Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] that [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wars that were to end abruptly and , ironically , for reasons that had nothing to do with internal musical divisions . |
| 2 | The Course abandoned the use of triple and quadruple modules at the time of the 1984 CNAA resubmission for reasons that had to do both with inflexibility for student programmes and with the risk of student failure . |
| 3 | I wanted to go ashore , ’ she told him through teeth that clattered together unpleasantly . |
| 4 | In other countries , despite the rhetoric of the Alliance for Progress that stressed social justice , the officials , bureaucrats , agronomists and administrators frequently implemented and supported programmes that could demonstrate that they could bring about higher levels of production . |
| 5 | There was something about Mortimer that made her uneasy . |
| 6 | Some social scientists did : most ignored the debate because it was , frankly , naive ( and often consisted of nothing more than special pleading from scientists working for institutions that had much to lose ) . |
| 7 | These ‘ other ’ for signs that signalled its ‘ innate physical , mental and moral inferiority ’ ( David Green ‘ On Foucault ’ in Ten 8 No 14 ) . |
| 8 | The decree of 1616 did attempt to discriminate between books that aimed to reconcile the earth 's motion with Scripture and those that remained within the confines of astronomical hypothesis . |
| 9 | DeFries made a lot of career decisions for David that worked , but suddenly decisions , desires to do things , were coming between the two of them , so there was a clash on whose decision was going to win and whose idea was going to win . |
| 10 | But it was the call for investment that aroused the most plain fears , and these have been compounded in recent days by a clutch of investments in Eastern Europe by big western manufacturers . |
| 11 | Non-propagating contractions were defined as contractions that did not propagate at least 15 cm between the recording ports . |
| 12 | An interference effect was indeed apparent at the start of the final stage ( Fig. 4.7 ) and did not differ in magnitude between subjects that had received their aversive training in the same context as that used for the test and subjects that had received aversive training in a different context . |
| 13 | My lovely Gerald was very , very clever he was a mechanic , he was a graduate mechanical engineer and he knew everything about cars that needed to be known . |
| 14 | She did n't need to ask ; there was an aura about Dana that made Claudia feel she was a grey shadow of her twin . |
| 15 | I 've noted there that , that if you were to bid for funds that had tapering attaching to them , and therefore you would be picking up increased costs in ninety five , six , and ninety six , seven , that they would n't exceed the figure shown at the bottom of the page . |
| 16 | Because 74.3 per cent of the Scottish people who voted , opted for parties that supported constitutional change , and if they all blew hard enough in the direction of St Andrew 's House , the walls were eventually bound to fall down . |
| 17 | In particular , we would not know what it was about consciousness that gave rise to its falling under the given kinds of statement . |
| 18 | He stared at her through eyes that saw the shadows of many lands . |
| 19 | Forty years on , the Mail and Express remained , with the new Today , but found themselves squeezed between sectors that had doubled in size . |
| 20 | Stephen broke the silence after minutes that felt like an hour . |
| 21 | Nothing else in the whole world seemed to matter except the sensation after sensation that flowed through her until touch was no longer enough . |
| 22 | But it was the events after dinner that defied explanation . |
| 23 | Both Aitken and Stanley Baldwin had an admiration for Law that bordered on veneration . |
| 24 | It is to Alan Rough 's eternal credit that he developed a sense of humour which carried him through experiences that ranged from the sublime to the ridiculous . |
| 25 | He found , for example , that cover values for vegetation , litter and bare ground were distinct between sites that had been moderately and severely affected with a less distinct gradation occurring between slightly and moderately disturbed sites , and that noticeable exposure of mineral soil occurred only after the vegetation cover was reduced by c. 40 per cent . |
| 26 | Table II shows the death rates for trials that reported at least one death . |
| 27 | through cumulus that had the lapis glow |
| 28 | Where appropriate , however , the ASB will consider incorporating an exclusion for transactions that took place prior to the promulgation of the standard . |
| 29 | Meteorology is probably the most international of the sciences , and Scott played a significant part in establishing the tradition of ready co-operation between countries that became the accepted norm . |
| 30 | They went through a field where sheep grazed , and then through bracken that sloped down steeply to the River Dyn . |