Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] that [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of this discussion will refer to the material inequalities between classes — income and wealth differences , for example — so the reader should bear in mind the very detailed evidence for this that was presented in Chapter 2 . |
| 2 | The train was hauled by BR Standard 75069 , and was formed of five goods brakevans comprising one LMS , one SR , one GWR ‘ Toad ’ and two BR Types of van which give ample space for the party of 43 that were carried , the majority of whom had travelled up from the Bath-Bristol area by coach . |
| 3 | The second investigation was just one of hundreds that were done in the sixties . |
| 4 | Oh they came up with their servants all servants up from the south by train to Inverness and then a charabanc or vehicle of such that was in it then because it was only metal roads we had then . |
| 5 | There was a small cutter parked at the jetty , and a sign taped to the Eberhardt window said that for $15 each she would take us right up to the foot of the Balmaceda and Serrano glaciers which spilled from the southern tip of that immense high-altitude sheet of white that was the Patagonian ice-cap . |
| 6 | And on top of all that were the meetings of groupings from around the globe , with early morning delegation meetings to talk tactics ( and more of same late each evening ) . |
| 7 | He told of his own difficulties in finding time to read all the variable essays submitted and knew of many that were never sent in at all . |
| 8 | The only thing he could think of was he was a good swimmer — and a fat lot of good that was to him . |
| 9 | And yet he was immaculate , his hair groomed and beaded with rubies ; his tunic an achingly sweet shade of pink that was almost white , edged with black ; his trousers of a blue that reminded her of the summer skies of her youth . |
| 10 | In the course of the fourteenth century mechanical clocks became progressively more numerous in Europe , most of those that were not installed in churches being public clocks . |
| 11 | I tried to help some of those that were hurt but some of them had dreadful injuries . |
| 12 | Of those that were , one was using a sheath , and the others were on the Pill . |
| 13 | I hope you will allow me to remain somewhat sceptical about these vague reassurances which remind me of those that were regular given during the 1980s ( prior to publication of the Environment White Paper ) although it was evident that no rigorous assessment was ever made of the environmental effects of development . |
| 14 | Yes you were going to try and wash some of those that were stained in something strong . |
| 15 | Oh the by-pass road , you know the north northern part of Ipswich , along the by-pass and of course had ordered trolley buses , because you had to order 'em about two years ahead of time , erm , to take care of that but it did n't materialize and we had a surplus of buses and some of them were sold off , I think some went to Walsall , some to Wolverhampton and er I , I think it was one of those that was sold to Wals Woolwich , figured in the national newspapers that had toppled over . |
| 16 | Probably the best advice is to be wary of any project that is more than a couple of years old , and to be extremely wary of any that were published more than five years ago . |
| 17 | The same manifesto committed a Labour Government to preventing the siting of cruise missiles in Britain and to the removal of any that were then in place . |
| 18 | In this particular example , only a very small amount of the green was needed to change the yellow in comparison with the large amount of yellow that was required to influence the green . |
| 19 | She watched him find his way deftly down the hill towards the tiny rectangle of blue that was the swimming-pool . |
| 20 | As on that first night , Shelley looked down at the glowing rectangle of blue that was the floodlit pool . |
| 21 | Madame Mattli was almost exactly as Paula had imagined she would be , a petite perfectly turned out woman with an air of chic that was unmistakably French . |
| 22 | Quite a lot of seminal That Was The Week That Was ! |
| 23 | The two youngest classes in the single-sex secondary moderns were mixed , and for many that was the most disturbing change of all . |
| 24 | For many that was Buncrana or Fahan in County Donegal where they surfed , skiied , took boat trips or just lay in the sun . |
| 25 | In 1670 Wigston contained 161 households , including forty-seven that were exempted from payment of the hearth tax on the grounds of poverty . |
| 26 | A powerful backblast blew one coating of dust from his clothes and replaced it with another that was tinged with soot . |
| 27 | We have strengthened and widened those powers compared with those that were available to authorities for the enforcement of the old domestic rates . |
| 28 | It is noteworthy that at this time ( when secularised education was patronised by nearly all the governments of Europe including those that were nominally Catholic ) this query was dealt with as a matter of discipline by the Congregation of propaganda , and not as a matter of doctrine by the Congregation of the Inquisition . |
| 29 | The turnpike from Salisbury towards Romsey was the best and earned high praise for the trustees , whose management he judged responsible , for he had met with other roads whose materials were as fine but " never with any that were so firmly united , and kept so totally free from loose stones , ruts and water " . |
| 30 | We 've done a comparison between those that were in arrears before the beginning of ninety two and ones that have been in arrears after ninety two , and it 's erm approximately eighty percent before ninety two erm twenty percent after . |