Example sentences of "[noun] that [vb past] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , it was her nakedness that exerted its mysterious power over the bodies of men . ’ |
| 2 | Comparing the show scene with that in Barbados , I would say that the fact that there was an established breed club that held its own breed show with specialist judges made all the difference , Barbadian entries being quite small in comparison to the Jamaican ones . |
| 3 | The sole Dino Berlinetta Speciale is now part of the permanent collection of the Le Mans car museum in France , a fitting place for a car that drew its design inspiration from the first mid-engined Ferrari sports racing cars and which shocked the world at Paris more than a quarter of a century ago . |
| 4 | We stopped and built a makeshift shelter to get away , as best we could , from snow that filtered its way through every opening to produce melt water that trickled coldly over us . |
| 5 | He gave the example of a two-year Community Skills course in a local college that drew its recruits from the special schools . |
| 6 | Mr Scowcroft was , until his appointment , the co-chairman of a committee drawn from the defence elites of both parties , which in February found a form of words that satisfied its wide range of members and came down gently in favour of Midgetman first and rail-MX only later . |
| 7 | When , with a shout , I jerked my eye back to its hole there was no smoke anywhere , only the necessary building , perfect , even to the irises and the low picket fence that lined its path , before which ‘ Uncle Pepi ’ now stood , with one arm crooked and raised . |
| 8 | We have created a flexible motor industry that increased its exports by 78 per cent . |
| 9 | The cat had been laid out on the step , like an offering , scarcely recognisable as a grey tabby through the blood that matted its fur . |
| 10 | And each cough that forced its way past his throat brought with it more of the bright frothy blood , which dribbled from the corners of his mouth faster than his red-soaked handkerchief could mop it up . |
| 11 | Maybe it 's the fact that the Goliath retailed at around £60 with a plywood case that made its demise inevitable , even without the attentions of C.F.Martin . |
| 12 | Very little blood , surely from the first blow that felled its victim through hood and all . |
| 13 | It was released in December 1945 , to an overwhelmingly positive critical response that praised its ‘ maturity ’ and ‘ realism ’ , and also hailed it as the latest success from the Coward/Lean ‘ team ’ , which had , during the Second World War , produced three notably successful films , namely In Which We Serve ( 1942 ) , This Happy Breed ( 1944 ) , and Blithe Spirit ( 1945 ) . |
| 14 | For most of the 1975–76 civil war , the massive stone keep of the twelfth-century Castle of St Gilles that still towers over Tripoli was occupied by a Sunni Muslim militia that made its head-quarters in the crusader banqueting hall . |
| 15 | Everyone wants to avoid the chaos that surrounded its predecessor JET . |
| 16 | Charles Greville , into the hands of Paul Sandby ( 1725–1809 ) who , in 1775 , published Twelve Views in Aquatinta and thus began a vogue that reached its artistic peak with such artists as Thomas Malton ( 1748–1804 ) and William Daniell ( 1769–1837 ) , mentioned above . |
| 17 | There was no coherent ideology embracing the entire middle-class , but there were two ideologies that subsumed its more active sectors . |
| 18 | The Jesuits were expelled ( 1767 ) from both Spain and Spanish America — a measure that gave its author , Aranda , a European reputation as an esprit fort — and the reformers attempted to turn the universities into state-controlled educational institutions teaching useful knowledge instead of Aristotelean ‘ words ’ . |
| 19 | These ‘ other ’ for signs that signalled its ‘ innate physical , mental and moral inferiority ’ ( David Green ‘ On Foucault ’ in Ten 8 No 14 ) . |
| 20 | Being on a Kindertransport was , in itself , a traumatic experience that left its mark on otherwise balanced and healthy children . |
| 21 | JE : As it turned out , Peter Grimes was a very great success , despite the tensions that surrounded its premiere . |
| 22 | Then he laughed ; a warm , good-humoured laugh that found its echo all around . |
| 23 | Its 12,00 or more employees were , in the main , reallocated to the seven companies that took its place . |
| 24 | Lynwood Scientific Developments Ltd , the Alton , Hampshire display terminal specialist that regained its independence via a management buyout from Hunting Group Plc , is to give it up again . |
| 25 | Since the late 1940s the Queen Mother had been the darling of National Hunt racing : it was largely her enthusiasm for the sport that raised its status from that of a poor relation to the Flat to , by the mid-1950s , a position of near equality — in popularity if not in the prize money available . |
| 26 | In particular , I was waiting for the hedgehog that made its nest at the end of our garden last autumn to come back to life . |
| 27 | His lordship held that , while a provision in a company 's articles that restricted its statutory power to alter those articles was invalid , an agreement outside the articles between shareholders about how they should exercise their voting rights on a resolution to alter the articles was not necessarily invalid . |
| 28 | The letter was signed , with an abruptness that matched its content , simply ‘ R ’ . |
| 29 | It has been suggested that the growth of environmentalism was stimulated by the anti-materialistic philosophy that found its expression in neo-Lamarckism . |
| 30 | So Hanson went ahead and brought in outside touring companies that offered simple sets , and a cast of up to ten people , who could stage a place that found its own level in front of people who did n't think twice about live theatre apart from taking their youngsters to the pantomime at Christmas . |