Example sentences of "the [adj] that [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Things have been quiet … no messages for 24 hours after picking up the 49 that were waiting yesterday . |
| 2 | yeah coming to the empty that was |
| 3 | There was no intention ever to remove these , nor the few that were established on the central ridge dominating the West Bank . |
| 4 | The few that were left he had rejected after investigating them and their backgrounds . |
| 5 | In contrast to certain other African countries , Zambia had remarkably few periodicals published by churches or religious organizations ; the few that were published all had small circulations . |
| 6 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 7 | She pointed to an area of the graphic that was expanding into other sections , eating into them like some strange , glittering kind of cancer . |
| 8 | Cos once er I mean about the s third time the , no the first time I went in the f in the rapid that was all |
| 9 | The ‘ compact ’ skis of the 1970s that were such a wheeze ( as opposed to a sneeze ) in powder were up to 10% broader than the skis we use today — they had typical sidecuts at the waist of around 70mm , compared to the slimline ( 63mm to 66mm ) skis that are more common today . |
| 10 | It was all the burning that was going on . |
| 11 | As fluorescent light comes from a larger area the light is more diffuse and therefore produces less glare , and the flickering that was associated with the early form of fluorescent lighting should not be experienced now . |
| 12 | It was the latter that was to provide a respite as the Prussians paused in their advance to loot . |
| 13 | However , the demand for the relevant , the practical , and the vocational that was part of the raison d'être of the GCSE has at the same time been answered in a different way , which may in the end prove embarrassing to the DES and the SEC , and may seem to promise yet another shift of power . |
| 14 | We have precious little information about the internal life of most of these establishments ; it was only the scandalous that was reported . |
| 15 | And for those who remembered the millions that were bid for Van Gogh 's ‘ Sunflowers ’ , there 's a telling reproduction of the picture , made entirely out of coins . |
| 16 | In October 1658 he advertised his pendulum-regulated clocks , including those of month and year duration , being ‘ the first that were in England ’ , which were offered for sale from his house at Mosses Alley , Southwark , and at the Mermaid in Lothbury , the home of his son-in-law , Thomas Loomes . |
| 17 | In spite of all the times he had been there Adam missed the turn-off that was the drift leading down to Wyvis Hall . |
| 18 | He ‘ caught numerous examples , marked and gave them their liberty , in order to ascertain whether the individuals which were flying round the ship at nightfall , were the same that were similarly engaged at daylight in the morning after a night 's run of 120 miles , and which in nearly every instance proved to be the case . ’ |
| 19 | The 1984 British Open may well go down as the Open that was lost by two players as much as it was won by Severiano Ballesteros . |
| 20 | The one American corps ( down from the two that were there before the Gulf war ) and a couple of German ones will probably remain national formations . |
| 21 | He found that of all the nutrient criteria , the two that were best able to predict reproductive success were protein intake and energy intake . |
| 22 | Well the two that were sitting they 've gone out now . |
| 23 | The two that were said like , nine thirty to something which was like one o'clock , and it did n't say lunch like you could n't get any . |
| 24 | It I think forty five they started negotiating forty five forty to forty seven and er when we tried to alter the national agreement or change it in our minds for the better you always had the solid block of these wee fellows up and down the country sticking by the national agreement because they got such a good deal out of it it brought their standards right up to the the best that was going . |
| 25 | The result ( Table 3.2 ) was that three of the four tutored birds had learnt to open the milk containers , as had three of the four that were given an already opened one ; but none of the controls had learnt the skill . |
| 26 | Emma did n't answer , but she put her hand up and pulled her scarf tightly around her throat as if it would stop the throbbing that was coming up from between her ribs and aiming to choke her . |