Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] that [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may , of course , have been a retrospective opinion that was at least tinged with 25 years ' subsequent experience and challenged , both before and after , the worldwide definitions of the late 1940s which seemed to require that the Vietminh should have been put into either one of two boxes , nationalist or communist , but not both . |
| 2 | Despite a 1991 that saw her largely relieved of the pressure of the tabloid press charting a private life that was in turmoil over allegations against her father Peter ( since disproved ) , the last twelve months have brought her only limited satisfaction . |
| 3 | German unification , as severe a jolt to the system as you could imagine , obliged the Bundesbank , the system 's de facto anchor , to adopt a monetary policy that was at odds with the needs of its partners . |
| 4 | He had brown wavy hair and a hoarse voice that was in the process of breaking . |
| 5 | Never was a labour more arduous , and it was without his former youthful enthusiasm that Picasso began on a great canvas that was to be the first result of his researches . ’ |
| 6 | Remembering past insults , Isabel finally looked up , into a steely-eyed glare that was like a sword-thrust to her heart . |
| 7 | a raised footpath that was before |
| 8 | I have read of a good bishop that was to be burnt for his religion ; and he tried how he could bear it , by putting his fingers into the lighted candle : so I t' other day tried , when Rachel 's back was turned , if I could not scour a pewter plate she had begun . |
| 9 | I have read of a good bishop that was to be burnt for his religion . |
| 10 | The sound of the explosion melded into a terrible noise that was like an animal dying in awful , bellowing pain , but beneath that sound of agony was a harsh metallic scrape and clash that punched at my belly and eardrums . |
| 11 | Her eyes were still wide open , a blind stare that was without any expression of intelligence . |
| 12 | Uniformitarianism triumphed because it provided a general theory that was at once logical and seemingly " scientific " . |
| 13 | Mozart 's letters from Frankfurt are full of references to a mysterious deal that was to be the solution to all their problems . |
| 14 | One evening in the park the previous summer he had made a frank gesture that was like a question , and one side of her had wanted to say ‘ Yes ’ , but she had said ‘ No , Len , ’ and he had taken his hand away , and kissed her , and quietly accepted her decision . |
| 15 | And then there was an iron bar going from this plank , through the wall , and you could Er then this sort of a a pronged thing that was over the strap , you you could s push it over with that pu pulling the the plank up here . |
| 16 | I mean I it 's different if I was like you know if the summer holidays and we were like this erm thing like erm a magic show that was on quite late or something . |
| 17 | In emergency situations , it seemed , constitutional niceties had no place and the chief executive had to be allowed a free hand , an ominous precedent that was to be followed by a series of major military initiatives by presidents with little or no regard to the war power of congress . |
| 18 | The wind was still banging away , but there was an inner calm that was at variance with the agitation I had felt below . |
| 19 | He proposed a test , based on communication via teletypes with an unseen entity that was to be at first a human and then a computer , and if the human interlocutor , who had been told he was communicating on the subject of the differences between men and women , failed to notice that a machine had been substituted for the original human partner in the dialogue , then the machine was deemed to have passed the test , and Turing suggested we might as well speak of such a successful machine as thinking by polite convention , just as , ‘ instead of arguing continually … it is usual to have a polite convention that everybody thinks ’ . |