Example sentences of "that [noun] [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1	It was now that Nicandra fell into a sudden easy accord with Andrew .
2	It is said that Freud wrote in a male-dominated society , and that his theory about sexuality , and about female sexuality in particular , reflects this in the male bias in his work .
3	Never was a labour more arduous , and it was without his former youthful enthusiasm that Picasso began on a great canvas that was to be the first result of his researches . ’
4	The upkeep of such a house would require a substantial income , she thought to herself ; she remembered that Veronica came from a wealthy family .
5	Taylor may recall that Gazza returned from a double-hernia operation to win a high-tension match for Spurs at Wembley inside the first 15 minutes .
6	And they were shocked to hear at the end of the three-month trial that Allitt suffered from a dangerous personality disorder .
7	It was argued that Britain stood at a historic point ; a new urban future was at hand .
8	There is no evidence that prostitution existed as a sole source of income for its practitioners in the earliest forms of human society , among the so-called hunter-gatherers .
9	I went to the house and got no answer then the woman next door told me that Brendan came in a posh motor car .
10	The conclusion might have been that Ealhfrith abdicated in a voluntary acceptance of the religious life were it not for Bede 's silence on the matter and his statement that Oswiu was attacked in the course of his reign by the Mercians , his nephew , Oethelwald , and by his own son , Ealhfrith ( HE III , 14 ) .
11	Sir Philip argued that anti-semitism appealed to a subconscious racial instinct which was almost universal , with the Colonel Blimps believing in the conspiracy theory , and that in East London it was envy of Jewish economic success which caused the problem ; this development represented the only real danger of fascism .

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