Example sentences of "that which had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It continued to exist , as Wilson later admitted , in a state of bankruptcy as chronic as that which had beset his earlier organisation . |
| 2 | For all the pioneer ideology of frontier self-sufficiency which came to surround the early Americans , increasing in both numbers and wealth , they provided a market for consumer goods by 1740 which was not unlike that which had emerged in England itself . |
| 3 | As a programme of state medicine it was quite as significant as that which had shaped the environmental reforms seventy years before . |
| 4 | THE world of the second half of the nineteenth century was very different from that which had existed before 1848 . |
| 5 | The unity he had in mind was , ironically , that which had existed before Germany became a nation-state , the unity of the disunited rainbow of German states and principalities , the state of unity when Jews were legally inferior to Germans , when Poles were not a numerical threat , when expansion to the east had been easy , when the German people had not been a rising industrial power , when the massed levy of conscripts had been enough to rout their opponents . |
| 6 | Not only had a large section of the population been enfranchised , it was a notably different electorate from that which had existed previously . |
| 7 | When she wakened it was still dark , the orchestra still playing , though it was not that which had aroused her . |
| 8 | Although Mondello was convicted of lesser charges , including riot , his acquittal on the murder counts was unanticipated because the evidence against him was generally considered to be stronger than that which had led to Fama 's conviction . |
| 9 | The Christian Democratic Party ( DC ) , the largest party in Parliament since 1948 , had experienced internal dissent , including that which had led to the formation of La Rete ( " The Network " ) as a new national political force [ see pp. 38481-82 ] . |
| 10 | But it was n't that which had caused the perspiration to stand out on her skin . |
| 11 | Colonel Philips explained that they had thought initially that they had discovered a danger similar to that which had caused the Hob 's Lane disaster . |
| 12 | Even more remarkable was the change which the war had wrought in the relations between the union and the Shipping Federation and that which had developed between Havelock Wilson and the labour movement . |
| 13 | Many heiresses could give him dollars , few could offer him the appearance and manner of a lady — it was that which had attracted him after the cruder charms of such as Maybelle Foy . |
| 14 | Nothing daunted , the committee members set to ; they contacted friends and acquaintances on other islands , they studied ferry time-tables , and planned their campaign with a speed which matched that which had equipped the Law Centre . |
| 15 | Some feeling like that which had attacked Jim Nesbitt last year and made him marry that girl in Durham , who , to his mind , had nothing going for her . |
| 16 | With no likelihood of progress in the dispute , it was widely believed that Yeltsin had cancelled his visit in order to avoid a failure to achieve progress on the issue similar to that which had accompanied the visit by the then Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in April 1991 . |
| 17 | This was a very different type of nationalism from that which had produced the United States of America , and one which it is not easy to explain , as has sometimes been attempted , in terms of Gandhi 's attachment to traditional Hindu notions of self-purification . |
| 18 | To both men it seemed that a way out for all parties might be found in an international conference , such as that which had settled the Luxembourg question in 1867 . |
| 19 | The shadows took on forms and approached him , wreathed in the phantom smoke that matched that which had taken them from his life . |
| 20 | This was a distinct motivation from that which had offered free places in the old endowed grammar schools and which had allowed a small measure of upward mobility for the bright working-class child . |
| 21 | In June 1990 the Lubbers government presented to parliament a revised National Environmental Plan replacing that which had brought down Lubbers ' previous centre-right coalition [ see pp. 36666-67 ; 36900 ] . |
| 22 | Furthermore , a fear of revolution on the lines of that which had occurred in France still loomed large in the minds of the new English bourgeoisie , underpinning the demand for an organized police system geared to the protection of the life and property of the ruling classes ( Reiner 1985 ) . |