Example sentences of "[was/were] that of a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is slightly more than is predicted if the movement were that of a simple piston . |
| 2 | One of the corpses was that of a local youth , the other that of an English girl , Gail Benson , who had come to the West Indies as the slavish lover of an American Negro , Hakim Jamal , ‘ God ’ to his friends , who was eventually to be shot dead in Boston . |
| 3 | The spectrum was that of a very distant galaxy with redshift of 2.3 ( spectral lines shifted in wavelengths towards the red by 230% ) . |
| 4 | The letter he brought was addressed in a large , childish handwriting unfamiliar to me , and the postmark was that of a town in Suffolk . |
| 5 | My initial impression of Sadie was that of a dog who was totally depressed . |
| 6 | And for plenty of people , now as then , Emily Davison was not a martyr but an obsessive fanatic whose activities brought no credit to her cause and whose action on Derby Day 1913 was that of a hooligan , not a heroine . |
| 7 | Eck 's reputation was that of a sophist or dialectician rather than a profound thinker but in his day he exercised tremendous influence . |
| 8 | The original model was that of a multidisciplinary team , with social workers and community mental handicap nurses ( CMHNs ) as core members . |
| 9 | Gomez 's slight smile was that of a man who believed that politeness demanded he act a little embarrassed at doing his job . |
| 10 | ( The next such similar resignation was that of a lady several years later for disregarding the rules of golf ) . |
| 11 | He found the wording offensive enough , but when he was later informed that the composition was that of a witch his anger boiled over . |
| 12 | The first body I saw was that of a man lying in a gutter in Raouche , his arms wrapped around his face , one leg hooked above the pavement . |
| 13 | The role was that of a sitar-playing hippie-type character . |
| 14 | In repose his face was that of a kindly man with exceptional intelligence . |
| 15 | His mother says he would never own to his second name , which was that of a friend of Herbert 's living in London . |
| 16 | The only role created on him by an experienced choreographer was that of a Negro pugilist in Andrée Howard 's Mardi Gras , and that ballet , although striking in its strange , suggestive drama , was such an idiosyncratic , atmospheric piece that he was unlikely to learn much from it about form or structure . |
| 17 | My abiding memory of that first encounter is of a slight , pale yet exceedingly determined looking woman whose high pitched voice was that of a female George Formby . |
| 18 | Nearly all these men were poor except Seneca whose attitude was that of a poor man , and Tagore who never thought of money . |
| 19 | The key change that could be identified in all the schools visited was that of a rethink about departmental allocation , As a result of devolution , capitation seemed to be allocated to departments using criteria that were more public and in most cases fairer ; for example , a formula based on pupil and subject weightings , or a system of bidding or , inevitably , the use of last year 's figures plus an allowance for inflation . |
| 20 | Another discovery he claimed was that of a cure for glanders : one horse had remained ‘ cured ’ for four years after treatment with what was popularly known as ‘ Sewell 's Blue Broth ’ — three ounces of copper sulphate in a quart of water . |
| 21 | A second , critical appointment was that of a professional to take charge of the administration . |
| 22 | One of Buchanan 's enduring practical proposals was that of a hierarchy of urban roads , which would be so arranged as to create ‘ urban rooms ’ from which through traffic would be excluded . |
| 23 | The most pathetic case was that of a middle-aged man with the mental age of a child of nine . |
| 24 | She rejoiced in her freedom ; her entry was that of a goddess , on stage or off , and Robert Asshe watched her with pride . |
| 25 | The second body seen by Cobbe in 1857 was that of a Miss Johnson who had died of phthisis aged twenty-four at the Lock Hospital in 1774 . |
| 26 | ‘ Having established that the larger skeleton was that of a female , I set about making an estimate of the subject 's age at the time of her death . |
| 27 | Penn 's role was that of a rookie cop who believes that the only way to fight violence is with violence . |
| 28 | Her smile was that of a half-child , half-woman . |
| 29 | One more adventurous boy decided to explore the overgrown slope behind the hut and he was pushing his way through the undergrowth when he caught sight of a figure approaching the hut further down the slope ; the boy was close enough to see that the figure was that of a tramp wearing tattered clothing and crowned with a battered trilby hat . |
| 30 | The voice was that of a bespectacled man of indeterminate age and appearance wearing a parka coat and standing behind her in the queue . |