Example sentences of "that [vb past] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was space that lamed the prospects of a truly national economy ; it was distance by land that doomed the government 's expensive attempt to re-create , in the eighteenth century , a great wool industry in central Spain and hampered the creation of an internal market in the nineteenth . |
| 2 | Although he wanted a physical astronomy that would deal with real motions , there were too many ‘ great inconveniences ’ in a system that saddled the earth with three separate motions : an orbital revolution , an axial rotation , and a change in the orientation of the axis itself . |
| 3 | Stigwood turned a local scene into an international sensation , launched John Travolta as a box office star and cult hero and masterminded the biggest-selling soundtrack album of all time with a movie that encapsulated the energy and release of the disco age . |
| 4 | Indeed McLeish reflected , that encapsulated the trouble with Tristram — everything that he could do , Perry , two years his senior , could apparently do just that bit better . |
| 5 | Then he made out the thousands of tiny rings that studded the ceiling . |
| 6 | Ah yes I have looked after it for ever since it was new and er and it was the one that reopened the station after the boat 's lost here , but as I say you 've got to look forward and I think it 's a good idea to have a new boat here . |
| 7 | It was from there that he also issued his first denunciations of the Pahlavi dynasty that laid the foundations of his revolution . |
| 8 | The young Einstein was unable to find an academic position , went to work in the Bern patent office , and in one incredible year ( 1905 ) , at the age of 26 , wrote a number of research papers that laid the foundations of no less than three major branches of modern physics — statistical mechanics , the quantum theory and special relativity . |
| 9 | Over the next few years , the coalition government worked on the framing of a federal law that laid the foundations of a much larger system of higher education — and opened the door to far more state control over the universities . |
| 10 | It was to these crucial years , therefore , that I turned attention in an endeavour to understand not the triumphal march of the party as such , but rather the broader cultural structures that laid the foundations for its success . |
| 11 | Keynes was influential in persuading King 's to make him a fellow , despite his criticisms of Keynes 's A Treatise on Probability ( 1921 ) culminating in his ‘ Truth and Probability ’ ( 1926 ) , the classic paper that laid the foundations for modern subjective interpretations of probability and related theories of games and decision making . |
| 12 | The Feeleys are just the sort of family William Beveridge was trying to proivide for when , exactly fifty years ago , he presented the Governemnt with a report that laid the foundations of the welfare state . |
| 13 | One of my officials chairs the experts committee that laid the groundwork for this achievement . |
| 14 | THE HEN THAT LAID THE SILVER EGG |
| 15 | Several sites provide evidence for leather working , though it is represented by only one identified tannery at Alcester , which probably used the hides of cattle that grazed the water meadows of the River Avon . |
| 16 | It was a creature known in the Reconciled Dominions as a voider , one of a brutal species that haunted the wastes north of the Lenten Way . |
| 17 | She had heard tales of the sunshine , the flowers and bright colours of the upper world , but her father warned her of the perils that haunted the surface , in particular the giants that in those days walked the wilds of Dartmoor . |
| 18 | Jubilee celebrations in an alpine village bring veteran climber Ernest Tinnion back to the scene of his greatest triumph — and to the reassessment of a youthful friendship and chilling events that coloured the rest of his life . |
| 19 | A court in Cleveland , Ohio was told of the extraordinary inventiveness , not to mention athleticism , that coloured the sex life of Dr David Love and his wife Virginia who , on at least three occasions , made love hanging from a window of their fourth floor apartment . |
| 20 | Such is the mood of quiet irreverence and anger that street hawkers have begun selling buttons with the two-finger victory sign that became the symbol of the student movement . |
| 21 | And that became the seed-crystal around which her tensions solidified . |
| 22 | Although it is worth stressing that Saussure 's work is open to a variety of interpretations , and although he himself did not use the concepts structure and structural , it was his idea of the arbitrary and differential nature of the linguistic sign , and therefore of the essential disjunction between language and reality , that became the foundation of the structuralist movement . |
| 23 | He remembers writing a document outlining the new range of M50 ( Elite ) , M51 ( a front-engined four-seater V8 ) , M70 ( a wedge-shaped mid-engined car that became the Esprit ) and M71 ( a mid-engined V8 ) . |
| 24 | To illustrate the problem , and explain why he saw the whole business in gladiatorial terms as a contest resulting in victory over a subdued female Nature , one that became the opposite of what it seemed , docile and yielding instead of cold and repelling , he invoked the example of Shakespeare . |
| 25 | Three guillotine motions were tabled for discussion of the Bill that became the Education Reform Act 1988 . |
| 26 | Mutual interest in statistics led to a meeting with accountant Anthony Weigall , and the foundation of the group that became The Cricket Society . |
| 27 | North of Lake Okeechobee , the meandering , 98-mile Kissimee river was corralled into a deep-water canal that ran dead straight into the lake ; this changed the marsh into a prairie that became the state 's main cattle and dairy-farming region . |
| 28 | The Centre — with raids in mind — had devised plans for a relatively silent , low silhouette landing craft that became the LCA ( Landing Craft , Assault ) , and produced some other worthwhile ideas , including methods for supplying troops by air . |
| 29 | In 1886 , however , work began on the long-delayed City and Southwark subway , the beginning of a line that became the City and South London Railway , the world 's first underground electric railway . |
| 30 | Our route , although a time-saver , took us near Iraq — over the area that became the battlefield for Desert Storm a few months later . |