Example sentences of "of the [noun pl] that was " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , if it were merely the scale of the transactions that was unlawful or that payments had been made out of the wrong fund , it may be the council could be forced to honour the contracts . |
| 2 | It was in essence this same three-fold promise of the Anglo-Saxons that was used for coronations throughout the thirteenth century in England : King Richard I at his first coronation in 1189 swore " to maintain peace and honour and to reverence the Church , to annul any evil laws , and to make and maintain good laws " . |
| 3 | One of the areas that was targeted for local government investment lies on the north side of the Allegheny river , directly across from the ‘ Golden Triangle ’ which forms the heart of Pittsburgh 's downtown . |
| 4 | The record goes on to show that it was not only the handing over of the Yugoslavs that was discussed at these conferences . |
| 5 | He could n't give a damn about anybody — that was one of the things that was so attractive about him . |
| 6 | One of the things that was popular was that the smaller things like rabbit clubs when people could then get food for them officially if they did that . |
| 7 | The indignity of peering into other people 's intimacies had appalled me , quite overpowering the acquired , accepted knowledge that reading other people 's letters was one of the things that was n't done . |
| 8 | Now one of the things that was on the you know there was the great Radio City Music Hall . |
| 9 | Er perhaps one of the things that was n't mentioned this morning is our relationship with with Microsoft in that the the Microsoft SQL Server for a the O S Two environment is actually a developed product er and we have a joint marketing agreement on that . |
| 10 | one of the things that was driving me mad in last part of my career was , I was responsible for documentation , the fuel issues on the , round a thousand of gallons a day . |
| 11 | Because er the , when , between us and Westminster and MPs to get this cervical cancer smear test going you know and one of the women that was very prominent in Walsall was , she died with it herself , but she was an older woman you know , just too late to save her . |
| 12 | And erm one of the girls that was on there became a very very famous soprano in the country , erm Connie Shackelock you 've probably not heard of her , she 's sort of a bit before your time but er she always used to sing Land of Hope and Glory on the last night of the Proms a few years ago . |
| 13 | There were not the multitude of motorcars about in those days , as there are now , but that was one of the firms that was trying to make it , and has done it , like that . |
| 14 | She told men this , with the lift and flutter of the eyelashes that was her trademark . |
| 15 | This was one of the shows that was most definitely included in our plans to see , ‘ when I am better ’ . |
| 16 | The Mycenaean past remained a folk-memory of the Greeks that was preserved orally , culminating in the epics of Homer . |
| 17 | So I think it is a matter of erm importance for the structure plan its inclusion er and I think to put the an answer to one of the questions that was put earlier , if it is not to be left to the district to decide on where development is or is not appropriate in open countryside as defined in the structure plan policy , who it is intended could be making the decision on where development would be appropriate . |
| 18 | The chief of these was the Ospedale del Brolo , the ‘ hospital in the field ’ , the same field in which the basilica stood , one of the hospitals that was amalgamated into Ca'Grande . |
| 19 | Her voice tailed away in a little shrug of the shoulders that was like a shudder . |
| 20 | This generation of vipers has again bitten one of the hands that was stretched out in blessing it . |
| 21 | But as usual I affected a supreme unconcern , and floated past them with a sway of the hips that was a touch exaggerated . |
| 22 | It well I say one it was one of the aspects that was that tha that cropped up in our discussion about the criteria on Friday and as far as we 're concerned , what we are trying to do is not er to exclude anything from the discussion in terms of er trying to locate or find a suitable location . |
| 23 | And one of the accusations that was hurled against Jesus again and again is that this man eats and drinks with sinners ! |
| 24 | And er one of the men that was helping the old man to do something , to repair the the these tools you know , and he he 'd gone to the stores to get something and leaning over the counter to get something er er to sort of talk as one goes on a on a counter lean he was leaning a on the counter , and he erm the the the storeman he was a tough little beggar , and he said , I 've got a I 've got a I 've got a toothache . |