Example sentences of "that [vb past] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Durkheim , as an ardent positivist , urged and pioneered a way of thinking sociologically that lent quantitative data to the testing of theoretically derived hypotheses .
3 They 're both from a generation that used separate chassis and bodies ; the Healey has a boxed cruciform frame and steel and aluminium body , the Cobra an even simpler tubular ladder and that stunningly beautiful all-aluminium shell .
4 Natal 's Supreme Court recently sentenced Muhammed-Rafiq Rodan , the former news editor of Post Natal , to 15 years in prison for sabotage , including three bombings that injured 17 people .
5 Glasgow took to the subway with a will , but an unexpected flood of passengers and an accident that injured 19 people , closed the circles until January the following year , when the Glasgow Subway Railway Company began operations in earnest .
6 She was part of an evangelical crusade that claimed many people were trapped in the occult .
7 1 A gardener planted a special kind of water lily in the middle of a lily pond that measured 1 5m across .
8 The Ramblers ' Association said it welcomed any measures that allowed more people to walk in the countryside , and assistant director David Baskine said : ‘ It is important that the proposals will not offer payment to farmers who own land where public access is already allowed . ’
9 Tony , 22 , suffered brain damage when he was crushed at Sheffield Wednesday 's football ground in the tragedy that killed 95 people .
10 An inquest by New York newspapers into a subway fire in Brooklyn that killed two people at the turn of the year is making plain the consequences of all this neglect .
11 THE IRA bomb that killed two people in the City of London on Friday night was intended to drive the general election result off the front pages and put the Northern Ireland issue firmly back on the national political agenda .
12 The vote came just five days after the United Nations-appointed ‘ Truth Commission ’ report blamed the army for the vast majority of war crimes in a conflict that killed 75,000 people , most of them civilians .
13 Safety controls were poor at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal , India , at the time of the 1984 gas leak that killed 3,000 people , according to documents presented to an Indian court .
14 LLOYD 'S Register , the largest ship registration organisation , is being sued in America over a ship fire that killed 159 people two years ago .
15 And motorway tragedy … witness relives moments before crash that killed three people .
16 Some Americans still recall the terrible fire at the Triangle shirt factory in New York in 1911 that killed 145 people .
17 That 's because the series of eruptions that killed 350 people in June 1992 left a 3,000-mile long cloud of ash and sulphur dioxide circling the earth .
18 Last night Supt Brian Wall , who leads the investigation into the blast that killed 21 people , confirmed new evidence had been found — but refused to elaborate .
19 We were no trouble to our mother , who was at last recovering from the dreadful ‘ flu ’ that killed more folk than the 1914 – 18 war itself .
20 Angela Carter studied medieval literature at the University as a mature student in the 1960s in the English Department , where she developed her taste for folk stories that underpinned such works as The Magic Toyshop , Nights at the Circus and The Company of Wolves .
21 HWIM , like HARPY , was concerned that the first spanning theory returned by the linguistic component should be the highest scoring , and much research was devoted to devising scoring and scheduling techniques that guaranteed this result .
22 The airstrip , with its unfriendly yellow cross that warned strange aircraft from landing , had been built across the curved flukes of the anchor , which otherwise seemed to be covered in low scrub , slash pine and sea-grape .
23 Second , there is the failure to provide for the fact that disabled older people require higher incomes than non-disabled people .
24 The thing that worried many people about task allocation was that each client was descended upon for a succession of tasks by a succession of nurses .
25 RNA instability may have caused the low level expression of protein , so we generated a deletion mutant that eliminated 0.5 kb of 3' untranslated sequences of the cDNA ( Figure 3b , plasmid IV ) .
26 It was only the fact that boards were expensive , Michael thought , that kept some people out of the water .
27 We are not daft , we know how we want to live , we only needed an opportunity like this to get our ideas and solutions on the drawing board in a way that enabled these people to understand that we have our own form of expertise . ’
28 The alteration in 1983 in DHSS benefit rules that enabled older people living in private residential care to claim their fees from the DHSS brought dramatic increases in the number of private residential homes , and in the number of older people living in them .
29 There were commercial laundries in the 1920s and the large linen hampers that took two people to carry them to the laundry van show that this was a luxury enjoyed by the inhabitants of the Dolls ' House .
30 The Origin of Species was not the first book to suggest a natural explanation of how life has developed , but its publication in 1859 precipitated the debate that converted most people to evolutionism .
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