Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [that] was [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 On the contrary , they began soon after birth and gave to mothers in particular and to child-rearing in general an importance and profundity that was fully reflected in the latent content of the myth and ritual of primitive agricultural peoples but was not in the least consciously understood until the coming of psychoanalysis in the twentieth century .
2 Mr Gordon Brown , shadow trade secretary , asked : ‘ Why have we had to rely on the Ombudsman to confirm the mismanagement , the maladministration and incompetence that was widely known more than a year ago ? ’
3 In the hard-pressed post-war years , when there was relatively little money around , it gave him a potency and significance that was easily abused .
4 In Rustenburg-l , the porosity and permeability that was initially observed from wireline logs and cores , was very low and did not exceed 1% and 0.2 mD , respectively ( Fig. 28 ) .
5 So it was things that was n't too heavy to carry but things that was always needed in a house and that you could run out of .
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