Example sentences of "[adj] that [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the thought of this that had her standing up after about half an hour in preparation to go to her room . |
| 2 | It is this that gives my soul all its joyous elation , |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This abandonment of both the major innovations made by the descendants of Eusthenopteron during their colonisation of the land occurs not only among those salamanders that have taken to water but even among some that spend their lives almost entirely on land . |
| 7 | It was not merely the weather that made the Decoy Lodge feel gloomier , more shadowy than Louisa remembered , not merely the damp that left her bones so chill . |
| 8 | It was their much-praised BCR exhibition in 1986 that revived his own and others ' interest in the old railway and led to the process of discussion that ( in the relaxed South Shropshire way ) led to the formation of the Society three years later . |
| 9 | Laura was never one to swim with every fashionable cross-current that came her way . |
| 10 | Alexander Ramsay was back in his own house of Dalwolsey for Yuletide , and glad to be , for apart from the festive season 's celebrations , which he always enjoyed , there was much that required his attention as chief of a great lordship of many baronies , many manors and wide lands . |
| 11 | The good honest that kept your master 's worship house when he requires . |
| 12 | Right , but perhaps what we should do now is in-bill that get your policy group member to agree it , even line your video up and so they are committed and you put it on paper so all the form tutors see that |
| 13 | It 's the small details and unusual pieces like these that give their home its character and strongly individual style . |
| 14 | It is these that provide our basis for living , life scripts upon which we base our responses to all new situations and circumstances . |
| 15 | She wore her lilac coat and skirt , braided with deeper lilac ; the skirt widened at the hem and floated out over thin boots , the tidy laces criss-crossing on shadowy ankles there was something playful in Maman 's way of walking , something jaunty that swayed her hips , and made her straw hat tilt up on her frizzed curls … |
| 16 | She was wearing something pink and pretty that covered her body in soft folds . |
| 17 | All that had its 1930s precursors , such as the early fiction of George Orwell and Graham Greene ; and in an open letter to Elizabeth Bowen , written several years before the Movement was ever heard of , Greene had remarked that the novelist has a simple duty to tell the truth and to get it right : ‘ By truth I mean accuracy — it is largely a matter of style ’ . |
| 18 | Vlaminck always insisted that he was the first to have ‘ discovered ’ African or Negro sculpture ( and he and his contemporaries used the term ‘ art negre ’ generically to cover not only African but also Polynesian art and indeed any tribal art at all that came their way ) and his claim was to pass into legend , although Gauguin himself possibly owned examples of African as well as Polynesian sculpture . |
| 19 | All that term his father had been planning ways and means , trying to overturn the will , looking for compromises , plotting for all Adam knew a frontal assault . |
| 20 | All that met his eye was the linoleum on the floor which the College bursar , in a spirit of generosity , said that he could keep . |
| 21 | ‘ Said you were creative and imaginative , had a distinct flair for words , kept in touch with the common man , were immensely popular with your colleagues and on top of all that delivered your copy promptly . ’ |
| 22 | But this was not all that caught my attention . |
| 23 | Another empty day with none of the jobs she had carried out day after day for so long that filled her time with things she enjoyed . |
| 24 | All those that took his hospitality , where were they , I 'd like to ask ? |
| 25 | Providing copious statistics for the numbers of bombers dispatched , those that reached their targets and those that did not for one reason or another , this book is a complete overview of a major aspect of the air war against mainland Germany . |
| 26 | Unwanted feelings are those that hinder your behaviour such that you are not functioning at the level you are capable of . |
| 27 | Those that strike their target are absorbed by the female and fertilise the eggs within her . |
| 28 | They claim to have discovered a close relationship between the rate of growth in Gross National Product and the type of college education favoured by Britain 's economic competitors , arguing that the nations that prosper most are those that prepare their students best for the " enterprise culture " of the late twentieth century . |
| 29 | Marie Burch , who back in the old days jumped ship from the forerunner of Unix System Laboratories Inc to join the then-enemy Open Software Foundation as director , business area management , was one of those that lost their jobs in the Foundation 's recent reshuffle . |
| 30 | There are those that fulfil their childhood dreams , those that are talented and reach their goals early in life and are penalized because of their youth , as well as those who lack the courage to make their dreams a reality . |