Example sentences of "[art] [noun] was [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fiction was still maintained that the king was responsible for government . |
| 2 | ‘ I would be delighted to design the flowers for your wedding … | ’ The daydream was so engrossing that she almost did n't see the man and the girl struggling on the pavement opposite . |
| 3 | The only trouble was that the photograph was so arranged that it would be very easy for a picture editor to crop the product out of the picture altogether ! |
| 4 | The Council was clearly implying that ( as Newman saw ) Scripture itself works sacramentally , especially when it is made actual by effective reading and preaching in the liturgy . |
| 5 | By the middle of 1924 the Agitprop section of the Smolgubkom was openly declaring that both shefstvo and smychka were a farce in actuality because they had deteriorated into mass weekend outings to the countryside in search of illicit stills . |
| 6 | The conference was also told that as an alternative to the expense of sending officers to university , it was proposed to ‘ direct officers to research a particular problem … and give them a short period to carry out intensive research ’ . |
| 7 | The conference was also told that delegates from Turkmenistan had been prevented by the authorities from leaving that country . |
| 8 | The opinion was strongly expressed that Halling was the best point at which to build it and a committee was appointed . |
| 9 | ‘ The opinion was also expressed that it was not party policy to come out and support candidates during local elections . |
| 10 | Very soon the place was so packed that knots of people integrated into a sway and the perimeter of the appointed area burst . |
| 11 | The Queen 's Bench held that the crew was so reduced that it was dangerous to life to sail and unreasonable for the master to require his crew to do so . |
| 12 | The court was also told that a sale of Paramount was expected to be completed in the next fortnight for £1.5million . |
| 13 | The court was also told that Gwynedd Social Services department left the boy with the family , despite his allegations of mistreatment . |
| 14 | The court was also told that Gwynedd Social Services department left the boy with the family , despite his allegations of mistreatment . |
| 15 | He wanted runners in his pack , so Neath — Waldron 's club , as his antagonists accusingly pointed out — came into vogue even though the evidence was swiftly adduced that outstanding club players do not necessarily make adequate internationals . |
| 16 | The ground was so contaminated that it was too dangerous even to try to remove the soil . |
| 17 | The court was told that the dog was so emaciated that it was little more than skin and bone . |
| 18 | It was noticeable that there was a willingness on the part of quite a number of voters to express as many preferences as there were candidates and the comment was sometimes made that while it was not too difficult to decide which candidates should be given first and early preferences and which candidates should be given last and later preferences it was less easy to decide the order of preference in which the middle range of candidates should be placed . |
| 19 | In the early 1940s and 1950s , the belief was widely held that a combination of government intervention — in the form of town planning , housing and health programmes , and the provision of social security — and permanent male full employment , together with an increase in real wages , would reduce suffering due to poverty to manageable proportions . |
| 20 | Instead his owner , 18-year-old Helen Woodruff from Walcot in Swindon , ignored advice to have him treated , and when the RSPCA found him 6 weeks later the wound was so swollen that Capri was in agony . |
| 21 | The countryside was so blurred that they could form only the vaguest idea of how it must look when the sun was shining . |
| 22 | The claim was also made that there was very little support at all for local small businesses from government agencies . |
| 23 | But this apparent welcome was a rebuff : the cutter was there to see that the St Louis did not enter territorial waters . |
| 24 | The journey was so organized that on their way they passed through several German states , clearly hoping to find indications of pro-French feeling on the part of the South German sovereigns , who , it was thought , would be alarmed by the seemingly inexorable rise of Prussia . |
| 25 | To uncouple , the tug drew away and the leg was so balanced that it dropped to earth by gravity : if this leg was , through any reason tight , and it failed to function , the trailer fell to the ground , and so cast its load . |
| 26 | The Army was also promised that a large proportion of the financial savings , which flowed from ending of National Service , would be ploughed back into major re-equipment and barrack rebuilding programmes to make regular service more attractive . |
| 27 | The audience was so affected that when the performance ended nobody moved for several minutes . |
| 28 | The restaurant was so packed that there were n't enough chairs , and somehow Geoffrey squeezed in between Stella and Meredith . |
| 29 | It looked like half a letter T. The needle was so bent that I knew I knew that I would not be able to remove it in the usual way , so I took my heavy pliers ( the ones with which I behead the Passap/Pfaff needles when they got damaged ) and cut off the top of the needle , below the bend . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , the bishop was firmly assured that , as yet , the English posed no threat . |