Example sentences of "[noun sg] that was the [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Returning to Reine that afternoon , I caught sight of Jean-Claude slipping into the dark urban cleft that was the rue de Sèvres , and I noticed that I felt nothing , neither curi-osity nor apprehension . |
| 2 | Another explosion in the white-hot volcano that was the Drum sent a whole marble mantlepiece scything overhead . |
| 3 | This was the name that Hitler himself gave to a weekend of murder that was the culmination of a power struggle within the Nazi Party . |
| 4 | There were recalls of the Jarrow marchers , as if a volcanic lava that was the death of security had devastated the country and with it peace of mind had gone for ever . |
| 5 | SIR — I like to recall a wry comment on the television programme That Was The Week That Was towards the end of the Tories ' last long period in office during the early Sixties : ‘ There 's only one thing that will make the Conservatives popular again — and that is the next Labour government ! ’ |
| 6 | The British infantry , firing a heavier bullet — 16 to the pound against the French 24 — than their enemies , and trained to do so rapidly , by platoons instead of in cumbrous ranks , now achieved a mastery of the battlefield that was the envy of continental commanders . |
| 7 | That 's the number of lucky motorists the Wolfsburg manufacturer has equipped with the Golf G60 Limited , a car that was the subject of over 1000 enquiries when it was announced to dealers in Germany last year but only had a production run of 70 . |
| 8 | Only the roof of the Commandant 's hut was visible over the high wooden fence that was the boundary of the Factory compound , but the fire was high and the smoke higher . |
| 9 | The white light that was the pain in his head receded as something cool was pressed to it . |
| 10 | He had few clothes — a ‘ good suit ’ of dark-blue lightweight dacron that was the badge of every American in those days , a couple of shirts , a long , shapeless tweed overcoat of German origin he wore when it got colder . |
| 11 | Leeds have managed only one clean sheet all season and are desperate to shore up a defence that was the cornerstone of last year 's success . |
| 12 | He had a strong-featured face that was attractive without being strictly good-looking , and hair that was the colour of deep copper . |
| 13 | Nigel was a little deaf , but in any case that was the way he liked it . |
| 14 | Such statistics aid our understanding of population movements but they mask the bewildering complexity that was the reality of the situation . |
| 15 | They stopped at the modern bungalow that was the home and office of the local police constable . |
| 16 | The peculiar quality of Tamm 's work was that he recorded individual plants , shoots or rosettes , within his populations and this enabled him to follow the fates of individual plant units ( often tillers or ramets ) rather than to study the grosser vegetational change that was the aim of many others who set up permanent quadrats . |
| 17 | The bar chart that was the result of the survey we did you need to look at that piece of work and ask yourself a question , is this piece of work the best thing I have ever done ? |
| 18 | that bit that was the bar . |
| 19 | Her house at Cape Cod had a huge kitchen that was the hub of the house . |
| 20 | The silver chandelier is a copy of one at Knole , home of the Sackville-West family , and the tapestry fire screen is worked with the traditional vase of flowers on a marble pedestal that was the badge of the weavers of the royal wardrobe in the eighteenth century . |
| 21 | and that maybe something your Lordship may wish to consider , I 'm a little bit baffled as to why my learned friend has gone for cases on interim measures , we 're not seeking interim relief , we have n't sorted interim injunction , erm to suspend the validity of any particular measure that was the basis of all of his case |
| 22 | We sat on the bench looking out of the window that was the size of a very large letter-box . |
| 23 | Askrigg , the village that was the setting for the television series " All Creatures Great and Small " based on the books by James Herriot , was also the centre of a great clockmaking tradition that was begun by John Ogden , who came there from Halifax in 1681 . |
| 24 | He did n't care what he found , the car , the stream , or the hut that was the purpose of his visit . |
| 25 | It was not until March in 1782 that the brothers made the error that was the beginning of their undoing . |
| 26 | Sir David , who first emerged as a television personality 30 years ago in the radical That Was The Week That Was , added : ‘ It really is a great honour , something I never expected , ’ he added . |
| 27 | But it was theocratic kingship that was the foundation of his policy and his rulership rather than a kingship or emperorship that looked to the pope for sanction and direction . |
| 28 | The most coward and yet everybody you spoke to s s thought that was a good thing , because they believed everything they saw on television right until the girl that was the actress that cried on television and said he pulled the plugs out of the incubators for the babies , and she was an actress and yet that was head headline news . |
| 29 | When the cold engine that was the city had coughed and kicked and finally started up for the day , then she 'd set out about her business . |
| 30 | It moved aside the earth and found the petrified wood that was the heart in the forest . |