Example sentences of "[that] [vb past] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The long battle that followed matched the political and philosophical situation of the time . |
| 2 | And the , the animal life that was destroyed there , in fact that amazing picture of the oil slick that looked liked the sea , remember it |
| 3 | The report referred to " the failure , negligence , complacency and indifference noted on all levels of the services that had planned the visit [ Boudiaf 's visit to Annaba ] , organized its schedule and guaranteed the security of the President " . |
| 4 | Rain and rivers eroded the soft sandstones that had filled the lagoon basin , scouring them away so that today the reefs are exposed once more , high and dry , facing not the sea but desert covered with clumps of spinifex grass and stunted mulga trees . |
| 5 | Alison was up the steps and away , lost in the press of people that had filled the bar since they 'd come in . |
| 6 | By the nineteenth century , however , and especially in the life sciences , the metaphysics that had underpinned the work of Copernicus , Kepler , and Newton had become obstructive . |
| 7 | This showed that he had not only been in the Catalina that had sighted the Bismarck but was actually piloting it and had taken avoiding action when the Bismarck opened fire . |
| 8 | The other officer was Gerhard Junack of the Bismarck 's engineering staff , who helped dispel a myth which had gained some credence in the Royal Navy that it was British torpedoes and shells exclusively that had sent the allegedly unsinkable Bismarck to the bottom . |
| 9 | In 1990 Indiana passed a law that obliged transporters to certify that their rubbish included no medical or hazardous waste , and charged them tipping fees equal to those at the landfill nearest the place that had sent the rubbish . |
| 10 | Yasushi Mieno , the bank 's governor , raised interest rates to stem the wave of speculative spending that had sent the price of shares and property soaring in the late-1980s . |
| 11 | In this ‘ Leninist ’ , as he was dubbed , still shone that naïve peasant trust in the very highest authority that had kept the Romanovs secure for so long . |
| 12 | He pulled up , climbed out , and removed the plastic cone that had kept the space free . |
| 13 | Forces that had kept the size of Fleet Street under continuous pressure for more than 25 years were broken . |
| 14 | Twenty-five minutes later they saw the high blue-concreted wall on the right , the barrier that had kept the secrets of the Red Army from the citizens of Dresden . |
| 15 | ‘ But if it 's the giants you 're wanting to fool , then it 'd be the grand old Draoicht Suan , ’ said Pumlumon , and the Gnomes nodded sagely and said that would be it , the Draoicht Suan it would be , the spell that had kept the Trees fast asleep for so many years now , and was n't it a powerful strong spell and Pumlumon the fellow to be spinning it for them all ? |
| 16 | With that instinct for survival that had kept the Member for Arden in Parliament for so long , Grunte had sold him the car at a nil rate of interest . |
| 17 | They sold off the mine 's equipment , including the water pumps that had kept the 1,500 foot shafts dry . |
| 18 | Furthermore , the Polish nobility that had led the national movement in Marx 's time had yielded power in Poland to a new rising capitalist class and settled for privileges guaranteed by the Tsar . |
| 19 | The man ignored her , and she cursed the professional thoroughness that had led the florist to de-thorn the blooms . |
| 20 | But now , looking at the lined , self-knowing expression of this consummate dissembler , Harry found it easier to believe he had merely staged a performance , an expert and convincing charade that had achieved the desired result . |
| 21 | He scowled and once more she was forcibly reminded of his Viking heritage , the cold , hard power that had fortified the Norsemen as they had bounded from their makeshift camps intent on conquest . |
| 22 | They replaced two old units that had operated the air conditioning for 25 years . |
| 23 | Last week the manager of a French company that had handled the waste was arrested . |
| 24 | They learned of the links that had joined the chain . |
| 25 | On May 18 1988 , Computergram Number 931 reported that IBM was seeking retroactive royalties from any company that had cloned the Personal Computer * * * the Open Software Foundation was revealed with seven sponsors * * * |
| 26 | It was this that had caused the shin injury , pushing me on when I could have taken things more slowly . |
| 27 | The traffic that had caused the furrows a mile back could not have come this way . |
| 28 | She knew she should n't speak to a strange man , but as her Brownie Guider was under a tree not many yards away she thought she could tell him about the litter that had caused the Pack to lose the use of Ferngrove Park . |
| 29 | Erdle indicated the book that had caused the recent controversy , still clutched in Melissa 's hand ; now , he was smiling , openly taunting Gebrec . |
| 30 | Lin Foh looked shocked as Cowley stated the unstatable , heavily implying that Lin Foh was not a welcome presence in England , after the coup that had ousted the ruling junta two months before . |