Example sentences of "that [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is surely no coincidence that plays dealing with homosexuality and abortion were shown on BBC at the time when these issues were to be debated in the House of Commons and the Press ’ . |
| 2 | He himself had often waited like that , hidden beside a path , ready to strike with a stick or a stone any prey that chanced to come along it . |
| 3 | Obviously such methods are far from sufficient ( an apocryphal example of the problems that arose involves the translation of the sentence ‘ The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak ’ into Russian and then back-translated to English as ‘ The vodka is strong but the meat is rotten ’ ) . |
| 4 | They were able to communicate with the part of us that longs to grow and expand into the world . |
| 5 | But if to an alehouse they customers be , Then presently with the ale wife we agree ; When we come to a reckoning , then we do crave Twopence on a shilling , and that we will have , By such cunning ways we our treasure do get , For it is all fish that doth come to our net . |
| 6 | Nothing of him that doth fade , |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | To resolve the problem that most organisations have multiple networks that communicate using different network protocols , the multiprotocol networking software in Oracle7 is designed to enable any client computer to communicate with any server or group of server computers in the network , regardless of network protocol . |
| 9 | Nerves that communicate using noradrenaline are adrenergic . |
| 10 | The Crown argued that there was either one practice that ceased operating or , alternatively , there was a change in the individuals running the practice resulting in a deemed cessation of business . |
| 11 | A good churchman , he is a Church Warden — but of a church that ceased to exist in the late 18th century . |
| 12 | From being the bank that refused to die , BCCI became the bank that ceased to exist . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | These sediments were deposited in a coastal sand-barrier complex that became established at the edge of the platform . |
| 23 | These were deposited in lagoonal , intertidal and sabkha environments , respectively , that became established behind the barrier complex . |
| 24 | Something that became woven into the legend and the myth of the day , ’ said Dierdriu . |
| 25 | Peter 's an extraordinarily cranky man with a venom that became directed towards Katherine . |
| 26 | We safeguarded ourselves by leaving one man behind to clear the rabbits that became entangled in front of the main wood . |
| 27 | It may be the song of the curlew that recalls childhood holidays on the moors and dales , the calls of oystercatchers that bring to mind the seaside , the smell of the salt , the sunshine and ice cream ; or the song of the thrush that brings back the memory of a walk , a place , a friend who shared a memorable day . |
| 28 | The Headingley game was played on an uneven pitch that made batting difficult . |
| 29 | Was it perhaps a memory of childhood , she wondered , that made watching a woman cooking in her own kitchen so extraordinarily reassuring and satisfying . |
| 30 | I caught nothing , but lost my favourite fishing hat , whisked from my head during a great wind that made casting almost impossible . |