Example sentences of "that [verb] [adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as protecting domestic firms ' market share , the obvious motivation for the Polish government legislation would appear to be its desire to induce Western firms to invest in the local high-tech industry , a policy that has also seen it pursue interventionist policies in the fields of telecommunications and electronic components — all areas for which Poland was earmarked as a specialist under mechanisms instigated by the Soviet Union in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 2 | However , the evidence that has finally convinced me that the neutral theory , if not the whole truth , is at least close to the truth concerns changes in the base sequence of DNA , and not in the amino acid sequence of proteins . |
| 3 | On his return to Scotland , Souness chose to live in Edinburgh , a decision that has not endeared him to some of the more primitive members of the Glasgow community . |
| 4 | But er I think that has not improved it . |
| 5 | You 're the only dick that has n't heard it |
| 6 | They 've got a supermarket , if that 's a hairdressers that has n't made it , it 's not a good sign . |
| 7 | It also faced him with the need to untangle a financial crisis , a task that has frequently occupied him in his career . |
| 8 | He had pride at stake , deposed champion Senna to humble — and a point to underline to the team that has negligently abandoned him to a new career in America . |
| 9 | Nothing would have induced me to part now except an overwhelming sense that the course of action which has been pursued has put the country- and not merely the country , but throughout the world , the principles for which you and I have always stood throughout our political lives-in the greatest peril that has ever overtaken them . |
| 10 | This is another aspect of my work with film that has so fascinated me : the physiognomy of a great orchestra when the players are really concentrating , really absorbed in the process of music-making . |
| 11 | With their new album there 's enthusiastic talk of breaking the American market that has long eluded them . |
| 12 | It 's the inappropriate nature of my clothing that has consistently let me down through the years . |
| 13 | That gives encouragement to all of us who argue that the British electorate has an enormous collective wisdom that has seldom let it down . |
| 14 | He is well liked and sticks to his brief come what may — a tactic that has rightly earned him the nickname of the ’ Bardic steamroller ’ . |
| 15 | In the glow of this new power , erotic love and spiritual love are somehow conflated ( in a way that seems finally to overcome for Prince the apparent mutual antagonism between sensuality and righteousness that has hitherto perplexed him ) . |
| 16 | It is this element of Charlie that has perhaps made him popular with other ( albeit less twisted ) musicians . |
| 17 | One type of music that has always had it s roots in the spiritual realm is traditional Irish . |
| 18 | She replayed in her mind every detail of the night before , every provocative movement that had unconsciously invited him to make love to her . |
| 19 | This was the plea of a young Eritrean boy as he was being dragged back to the plane that had just brought him to the UK , when in September 1990 , he and his sister were denied access to the asylum procedure . |
| 20 | My brain began to overheat at the sheer scale of the disaster that had just overtaken me . |
| 21 | Right now there was more danger in the strange , yielding weakness that had just taken her by surprise . |
| 22 | As their lips met , she knew in a flash that this kiss of love was even more wonderful than the words that had just thrilled her . |
| 23 | Though nothing had altered , somehow the fall had shattered the ice that had temporarily walled her up . |
| 24 | This case concerned a man who set up in competition with the business that had previously employed him . |
| 25 | Against all the odds , it had proved to be a happy and companionable day , Ross 's unusually calm , friendly manner towards her having released much of the stresses and strains that had previously left her feeling so tense and nervous . |
| 26 | The cultural field expands thus to such a point that it bursts through the barriers that had previously contained it as only a de-limited field . |
| 27 | On the other hand , Memet had been to public school , so that had probably finished him off … |
| 28 | They had dropped out of the human chain of ancestors and descendants that had formerly bound them all together . |
| 29 | Mary was a sharp-eyed Brownie , and she had noticed the wheel-marks left in the muddy lane by the estate-car that had nearly knocked her down . |
| 30 | I think erm er I know there has been some discussion of I I about er and I put er , in this report I think all the documentation that the ministers and ministers that had already seen it and I 've explained that the big issue is that er the URC , I think a weekly account o ah of all other informations has er , worked out very on the basis of five thousand and I was been tugging you pay your car off to get that and . |