Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun pl] that [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forty years on , the Mail and Express remained , with the new Today , but found themselves squeezed between sectors that had doubled in size . |
| 2 | As an additional sophistication in Superman , both camera and projector were slung from rigs that allowed them to be moved too . |
| 3 | For 48 hours he strutted and gloated in headlines that spread 3000 miles from Canada 's Pacific to Atlantic coast : ‘ Canadian hero sprints to gold ’ . |
| 4 | Both illusions were shattered in ways that underlined how fragile and ramshackle the policies were , and they were shattered within a month of each other . |
| 5 | When rights of conquest or hereditary rights had placed two or more territories under a medieval ruler , he was quite accustomed to finding that they were ruled under different constitutions and he would not think of trying to impose a uniform system of government on them ; Queen Elizabeth had rights and duties in England that were rather different from the rights and duties she had in the Channel Islands , which were all that was left of William the Conqueror 's Norman territories , and it was perfectly natural for each new English acquisition overseas to be won on terms that differed from what had happened previously . |
| 6 | The $400m settlement , which will be split between the RTC and the FDIC , took eight months to negotiate and resolves all outstanding claims relating to thrifts that failed before 25 September 1992 . |
| 7 | No , he erm , I say with videos that they , they send a video over an Australian thing , this chap 's the other two and one of them had a camera and he went aboard to test pilot it and he took the all around the place round er having flown six five minutes and he paid he tried to things that had gone wrong , whatever it was and erm , he , he , he 's . |
| 8 | The girl was bending forward to serve her and Kate found herself meeting somewhat empty blue eyes surrounded by lashes that looked unnaturally heavy under the weight of too much black mascara . |
| 9 | But mice sired by fathers that had been given morphine learn more slowly . |
| 10 | He said Wellcome could not benefit from tax breaks enjoyed by companies that had set up manufacturing facilities in Puerto Rico . |
| 11 | Stories circulate about regiments that refused to go to Vilnius , and of officers who refused to fire once there . |
| 12 | The decree of 1616 did attempt to discriminate between books that aimed to reconcile the earth 's motion with Scripture and those that remained within the confines of astronomical hypothesis . |
| 13 | These results agree with those recently presented of tests that examined bronchial lavage fluid , in which half of patients with sarcoidosis were positive for M tuberculosis DNA . |
| 14 | So I compiled a booklet entitled Rubbing Along in Burmese , adapting the pronunciation as closely as possible to English and dispensing with niceties that involved training in phonetics . |
| 15 | On their heads were checked winter head scarves twisted into turbans that showed by the particular shape the area from which they came . |
| 16 | Scenes of triumph in the papacy 's long struggle for political and spiritual dominion were presented in pictures that made contemporary and future generations aware of past landmarks in its eventful history . |
| 17 | Her hair was done in pig-tails that hung over her shoulders and were tied at the bottom with satin ribbon . |
| 18 | There was the same combination that I had seen before : collected in groups that seemed threatening because you were not part of them , and between these bright areas black , empty alleys full of odd forebodings . |
| 19 | The other people in the restaurant , who might at other times have had stringent thoughts about race , or about white women publicly embracing black men ( or at least , not with such total lack of self-consciousness ) , were subdued — it could be seen from faces that showed tendencies to laugh too without reason to the demand of the occasion , which was for a total and uncritical abandon to happiness . |
| 20 | The subsequent development of the jaw enabled the vertebrates to exploit a wider range of lifestyles than were available to the jawless fish , and it would not be too gross a generalization to say that much of the evolution of the vertebrates was intimately related to things that happened to jaws . |
| 21 | Apple Computer Inc 's personal digital assistant — now said to be code-named Newton — is being described as ‘ one of the most exciting electronics products in years ’ according to sources that spoke to the Associated Press . |
| 22 | We were invited to drive the cars in west Germany where the smooth road surface always flatters cars ' suspensions , but even when we nipped into what used to be east Germany and drove on roads that did not seem to have been maintained since the war , the G40 's bump suppression was admirable . |
| 23 | of done Quickspend , you 'd have been looking at figures that showed a lot more profitability . |
| 24 | The associated but very different payment of the Census was made by monasteries that had the protection of St Peter 's vicar , the pope . |
| 25 | When , in the late 1920s , a critical backlash developed against films that made themselves vacuous in an attempt to match Hollywood styles , the only way people could think of doing it was to define British cinema as the opposite of Hollywood — abandoning melodrama and flamboyance for realism , restraint and understatement . |
| 26 | Taking Pen into her own house , Wilson set off , hurrying through streets that told their own tale . |
| 27 | and the CL100 cDNA was isolated after several rounds of rescreening for recombinants that showed reproducibly higher hybridization signals with the induced , relative to the control probe . |
| 28 | Did she hide behind aggression and trousers as Ana hid behind eyes that refused to see ? |
| 29 | In fact , they were stitched into shoes that required 3 per cent less leather than before . |
| 30 | Well erm if I 'm crystal ball gazing , I would hope that all the women in this country , whatever their colour and whatever their class , would have access to first-class provision for their young children , so that if they wished to work they could actually work in jobs that paid them enough and gave them job satisfaction . |