Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [was/were] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The religious and cultural mix that was now characteristic of the RCM at national level showed too in the provincial committees which sprang up to recruit foster parents and organise hostel accommodation . |
| 2 | Garry and Benny Ryan were playing on the bombsite that was once Testerton Street . |
| 3 | Although I have heard many a Christian sermon that was implicitly dualist , the orthodox Christian position on this is quite clear . |
| 4 | There were other slight to-ings and fro-ings , flutters on the edge of the eye that were doubtless Miriam and Sasha , Anita , Teresa , Miranda and Livia , George , Peter . |
| 5 | Here , in the cool , pretty setting of the dining room that was once Stephen Spender 's , you will be served an exquisite three-course lunch for £9.50 , £6 for children . |
| 6 | In such work there is an opportunity for English to , in a sense , escape from the academy , literally to go extra-mural , and to re-establish those connections with the larger society that were originally part of its raison d'être . |
| 7 | I felt a tremor that was partly apprehension and partly excitement . |
| 8 | But Ingrid almost denies this : ‘ I 'd been the typical first-year art-school person , entrenched in one style that was really landscapey — all earthy colours and shapes . |
| 9 | Alternatively , Ho may simply have been waiting for something to turn up , something that would tip the scales one way or the other in the situation that was neither peace nor war . |
| 10 | And when it came its execution was planned with the perfectionist 's precision that was already Kylie 's hallmark . |
| 11 | He lay still with his eyes open , staring into the darkness that was only half-darkness because this was London and not Suffolk , where on moonless nights the small hours were black as velvet . |
| 12 | There was little that was truly democratic about this constitutional set-up since it was a system that was only representative of those with property . |
| 13 | I 've got a bit of a conflict of interest here straightaway because the actual case that Roy is talking about is actually my brother and I at this moment have been complaining to the Lloyds Policy Unit in respect of erm this particular policy , because the company that was actually trading went into liquidation . |
| 14 | In some countries , marginal land that was previously heath or moorland , as well as much pasture land , has been recently ploughed for the first time in centuries , with the resulting destruction of many archaeological sites . |