Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than a hundred years of systematic captivity had created a whole new genus , animals that had none of the skills and few of the desires of a wild habitat . |
| 2 | Dark , almond eyes that pierced him with their beauty . |
| 3 | The temperature in the restaurant seemed to drop by several degrees , and the eyes that met hers across the table glittered threateningly gold . |
| 4 | What left his stamp on the stewardship of our movement was that he held to these passions so tenaciously and yet drew on inner reserves that illumined them with an unshakeable commitment to excellence and that rarest of all qualities personal integrity . |
| 5 | ‘ It was brilliant to hit the goals that took us to the top , and it 's got to be the best 90 minutes of my career . ’ |
| 6 | Others were obscure , yet-to-come images that meant nothing to her . |
| 7 | When I think of love or beauty or gardens , the images that moved me in my everyday life appear again and I feel the same sensations as when I first found them . |
| 8 | He pulled them both under the blanket , cradled her to him , crooned words that meant nothing in her ear , kissed new tears from her cheeks . |
| 9 | It was probably the idea of having to hang on for no more than two months that convinced me of the value of these silly prophesies , but I was a true believer . |
| 10 | She thanked the driver , lifted the latch of the low iron gate and took four steps that brought her to the front door . |
| 11 | I turned to go into the house , made with great difficulty the three or four steps that separated me from my room , and felt my arms and legs burning , also my body . |
| 12 | Presumably it was both practical and political reasons that led him to the subject working party strategy . |
| 13 | For instance , Alex was shown pairs of objects that had nothing in common and asked ‘ What 's the same ? ’ |
| 14 | They covered a large tract of ground , quite deserted , but conveniently illuminated by the high powerful lights round the warehouses that separated it from the still-working mainline railway . |
| 15 | A useful outcome is the third ingredient , for what would be the point of skills that led you to a useless outcome ? |
| 16 | During the dramatic climatic fluctuations of the last ice age — warm to cold to warm repeated several times — the flowering plants acted as thermometers for the climate , sensitive recorders of the shifts that affected everything from beetles to man . |
| 17 | In America small town-dumps have been closed , or sold by the cities that owned them to private operators . |
| 18 | For humanities students , as for science students , the values that attracted them to a subject were values which were also important to them as individuals . |
| 19 | The local police had had a busy evening with an exceptional number of hoax calls that led them to non-existent road accidents drunken brawls and even — a touch that showed a nice appreciation of British susceptibilities — a rabid dog on the loose . |
| 20 | Ants of knowledge were pick-pick-picking at her brain , fighting their way in , and she had no defences against them , but the data they brought were swirled and fragmented pixels that frightened her with their strangeness . |
| 21 | They recorded information on the circumstances of the death and the symptoms and signs that preceded it on a form that included both an open history of the final illness and screening questions for the presence of common symptoms , followed by the application of appropriate modules with precoded answers . |
| 22 | It needs to be done now and it 's going to cost us more if we leave it till later , on that point I ca n't agree with your budget , so , I 'm afraid , it 's roads that put me against it . |
| 23 | They made shadowy forms that lowered themselves into seats , sat transfixed for a while and then rose and glided.away . |
| 24 | In addition , despite a disarmingly pleasant manner , Reagan was widely considered to harbour views that placed him outside the mainstream of American politics ; there was a possibility that he might tamper with social security or lead his country into war . |
| 25 | Each of these master gangs had ‘ satellites ’ , smaller groups that supported them at need and stayed in the general area . |
| 26 | Yet once children were taken into care , and especially if this was by a compulsory route , parents frequently felt ignored and excluded , and there was evidence that they were often left to cope alone with the practical and psychological barriers that divided them from their children . |
| 27 | As an additional sophistication in Superman , both camera and projector were slung from rigs that allowed them to be moved too . |
| 28 | On the other hand , the mere fact that in that time she has overtaken it most one of some 20 countries that outranked her in per capita terms is enough to establish that her record is less than spectacular . |
| 29 | Valdo and Romario soon defied the squelching conditions with a double exchange of passes that took them through the middle of the Dutch defence before the ball rolled across a gaping goalmouth with no one to apply a finishing touch . |
| 30 | He was the natural ancestor of Jim Baxter , Jimmy Johnstone and the rascals that followed them into Scotland shirts . |