Example sentences of "with a [noun] that [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This meant grappling with a panic that was like an asphyxiation . |
| 2 | The critical dimensions of the transformational effort were starting with a vision that was at first unclear or at least insufficiently communicated , focusing too much on cost reduction and not enough on developing a new state , trying to function without adequate transition-management structures , and consciously intervening in the matrix-management issues until they became acute . |
| 3 | I am bound to say that I do not believe that this debate has reached the level of fizz that one might have associated with a Bill that was to be fought doggedly tooth and nail by the Opposition . |
| 4 | Alix was mousy , square-faced , healthy of complexion , and , even then , extraordinarily pleasant of expression , with a pleasantness that was at times radiant , and almost always irrefutable : she was wearing , as girls who had them did for their Oxbridge interviews in those days , a two-piece middle-aged suit of an oatmeal mix , with square shoulders and a straight skirt . |
| 5 | A particular brand of Protestant religion correlated with a science that was at once emerging from , and emancipating itself from , the organic and spirit-filled world of the magician . |
| 6 | Behind the house , the ground sloped down to the river and the waving tasselled heads of the rushes gleamed with a light that was between silver and gold . |
| 7 | He kissed her with an expertise that was outside her experience , with a knowledge that was never learned from any book , and , much to her surprise , she felt a stab of jealousy for all those other women who must have stood as she stood now , arms round his strong frame , mouth ravaged by his skill . |