Example sentences of "[adj] that [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of the indebtedness of these middle-income countries arose through borrowings in private sector capital markets , mainly the euro-currency markets , and although it was feared that the banks involved were seriously at risk it is becoming clear that rescheduling of debt by the banks with the debtor countries has been possible . |
| 2 | The whole question of the salaries and allowances of the holders of the highest mevleviyets in the early days of the empire is a vexed one , but it seems likely that to speak of a 500-akce kadilik in the time of Mehmed II is anachronistic . |
| 3 | Most of the other metopes are fragmentary , and it is hard to say if they carry out this distinction , though the little that remains of the lion suggests that it went well with the other western ones . |
| 4 | With all that said of course the transition period is going to be very dangerous for the kind of reasons we 've been talking about already and I think is right too when he says that er , the so called nationalist in the non Russian Republics , if you 're a Democrat in a empire , then you are inevitably a nationalist as well because you want your nation to have its natural human rights . |
| 5 | ( c ) The ruined huts are all that remain of the old crofting settlement of Borreraig , an extreme example of the eviction of crofting communities in the 19th century . |
| 6 | Spinneys and woods are all that remain of once thick forest cover . |
| 7 | Now this space and a terrace of standard Great Northern Railway Company houses are all that remain of a venture which attempted to turn Mundesley from a tiny fishing village to a major seaside resort in the early years of this century . |
| 8 | By 1837 all that survived of the house were the garden and the avenue . |
| 9 | Apart from Brooke , an obscure little house , all that survived of the medieval foundations of Rutland was the hospital , or almshouse , at Oakham , which only had goods worth 40s. : clearly its income of 20 marks only just sufficed to maintain the twelve poor inmates : Warden Gunby was no Septimus Harding . |
| 10 | It was , in truth , all that remained of what had been the North Pier , blown away by a great storm in the 1920s . |
| 11 | were all that remained of the boat at Sutton Hoo . |
| 12 | All that remained of the laughter of that morning was the cardboard box filled with dead peonies and shoved against the wall in the corner by the sink . |
| 13 | Together with a couple of swing boats , this was all that remained of the travelling showman 's fair that used to appear at the feast . |
| 14 | A few pale streaks of mauve were all that remained of the sunset ; inside , the room was cosy with shaded lamps , a thick brown carpet and rich mahogany furniture . |
| 15 | All that remained of him was his cap on Gottwald 's head . |
| 16 | All that remained of Brigstock Villa , shortly after work started last week , was a pile of rubble ’ . |
| 17 | Outside the circle a few mounds and stones were all that remained of the huddle of huts that had once crowded under the broch 's protection . |
| 18 | The Thun-Hohensteins had still to overcome a German bureaucratic hurdle : the customs officials could hardy believe that a German-Bohemian family driven out of Bohemia could want to give back to Decin a valuable painting which was all that remained of their former wealth . |
| 19 | To the east was a thin strip of coast , all that remained of the sweeping plains of Tiranoc . |
| 20 | The thirty-nine works Brooklyn acquired nineteen paintings , nine works on paper and three sculptures ; the Met gained seven oils and one work on paper are all that remained of the hundreds of works the Lowenthals purchased between 1943 and 1958 . |
| 21 | Across the gill a rusting compressed air chamber and a few ruined walls were all that remained of the Sir Francis Level , one of the last and most mechanised mines driven in the dale . |
| 22 | Within a few decades , forests and animals had returned to the shattered islands which were all that remained of Krakatoa 's outer rim ; and from the waters between them emerged an ominous smoking mound , sometimes growing at a rate of more than three feet a month . |
| 23 | A few miles away , in three directions , lay the crescent islands of Verlaten , Lang Eiland and Rakata , which were all that remained of the original mother volcano 's metamorphosis . |
| 24 | All that remained of him were the words of his confused hopes , swimming on the pages . |
| 25 | It was all that remained of a new bone-china tea set she had bought only last week . |
| 26 | All that remained of the abbey was a very large and rather ugly abbey church and the old abbey gateway building , which was now part of St. Albans school , where I later went . |
| 27 | Its bow-wave made a dark miraging ripple on the creamy blue surface of the sea , and that was all that remained of civilization when the boats had disappeared behind the western headland . |
| 28 | In the centre of the carbonaceous ball I could discern a small whitish marble which seemed to be all that remained of the original vegetable . |
| 29 | They were all that remained of the men who had worked here on the Project . |
| 30 | We soon came upon a fascinating group of ancient dwellings , all that remained of the old village where the last inhabitants of Rona lived in primitive conditions and awful isolation until their final evacuation in 1844 . |