Example sentences of "[that] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it is this sense of impotence — and the sense that English 's image of ‘ effeminacy ’ or ‘ femininity ’ makes it appear unimportant-that has led postwar literary theoretical movements to espouse ideals of ‘ objectivity ’ and ‘ scientificity ’ . |
| 2 | In America , companies that launch underwritten secondary issues see their share price fall further than those which choose book-building , reckons Morgan Stanley ( though firms that seek underwriting may be in worse shape anyway ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We know that if we started to challenge everything we should end up like the centipede that became paralysed through analysis of the movement of its many legs . |
| 5 | The man behind Shoom — a club that is now so legendary that if all the people who claim to have been there in its formative months really had attended , it would have been held in Wembley Stadium not in a sweaty south-east London basement — he resolutely refused to cash in on the boom that became known as acid . |
| 6 | On 2nd June 1914 , The Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife , were assassinated by a Bosnian Serb and that triggered a series of events that led to the outbreak of war on 4th , August 1914 — the war that became known as The Great War . |
| 7 | They used a method that became known as ‘ participant observation ’ , in which the researcher both observes the social processes of a group and actually participates in the life of that group . |
| 8 | At the end of the Second World War the US and UK set out to construct a new order for international trade and investment , a set of institutions and arrangements that became known as the Bretton Woods system . |
| 9 | In video-taped evidence , Mr Reagan has admitted he approved the covert arms for hostages operation , that became known as the Iran Contra affair , although he says he did n't authorise his staff to break the law . |
| 10 | Video taped evidence , in which Mr Reagan admits he approved the covert Arms for Hostages operation , that became known as the Iran Contra affair , is to be made public by the trial judge . |
| 11 | These were deposited in shallow marine barrier/lagoon complexes that became established at the edge of the basin on top of the marginal platform of the Z1 Anhydrite . |
| 12 | These sediments were deposited in a coastal sand-barrier complex that became established at the edge of the platform . |
| 13 | These were deposited in lagoonal , intertidal and sabkha environments , respectively , that became established behind the barrier complex . |
| 14 | Something that became woven into the legend and the myth of the day , ’ said Dierdriu . |
| 15 | Peter 's an extraordinarily cranky man with a venom that became directed towards Katherine . |
| 16 | We safeguarded ourselves by leaving one man behind to clear the rabbits that became entangled in front of the main wood . |
| 17 | One eccentric old git ( who ‘ changed his appearance ’ every five or six years , handily enough ) , a string of daft ‘ assistants ’ , enough latex to make a condom for Concorde and the sort of ripping good-vs-evil yarnery that encourages grown adults to hold Dr Who conventions to this day . |
| 18 | A whole new language , but one that translated meant enormous fun . |
| 19 | This book sheds some light on events that deserve to be better known as for many the months that elapsed proved fatal . |
| 20 | In 1928 he had found , when attempting to sell BIP films to the US , that the doors were ‘ barred in the faces of UK producers ’ , and the excitement that Blackmail caused at home was not matched in the US . |
| 21 | AS YOU yawn through this week 's promo-treadmill that is Wogan and wonder why Parkinson went to Australia , imagine , if you will , an interview programme with one guest , a shot of the interviewer 's back only , no stairs and the sort of questions that make grown men break down and cry . |
| 22 | He observed all these happenings but wrote : ‘ Dogs : four including the one that got run over when only six months . |
| 23 | Erm and it became too much for them because people were working more efficient , and therefore there was a an increase in the productivity level , and so they had to increase the number of foremen and chargehands , which was n't a bad thing because it was always our members that got made up to these respective er positions . |
| 24 | I was in a train that got delayed . ’ |
| 25 | and you said there was actually this the two Irish fellas that got killed in the tunnel ? |
| 26 | granddad saw it , one like a little while ago , that got killed . |
| 27 | ‘ Or maybe I 'm a fruitarian bat , ’ said Marina , laughing , ‘ the one that got turned down for every Drac film because she would n't suck blood . |
| 28 | I 've seen it happen to a lot of good MDs that got fired . |
| 29 | Yeah , well it 's like this fellow that got done for speeding . |
| 30 | And the two Hs that got pushed out |