Example sentences of "that [adv] was [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , the increase in the importance of state benefits must have tended to reduce the inequality in the economic circumstances of the elderly that hitherto was determined in the labour market . |
| 2 | It was only by chance that Long was prevented from driving his 72-seat National Express double-decker from London 's Victoria coach station just after midnight . |
| 3 | Then it had been Roman revenge against an uprising — but the seizure and detonation of an Israeli atomic bomb by terrorists had made a second holocaust of the land that once was known as Holy . |
| 4 | Only one Japanese factory ship remains in operation , and one Japanese whaling company is left , accounting for only a fraction of the income that once was earned from whale products . |
| 5 | As for keyboard music , ‘ the first musicke that ever was printed for the Virginalls ’ , the famous Parthenia containing 21 short preludes and dances by Byrd , Bull , and Gibbons , appeared only in late 1612 |
| 6 | On 2 August he had a spectacular military victory at Baggotrath , calling it ‘ the absolutest victory that ever was got in this kingdom and the least loss of our side ’ , and , after a short interval back in England , he was in command at the siege of Tecroghan Castle near Trim in May 1650 . |
| 7 | A farmer friend — I do have some — said to me , ’ You realise that as soon as the quota was introduced dairy farmers put more sheep on land that previously was used for cows . ’ |