Example sentences of "[was/were] a [noun sg] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were a man that used to come and they called him the gauger well we would likely call him the customs officer now . |
| 2 | ‘ Nonsense , Peter , ’ his wife pounced down on him as if he were a hound that had misbehaved . |
| 3 | Her first two charges were a kitten that had been kicked so hard its front paw was broken and a dog who no-one would taken ‘ because it was so strange-looking . ’ |
| 4 | A wooden scooter he 'd made tipped me over the handlebars on its maiden voyage and he picked it up and smashed it to smithereens against a lamp-post , as if it were a cobra that had just delivered a fatal bite . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A tall , prematurely white-haired man in a navy blue suit , with eyes that could focus on you as if you were a fly that had settled on a distant door-knob , he could dominate a large room while seated behind a desk at one end of it and without raising his voice above a conversational level . |
| 7 | At first they were a novelty and a fad but , perhaps even to the surprise of many in the trade , they were a novelty that did not fade . |
| 8 | But erm she was saying there were a group that she sort of went were alongside their group which were the |
| 9 | The presence of tattoo shops , ‘ topless ’ discothèques which offered dancing and music almost twenty-four hours a day were a reminder that Copenhagen was an active and important port , yet the overall effect was charming and romantic as flowers spilled out of window-boxes and the cafés and restaurants vied with each other to attract custom by the quality of their food and their individual décor . |
| 10 | Well there were a woman that used to have have that and they called her Maggie and she used to serve drinks there , whisky and that was before Stromness was voted dry you see . |
| 11 | They could only accept evolution if it were a process that gave rise to regular , predictable developments in accordance with some preordained plan that could be seen as originating in the mind of God . |
| 12 | This was a radicalism that asked little , in practical terms , of its adherents : in fact life became pleasanter and easier . |
| 13 | Only the threat of revolution and the defeat of Germany prevented the plan from being put into action , but it was a plan that was to surface again under the Nazis . |
| 14 | It was a plan that could n't fail . |
| 15 | Alpha males were consistently friendlier than others towards male infants but were particularly nice if there was a chance that the infant was their own . |
| 16 | But if he survived the storm , there was a chance that he could reach the President ahead of Louis , men . |
| 17 | Then , of course , if Rose Pratt were to leave because of her rheumatics , and she being forty-five , there was a chance that Jane would move upwards . |
| 18 | You had to know your Instruction Book very well , because if you locked someone up and they got away with it , next day in court , there was a chance that you might be deemed excessive in your law and of course then you were on your own . |
| 19 | So there was a chance that fusion , which would derive its energy from deuterium , an isotope of hydrogen and a constituent of ordinary water , could come along and render fission redundant . |
| 20 | When that was rejected he argued in favour of his old plan of travelling on foot by the secret paths ; there were so many footpaths they could not all be watched and there was a chance that if they came upon outlaws there would be no more than one or two . |
| 21 | THERE WAS a chance that Power Of Dreams would have burned out by now . |
| 22 | He saw — Dorothy advising and supporting him — that this was a chance that might not recur . |
| 23 | ‘ I spent hours in the library looking up all the journals I could find — and the thing that kept coming back to me was that even if you had the treatment , there was a chance that the effects of toxoplasmosis on the child might not come out until years later . |
| 24 | She had the feeling that if she could get Eddie to go on talking long enough , there was a chance that something significant would emerge . |
| 25 | There was a chance that they would not hear if he used his radio . |
| 26 | Fran could n't in all conscience let it happen to Luke Calder now if there was a chance that she could help prevent it . |
| 27 | So no doubt it was a boy that was being christened . |
| 28 | and we were gon na get the police to ge w well i it just said the , the short name and we thought it was a boy that had written and if it had 've been we were gon na get the police because she 's under age you see . |
| 29 | This was a mood that did not last ; the secular spirit is natural , it is more than ever clear , to modern industrial states — so much so that it invades even the clergy . |
| 30 | In 1971 there was a sense of self-confidence about both the Shah and his government , But , as Persepolis itself showed , it was a mood that was beginning to degenerate into unreal arrogance . |