Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [prep] that [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 If the process was stopped at that point and the Chart was examined , would be best interpretation of that segment .
2 Now Mr , in the light of what Mr has said , do you understand that if the structure plan key diagram was amended in that way , it will still yo leave you and your clients open to challenge , or you would have a better chance of challenging er the er preferred option of the County Councils at the next stage , which is either through the local plan channel or through the er the the planning application stage for the highway ?
3 Laura 's challenge to race back was uttered in that spirit , but she was the better swimmer and reached the jetty strokes ahead of me .
4 He was riveted by that news .
5 I say that on behalf of the party he beat as opposed to the one that he put into third place — the Conservative party , which was marginalised in that by-election .
6 She was persuaded to concede on that point , then proposed to share everything with the production team — until it was pointed out that if just one penny , or a single biscuit was diverted in that direction , and it became known , we 'd be lynched .
7 As the result of lengthy investigations into the Duzme Mustafa revolt , Mehmed Sah was implicated in that affair ; and , Husameddin relates , " Molla Fenari grieved greatly that at the end of the investigations , in the year 832 , Mehmed Sah Efendi passed over the bridge of death together with Candarlizade Ibrahim Pasa and the Grand Vezir Haci Ivaz Pasa . "
8 If there were too many missing responses no score was given for that student .
9 No hint of what was to come was given at that meeting on 20 February .
10 Notice was given within that time-limit by ‘ exploit ’ of a huissier acting for the appellant and a copy posted at the door of the courthouse .
11 At that time , John , Baron Russell , the first Earl of Bedford , who was an advisor to King Henry VIII — also executor — lived in a mansion house called ‘ Corney House ’ which was situated along that part of the river frontage at Chiswick which is still referred to as ‘ Corney Reach ’ , although the house itself was demolished in 1532 .
12 A story which appeared in last week 's Electronics Weekly , saying the company was considering another RISC was placed with that publication , CDC admits , ‘ to put the wind up Silicon Graphics and MIPS . ’
13 The accounts presented to Parliament , in the form of Estimates and Appropriation Accounts , are statements of cash receipts and payments during a year regardless of whether they are in respect of current or capital expenditure and , if current , whether benefit of the related goods and services was received during that year .
14 But I think there 's something more important than funding that was realised at that Conference between Eastern and Western Local Authorities and that is that we need to be there to assist because we can assist .
15 Having been parliamentary commissioner for the army in Scotland in 1646 , he was reappointed to that post 3 May 1651 , and by early 1652 held the equivalent post in Ireland .
16 ‘ After the judge condemned someone to death , the unfortunate man was hanged with that rope . ’
17 Good God , yeah , she was frozen in that house was n't she ?
18 There are two problems with the type of stack found in the KDF9 computer : ( a ) it is of fixed size , so that the programmer or compiler has to take care to keep within its bounds ; and ( b ) in a multiprogramming environment the stack has to be emptied and refilled at each process switch ; the latter could be done on the KDF9 only one element at a time ( although suitable stack dump and restore instructions could be envisaged ) , and the problem was solved on that computer by providing multiple nesting stores .
19 It was forbidden at that time to bring wildlife to school .
20 During the short five-year period of the Second World War , a layer of air power was added to that foundation , but since the atomic bombs were dropped on Japan in 1945 , and Britain armed herself with nuclear weapons in the 1950s , the Three Pillars have stood just as securely upon the strategic nuclear deterrent .
21 People liked what they saw in Reagan and the campaign was won in that debate .
22 Suddenly , Mr Clinton was reminded of that quip of Bismarck 's , that making laws is a lot like making sausages .
23 When I read Milton 's description in Paradise Lost of Satan , fallen to lie in Hell , a monstrous unimaginable bulk , I was reminded of that Odeon .
24 ‘ I was reminded of that poltergeist in West Germany ! ’
25 The court held that no offence was committed in that case , since the person at whom the conduct was directed was an undercover policeman who was unlikely to be provoked to violence , and no offence would be committed under the Act either , for the same reasons .
26 In 1976 the figure was set at 20,000 , and it was expected in that year that the figure would not exceed 15,000 in the following and subsequent years .
27 It was argued in that case that the taxpayer , however , could only be assessed on the income ( the gross income ) to the extent that he had power to enjoy it .
28 The archetype of faith is Abraham , who went out at God 's command though he did not know where he was going , and who was prepared at that command even to sacrifice his own son .
29 I was charged in that name , I was sentenced in that name . ’
30 Well now , taking taking into account the fact that there are about three hundred schools here in Oxfordshire and there 's only one school so far that has chosen to even try to opt out , and it was defeated at that school , then I see that is erm a comment on the kind of Education Authority we have here .
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