 | Her brother , Roger Lewis , already had a company that made gigantic floor cushions , so the three of them teamed up and opened a cushion shop in Chelsea . |
| 58 | I also asked him to get in touch with the FAA in Washington so that they , as the airworthiness authority which originally certified the aircraft type as airworthy , could take appropriate action by informing the airworthiness authorities of all the States in the world that operated those aircraft . |
| 59 | If the liberal accounts saw the House of Commons as at the centre of things , then the liberal-democratic accounts saw the Commons as a dignified part of the constitution that lacked real power . |
| 60 | Then the mill acted as something of a milling centre , grinding corn and animal feed for surrounding parishes that lacked milling capabilities or , like Eastington , whose mills had long been turned over to the woollen trade . |