Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] that was " in BNC.
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| 1 | The eyes were bright blue and heavily mascaraed in navy and the woman wore a pink ribbon in loosely permed hair that was coloured almost to a shade of orange . |
| 2 | Then I thought that she lived in the cottage — Maria looked after her , perhaps ; or perhaps this room that was to be mine for the week-end was normally hers . |
| 3 | So this car that was trying to get out was sitting there waiting and there was no driver in sight and people were rushing about all over the station trying to find the driver . |
| 4 | That was on six o'clock this morning that was on . |
| 5 | Erm but this line involving , , er was actually er part of a much bigger scheme that was put forward about eighteen forty , and really involved er a line from near Cross to , on to , on to , and then up to and connecting . |
| 6 | The sole exception was Coventry , a much larger city that was no real comparison with Colchester . |
| 7 | It consisted mainly of a large area of more or less flat heathland that was in places marshy and out of which rose the only hill to be found here , the broad , low Knamber Foin that looked from a distance no more than a heap of stones . |
| 8 | Thus the judge , Mr Justice McCowan , seemed to equate the government with the state — a somewhat totalitarian view that was rejected by the jury . |
| 9 | As to the unfair and entirely predictable venom that was poured on the head of my right hon. Friend the Member for Chingford ( Mr. Tebbit ) a moment ago , it is increasingly impossible to have a sensible talk about sensitive matters without such abuse . |
| 10 | So one thing that was mentioned this morning was somebody wanted to be able to be more persuasive in order to put a point of view across . |
| 11 | Er I think there was only one question that was raised during the er course of the discussion Chairman which erm Mike assured and Mr raised the point about the Channel Tunnel , the effect that that might have of er erm passenger Gatwick . |
| 12 | There was only one peg that was ice-free and I predicted that if anything was caught at all that peg would be the last to produce . |
| 13 | In fact , as of July 1991 , only one concentration that was a merger in the traditional sense of the word , which was between two Japanese banks , had been notified to the Commission ; the rest were concerned concentrations that came within the wider definition . |
| 14 | Could I then come to the body of the report , rather than the East Grinstead by-pass , which I , I , I I agree is , is pertinent erm I was , I read this a couple of times because I was a bit confused about the rather if I may say so convoluted argument that was in it erm I think I understand the argument that the erm is that the Mid Sussex District Council have asked for advice and the recommendation is that advice . |
| 15 | COSE , it turns out , is part of a much wider recipe that was originally cooked up by Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp , prime movers in the effort to meet the threat to Unix — and OS/2 for that matter — posed by Microsoft Corp 's forthcoming Windows NT operating system , and probably two of the firms with potentially the most to lose . |
| 16 | COSE , it has emerged , is part of a much wider recipe that was originally cooked up by Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp , prime movers in the effort to meet the threat of Microsoft Corp Windows NT , and probably two of the firms with potentially the most to lose . |
| 17 | From behind a grotesquely warped arch that was strung with ropes of cobweb like a harp , a scum boy leapt to tear Lexandro 's mask from his face as a trophy . |
| 18 | It is as if academic freedom were a largely fixed commodity that was passed around among the groups contending for the right to make the key academic decisions . |
| 19 | At first there was just one loudspeaker that was used to announce community meetings and activities , and organise support for different neighbourhood needs . |
| 20 | This weakness left Egypt an easy prey for the rising Ottoman empire that seized the country in 1517 , making it then a province of Istanbul and that loosely structured empire that was to dominate the Middle East until 1918 . |
| 21 | It also seemed that the perceived adequacy of close relationships was of most importance to women , while for men it was the perceived adequacy of more diffuse relationships that was crucial . |
| 22 | The vocal lines of these early cantatas consist mostly of that kind of declamatory melody or nearly melodious recitative that was to be later known as arioso . |
| 23 | I thought I was getting David and maybe a few personal possessions , but when he actually turned up , he was with a friend in a very large van , and this rather ethereal , thin , slightly spotty figure that was David in those days , dressed in extremely scruffy clothes , emerged from this van carrying a twelve string guitar , which it transpired was a present from Pete Townshend . |
| 24 | ‘ How is your mother ? ’ he inquired in a slightly off-key tone that was not lost on Ari . |
| 25 | It was necessary to take the line through the southern end of the Cotswold Hills to maintain the reasonably level gradient that was an essential part of his great enterprise . |
| 26 | This has introduced a qualitatively new circumstance that was not operating when today 's First World countries were making their transitions to industrialization and urbanization ( see Leopold , 1985 ) . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm going swimming on Saturday , ’ said Willis , in an assumedly bored voice that was modelled on Hilary 's . |
| 28 | It was a false dawn , replaced soon after by a now starless night that was blacker than the previous hours . |
| 29 | One recent theory says that the common ancestor of all living things was a bacteria that consumed sulphur compounds , and lived in a volcanically hot environment that was hot enough to boil water . |
| 30 | Right , now £ This is , yes , this is a fairly big house that was put together 31 and 32 . |