Example sentences of "that [vb past] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Then he made out the thousands of tiny rings that studded the ceiling . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | One of my officials chairs the experts committee that laid the groundwork for this achievement . |
| 7 | THE HEN THAT LAID THE SILVER EGG |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And that became the seed-crystal around which her tensions solidified . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Three guillotine motions were tabled for discussion of the Bill that became the Education Reform Act 1988 . |
| 17 | Mutual interest in statistics led to a meeting with accountant Anthony Weigall , and the foundation of the group that became The Cricket Society . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Our route , although a time-saver , took us near Iraq — over the area that became the battlefield for Desert Storm a few months later . |
| 21 | One hopes that under the open style of management of the new FFR president , Jean Fabre , France will escape the siege mentality that became the hallmark of the previous administration . |
| 22 | Though he was a college Conservative of a patriotic and nationalist kind , he had shown at first no sign of the bitter and obsessive anti-Semitism that became the hallmark of his speaking and writing . |
| 23 | Their call came fifty years to the day after an Oxford academic produced a report that became the corner-stone of the welfare state . |
| 24 | But it also contained films by Hitchcock dealing with British stories that avoided the sort of grandiosity which afflicted so many of the pictures pitched at the US market , and had as much wit as The Private Life of Henry VIII . |
| 25 | Of course , it is relevant that the period under discussion also saw the triumph of the art of aquatint reproduction and of watercolour illustration , two modes that conveyed the idea of the Picturesque to the common reader . |
| 26 | In the 1950s , Ronald Melzack and Patrick Wall proposed the gate theory of pain , which held that the nerve impulses that conveyed the sensation of pain to the brain could be actively blocked by nerves in the spinal cord ( see Box ) . |
| 27 | James bowed ironically and offered them the document ; Alexander Menzies pretended to think about it for a full five minutes and signed it with extraordinary flourishes that made the pen splutter and seemed to say , ‘ Very well , I will humour your ridiculous ritual . ’ |
| 28 | He rushed in , then , with many words , many more words about awfulness and pills , and if onlys and sadness ; words that were curses and words that made the issue opaque and words that sounded trivial because he was so angry . |
| 29 | It is the position of the switch — on rather than off — that made the windscreen wipers start to work , as it is the position of the heater and the density of the snow that cause the other mentioned effects . |
| 30 | Hence , the following historical and comparative analysis will seek to identify those features that made the bill of lading the fair and certain negotiable document of title it was until the advent of containerization . |