Example sentences of "[det] 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 | 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 . |
| 23 | Community participation in conservation can occur under a variety of different circumstances , but one can identify some that make it easier . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Er erm I think , I mean they all eat most of them eat the ham , there were a few that sent it back I think it was probably a bit much for them . |
| 26 | There 's one muscle that pulls your arm that way and another that pulls it back again . |
| 27 | I I think , I 've a funny feeling that did adopt it but quite how much that means I do n't understand . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It was these that made her carry on the conversation . |
| 30 | It 's jobs like these that earn me my pocket money — forty pence weekly which goes straight in my savings account . |