Example sentences of "[noun sg] that was [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the Greek view of education , especially the view associated with Plato , the only study that was honourable and respectable was that of mathematics or other equally pure and abstract subjects , such as the theory of harmony and astronomy , or philosophy . |
| 2 | And we the used to pick on a on some sort of a nice looking little boy or little girl to say the collection piece that was appealing and I ca n't remember what it was now but er probably about four verses of what they called a collection piece , just before they started to collect you see and erm I think I said that three or four years erm running almost , so I must been pretty well good at it . |
| 3 | He was a superb horseman and in those days we had many more horses here , bloodstock that was famous as even now these horses are . |
| 4 | The stillness , the cool , the quiet of the building all combined to produce an effect that was overwhelming and gave rise to a feeling of expectation . |
| 5 | She had a tall , slimly built figure , with long , honey-blonde hair which she had left loose instead of confined in its usual more businesslike French plait , and a face that was gamine rather than classically beautiful , shown in small , straight nose and thickly-lashed , expressive green eyes above a mouth that was generous but firm . |
| 6 | It was as if he 'd had a sudden glimpse of a side of himself he did n't know , a side that was dark and uncontrolled . |
| 7 | That smile had afforded her a fleeting glimpse of another side of Adam Burns — a side that was warm and humorous . |
| 8 | She was thin and rather tall with a very lined gentle face and hair that was white but which Alice could see had once been blonde . |
| 9 | When her coiffure was dry , Martha saw her small oval face framed by curtains of hair that was stiff and immobile but appeared at least to be straight . |
| 10 | His jaw was thrusting enough if not thick set , with dark hair that was short and wavy , with a touch of premature grey at the temples . |
| 11 | Stories of inferior accommodation , equipment and materials , effectively deemed to be ‘ good enough ’ for students with special needs , seemed to far outweigh reports of a stated commitment for those students being backed up by provision that was dignified and appropriate . |
| 12 | In the early Eighties , McLean , by now the champion of unlicensed boxing , took on Brian ‘ The Mad Gypsy ’ Bradshaw in a fight that was televised and seen by millions . |
| 13 | The train coming in made a noise that was fearful and seemed dangerous . |
| 14 | But national socialism ( Nazism ) also fed off the dark side of the counter-reformation to the Enlightenment : a romanticism that was anti-intellectual and irrational . |
| 15 | Her instinct was to ignore the look the fair man was giving her , a look that was hopeful and inviting . |
| 16 | Rangers needed all of 20 minutes to catch their breath , responding to this constant raiding with play that was neat but frantic , despite Seaman 's signals to slow down the game . |
| 17 | And white gloves with a tunic of silvery mail , lying there in a tent that was empty but for himself and Klakkr . |
| 18 | She was caught up in her work , in the looking it required , a gaze that was intense and scrutinising without allowing any personal exchange of feeling to take place , when he was all at once bearing down on her , shouting , his right fist tight around his weapon , his left hand hitting the air and pointing at her with accusing index finger . |
| 19 | He took her by the arm , in a grip that was firm and inescapable , and Robyn felt the sudden shock of awareness , as the undeniable strength of his body pressed close for a moment against her own . |
| 20 | I also wanted equipment that was practical and would fold up easily , out of the way . |
| 21 | They would correspond to a universe that was uniform and smooth , and that was expanding . |
| 22 | The inflation was a good thing in that it produced a universe that was smooth and uniform on a large scale and was expanding at just the critical rate to avoid recollapse . |
| 23 | These were songs that laced their natural exuberance with a strain of English satire that was remarkable because it seemed so unaffected . |
| 24 | It was freezing — literally — so after a not-too-exhaustive search we settled for a place that was warm and , as it turned out , very good . |
| 25 | I 'm still not sure whether it was right or wrong , but it certainly got the reaction that was necessary that people appreciated that she was there , she was the Minister for Employment , and indeed she was causing a hell of a lot of problems for G M B members . |
| 26 | Habermas 's theory involves a reflexive moment that was present but unsatisfactorily worked out in the earlier versions of critical theory . |
| 27 | With a sound that was half-laugh and half-sob , she began to rain kisses on his ashen face . |
| 28 | He knew how to get a product that was decent and rather unexciting on to the shop floor , but when it became necessary to add more to that product and to innovate in design terms , he did n't know how to go about it . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ I was born with a body that was masculine but my heart was always feminine . |