Example sentences of "[noun pl] that was " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | But the moment passed , for there was something in her grasp of his legs that was so awkward , so inexperienced , and the pitch of her entreaties remained so anguished that he knew she was only doing what she imagined might persuade him to help her ; and a wave of self-loathing washed over him , that a woman like her could think of a man like him in such a light . |
| 3 | A recent signing tour of record shops was cancelled by the police because of the volume of fans that was bound to turn up . |
| 4 | In any case , he recognized the success of Dej 's gambit and made it his own after 1964.4 In fact , when Khruschev was toppled by Brezhnev in the autumn of 1964 , three counts in the lengthy criticism of his methods that was levelled at Khruschev by the new Soviet leadership referred to his errors in his dealings with the Romanians . |
| 5 | did n't have a grieve it was just my brothers that was there at the time . |
| 6 | But I believe it might be possible to get the universities and polytechnics in future to accept a way of selecting candidates that was radically different from either A levels alone , or A and AS levels . |
| 7 | The 1979 and 1983 elections also witnessed an increase in the number of candidates fielded by minor parties , to whom the £150 deposit ( first set in 1918 ) no longer serves as the bar to nonserious candidates that was intended . |
| 8 | The first solution for colliding plane gravitational waves that was obtained using the inverse scattering method was that of Ferrari and Ibañez ( 1987 b ) , who obtained the solution described in Section 10.4 using the method in the form developed by Carr and Verdaguer ( 1983 ) . |
| 9 | It was a bundle of rags that was hard inside . |
| 10 | There was something about the care with which he looked into your eyes that was truly frightening . |
| 11 | And if you volunteered for five years I know you got fifty pound for that which was a hell of a lot of money , a year 's wage in some peoples ' eyes that was you know . |
| 12 | She was tearing herself away from him and spinning round to face him , a storm in her eyes that was only part fury . |
| 13 | For whenever her husband was working with Morse , Mrs Lewis could recognise a curious contentment in his eyes that was not only good for him , but good for her , too . |
| 14 | If you were groggy on speed you behaved a bit like Marshall — your feet were n't solidly stuck to the ground — there was a look in your eyes that was n't lust — and was n't all purity , either — amazed recognition summed it up , but did n't make sense . |
| 15 | The outer mantle , the cerebral cortex , was folded into a pattern of sulci and gyri that was remarkably consistent from brain to brain and , within the cerebral cortex , some parts were anatomically distinct from others . |
| 16 | This was preferred to the normal process of simply making the hair greyer , and the stars did not like the set of wigs that was originally intended to be used . |
| 17 | Their music was a network of hand-me-down styles and words , like a system of waterways that was traceable back to this recognisable Afro-American source . |
| 18 | George Bosworth , Director of Newcastle Polytechnic , thought that those who advocated a form of education in the polytechnics that was different from that in the universities had been ‘ singularly uncommunicative on the nature and extent of the difference ’ . |
| 19 | Well thanks that was beautiful tea , sort of ready for it |
| 20 | No , no I , I do n't know how but there was two cars that was , that was er behind me and I managed to avoid them but I do n't know how . |
| 21 | It also seemed that the perceived adequacy of close relationships was of most importance to women , while for men it was the perceived adequacy of more diffuse relationships that was crucial . |
| 22 | It well I say one it was one of the aspects that was that tha that cropped up in our discussion about the criteria on Friday and as far as we 're concerned , what we are trying to do is not er to exclude anything from the discussion in terms of er trying to locate or find a suitable location . |
| 23 | He came to that which was his own , that 's in other words that was the Jews was n't it ? |
| 24 | That was our first attempt at a field kitchen We erm when we got back to s be stood down we was told by the er umpires that was stationed there that our headquarters had been wiped out . |
| 25 | But it was usually the big branches that was doing the cooking . |
| 26 | In the pictures that was er that was one thing er I was quite happy with . |
| 27 | Her voice tailed away in a little shrug of the shoulders that was like a shudder . |
| 28 | In some respects that was a real , though limited , guarantee . |
| 29 | Statements of this kind were essential if the Schools Council was to receive the support from schools that was needed if the project was to flower . |
| 30 | It also furnished them with a curriculum in both secondary modern and grammar schools that was geared to national cultural demands and criteria of scholastic excellence . |