Example sentences of "[noun] that was [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If Robbie had needed any reason to deepen her dislike for his girlfriend that was it . |
| 5 | ‘ When I put the phone down on him on Friday that was it . |
| 6 | ‘ Come on , ’ he said and they both left Steed parked there and made their way to the twisted and bent railing that was his door to the family . |
| 7 | Good old car that was I made a profit on that . |
| 8 | Maggie gazed at the twenty-foot-long boat that was her father 's main source of livelihood . |
| 9 | In The Knossos Labyrinth ( Castleden 1989 ) , the evidence is summarized for believing that it was in the Central Court that the bull-leaping ritual took place , a ceremony that was itself central to the Minoan belief-system . |
| 10 | He saw a figure that was himself , the villain of his peepshow . |
| 11 | The dress Bella was wearing was of a deep and vivid shade of blue , cladding a figure that was anything but fat . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | Many of their parents , on the other hand , saw the Unification Church as an institution that was itself one of the evils of the world and which had ensnared their sons and daughters , taking away their free will . |
| 14 | My mind kept going back to the case that was nothing to do with me , the unsolved mystery of the man with a load of live ammunition in his pockets found dead on the Thames mud . |
| 15 | The Thing made the little clicking noise that was its equivalent of clearing its throat . |
| 16 | He made a noise that was something like a laugh . |
| 17 | He took her through to show her the four-roomed suite that was his private living space within Liston Hall . |
| 18 | He stared at the sooty-looking ball of black chaos that was her hair , wanting her , terrified of her . |
| 19 | Crow-Harry circled , came close to the charcoal shard that was his sister , winked , then rose and was gone , flying to the south , to home , to warmth , to freedom . |
| 20 | This was true to the extent that he was acting out a drama of his own inventing , he was the protagonist in a play that was nothing but climaxes and intervals . |
| 21 | Where 's the money that was there ? |
| 22 | Now I invest her money , the money that was mine . |
| 23 | The catholic school which was the only school available then to us fo with the field that was we which we needed . |
| 24 | But Melody had her face turned up to him eagerly and he remembered other details of Boz 's wedding night party : his meeting with Melody 's mother and the small , shabby tent that was her home . |
| 25 | but I mean up until Stalingrad that was it , the , the Russian army was nothing , right , but as soon as Stalingrad came in every day |
| 26 | Two of the Presidential guardsmen were giggling as they pointed to the name of the village that was his target . |
| 27 | Just possible , hut that was something else I had never seen . |
| 28 | Finally , in a movement of panic that was her body 's scream , she dragged up her leaden hands to smash the invaders from her head . |
| 29 | One lunchtime when she had been at the House of Mattli for a few months Paula went there for her usual coffee and the cottage cheese salad that was her staple diet now that it was so important that she did not add a single half-inch to her wand-slim figure . |
| 30 | Er I one , went into one at Iceland that was it was lovely . |