Example sentences of "[that] was [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he added : ‘ The bat was thrown about with an abandon that was strangely absent from their efforts in the one-dayers . ’ |
| 2 | She was smiling brightly , but her eyes retained a solemnity that was strangely intimidating . |
| 3 | I hope that the hon. Member for Clydebank and Milngavie will feel able to withdraw his amendment and accept that the Government have fulfilled the undertaking that was freely given as a result of our deliberations on this matter . |
| 4 | To the extent that it preserves the concept of De Republica the scheme would appear designed to mirror an ideal that was ordinarily taken for granted . |
| 5 | By the end of the campaign that was no longer so true . |
| 6 | By the end of the campaign that was no longer so true : awareness of Thatcher and Kinnock had spread much more evenly through the electorate and in so far as it did vary it was particularly high amongst those who had recently watched television news or discussed the campaign . |
| 7 | The death of the admiral on his flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar in October of that year did nothing to stem her spending — of money that was no longer there . |
| 8 | He looked her up and down in a manner that was no longer respectful . |
| 9 | Light gleamed on the china cats ' gilt whiskers and between them , in the empty space that was no longer vacant , sat Griselda . |
| 10 | Best of all , though , was her skin that was no longer puffy red mottles of failed Martian tan . |
| 11 | With a smile that was no longer mocking , or even amused , he said , ‘ Call the debt cancelled . |
| 12 | So Middleton did two sorties I believe , and on each occasion he brought back an aircraft that was no longer capable of flying and was a write-off , it had so much flak and fighter damage , When the same thing happened a second time I had Middleton in and told him that one of his problems was his navigator who was just not able to navigate him round the very heavy flak areas . |
| 13 | Bernard claims that was exactly how it was planned . |
| 14 | At some unconscious level that was exactly what she had expected six months earlier — to step off the plane and see the man of her dreams waiting for her on the tarmac . |
| 15 | It was probable that with a type of aggravated libel , and a defence that was blatantly bogus and came apart during the trial , they decided to add a nought to the amount of damages . ’ |
| 16 | Everyone knew that the rules were being stretched , but it took a skilled operator to persuade an official to ignore evidence that was blatantly paraded before him . |
| 17 | Galileo 's rival defended his theory in the face of the apparent falsification in a way that was blatantly ad hoc . |
| 18 | What is noteworthy in the present context is that it was an initiative that was energetically directed by SED and it involved the preparation centrally of curriculum materials for every area of work . |
| 19 | She was dressed in a grey shift that was loosely belted round her waist . |
| 20 | Toby was a well-known golf writer , even if he wrote for a newspaper that was rarely , if ever , seen in the boardrooms of Britain . |
| 21 | The brunette was strikingly attractive in a way that was dramatically enhanced by make-up and clothes . |
| 22 | And then when you look back to the Greeks , for example , here you have a culture that was dramatically successful in mathematics and logic and philosophy , but actually very unsuccessful in science , and there again you have a society which has nature guards erm and so nature is not a valid object for study . |
| 23 | The car was parked neatly between two patches of off-street parking , in one of the very few parts of the street that was neither metered nor dedicated to residents ' parking . |
| 24 | It had its posh end and it had its rough end and it had that strange indeterminate bit in the middle that was neither , but had the pretensions and failings of both . |
| 25 | Nell 's fears grew that this living creature that was neither one thing or truly the other , would never understand her . |
| 26 | He made a rough shape that was neither a cube nor a sphere , but a wet and hollow lump . |
| 27 | Alternatively , Ho may simply have been waiting for something to turn up , something that would tip the scales one way or the other in the situation that was neither peace nor war . |
| 28 | They drove a short way along the coast to a restaurant that was neither smart nor squalid , hushed nor noisy , and where a dinner they paid no attention to was served to them seemingly without any act of volition . |
| 29 | The plaintiffs contended that they had thereby been deprived of the opportunity to bid for H.F. Co. but pill J. rejected their claim because while the law certainly allowed a freedom to bid for property that was neither a ‘ business asset ’ of the plaintiffs ' nor a legal right which the law would protect . |
| 30 | It was the nearest he had ever got to saying something to his son-in-law that was neither untrue nor offensive . |