Example sentences of "was [det] that [pron] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thome de Gamond realised the importance of preliminary geological investigations and this enthusiasm was such that he dived without any form of equipment to depths of 100 feet to survey the Channel bed . |
| 2 | His impact was such that it led to further villainy — as the probably gay hit man in the Big Combo ( 1955 ) , as a rapist and murderer in Ride Lonesome ( 1959 ) , as Lee Marvin 's psychotic side-kick in The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance ( 1962 ) as well as more conventional heavies in Gunfight at the OK Corral ( 1956 ) , The Tin Star ( 1957 ) and How the West Was Won ( 1962 ) . |
| 3 | Such an image had little real relevance to the situation he was ostensibly addressing , although its private significance was such that it reappeared in his later creative work . |
| 4 | And in the corner of his eye — an anxious blue blur was all that she amounted to — this Soviet woman he was deliberately ignoring . |
| 5 | That was all that he had in mind , as Prior Robert , bewildered and displeased by what seemed to him very grudging acceptance of a duty that should have conveyed honour upon the recipient , waved Jerome imperiously to the altar . |