Example sentences of "that [adv] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's an example in my book , with one that only lasted six weeks , for example , which is astonishing by modern standards . |
| 2 | For the next three minutes they experienced sensations that only requited sexual lust can bring . |
| 3 | This failure was attributed to defects of language or of home background rather than to an educational system that only valued one kind of language and actively discriminated against working-class culture . |
| 4 | Remember the PLO operation that suddenly appeared next door in Larnaca ? |
| 5 | When he was with close friends , he abandoned that somewhat starched public demeanour . |
| 6 | Next to the door was a small window that nevertheless boasted sixteen panes . |
| 7 | The aspirin bottle was empty , as was the silver-papered , singly wrapped , Panadol square that usually held twelve tablets , but in which she knew there had been only three , for she herself had taken two that afternoon . |
| 8 | These tenements had been empty for several years , the small shopfronts that once elbowed each other along the street boarded up . |
| 9 | MONTSERRAT , the tiny Caribbean island that once boasted one bank for every 40 inhabitants , is bracing itself this Easter for a spate of arrests following a three-year fraud and corruption investigation by Scotland Yard . |
| 10 | Equally dramatic has been the emergence of a new venue , the former Gas Works , converted into a theatre almost at the drop of a hat , a transformation that clearly shook last night 's capacity audience at the first performance in the Klondyke Building . |
| 11 | Manager Ian Porterfield praised Townsend 's performance in a game that also saw four bookings . |
| 12 | A MAN injured in a police shoot-out was last night in hospital with chest wounds while police pieced together the tangled events of a night of violence that also left one man dead and three policemen injured . |
| 13 | Intermediate values are seen for tawny owls and great grey owls ( 50–60 per cent ) , and high values for the owls that also showed greatest damage to the maxilla , the short-eared owl , spotted eagle owl and European eagle owl ( 80–90 per cent ) . |
| 14 | What Butthole Surfers have done , what made and makes them so crucial , is that they 've taken on the sonic possibilities bequeathed still unexplored and underdeveloped by acid rock but have jettisoned many of the disabling attitudes that originally trammelled that music — sophistication , expertise , the counter-cultural impulse to edify . |
| 15 | HERE is something that really happened last week . |
| 16 | Wright , Smith and Campbell were all guilty of misses against Ipswich , who side that regrettably lacked any ambition and contributed nothing in terms of entertainment to a poor contest . |
| 17 | In this way , it becomes obvious that even deregulated financial markets do not operate in a regulatory void , for caught up in the reshaping process is the need to tighten loopholes through new regulatory activity . |
| 18 | According to Ron Chernow , in his recent book ‘ The House of Morgan ’ , many negotiations took place in all-night sessions in the ‘ black library ’ of J. Pierpont Morgan , he of the bulbous , acne-ridden nose and the investment bank that then dominated American finance . |
| 19 | St Jude 's Square lay before her , level and familiar , flanked by its old taverns and the graceful iron railings of St Jude 's churchyard where Luke still often waited for her ; the square crowded and ebullient today with the stalls for the Friday market , with traders and dealers and pedlars of fancy braids and buttons , fans , feathers , bright little birds in cages , beads , sequins , second-hand dresses that could be unpicked and made over , second-hand bonnets that could be remodelled , old belts that sometimes had decent buckles , sugar sticks the colour of rubies and emeralds that would be a treat for Liam . |
| 20 | The evidence shows that , when adjusting output during a downturn in the economy , many firms that have taken advantage of regional assistance contract operations at those plants placed in areas that previously had high unemployment choose to close these plants . |
| 21 | Whilst many of these are old parishes , others are towns that previously had significant powers of their own , some retaining mayors and calling themselves town councils . |