Example sentences of "[adj] that was " in BNC.
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| 1 | No longer interrupted by shooting , the zombies continued their steady slow pace , completely ignoring the Marines other than to step around any Marine that was in their path . |
| 2 | And yet , she felt sure now , it was this that was in her mother 's mind because , as far as her mother knew , her cousin was childless . |
| 3 | Some of this discussion will refer to the material inequalities between classes — income and wealth differences , for example — so the reader should bear in mind the very detailed evidence for this that was presented in Chapter 2 . |
| 4 | The licensing of the play-text rather than the performance conferred a form of authority on the written artefact and it was this that was supposedly acted . |
| 5 | But it became clear that was not the way to hold our own against companies like Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola , or Mars on the confectionery side . |
| 6 | Oh yeah that was really sensible that was . |
| 7 | Bloody funny that was , for everybody else . |
| 8 | Funny that was . |
| 9 | That was really funny that was . |
| 10 | Oh it was so funny that was . |
| 11 | No , that one was brown that was . |
| 12 | So that the meeting and the usual Saturday-night social that was to follow it could end before curfew , proceedings had been due to commence at six but , even so , no one really expected a punctual start . |
| 13 | Could Theo lay his hands on some that was the colour of unbleached muslin or linen ? |
| 14 | And then I had some that was acquired from the forestry alright again . |
| 15 | Angelica had just mentioned that Steve was mixed up in an insurance swindle , and she was afraid that was why he had missed the train . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm afraid that was a deliberate ploy on my part , ’ he admitted . |
| 17 | Yes , I 'm afraid that was my fault . |
| 18 | yeah coming to the empty that was |
| 19 | That was an old that was one of those little old pits . |
| 20 | DeVore watched Berdichev move among the men gathered there in the garden room , more at ease now than he had ever been ; saw too how they looked to him now as a leader , a shaper of events , and noted with irony how different that was from how they had formerly behaved . |
| 21 | There was the scandal of the Westminster Council 's sale of cemeteries for 15 pence ; a report of an enterprising Yorkshireman , Edgar Dakin , who , shocked at the prices charged for memorial headstones in the conventional marble or granite , had patented his design for thermoplastic ones at a tiny fraction of the cost ; and yet another that was virtually a half-hour commercial on BBC television for the ubiquitous Hodgson Holdings . |
| 22 | A powerful backblast blew one coating of dust from his clothes and replaced it with another that was tinged with soot . |
| 23 | The First Battle of Ypres fell into three distinct phases : the manoeuvres that brought the four Allied armies into position by about 20 October ; the German attacks on the River Yser and at La Bassee and Arras ; and the blows on the British salient that was forming east of Ypres . |
| 24 | I mean the foyer when you come in to the building when the place was refurbished that was that we got the consultant 's to look at the into the foyer and what you see as you come into the building is the recommendations of those consultants were talking about having a red foyer making it inviting and friendly that was their recommendation which was adopted . |
| 25 | Years ago when you wanted to get to the heath from a stable that was maybe , the Cambridge side of Newmarket |
| 26 | Well I have n't , it 's just that that people have said , you know , when the permissions available can we see it as soon as possible that was all , I just wondered if that document was available , |
| 27 | There was precious little that was new in the Paper . |
| 28 | The appearance of a Labour party pamphlet , European Unity , in June 1950 added to the indignation in Congress and press alike given that it contained so little that was in tune with American hopes of European integration . |
| 29 | That 's right that was about five years ago . |
| 30 | Yeah that 's right that was the problem |