Example sentences of "[adj] that [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we are to admit similarities between the two modes we must not forget differences such as this that remain fundamental . |
| 2 | Not only is the value element in education crucial , it is also highly problematic and it is this that creates particular problems for curriculum planning . |
| 3 | In one of these dusty tomes he read in wonderment of the treasures of Tutenkamen and it was this that ignited in young Garrett a fire of enthusiasm for treasure hunting that still burns strongly today . |
| 4 | No , it was n't this that got on his nerves , but the monotony of his surrounding , the long , long road through the camp , the huts going off here and there , the airfield dotted with little planes , looking like toys , the new hall that was used for entertainments , pictures and the church services , standing out like a sore thumb . |
| 5 | Was it consciousness of this that got Mr Milosevic belatedly to urge the Bosnian Serbs to sign the Vance-Owen plan ? |
| 6 | I hated speaking to large groups of people and normally would have avoided it at all costs , but I found that I had thought so much about this that telling other people was a relief . |
| 7 | It was probably this that affected Alan 's vitamin C level the most . |
| 8 | One other element of this that deserves a brief outline was the adoption in 1925 of a contributory pension scheme to run alongside the non-contributory one . |
| 9 | And it was this that kept me going . |
| 10 | Perhaps it was this that kept him alive . |
| 11 | It 's records like this that make me pissed off with political thrashcore . |
| 12 | Taylor called for a ban on the video and said : ‘ Something like this that glorifies cheating brings the game into open disrepute . ’ |
| 13 | In the words of the Robbins Report , ‘ it is this that furnishes the criterion of what institutions of higher education may properly teach ’ . |
| 14 | It is because of things like this that delivering the intervention ( and anything else ) to parents is a matter of problem-solving negotiation . |
| 15 | It was this that brought about John 's separation from his mother . |
| 16 | If Knowledge plc had failed to get in by the back door , it was this that brought the ideology of the market-place marching in the front . |
| 17 | It is this that allows the NMDA receptor to behave as a molecular coincidence detector . |
| 18 | The earlier traditions had focused not on experience as the key element in mind , but on intellect and thought ; it was this that made mind special and different from anything physical . |
| 19 | I suppose it was this that made Richard think I could not manage Flora 's job . |
| 20 | It was this that made it possible for the whole of the cuckoo 's breeding cycle to be filmed , resulting in an early classic of wildlife photography , The Cuckoo 's Secret . |
| 21 | I think it was this that made him stop telephoning me . |
| 22 | The liberals of the Cortes of Cadiz accepted this dissolution as a fait accompli and it was this that made the Orders the chief enemies of liberalism in Spain . |
| 23 | It was this that made David Miller bristle . |
| 24 | It was this that made me unable to sleep , so that coming downstairs , parched with alcohol , for a glass of lemonade , I heard my mother and Lili talking . |
| 25 | It was this that made Seb resolve he would not let the matter drop . |
| 26 | It was this that had caused the shin injury , pushing me on when I could have taken things more slowly . |
| 27 | It was this that had prevented me from resting half a day here or there , from starting late in the morning and from stopping early in the evening . |
| 28 | Since the only source of energy in the building is electricity , it was this that had to heat the water . |
| 29 | It was the thought of this that had her standing up after about half an hour in preparation to go to her room . |
| 30 | My Lord er in paragraph three fourteen of the statement of claim there is an important fact er which is a fact that is admitted by the defendant which is this that had the defendant on the plaintiff 's behalf taken the opportunity which was open to the plaintiff by virtue of national condition twenty two which should say and served a special notice to complete upon the vendors on about the eighteenth or the twenty second of October , the contract would in fact have been rescinded on the thirteenth or the nineteenth of November nineteen eighty five and the plaintiff would therefore have been able to get out of the contract and that , as I say , is admitted in the amended dissent . |