Example sentences of "of [adj] was [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh yes , one of the , one of the surprises of this was discovering that in fact one of the people who knew Florence Kelly and indeed worked for her for a while , and who herself set up a minimum wage board in Washington , in the District of Columbia , is indeed still alive , and has very powerful memories of , of both the people and the activities of the movement . |
| 2 | One way of making sense of this was to suppose that genes were made of proteins , and that the DNA merely provided the string on which the protein beads were strung . |
| 3 | The aim of this was to ensure that America would become a permanent arms economy in which the state would underwrite American corporations through their guarantee of demand for the high technology goods which these corporations had invested in during the war . |
| 4 | Maggie Byrne was a woman with plenty of love to give , and the best stimulus of all was to know that she was needed . |
| 5 | But worst of all was finding that she disliked fashion-show modelling . |