Example sentences of "that [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE WELSH are closing in on the standards of play that immortalised the sixties and seventies as the golden age of their rugby . |
| 2 | It was space that lamed the prospects of a truly national economy ; it was distance by land that doomed the government 's expensive attempt to re-create , in the eighteenth century , a great wool industry in central Spain and hampered the creation of an internal market in the nineteenth . |
| 3 | Although he wanted a physical astronomy that would deal with real motions , there were too many ‘ great inconveniences ’ in a system that saddled the earth with three separate motions : an orbital revolution , an axial rotation , and a change in the orientation of the axis itself . |
| 4 | Local authorities have distinctive features , however , that complicate the application of managerial theories . |
| 5 | The men and women I met often spoke of regret and loss — not a nostalgia for the past , those glazed memories that falsify the hard history of the working people by claiming that the past was better . |
| 6 | Indeed McLeish reflected , that encapsulated the trouble with Tristram — everything that he could do , Perry , two years his senior , could apparently do just that bit better . |
| 7 | Stigwood turned a local scene into an international sensation , launched John Travolta as a box office star and cult hero and masterminded the biggest-selling soundtrack album of all time with a movie that encapsulated the energy and release of the disco age . |
| 8 | Strategies that maximize the individual fitness component may be termed selfish . |
| 9 | The role of the state in services for old people should be to create conditions that maximize the ability of the individual , families and the community to cope independently . |
| 10 | Presumably these sites were protected from the kinds of influence that normally destroy fish remains , such as the activity of scavenging animals that disarticulate the skeletons , or currents . |
| 11 | Then he made out the thousands of tiny rings that studded the ceiling . |
| 12 | Lungs initially develop from an outgrowth of the sheet that lines the gut near the mouth and then this outgrowth branches repeatedly to give the millions of microscopic lobes in the lung . |
| 13 | It is a palatial residence , and occupies a worthy sire , like the magnificent piles of masonry built in our forefathers ' days , to guard the people 's home ; this stronghold raises its proud walls and towers , and commands alike the bay and every house that lines the shores . |
| 14 | Tom O'Neill was in the outer office looking at one of the pictures that lines the walls — Rena , Hugo 's favourite house model , wearing a loose cut trench coat over a tailored shirt and doe-skin pants . |
| 15 | One of the most important aspects of domestic security , yet one that receives the least attention , is that of key security . |
| 16 | The average adult spends up to 300 hours a year in the bathroom , yet surprisingly , it 's often the room that receives the least attention . |
| 17 | For example , the area of the primate cortex that receives the direct visual projection from the thalamus is distinguished by a dense band of white matter in layer four . |
| 18 | A scion is the growth that arises from an implanted bud or graft , whereas the stock — sometimes referred to as the root- stock — is the host plant that receives the bud or graft , with its own top growth removed so that its sap and energies are made to support the new guest . |
| 19 | I think too that we should reflect upon who it is that receives the blame er when policing falls below the standards which we would all think appropriate . |
| 20 | Ah yes I have looked after it for ever since it was new and er and it was the one that reopened the station after the boat 's lost here , but as I say you 've got to look forward and I think it 's a good idea to have a new boat here . |
| 21 | Political constraint is one of the problems that undermine the capacity of the mass media to appropriately and effectively fulfill their function of building democratic societies and protecting and defending human rights in Africa . |
| 22 | But the team that plays the Dutch is playing for the future — for the 1992 European finals . ’ |
| 23 | They buy a cot , a changing table , a convertible buggy/pram , a baby seat to go in the back of the car , a changing mat , a night-light , a sterilizing unit , five large bottles plus teats , five small bottles plus teats , five baby-grows ( newborn size ) , three undervests ( newborn size ) , three pairs of socks ( newborn size ) , a mobile with four fluffy ducks dancing around a clockwork mechanism that plays the Brahms Lullaby , a wallpaper frieze with chickens on it which Paul has to put up in the nursery , a van-sized packet of newborn nappies , a tub of cream to put on the kid 's bottom , a bucket of white emulsion to freshen up the nursery walls , a lampshade with more chickens on it to brighten up the nursery light , a parasol to go on the buggy and a breast pump for expressing milk . |
| 24 | You could see a band that plays the same type of music as us on TOTP but they would n't look like us … |
| 25 | Secondly , not only have Brown and his colleagues ( 1986a ) confirmed that it is a close relationship that plays the key protective role in the development of depression ( regular contact , fair level of confiding ) , but they also found that it was essential to consider both positive and negative aspects of such relationships for any satisfactory understanding . |
| 26 | Third , and most important , the quinte part in the ballet is not playable by a late 17th-century oboe band : it lies too high for the bassoon and too low for the taille de hautbois , the tenor oboe that plays the third line . |
| 27 | Ooh , how many Tuesdays is this in the row that plays the dad ? |
| 28 | THE HEN THAT LAID THE SILVER EGG |
| 29 | It was from there that he also issued his first denunciations of the Pahlavi dynasty that laid the foundations of his revolution . |
| 30 | In the end , as we shall see , the cost of decommissioning became a vital part of the accountants ' nightmare that laid the nuclear beast to rest . |