Example sentences of "that [vb past] [art] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Then he made out the thousands of tiny rings that studded the ceiling . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | THE HEN THAT LAID THE SILVER EGG |
| 9 | It was from there that he also issued his first denunciations of the Pahlavi dynasty that laid the foundations of his revolution . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The young Einstein was unable to find an academic position , went to work in the Bern patent office , and in one incredible year ( 1905 ) , at the age of 26 , wrote a number of research papers that laid the foundations of no less than three major branches of modern physics — statistical mechanics , the quantum theory and special relativity . |
| 12 | Over the next few years , the coalition government worked on the framing of a federal law that laid the foundations of a much larger system of higher education — and opened the door to far more state control over the universities . |
| 13 | If it develops too fast York may kill the goose that laid the golden egg and no one will want to live there — just as tourists are beginning to avoid Lake Windermere because of its commerciality and crowds of people . |
| 14 | It was to these crucial years , therefore , that I turned attention in an endeavour to understand not the triumphal march of the party as such , but rather the broader cultural structures that laid the foundations for its success . |
| 15 | These various factors combined to ensure that the local elite ( even if they were capable of considering it ) would not attempt to kill the goose ‘ that laid the golden eggs ’ . |
| 16 | But , knowing that a great war would kill the goose that laid the golden eggs , the bankers could probably be relied upon to use their enormous influence to prevent it : |
| 17 | Are n't you worried that you 'll kill the goose that laid the golden egg ? |
| 18 | Keynes was influential in persuading King 's to make him a fellow , despite his criticisms of Keynes 's A Treatise on Probability ( 1921 ) culminating in his ‘ Truth and Probability ’ ( 1926 ) , the classic paper that laid the foundations for modern subjective interpretations of probability and related theories of games and decision making . |
| 19 | One of my officials chairs the experts committee that laid the groundwork for this achievement . |
| 20 | The Feeleys are just the sort of family William Beveridge was trying to proivide for when , exactly fifty years ago , he presented the Governemnt with a report that laid the foundations of the welfare state . |
| 21 | All of them around they kill the goose that laid the golden egg . |
| 22 | Asked to select all the objects in an array that shared a particular attribute and to name the attribute , these children could provide an answer but the grammatical form revealed , according to Greenfield , inferior cognitive facility . |
| 23 | From Los Angeles came a report of a film theatre that shared the same building with an undertaker and where the hall itself was squalid and narrow with grease spots on the wall where ‘ delighted spectators have leaned their enraptured heads ’ . |
| 24 | The countries that were under the control of ruling Marxist-Leninist parties represented , for the USSR , the ‘ world socialist system ’ , a community of nations that shared the same political , social and economic interests . |
| 25 | Several sites provide evidence for leather working , though it is represented by only one identified tannery at Alcester , which probably used the hides of cattle that grazed the water meadows of the River Avon . |
| 26 | She had heard tales of the sunshine , the flowers and bright colours of the upper world , but her father warned her of the perils that haunted the surface , in particular the giants that in those days walked the wilds of Dartmoor . |
| 27 | It was a creature known in the Reconciled Dominions as a voider , one of a brutal species that haunted the wastes north of the Lenten Way . |
| 28 | A court in Cleveland , Ohio was told of the extraordinary inventiveness , not to mention athleticism , that coloured the sex life of Dr David Love and his wife Virginia who , on at least three occasions , made love hanging from a window of their fourth floor apartment . |
| 29 | Jubilee celebrations in an alpine village bring veteran climber Ernest Tinnion back to the scene of his greatest triumph — and to the reassessment of a youthful friendship and chilling events that coloured the rest of his life . |
| 30 | In the beargardens that became a feature of almost every major kite flying meeting , a parade of well-dressed bears took on the role of chairbears , observing in silence the antics of crazy ‘ humes ’ as they lounged in their designer suits , awaiting the call to elevation . |