Example sentences of "that [vb past] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This perception of Reagan as an ideologue had its beneficial side for ‘ the strong beliefs that made many voters fearful of Reagan also attracted voters to him , since they suggested leadership and decis-iveness — qualities widely felt to be lacking in the Carter presidency ’ . |
| 2 | Strategically that made little sense , for the Wilds were almost empty , yet it was as if the City 's architect had known that this vast , jagged hole — this primitive wilderness at the heart of its hive-like orderliness — would one day prove its weakest point . |
| 3 | As a consequence , the question of where to eat was one that made little impression on her . |
| 4 | Yes , that made more sense . |
| 5 | That was written twenty years and more before the trial and acquittal of D. H. Lawrence 's Lady Chatterley 's Lover in October–November 1960 — an event that made more headlines than practical difference , though it marks a convenient turning-point in British official attitudes to literary obscenity . |
| 6 | The adoption , for instance , of Darwinian views of evolution depended not simply on the intellectual breakthrough of a brilliant mind but on the conjuncture of social movements that made these propositions more acceptable then than they might have been at other periods . |
| 7 | No longer the excuse of keeping low profile actions , hoping for a Labour government because if we have n't got the guts to stand up and fight the government that made these laws , then we 've got no right to challenge a future Labour government that inherits 'em . |
| 8 | It had such incredible dignity and power , and it was something that made these villagers , these people who were being so tiresome , give way to her as she walked through them , and it 's in the music . |
| 9 | As Klein had so cruelly observed , he was a technician without a vision , and that made these days of meandering difficult . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Had n't he understood that she had given herself to him for the only reason that made any sense to her . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Inevitably , though , these were not the questions that made any impact on the ‘ mainland ’ electoral agenda . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It was the circumstances that made this achievement even more outstanding . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But it was not only the work of Vredeman de Vries that made this garden so remarkable . |
| 22 | That one line was an example of the writing and rewriting that made Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em such a success . |
| 23 | Putting his coffee down with a violence that made some slop into the saucer , Michele jumped to his feet . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Monique Javer also pulled a bad one out of the hat , and lost 6–1 , 6–0 to Fernandez with a performance that lacked any hint of a challenge . |
| 26 | The Origin of Species was published in 1859 , precipitating a debate that led most scientists to adopt an evolutionary perspective within a decade or so . |
| 27 | the sources of financial and other aid that led these companies to locate on the coalfields . |
| 28 | It may be this kind of experience that led some Minoans to submit willingly to sacrifice . |
| 29 | As expected , he found no tell-tale clues that revealed any devices . |
| 30 | It is evident , nevertheless , that Disraeli 's comments on architecture in the trilogy , as distinct from The Young Duke , become evaluations of the society that produced such buildings ; and his comments on that society become , in their turn , a manifesto for his own time . |