Example sentences of "was a [noun] that [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The target was a craft that cost half as much as the SR.N6 to buy . |
| 2 | It was a position of strange intimacy ; as if the steam that shrouded them was a veil that cut out the world . |
| 3 | She smiled all the time , but it was a smile that put a chill in your heart . |
| 4 | where 's that , you said there was a book that come this morning that 'll be alright for them |
| 5 | Mr Clarke , who is chairman of the council 's Leisure Services Committee , said that there was a misconception that rave dances were drug parties . |
| 6 | That was a thing that come on and they said now when if when god was here and he did a miracle of the loaves and the fishes somebody would turn round and say there was no salt and vinegar . |
| 7 | Either he had gone to ground very effectively and was in hiding , or — and this was a rumour that spread increasingly amongst the cast — he had killed himself . |
| 8 | It was an image that spread and took root everywhere , bringing with it a tradition of atrocious performances — sloppy , flat and prettifying — that lasted throughout his lifetime , for the entire 19th century and for too much of the 20th . |