Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] that was [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marie Grubbe had loved Søren Sørensen for the indefinable quality that was his alone : for himself . |
| 2 | It was the candid charm that was his greatest public asset . |
| 3 | Maggie gazed at the twenty-foot-long boat that was her father 's main source of livelihood . |
| 4 | Dinah sat placidly beside Paul , aware that the bruised turmoil that was her body had subsided into a kind of contentment . |
| 5 | ‘ I want to paint men and women with that something of the eternal which the halo used to symbolize , ’ Van Gogh had written , groping to define for his brother the human essence that was his aim in pictures such as this . ’ |
| 6 | Irina sat behind him , a disembodied voice asking questions through the drugged haze that was his mind . |
| 7 | He took her through to show her the four-roomed suite that was his private living space within Liston Hall . |
| 8 | ‘ There 's a bruise , ’ he told her curtly , releasing her hair as she pulled away from him defensively , the inner disturbance that was her inevitable response to his lightest touch suddenly infuriating her . |
| 9 | As she gazed intently towards the small group that was her family , a great sadness filled Beth 's heart . |
| 10 | Your aunt had not the soul to discern the matchless spirit that was my mother 's . ’ |
| 11 | It did not start the cauldron brewing but its members reacted to the simmering unrest that was their inheritance with an honest attempt to apply minds to what had always been the province of bigotry and emotion . |
| 12 | For while the health and safety , and the prospective redundancy of its members , are the union 's business as of generally recognised right it is by no means clear that an industrial strategy that was anything more than a slogan would be . |