Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [noun] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Looking back I am constantly amazed and grateful for the high risks that others took by giving me responsibility in my early years in ICI .
2 These were not the short-legged all-white animals that Buddie kept in his pigsties over by the disused cinder-heap .
3 It was to her animals that Hannah turned for companionship — even conversation !
4 From the seventeenth century onwards , attempts were made to create artificial pools with trapping systems , but it was not until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that ideas became at all sophisticated .
5 Rogue Wave Software Inc has acquired the C++ class library interface to relational databases that Glockenspiel marketed in Europe as Commonbase and the Qualix Group distributed in the US as db++ .
6 And then he had turned his head and seen that Grainne was watching him , and a sudden , surprised joy unfolded within his heart , for there was such desire in her eyes that lights exploded inside his head , and he wanted to stand still and savour the moment .
7 I know someone there who 's still trying to classify a few of the South American crabs that Darwin left to the Museum .
8 The one that has the most powerful effect on me is the legend of the Pacific Islanders that Grimble wrote about in his book We chose the Islands .
9 It was with one of those credit insurers that Graydon met in January 1991 to take a fresh look at how corporate risk could be effectively measured and summarised .
10 The relationships that McKinsey posited between areas of its matrix , the life-cycle and financial-management policies are summarized in figure 4.3 .
11 the chasm is too great though the gulf between God and man is , is far too wide and we try our various planks , our planks of being good , of doing nice things , planks of being religious , of being confirmed , of being baptized , of going to church of perhaps attending church , perhaps even becoming a member of a church , the plank of saying prayers I think you know and God does n't even hear us , the bible tells us , if I regarded iniquity in my heart God does n't hear me , he says I will not hear you , the only prayer that God hears from the sinner is God be merciful to me a sinner and we 've tried that plank and it does n't work , of course it does n't because that 's not what it means to be a Christian , the plank of bible reading , we can read the bible , we can memorise it , it does n't make us a Christian , Jesus said to some of the religious leaders of his days , you search the scriptures for you think that in them you have life , but you will not come to me , and so it 's not being in religious , er being religious or any thing else as we well know , it 's something far , far more fundamental than that , those words that Jesus said to Nicodemus you must be born again , that new birth , that new start , starting all over again , and so what happens , what 's it all about , what is it to , what is it to be a Christian .
12 earlier on in the book was the pictures that Rochester looked at
13 The pictures that curators tried for decades to coax or pry off the Barnes 's walls will also travel to the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and then to the Museum of Western Art in Tokyo .
14 Whether the child receives breast or bottle , whether he is fed on demand or by schedule , the age at which he is weaned and how suddenly , and the severity of his toilet training — these are the kinds of influences that Freud considered to be major determinants of personality growth .
15 You know , you and I today are still reaping , are reaping now the result , the benefits of the blessings that God poured upon Naomi .
16 The new posture was reflected in other steps that Congress took in an attempt to improve its procedures and which , ultimately , were to make life substantially more difficult for presidents .
17 She had n't needed to speak Danish to realise the contents of the bottle : the water of life … call it would you would … it was pure unadulterated spirit and it had its equivalent in every country of the world which indulged in alcohol , so potent it should only be consumed in small doses as the tiny , liqueur-sized vessels that Rune placed on the table testified …
18 These are the er accounts that Mr put to you , are they audited accounts ?
19 One of the most noticeable tendencies that Alexander observed in himself was the constant tightening of his neck muscles , the sterno-cleido-mastoid and trapezius .
20 He puts the success down to the science strategies that NERC adopted in the 1987–89 period , while the new resources gained in 1988 and 1989 are ‘ now bearing scientific fruit ’ .
21 Emerson rejects convention and in doing so stands for all the values that Forster believed to be most important — authenticity and truth .
22 And the same point is put beyond dispute in the careful declaration of purpose in John 's Gospel , expressly written about the evidence of Christ 's signs : ‘ There were indeed many other signs that Jesus performed in the presence of his disciples , which are not recorded in this book .
23 Not all the birds that Gould caught in this way were subjected to an impromptu autopsy .
24 All of the areas that Papez implicated in emotion are part of an anatomically identified system known as the limbic system .
25 Before returning to these implicatures in the next section , let us first illustrate the other major kind of implicatures that Grice had in mind .
26 Let us next consider the psychological and artistic impedimenta that Green brought with him into the crucible .
27 Can you please give me any idea of the royalties/advances that Charkin negotiated with Wang over the electronic rights in COD ?
28 The other half was the requirement that the cargo be delivered only to the lawful holder of an original in the set of three bills that Savary referred to as a ‘ triplet . ’
29 Two of the earldoms that Edward created in 1337 , those of Gloucester and Huntingdon , died with their first holder , and a third , the Ufford earldom of Suffolk , survived for only two generations .
30 The book is divided into four main blocks , each dealing with one of the four principal contributions that Einstein made to physical theory — statistical mechanics , special relativity , general relativity and the quantum theory .
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