Example sentences of "that [art] [noun pl] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had , however , remained optimistic that the agreements reached at Yalta would be kept : in his last message to Churchill he had written " I would minimize the general Soviet problem . " |
| 2 | The meeting agreed that the agreements reached in Cartagena needed to be " dynamized " and their implementation strengthened . |
| 3 | It was not that the Americans rose against Spain ; it was that Spain fell away from America . |
| 4 | With the discovery of better-preserved material it became apparent that the graptolites consisted of rows of tiny cups which were interconnected by a common canal — they were colonial animals . |
| 5 | The England pace attack laboured in vain yet again , and what was even more worrying was that the selectors toyed with the idea of once more playing four quick bowlers . |
| 6 | The poet , playwright and painter , Stanislaw Wyspiański ( 1869–1907 ) , saw himself as the bridge over the confused gulf that separated the Polish intelligentsia and the peasantry , the perfect representative of the Young Poland movement that contained all the bitterness of repeated national defeats , all the resignation of patriots who felt they could change nothing , and all the compromised hopes for material change that the Positivists saw in Poland 's potential industrial wealth under foreign rule . |
| 7 | Before the case came to a hearing Parliament sought to improve the revenue 's position by enacting with retrospective effect section 47(1) of the Finance Act 1986 , but this proved ineffective for the purpose and on 31 July 1987 Nolan J. [ 1987 ] S.T.C. 654 decided that the regulations complained of were ultra vires and void in so far as they purported to provide for the imposition of tax on interests and dividends paid by building societies prior to 6 April 1986 , and made an order accordingly . |
| 8 | A detailed analysis showed that the jets came from eight small , fixed areas on the surface of the comet 's nucleus . |
| 9 | There were signs , especially in 1988 , that the players appeared to be trying harder in the one-day internationals than in the Tests , and the traditionalists — who of course regard themselves as the real cricket lovers — feared for the future . |
| 10 | However , it seems that the effects triggered by repetition must be distinguished from those triggered by reformulation , and it may be interesting to examine the differences between each of the following pairs : A repetition directs the hearer to the same concept and hence the same encyclopedic entry ( for example , the entry for RUN in [ 29 ] . |
| 11 | You can argue about the amount of resources devoted to health but what you can not sensibly argue about is that the resources devoted to health care should be used to maximum effect . |
| 12 | When they were looked at in more detail it was found that the colonies grew from one single tube ( sicula ) which is often facing in a different direction from the tubes inhabited by the rest of the colony ( see below ) . |
| 13 | The idea was so successful in defusing the explosive situation that the meetings continued to be held at six-monthly intervals . |
| 14 | The Trias in this country was a time of desert conditions so that the forms exhumed from beneath its rocks will have to be compared with modern desert landforms . |
| 15 | Make-up had run and faded , shoulder straps were drooping , the music was slow and sleepy , so that the dancers seemed to be twined together in a kind of trance . |
| 16 | From the moment that the teams flew into Leonardo da Vinci airport until the moment they left , they were under a cloak of security that was to enshroud the Championships . |
| 17 | She turned to the table , yawning so that the tears came into her eyes . |
| 18 | If this means attributing to Athens an uncharacteristic desire for land empire , we should not hesitate to do so — Thucydides ( i. 111 ) after all records an expedition to Thessaly as well ; and if any individual was responsible it was surely Pericles , whom Aristotle ( Rhetoric 1407 ) quotes as saying that the Boiotians tended to ‘ cut each other down ’ — that is , they were weak because internally divided . |
| 19 | He says we know that the Victorians went to the gentleman 's club in the day and the brothel at night , before going home , but we could take on some of their values . |
| 20 | Another , more sinister possibility , is that the attackers lay in wait for him . |
| 21 | The Second Front Campaign produced the biggest demonstrations of the war period and , most of the time , opinion polls showed that the demonstrators spoke for the majority of a public moved by both feelings of solidarity with the hard-pressed Russians and by a desire to get the war over with . |
| 22 | Eye-witnesses say that the demonstrators marched on the local government offices and occupied them . |
| 23 | She goes on to say that the justices came to the view that the justice on the Friday had had no power to remand Mr. Bell in custody until the Monday , as the remand did not fall within the terms of section 7(5) of the Act of 1976 and that , accordingly , they no longer had any jurisdiction to hear the matter . |
| 24 | But no such relationship was necessarily apparent in 1945 , with The Economist in London indignantly protesting on 8 December 1945 that the communists seemed to be correct in their claim that the American object was to ruin Britain . |
| 25 | The broadcasters ' contention that the directives conflicted with the duty of the BBC and the Independent Broadcasting Authority to preserve ‘ due impartiality ’ misappreciated the nature of that duty . |
| 26 | Her dark eyes watched him , wide with fear so that the whites showed like two new moons . |
| 27 | Mrs Richards reached out and took Shelley 's hand , holding it so tightly that the nails dug into Shelley 's skin . |
| 28 | And we could make it better by making sure that the bags came in more correct like what Simon 's doing now with those printed labels . |
| 29 | I certainly learnt next to nothing at St Aubyn 's and when I took the Common Entrance examination for Eton I failed so ignominiously that the authorities wrote to my mother that it would be futile for me to try again . |
| 30 | There are small helically-coiled shells present even in Cambrian rocks , and it seems likely that the gastropods diverged from the other molluscs late in the Precambrian . |