Example sentences of "[adj] that [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was this that kept me going . |
| 2 | Perhaps it was this that kept him alive . |
| 3 | It 's records like this that make me pissed off with political thrashcore . |
| 4 | It was this that made me unable to sleep , so that coming downstairs , parched with alcohol , for a glass of lemonade , I heard my mother and Lili talking . |
| 5 | I think it was this that made him stop telephoning me . |
| 6 | It was this that made it possible for the whole of the cuckoo 's breeding cycle to be filmed , resulting in an early classic of wildlife photography , The Cuckoo 's Secret . |
| 7 | It was the thought of this that had her standing up after about half an hour in preparation to go to her room . |
| 8 | The emphasis of the New Testament is that Christ resisted the temptations thrown at him and it was this that qualified him for dying on the cross . |
| 9 | I get a tremendous kick from the creative aspect of life , and I think it is this that keeps me so well and full of vitality . ’ |
| 10 | It is only that I live in Dresden and that I fight like this that keeps me sane . |
| 11 | It was this that led them to postulate an original state of affairs in which a hypothetical , pre-human , pre-cultural Natural Man was a cow-like creature , without society and without language , living in the wild in a Garden of Eden forest . |
| 12 | It was around Easter , and perhaps it was this that led him to wax theological as we bounced across the heather and gorse . |
| 13 | Networks operating on this principle perform an operation that is likely to be extremely important for the neocortex , and it was actually the search for a mechanism that would do this that led us to the suggested modification rule : the modifiable interconnections tend to make the representative elements become uncorrelated , and thus to signal independently of each other . |
| 14 | It is precisely this that makes me very suspicious of searching for some supposed rational parliamentary intention outside the language in which a draftsman who is known to be rational has chosen to express it . |
| 15 | But mothers are wonderful , and it 's something like this that makes you realize it . ’ |
| 16 | It is this that makes us more advanced . |
| 17 | It is this that gives my soul all its joyous elation , |
| 18 | It was this that prompted me to scrutinize Greek tragedy and thereby gain the new view of the Hellenic spirit that I have been putting forward . |
| 19 | What Barry says is simply this that suppose we accept the point that authority structures are now necessary , that we could n't have anarchy we have to have |
| 20 | What is the thing about this that concerns you most of all ? |
| 21 | The hull was presumably steel ; it was this that gave her a rust-streaked look under the dirty coating of ice and snow . |
| 22 | But the white paper makes clear that expanding its market will depend on success by the Scottish generators in exporting power to England , Wales and Northern Ireland . |
| 23 | Bearing that in mind , it is tolerably clear that conduct which is itself tortious is always unlawful means . |
| 24 | Tossing this first layer of skin aside , he attempted to burrow deeper , only to discover yet more skin , though whether this was the outer skin that had slithered back through his advancing fingers , or a whole new layer was not apparent , but it was pretty clear that finding her windpipe , let alone getting hands round it and squeezing it , was a two-person job . |
| 25 | " When it was clear that identifying him was going to be a long job — if , indeed , he could ever be identified — the coroner issued a burial certificate . |
| 26 | I want to concentrate on the week in Adelaide in January 1933 that brought it all to a head , and the personal dilemma I faced as the Teuter-Press Association correspondent . |
| 27 | Is n't that funny that reminds me of an old girl I had at Dennis House the one I used to be on i I used to have to get her in bed get her all propped up and then |
| 28 | even though there was a bit of grey in it , it was the , really the brown that predominated it , I said it , it , the grey suite would n't go with it |
| 29 | And now it was n't the threat of being lasered in half that knotted her stomach : it was the inevitability of the sense of failure , of letting down her team , that would follow a muffed throw . |
| 30 | If your goal is a college scholarship , the odds are very high that attending one for a few years will lead to a number of scholarship offers from top-notch college tennis programmes in the United States . |