Example sentences of "[noun] that happened " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is found along with fossils of planktonic organisms and it is possible to explain the change in growth between coil and trumpet as a change that happened when the larval shell settled on the bottom . |
| 2 | And ministerial statements have actually indicated that it 's not likely to appear , as a final version , until next year at the earliest , and so it would seem to me that there 's a great deal of thought to be gone into the precise wording of that P P G yet , and to rely on quotes from it wou is , is , is at best er , misleading , and I think we ought to bear in mind something that Mr Curtis mentioned this morning , that in fact the change that happened between draft P P G three and the final version , it is quite possible that the final version of P P G thirteen could be substantially different from the |
| 3 | When he discovered I could play the piano , whenever we were off together he dragged me down to one of the older lecture rooms in the Medical School basement that happened to possess a piano , to thump out the background beat . |
| 4 | and the last massacre that happened , which has never come out yet , will eventually have to come out , because there are soldiers now that are talking about it . |
| 5 | And the method they have adopted has proved to be the beginning of the slide that has lead to mass dispersals of the kind that happened at Brent . |
| 6 | I think he was a bit nervous really he thought , Oh my gosh you know that these are one of the big pickets that happened erm what are the women going to plan next you know and he felt you know Tom 's you know felt a bit sort of out of control of it really I think he was very impressed with er . |
| 7 | As previously mentioned in this book , signalboxes are the sort of railway infrastructure that , by their often remote location , are likely to have experiences of a supernatural nature and so it is no surprise that most signalmen have a tale of mystery and suspense that happened to friends of theirs . |
| 8 | The burglary that happened yesterday was traumatic . |
| 9 | In 1875 Francis Seymour Haden , FRCS , advocated by means of three letters to The Times a disintegrating coffin ‘ … of some lighter permeable material , such as wicker or lattice-work , open at the top , and filled in with any fragrant herbaceous matters that happened to be most readily obtainable . |
| 10 | Erm , and that er what causes erm David Lewis to tell the sorts of stories about he tells is this kind of hideous accident that happened to him when he was three years old and then was exaggerated by his |
| 11 | The accident that happened there has now been cleared off the carriageway . |
| 12 | Fossil plants are of great use in plotting the many shifts of climate that happened during the Tertiary : a humid-tropical flora may be found in what is now an arid region , or a warm-climate flora may be found in an area that is now decidedly cool . |
| 13 | However , even those who do not doubt the terrible things that happened can still squabble about their meaning . |
| 14 | We measure happiness and sadness by momentous things that happened on occasions such as these . |
| 15 | The subsequent development of the jaw enabled the vertebrates to exploit a wider range of lifestyles than were available to the jawless fish , and it would not be too gross a generalization to say that much of the evolution of the vertebrates was intimately related to things that happened to jaws . |
| 16 | You feel guilty in the here and now about things that happened in the past which you can not correct . |
| 17 | Another girl , Sally Harcourt , was absolutely horrified at some of the things that happened . |
| 18 | I 'm sorry I have n't written since then , but I 've felt very confused about some things that happened with us and you did n't seem to want to say any more . |
| 19 | I thought of this and other things that happened over seventy years ago after I went to the supermarket last Friday to do my week 's shopping . |
| 20 | She writes about some of the things that happened . |
| 21 | ‘ The hotel looked good — particularly the room service — but I do n't think I 'd want to have gone through the other things that happened to Kevin unless I had 50,000 policeman and 20,000 doctors with me to make sure I was okay . ’ |
| 22 | Before they met she had accepted her call-up into the armed forces because it was one of the things that happened in wartime ; accepted it because it was a moral necessity . |
| 23 | What people said , the things that happened , what we might do next Saturday night — that kind of thing . |
| 24 | It was just one of those things that happened to even the nicest people , and the sensible thing to do about it was pay £25 and turn up at a London hotel for a glass of sherry and an implicit promise of no humiliation if things did n't work out . |
| 25 | The example serves to show , however , that almost any period in history is open to you if the things that happened in the past set your imagination whirling . |
| 26 | There 's no point in dwelling on the sad things that happened . |
| 27 | I have been here over a week now , and I miss you very much , and I miss the fresh air and the fresh faces of all those people I so hated on the Tube and the fresh things that happened every hour of every day if only I could have seen them — their freshness , I mean . |
| 28 | I hope that privatisation will not lead to the kind of things that happened after deregulation . |
| 29 | We have to work out some of the things that happened to Julie — and what her thoughts and feelings were . |
| 30 | 1 Make a list of the main things that happened to her in the story . |