Example sentences of "[that] was [vb pp] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the time of Augustus the list that was compiled of magistrates of the Republic was based on counting from 752 BC . |
| 2 | I was at a conference in Berlin on Wednesday that was attended by ministers of the interior for the Twelve and for the countries of eastern Europe . |
| 3 | The other factor that was related to assessments of quality of life was whether people had been in a residential home for a year or more or for a shorter time . |
| 4 | From behind a grotesquely warped arch that was strung with ropes of cobweb like a harp , a scum boy leapt to tear Lexandro 's mask from his face as a trophy . |
| 5 | Harry shivered slightly in the shadow of the sagging wooden hut that had once been somebody 's garden shed — some poor bugger that was blown to bits by a buzz-bomb most likely . |
| 6 | I idly picked up one of the leaflets which had two pictures on its cover ; the first illustration showed a happy black family , all neatly dressed and reading books around a table that was filled with platefuls of food and with jugs labelled ‘ milk ’ . |
| 7 | It was in essence this same three-fold promise of the Anglo-Saxons that was used for coronations throughout the thirteenth century in England : King Richard I at his first coronation in 1189 swore " to maintain peace and honour and to reverence the Church , to annul any evil laws , and to make and maintain good laws " . |
| 8 | Her head and body were metal and her wings were water , water that was forced through holes in her back and lit from beneath so it looked solid , like glass . |