Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were rocket propelled bombs with wings that enabled them to be launched and to fly in a straight line until the rocket fuel was used up , then to fall on the unfortunate people and buildings below . |
| 2 | Scathach slung canvases between trees that surged and shuddered . |
| 3 | But we found forms of collaboration that were more often : |
| 4 | The rise triggered warnings by environmentalists that Britain would fail to meet its target of freezing carbon dioxide emissions by 2005 unless the government acted quickly to introduce tight controls on the burning of coal , gas and oil . |
| 5 | It was a large , high , long room , and so full of furniture and mirrors and pictures and books and chandeliers and hangings and refracted angles of light that the eye could at first glimpse in no way assess its dimensions ; it was like some infinitely more complicated and elaborate and intentional version of the hall which Clara had first entered . |
| 6 | Jessica , in no mood for talking sense , told him it was a private party , which caused roars of laughter that were not directed maliciously at him , then told him to fuck off off her back , which raised a cheer that very probably was . |
| 7 | As a star , Bette Davis was of the type commonly designated ‘ inimitable ’ , which tends to mean ( as it did in her case ) that she eventually became the butt of countless imitators ; and these imitators merely accentuated symptoms of self-parody that were already detectable in her own screen presence . |
| 8 | The Vietnamese foreign minister , Mr Nguyen Co Thach , told reporters in Hanoi that China had assured Vietnam it would stop arming the Khmers Rouges . |
| 9 | He told reporters in Zvornik that after a Serb offensive , in some places ‘ it 's only two kilometres to the front line . ’ |
| 10 | He told magistrates at Cheltenham that he never retaliated if he sensed trouble in his work . |
| 11 | He rejected claims by environmentalists that drift nets led to overfishing . |
| 12 | Healey dropped hints in Washington that Britain — in the long run — might decide to give up the Singapore base . |
| 13 | In a statement on Aug. 19 Yanayev informed heads of state that the emergency measures in the Soviet Union were temporary and would not affect her international obligations under existing treaties . |
| 14 | Neither had the House Government Operations sub-committee in Washington which , a few days before Coleman was publicly denounced in a CNN broadcast , opened hearings into allegations that the DEA was involved in the fate of Flight 103 . |
| 15 | Clinton ordered agencies with facilities that release toxic pollutants , including military bases and research laboratories , to develop a plan to reduce their output by half by 1999 , and to report them to the public as private companies are now required to do . |
| 16 | If cash followed patients in ways that reflected the preferences of consumers informed by their family doctor , it would be possible to combine the virtues of consumer choice and free access to health care , and avoid the high cost of the American system of private health insurance . |
| 17 | News of the Italian support followed announcements in December that France was granting a credit of US$17,000,000 for the reconstruction of a mineral water source ; that the European Communities ( EC ) had allocated US$140,000,000 to assist in the country 's socio-economic reconstruction programmes ; and that the African Development Bank was granting US$75,000,000 for agricultural projects . |
| 18 | Because we were specifically looking at the assessment of children who presented to hospital with vomiting and a possible diagnosis of pyloric stenosis we excluded children admitted for other conditions who subsequently developed symptoms in hospital that led to a diagnosis of pyloric stenosis . |
| 19 | The introduction of the social fund raised issues for bureaux that the IPG was asked to clarify in the information items , thus demonstrating the breadth of understanding that the information writers are expected to have of problems in the field . |
| 20 | It is the loss of tangible , lively faith in the home that exaggerates the external , rationalistic and professionalized expressions of religion that are so deadening today . |
| 21 | The white , scoured branches of trees that years ago had eked out an existence at a sheltered place beneath the cliff , lay about like pieces of sculpture , fashioned by the weather . |
| 22 | The National Rivers Authority warned mariners on Monday that engineers and builders would be working on the river from mid-February until June 1993 . |
| 23 | The following were among the findings reported at a conference in Anchorage , Alaska : — brain damage in seals similar to that found in people who die from solvent abuse ; this would have disoriented the animals and affected basic physiological functions like breathing ; it is suspected that many seals drowned , but because dead seals sink an accurate assessment of deaths has not been possible ; — the disappearance of a group of killer whales that had lived in the sound , possibly also due to the " solvent abuse effect " ; — deaths among sea otters not only from hypothermia ( because oil stuck to their fur destroyed its insulating properties ) but from emphysema caused by breathing in toxic fumes and from liver and kidney damage caused by ingesting oil ; — failure to breed among many species of birds since the accident , either because of the death rate within colonies at the time ( in the case of guillemots ) or because continued exposure to oil-polluted food sources is preventing reproduction ; — death tolls of up to 40 per cent for eggs laid by salmon , herring and other fish , and deformities and withered muscles among fish that did hatch . |
| 24 | She knew snatches of song that Sabina sang about girls caught outside after hours . |
| 25 | Guest speaker , Bill Cook from Bass plc let us into what a buyer expects from a hygiene service and answered loads of questions that sales people do n't normally get the opportunity to ask . |
| 26 | The quayside was cluttered with coils of rope , lobster pots , netting and piles of empty wooden crates — old , frail-looking things that awaited loads of fish that never came . |
| 27 | In addition there are the individual , mixed styles of decoration that contain elements from several sources and are often called ‘ eclectic mix ’ . |
| 28 | Scientists issued predictions in warning that the ozone layer over the northern hemisphere could dwindle to dangerously record low levels in the early spring , as a result of a build-up of depleting chemicals , combined with the effects of last year 's explosion of the Mount Pinatubo volcano in the Philippines . |
| 29 | They remembered things about Badger that Robert had forgotten long ago . |
| 30 | Two years ago , I went on holiday to the States and witnessed scenes in clubs that made me realize women were n't as inhibited as I 'd thought . |