Example sentences of "that [was/were] [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 On another day we went to St. Anne 's where I played on the sands that were not a patch on those of the South Coast .
2 The rise of science coincided with the spread of new values which emphasized independence of individual thought in ways that were essentially a challenge to the power of the churches , their priests and ministers .
3 Even so , she had meekly done as they wished and taken on a responsibility that was clearly a bit of a burden .
4 She looked down with a fear that was also a pleasure at his stained , scarred hand .
5 The depth of Nizan 's commitment to the Soviet Union was similarly visible a few months later when he described the great steps made by the mass of the Soviet people in terms of cultural development : When you have seen young workers in Moscow or Tashkent … speaking passionately of Gogol or Gorky , you realise that the Soviet people have gained admission to the high culture that was previously a privilege of the bourgeoisie …
6 tying them up but when they went out to the end of the estuary that was just a case of get there first to get the job ?
7 Furthermore , we previously showed that asthmatics , when compared with normal subjects , had diminished LOS pressures and significantly greater acid reflux that was not a result of the bronchodilator therapy .
8 He had just provided some polish for a machine that was already a miracle of design .
9 She seemed to be staring back at him with a smile that was almost a grimace of pain yet somehow full of mockery .
10 With a sigh that was almost a gurgle of gratification , she found the slippery spread .
11 Gosstandard , a body that was once a bane of exporters to the Soviet Union has again raised its ugly head .
12 ‘ We figured that we could bring in artists from the '90s to interpret Hendrix using the computer technology that was only a dream in the '60s , ’ explains Storey .
13 The hon. Member for Thurrock asked whether I did not know that if one took economic resources from one area and instilled them into others that was merely a way of upsetting the ordinary economic mechanism and that it did not result in any advances .
14 ‘ God witness , ’ said Llewelyn , drumming his long fingers on the arms of his chair in a hard-driven rhythm that was always a key to the stresses of his mind , ‘ it could not have come at a worse time .
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