Example sentences of "[noun] that was " in BNC.
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| 1 | We found that sodium nitroprusside given before CCK produced a shiftin the pressure dose-response curve of the gall bladder that was opposite to that produced by the NO synthase inhibitors . |
| 2 | — where ‘ Trinacria ’ , the ancient Greek name for Sicily , is related to the legend of how Vulcan the divine smith , somewhere in the island , solved the problem of perpetual motion , by a wheel with three dogleg spokes , its never ceasing to roll recalling the wheel that was the hellish and interminable torment of Ixion . |
| 3 | On top was the Queen with Princess Anne in a pushchair and Paul McCartney as Dad , and here was one I had near the beginning about being in a space-ship — Brian and me were weightless and floating around , and what we had to do was to get some stability by getting hold of this firework , a sort of Catherine wheel that was going round and round and showering sparks in our faces , so we closed our eyes and a fire-fanged beast roared flames at us and burned a hole in the space-ship and I fell , still with my eyes tight shut , out into the bottomless black void . |
| 4 | If God can not be identified with man as a product of evolution , and thereby given a credible definition , then any effort to create a new and successful conception of God will founder on the same rocks of contention that have wrecked every religion that was ever believed in . |
| 5 | It is neo-paganism , or a revival of the pre-Christian religion that was practised here hundreds of years ago . |
| 6 | It seems to have been a religion that was in transition , which may explain some startling contradictions or apparent contradictions . |
| 7 | In terms of penalty-area action that was about it . |
| 8 | We may scoff at the sort of community action that was represented by ducking-stools and pillories , by ‘ sending to Coventry ’ and by , in its extremest form , lynch law . |
| 9 | There was a need for concerted action that was not evidence of weakness but of ‘ confidence and strength ’ . |
| 10 | The irony was that The Smiths were objecting to an article which suggested that they had become governed by power and finance with an action that was itself a display of power and finance . |
| 11 | If there is enough to suggest that it is more probable that the offence took place , that is enough for the action that was taken by all the agencies involved in Orkney . |
| 12 | He ordered two divisions to counter-attack in the centre , an action that was executed with such vigour that the German 20th Corps was brought to a halt for 48 hours . |
| 13 | The value of the USRC was thus of an indirect kind ; by involving more than seventy MPs and peers in social research the Unionist belief that the party was a party of reform was re-established ; it began the trend towards research for political action that was to accelerate after the war ; and it affected much later policy by influencing those who were to make it . |
| 14 | It romanticized revolution and regularized insubordination , sanctifying that preference for violent individual action that was to bedevil the politics of nineteenth-century Spain . |
| 15 | A little later she indicates that I am partially returned to favour when I plan to write to The Times condemning the industrial action that was taken by the consultants : ‘ If he really produces this letter to The Times I shall begin to have some faith in him . ’ |
| 16 | He never moved but waited for her to come to him , and when she did his arm came around her with a swift , protective action that was not lost at all on Maggie . |
| 17 | A few days after the action that was taken by my right hon. Friend , a magic wand was waved and somehow money was found to improve the Southend line . |
| 18 | In the past if you wanted to get spiders out of your bath you could either patiently try to tempt them … or take action that was a little more drastic . |
| 19 | The editor of the Advertiser , Graham Isdale , said he was not surprised by the decision and he accused the council 's leaders of wasting poll tax payers ' money by pursuing action that was doomed to fail . |
| 20 | There as you probably know are various groups who feel that they , ought to erm , they ought to take a stand because they felt that Port Meadow actually the character of Port Meadow was changing and ultimately the Council I think agreed with them , that something should be done and this was the action that was taken . |
| 21 | As he dwelt particularly on the menace of the French positions on the Left Bank , the Heir to the Throne must have had some difficulty hiding a note of ‘ I-told-so-you-so ’ For Falkenhayn , in his insistence on limiting the attack to one bank only , had stood in an isolation that was hardly splendid . |
| 22 | The sadness seemed to extinguish her as if she had no real eyes or fingers or genitals or teeth or frown-lines or kidneys but these were just slight irregularities in the sponge that was her sadness . |
| 23 | The latter turned his head as the door shut behind her , coming to his feet and raking her with a glance that was both sharp and insolent . |
| 24 | He gave her a sideways glance that was positively superior . |
| 25 | He was making a statement that was demeaning to her , and yet her flesh burned , familiar fire stabbed at her loins and her body stirred against his , jerkily at first and then involuntarily adopting a rhythm that was both sinuous and surging , blatantly erotic . |
| 26 | ‘ God witness , ’ said Llewelyn , drumming his long fingers on the arms of his chair in a hard-driven rhythm that was always a key to the stresses of his mind , ‘ it could not have come at a worse time . |
| 27 | But at last she was back in her room , and sinking back against the closed door in a grief that was too deep for tears . |
| 28 | In vehicle pretreated rats only about 10% of the sections exhibited histological injury of grade III whereas it was nearly 30% of the sections in capsaicin pretreated animals that was covered by this severe degree of damage ( Figs 3 and 4A ) . |
| 29 | General Lee had entered Maryland with 50,000 men , but the Brigade that was skirmishing its way towards Harper 's Ferry had left nothing behind but blackened camp-fires and crushed grasses , while the advance line of MacArthur 's Guard moved warily upstream in the late evening in pursuit . |
| 30 | The yard was a desert of flint chips and rolling stock that was almost extinct . |