Example sentences of "that [vb past] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously such methods are far from sufficient ( an apocryphal example of the problems that arose involves the translation of the sentence ‘ The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak ’ into Russian and then back-translated to English as ‘ The vodka is strong but the meat is rotten ’ ) . |
| 2 | Was it perhaps a memory of childhood , she wondered , that made watching a woman cooking in her own kitchen so extraordinarily reassuring and satisfying . |
| 3 | The British Motor Industry Heritage Trust is appealing for drawings , sketches and artefacts relating to the companies that amalgamated to form the Rover Group . |
| 4 | The Harter Act voided any bill of lading clause that sought to relieve the carrier from the consequences of negligence in proper loading , stowage , custody , care , or proper delivery of the goods . |
| 5 | But while it would be wrong to minimize the hold of this movement , particularly in the south of France and in the Balkans , and especially between Bulgaria and Constantinople , the major threat to the future of the Church was not from the heretics but from the popular movements that sought to restore the laity 's role in the life of the Church . |
| 6 | It was also within the Special Commissioner 's discretion to exclude opinion evidence that sought to answer the question before him . |
| 7 | I remind the Minister of the take-up campaign that sought to improve the lot of mentally handicapped people attending adult training centres . |
| 8 | Thus in 1969 the Lords rejected a bill that sought to free the Home Secretary from a legal obligation to present to Parliament the report of a commission that had reviewed parliamentary constituencies : the more equitable redistribution of seats it proposed was likely to cost the Labour Government up to twenty seats at the forthcoming general election . |
| 9 | The Dorchester crowd that sought to rescue the Pretender 's effigy from being burnt by the Dissenters on George I 's coronation day were encouraged by a certain gentleman who gave them half a hogshead of beer . |
| 10 | The prospect of a national curriculum with prescribed core and foundation subjects covering about 70 per cent of timetabled time , marks a departure from earlier recommendations that sought to delineate a core of subject studies or areas of experience within the secondary curriculum . |
| 11 | And a breeze that failed to set a single leaf atremble . |
| 12 | Injections of 5nl of the antibody ( 40μgμl -1 ) generated embryos that failed to form the furrow between midbrain and hindbrain in 50–60% of cases , whereas injection of 2nl of antibody led to hypertrophy of the furrow region in 12–15% of cases . |
| 13 | Assemblyman Richard Brodsky , who introduced the disclosure requirement for house bids ( and other proposals that failed to win the support of his colleagues ) rejected the notion that the bill 's passage in the assembly was a hollow victory at the legislative eleventh hour . |
| 14 | After a career spanning Ipswich , Sunderland and Carlisle he now turns out ‘ only when they 've eight men ’ for the Oak , a love of the game that failed to prevent the pub team finishing bottom of their league . |
| 15 | He had short , black hair with a brutally regimented parting and a somewhat effete face that failed to conceal an undeniably hard and no-nonsense efficiency . |
| 16 | His early work about the alleys of Gamalliyya was fundamentally on the side of the revolution-the one that failed to dislodge the British in 1919 , and that finally threw out Farouk and brought Neguib and later Nasser to rule Egypt . |
| 17 | He found that not only did the States that failed to ratify the amendment have larger populations of both religious fundamentalists and political conservatives , but also that States which had opposed earlier civil rights amendments ( the 19th on women 's suffrage and the 26th on youth suffrage ) also tended to oppose the ERA . |
| 18 | It was , nonetheless , a film that tried to solicit an understanding of the emerging drug culture , and , for good or evil , persisted with its apologist tone that acid was OK when used with caution . |
| 19 | It was a Labour government that proposed to implement a process of ‘ organic change ’ to accommodate the demands of the former county boroughs ( DOE 1979 ) . |
| 20 | Resisted and resented though he had been at every turn , he nonetheless detected a direction to his enquiries that promised to become an unwavering course . |
| 21 | The time was ripe for an approach that promised to apply the methods of natural science to the international environment . |
| 22 | The most common proposition was that designed to limit the number of terms which could be served by legislators . |
| 23 | THE rise in share prices that followed the return of the Tories to power sharply reversed the falls that occurred following the announcement of a General Election . |
| 24 | As well as important historical events that helped to shape the town , the walks show how people lived , worked and enjoyed themselves . |
| 25 | And it was works like these , where the kitchen table was strewn with the un-washed remains of breakfast , that helped to give the movement its name . |
| 26 | The point is that I made a mistake — oh , I do have a feeling for him , that helped to confuse the issue , we do like one another — what I have come to see is that my falling for Lewis was not what I took it to be . ’ |
| 27 | In order to create sufficient headroom within the studio , it was necessary to remove an existing tie-beam which spanned between two timber posts that helped to support the roof structure and to adapt and re-site this member at a higher level , just below the soffit of the ceiling ( Plate 11 ) . |
| 28 | It 's space age technology that helped to snatch the order from under the noses of major American competitors . |
| 29 | Today , having given up smoking about twenty years ago , I find it unbelievable that I should have smoked as many as ten cigarettes a day ; but they were one of the things that helped to create a bond with Dana , something we could share . |
| 30 | Mr Guerin , who sold his International Signal and Control company to Ferranti in 1987 for £420m , has admitted creating numerous fictitious arms contracts that helped to create the illusion of prosperity . |