Example sentences of "a [noun] that [was/were] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | She had played a part that was alien to her nature and she had not played it well at all . |
| 2 | His mouth closed over hers with the passion and glory she knew would never die and she melted into his impassioned embrace with a heart that was free to be his at last . |
| 3 | Armed with a lawyer , an artist could , theoretically , get a contract that was equal to — or , at a push , even greater than — his worth . |
| 4 | Such embryonic creatures needed stronger muscles , too , and a skin that was resistant to drying out . |
| 5 | By 4 January 1927 , the full force of Nizan 's anger , repressed for so many years , could no longer be held in check : The effect of the solitude at Aden is that I am storing up a violence that was unknown to me … |
| 6 | Her thick dark hair fell in a waving mass to her shoulders , and she had a short , straight nose , a mouth that was full-lipped to the point of petulance , and almond-shaped brown eyes , currently studying Sabine without friendliness . |
| 7 | With dark hair cut quite short so that it revealed his classically shaped head , a deep tan finished with some light freckles , piercing blue eyes and a mouth that was generous in laughter and very straight and sober when he was absorbed in work , he had become the standard against which any other man she met was measured … and fell short . |
| 8 | He read the game appallingly , was caught out several times , and chuffed his way around the back right like a horse that was due for the knackers yard . |
| 9 | Clues to the foci of several biogeographers may be gleaned from definitions in the number of texts on biogeography that have emerged to fill a gap that was acute until 1970 ( Table 5.2 ) . |
| 10 | Maybe , as Gloria had hinted , there was another side to his nature , carefully hidden from the outside world , a side that was capable of strong passion and sudden violence . |
| 11 | The breath caught in her throat as his hands cupped her naked breasts , his thumbs stroking the already erect nipples , making them throb with a pleasure that was akin to anguish . |
| 12 | Once safely through the fire of this opposition they would move into a future that was free of the dead past , lovely as cowslips and silent like a miracle . |
| 13 | We stayed in a dormitory that was full of couples with noisy small children , and it put quite a strain on our marriage . |
| 14 | Clark and Howey signed three-year contracts last month and Keegan said : ‘ We sat down with the two lads and their fathers and worked out a deal that was right for them . |
| 15 | This is a major step forward from the Renault 25 , a car that was good with a V6 but coarse with the smaller four-cylinder engine . |
| 16 | Hunt 's championship was a narrow squeak , achieved in a car that was far from being all-triumphant ; it was achieved by Hunt 's merits and by Lauda 's misfortune . |
| 17 | Sir Arthur married a Florence Long in 1882 , a marriage that was useful to him in social circles as his brother-in-law was a powerful Member of Parliament , but Sir Arthur 's true love was reserved for British deaf people . |
| 18 | The different impressionism of Debussy 's La Terace des Audiences de Claire de Lune , General Levine and Jardins Sous la Pluie ended a recital that was notable for its highly musical restraint and total lack of overt virtuosity for its own sake . |
| 19 | Danzig became a Free City attached to the Grand Duchy of Warsaw — a Duchy that was grand in name only . |
| 20 | This plan was based on three major considerations : that in each of the new county areas stemming from the 1974 reorganization of local government boundaries , with the exception of Powys , there should be an institute of higher education incorporating colleges of education and major further education establishments , a proposal that was consistent with those submitted by the local authorities ; that , with the exception of St Mary 's College , Bangor , all the existing colleges of education should be incorporated into the proposed institutes , albeit with some change of functions ; and that in order to strengthen the proposed institutes in Dyfed , Gwynedd and West Glamorgan , there should be a marginal redistribution of teacher training and advanced further education courses , involving also the transfer of student places into these areas from other areas . |
| 21 | Familiarity with the voices that had haunted him down through the years had encouraged a bravado that was little like his real self . |
| 22 | I would go and find a place that was open for business . |
| 23 | The Orient had well-developed civilizations long before anything in Europe , and they too appreciated the qualities of the rose and its potential when cross-bred and hybridized — a process that was well in advance of the horticultural achievements of European civilizations by the time the latter 's explorations brought East and West together . |
| 24 | When the bread balls hit the water over a bream that was near to the leader , then the leader would react after that fish and then , and only then , would the remainder of the shoal follow suit . |
| 25 | She could still feel fitzAlan 's eyes on her and flushed slightly , steeling herself before she could look at him again , and fully expecting a remark that was sure to be unpleasant at best . |
| 26 | But , as her grandfather had drummed into her then , she had no right to inflict pain simply because the other person was telling a truth that was hard for her to cope with . |
| 27 | He was to combine letters of the Hebrew words of a text into new combinations which , Abulafia said , produced a sensation that was similar to listening to musical harmonies , the alphabet taking the place of notes on a scale . |
| 28 | It was at the conference in the Vatican mentioned earlier that I first put forward the suggestion that maybe time and space together formed a surface that was finite in size but did not have any boundary or edge . |
| 29 | Only that he had been up at San Carlos about two years and had a wife that was supposed to be very pretty and about fifteen years younger than he was . |
| 30 | His lips twisted in a smile that was halfway between pain and sorrow . |