Example sentences of "[adj] that [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the summer , when Sirius rises heliacally , only twelve of these divisions of the sky can be seen rising during the hours of darkness , and it was this that led to the twelve-hour division of the night . |
| 2 | The degree and meaning of prostitution was an important issue in itself ( one estimate would have made prostitution the fourth largest female occupation ) but more important , given the double standard , was the reservoir of venereal disease especially syphilis , that it was perceived as constituting , a threat particularly to the efficiency of the armed services , and it was concern over this that led to the passing of the Contagious Diseases Acts ( in 1864 , 1866 , 1869 ) . |
| 3 | It was this that led to the first hints of how the theories of quantum mechanics and general relativity might affect each other — a glimpse of the shape of a quantum theory of gravity yet to come . |
| 4 | It is this that leads to the dependency culture predominant among deaf people in integrated education . |
| 5 | and coming up with a travesty like this that masquerades as a motion to the Council . |
| 6 | If BR could not make a case for seven trains for one of its most profitable routes , it was clear that plans for a second tranche of HSTs for the Cross Country group of services would not satisfy the new criteria . |
| 7 | As the implications of another disastrous election defeat begin to be analysed , it is clear that calls for the Labour Party to embrace PR as a way of breaking the Tory stranglehold are gaining in strength . |
| 8 | Comparison between studies is therefore difficult ; although all make it clear that caring for a dementia sufferer can be extremely stressful . |
| 9 | And it 's only in the minority of cases where things go wrong that come to the attention at the Trading Standards Department . |
| 10 | Mr Symington 's campaign was mildly cleaner until a recent commercial that finished with a picture of Mr Goddard being locked behind bars . |
| 11 | The rate recorded for the South East was under half that recorded for the North of England . |
| 12 | The show gathered momentum quickly and finished on a high that lasted through the party held afterwards at the neighbouring Holiday Inn . |
| 13 | She was marked out by her brightly coloured stockings , some red , some yellow and some that looked like a chessboard . |
| 14 | Membership benefits include some that arrive through the post , and others that are waiting for you just around the corner … |
| 15 | He drew one hand to his lips and kissed it , but his fingers left her other hand to trace the wet that trickled over the blue smudges under her eyes . |
| 16 | The more light that falls on the eyes , the more the pupils contract to vertical slits ; the less light there is , the more they open up to round , black pools . |
| 17 | erm Well not really because erm I believe erm that one was erm one of a few that survived at the erm time of the change of the erm Prime Minister . |
| 18 | Should languages have diverged sufficiently radically in our evolutionary past , and should cerebral organization have adapted constantly to the need of parsing , it is quite possible that counterexamples to the claim of eventual competence might be found . |
| 19 | It is possible that climbs on the subsidiary slabs still remain . |
| 20 | Secondly , it is possible that costs in the longer term may be ignored . |
| 21 | And you know , the sad thing is there are an awful lot of Chri faith , that mu that that comes under the realm , to my way of thinking , of mind over matter , that 's the power of positive thinking , that is not biblical faith . |
| 22 | Are things now so bad for Labour that glancing over the assembled new talent , one says ‘ Watch Netherthwaite , he could be a future leader of the opposition ’ ? |
| 23 | They hammed it up in the spectacular 17th century building unaware that smoke from the candles was blacking up the beautiful hand-painted ceiling . |
| 24 | Prosecutions by local authorities under the Act of 1950 have little deterrent effect , because the increased sales are such that fines at the level presently authorised under the statute can be absorbed by large retailers as a relatively small increase in their costs , though the same is not true of small shops with their much lower sales . |
| 25 | However , the entry in the article which raised ghosts from the past was the section of Washington write-offs , in particular the entry concerning WF-495 that crashed in the sea on its way to the USA . |
| 26 | Different sections can be masked off in various ways ( for example , by a black card or a partial image painted on glass , partly left clear ) and exposed separately — either to give a composite that looks like a single image , or to show multiple images at once . |
| 27 | ‘ Very dangerous that stretch by the Botley turn … ’ |
| 28 | Some of the revisions are relatively trivial , but collectively , they show that the principle of stylistic variation — that there can be alternative ways of saying " the same thing " — can explain much that goes into the process of literary composition , as well as much that is involved in the reader 's interpretation of the text . |
| 29 | There are many groups , much literature , and a great deal of help available for the widowed or divorced — so much that to go into the subject in detail would require another book . |
| 30 | In science , for example , the earth science component ( attainment targets 9 and 16 , with aspects of attainment targets 5 , 6 , 7 and 8 ) includes much that has in the past been described as geography , while the materials component ( ATs 6–8 ) includes a great deal that has conventionally been regarded as technology . |