Example sentences of "[was/were] a [noun sg] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it were a requirement that all pupils need knowledge , skills and understanding of alienistic language and the power of language to challenge and to change experience , we might move more in the direction of a democratic society . |
| 2 | The absence of political initiatives ( as opposed to operational ones ) from the Tories is so total that it was a relief that these subjects were mostly ignored during the election . |
| 3 | Like Psycho , this was a film that used monochrome to capture its milieu , the sleazy underbelly , the forgotten nooks and crannies of the American dream . |
| 4 | The implied value of this being that like the sixties social realist films , such as Saturday Night and Sunday Morning ( 1960 ) and This Sporting Life ( 1963 ) , it was a film that working-class people could relate to on an emotional level because ‘ it so closely resembles aspects of your own life ’ . |
| 5 | If it was a question that this vehicle was in that state when the sold it , then I would think that most of them would put that right themselves . |
| 6 | What was needed was a guarantee that extra care would be taken not to lose the film . |
| 7 | at the same time there was a realisation that economic benefits could be had by replacing the old common-land system of peasant agricultural production with a system of enclosed lands . |
| 8 | In Jerusalem , though , there was a tradition that all places of entertainment were closed for the Sabbath . |
| 9 | But it was a sign that those wartime conditions which had so much restricted him were being lifted when , in October 1946 , The Family Reunion was revived at the Mercury Theatre . |
| 10 | The Germans , where they thought about it at all , regarded Poles of all varieties as uncivilised upstarts whom they loathed for their backwardness , presumption and ambition , and this was a judgement that many East Prussian Poles accepted . |
| 11 | Once again , no stops were required ( other than the usual safety stop at three metres ) and there was a feeling that this computer would have coped with far more strenuous dives with ease . |
| 12 | AN INJURY-time drop goal by Craig Chalmers kept Melrose on course for their second national league title in a row but it was a match that neither side deserved to lose and both could have won . |
| 13 | But Mr Desmond Fennell , QC , chairman of the Bar , claimed there was a danger that many people needing legal help would have access only to a ‘ more expensive Jack of all trades , ’ while specialist skills were reserved for the privileged few . |
| 14 | This was a remark that three days before she would have thought of as wolfish . |
| 15 | It was a tragedy that this match was n't being shown on television back home — Pickering |
| 16 | Perhaps the most apt comment , after Britain 's 5–0 defeat by France , the holders , in Bayonne , came from Tony Pickard , who said ‘ It was a tragedy that this match was n't begin shown on television back home ’ . |
| 17 | Everyone said afterwards it was a miracle that more people had n't been killed or injured . |
| 18 | It was a result that delighted Rangers winger Pieter Huistra , who now harbours hopes of a World Cup place for himself . |
| 19 | I thought that controlling rebellious minorities was a step that all countries would have to take , but I found that if people discuss and compromise then most disagreements can be solved quite easily . |
| 20 | In the negotiations leading up to the Anglo-Irish Agreement , O'Brien believes there was a recognition that joint administration was unobtainable . |
| 21 | In the United States , there was a recognition that interdisciplinary proposals could ‘ fall between the cracks ’ ( Porter and Rossini ) , and the National Science Foundation set up separate panels to review proposals which fell into this category . |
| 22 | The immediate cause of the rioting in Dushanbe was a rumour that Armenian refugees from the violence in Azerbaijan were to be resettled there , taking priority over local people in the allocation of already scarce homes and jobs . |