Example sentences of "that [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Collapse breccias , however , are not related to any particular facies and potential reservoirs resulting from this process are most likely to be found around structural highs that became exposed at various times since , the Zechstein . |
| 2 | In a moment are seen the paradisiac regions , as if the curtains of the moments have parted to show the gardens of reality that remain hidden to everyday sight . |
| 3 | In our judgment it is this feature of the later history that has led to understandable confusion . |
| 4 | It is the realisation of this that has led to sensory methods of assessment being developed . |
| 5 | The story enshrined the belief that has developed in recent years that people who place bolts are villains who have no place on British soil . |
| 6 | Before we have had the opportunity to vote on that policy , the autumn statement has informed us that the Government will not promote training or fill the training gap that has developed in recent years . |
| 7 | Secretaries of State consider that the diversity of practice that has emerged in recent years , as shown particularly by HM Inspectors ' surveys of Primary and Secondary Schools , makes it timely to prepare guidance on the place of certain key elements in the curriculum . |
| 8 | The model of multidisciplinary teamwork that has emerged in old age psychiatry potentially provides a means whereby the valuable experience of the several disciplines concerned can be applied to the widest possible range of those who need it . |
| 9 | There will be criticism that team discipline off the field is wanting , a complaint that has surfaced with reasonable regularity since before Lord Hawke 's time . |
| 10 | But one that has surfaced in recent years is ginseng , the root of the araliaceous plant , Panax ginseng . |
| 11 | If frosts freeze water that has seeped into imperfect joints , the expansion will force them farther apart , with disastrous results . |
| 12 | Yet her range of interests , in a field that has moved from comparative policy neglect to the very centre of the community care reforms , has been wider than almost all the others . |
| 13 | This is not entirely unconnected to another feature of the economies of many Third World countries that has become of great salience in recent years , namely their foreign debt and the eff–ct that servicing that debt , particularly in times of rising and unpredictable interest rates , has on economic and social planning . |
| 14 | Having taken office in May 1979 , the Conservative government made an early decision to amend the long-standing arrangements for meeting the increasing costs of public sector higher education by limiting the size of the ‘ pool ’ for the financial year of 1980–1 , and an Education Bill was placed before Parliament giving the Secretary of State for Education the necessary power to predetermine the size of , or in the phrase that has crept into common usage , to ‘ cap ’ the pool . |
| 15 | Most sceptics about natural selection are prepared to accept that it can bring about minor changes like the dark coloration that has evolved in various species of moth since the industrial revolution . |
| 16 | And the method they have adopted has proved to be the beginning of the slide that has lead to mass dispersals of the kind that happened at Brent . |
| 17 | The area deserved a better treatment : I had not done justice to a part of northern England where I had wandered as a youngster and often visited later , developing an affection that has persisted into old age . |
| 18 | They are disgusted with a decision which must kill off the all-important chance of exposing a form of cheating that has spread with alarming haste as bowlers find ways of getting the old ball to swing violently late . |
| 19 | This finding corresponds with research that has concentrated on early retirement ( McGoldrick and Cooper 1980 ; Parker 1980 ; and in France , Cribier 1981 ; Gaullier 1982 ) and withdrawal from the labour market through the job release scheme ( Makeham and Morgan 1980 : 14 ) , but we do not know how many of those older workers with poor health would have been fit enough to continue working if the plant had not closed . |
| 20 | It was the in-between of that sludge-grey spring that stopped and started , flowers bursting out then drenched with sleet , blighted by snow ; skies grey and thundery , rain mean and seeping , wind a slinking greasy cur that has paddled through filthy city ponds and has nowhere to go . |
| 21 | I mean the one thing that has happened in recent times , and I do n't like prophecies so , I do n't wish to be a part of one , let's be clear about that , I 'm doing this as an analyst . |
| 22 | In fact , much so-called juvenile water is probably either rainwater that has circulated to great depths , or water that was trapped in rocks that have been carried down at subduction zones ( see Inside Science , No. 6 , 23 February 1988 ) . |
| 23 | Already in my own LEA there are plans for visual arts teachers to explore and establish assessment guidelines , and to capitalize on the considerable amount of curriculum development work that has occurred over recent years . |
| 24 | ‘ Mental handicap ’ is the term that has come into general usage to describe a condition of arrested or incomplete development of mind . |
| 25 | The UK division of FoE produces the Good Wood Guide , a simple run down of tropical hardwood products and their alternatives for consumers and manufacturers alike , so that all interested parties can be sure of buying hardwood that has come from sustainable sources . |
| 26 | Professor Jose Fernandez-Britto , a world-renowned pathologist from Havana , has shown striking evidence of the death of cancer cells that become surrounded by fibrous tissue as a consequence of shark cartilage . |
| 27 | He passed some coins over without counting , staring stupidly at the eyes that looked hurt with expected rejection , as if the man knew what would be said to put him off . |
| 28 | A lot of lives and trade may depend on these analyses ’ said Worswick ‘ and it is worrying that analyses done in different places can vary ’ . |
| 29 | He played down the adverse conditions that had led to low lambing rates by pointing to the limit of 205,000 tonnes that could be sent to Europe under the voluntary restraint agreement . |
| 30 | The issues at stake could hardly have been greater , and they concerned the other members of the world community just as much as they concerned the USSR : for it was not only in the USSR that an answer was being sought to the question as to whether there could be a ‘ third way ’ — a socialism that ensured a decent and equitable living for all its members and yet avoided monopolistic concentrations of power of a kind that had led to political repression in the USSR and other communist-ruled nations . |