Example sentences of "[adj] that [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Knowledge plc had failed to get in by the back door , it was this that brought the ideology of the market-place marching in the front . |
| 2 | The liberals of the Cortes of Cadiz accepted this dissolution as a fait accompli and it was this that made the Orders the chief enemies of liberalism in Spain . |
| 3 | My Lord er in paragraph three fourteen of the statement of claim there is an important fact er which is a fact that is admitted by the defendant which is this that had the defendant on the plaintiff 's behalf taken the opportunity which was open to the plaintiff by virtue of national condition twenty two which should say and served a special notice to complete upon the vendors on about the eighteenth or the twenty second of October , the contract would in fact have been rescinded on the thirteenth or the nineteenth of November nineteen eighty five and the plaintiff would therefore have been able to get out of the contract and that , as I say , is admitted in the amended dissent . |
| 4 | ‘ However the document granting the Licence gave Mr Manners the right to exclusive occupation of the land and it was this that persuaded the High Court that occupation rights under Licence are no different from those under tenancy , ’ explained Mr Hewitt . |
| 5 | Experiencing joy through suffering is a paradox , and yet it was this that marked the life of Jesus . |
| 6 | And it 's this that inspired the pair of them to set up the Thomas Appeal . |
| 7 | It was this that fostered an even more radical bid for his independence . |
| 8 | It was scenes like this that prompted the MP for Hereford to call for a review of flood defences . |
| 9 | ‘ We cast for type not names ’ said director Archie Mayo and it was this that clinched the film 's impact . |
| 10 | SOUNDS : Sadly missed rock 'n' roll weekly that gave a start to half NME 's current glitterati . |
| 11 | It was Rio and the children of a Brazilian shanty town that provided the dramatic black-and-white cover to the October 1992 issue of the 48-page glossy that won the gold award for magazines . |
| 12 | The Leeds average including the 39,106 that attended the QPR game is now 34,104 which keeps us in 4th place . |
| 13 | We checked out hundreds of hotels but only found thirty-five or forty that met the basic-facilities criteria . |
| 14 | Er there were very very few that had a regular job , really . |
| 15 | She could do nothing about the cold or the slick damp that covered the walls , but she had gathered as much straw as she could and had made a bed in the driest of the cells . |
| 16 | This trend was confirmed by a report published by the URA in 1985 that found no low income homebuyers moving into the area during the Programme period . |
| 17 | Not too often that a company goes back to a previous vendor after switching , but Hydro Mississauga Ltd of the eponymous Ontario town , is returning to the Hewlett-Packard Co HP 3000 with Mitchell Humphrey & Co financials , after three years of using an IBM Corp 4381 : the change is being made in an effort to save $2m in operating costs and gain performance improvements , dumping the 4381 for an HP 3000 Series 957 running HP MPE/iX ; it says the power of the new machine has enabled it to reduce its operations shifts from three to two and to cut overnight batch processing from 11 to four hours , and one table-loading job was shortened from 14 hours to 20 minutes — and on-line response time is ‘ significantly improved ’ ; it switched from an HP 3000 Series 70 that lacked the capacity needed in 1989 , moving to the 4381 with Dun & Bradstreet Corp software . |
| 18 | It was seen to be not an excrescence on the body politic , having no bearing upon its general health , but an organic disease … a running sore that affected the entire fabric of society , a morass exhaling a miasma that poisoned the healthy elements of industry . |
| 19 | But although the name Roath is an ancient one — it means , in Irish , the forest and therefore dates back to a time when Welsh was borrowing words from Irish , around the 5th century — there was little that surrounded the young Cottle which was in fact medieval . |
| 20 | From the mid-sixties I had had a homosexual identity and I did say to people that I was homosexual ; but in the early seventies that had a completely different meaning . |
| 21 | There were several tree-roots running across the roof and it was these that supported the unusual span . |
| 22 | It was such sayings as these that inspired the dervishes some of whom were in the armies of the Khalif and impressed the British soldiers as no other warriors ever did . |
| 23 | With the use of metal detectors they were able to plot an area of 300 metres square that held a large quantity of metal . |
| 24 | Though several economists in the late 1950s began to look at the economics of education , it was Schultz 's presidential address to the American Economic Association in 1960 that heralded the arrival of the human capital theory on the international academic scene . |
| 25 | It was the beginnings of change in some local authorities and the pressure from the left that created the move to reform within the Board of Education . |
| 26 | Seventy years later , the magic mix of high rewards , low outlay and supposed skill in judging football results , continues unchanged ; except , of course , that punters can now win £1.5 million instead of the modest £2 12s that comprised the first ever dividend . |
| 27 | It was , in fact , the rapid inflation of the early 1970s that gave the system its bad reputation . |
| 28 | I have seen one example of this type of key that had an iron shank of over 9cms length . |
| 29 | All that accentuated the swings of mood in a man capable of intense enjoyment but subject also to persistent melancholy . |
| 30 | There would be a fire in the grass on the dunes , or a plane would have crashed , and all that stopped the cordite in the cellar from going up would be me diverting some of the water from a dam system down a channel and into the house . |