Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | If Robbie had needed any reason to deepen her dislike for his girlfriend that was it . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | Good old car that was I made a profit on that . |
| 6 | Maggie gazed at the twenty-foot-long boat that was her father 's main source of livelihood . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He saw a figure that was himself , the villain of his peepshow . |
| 9 | The dress Bella was wearing was of a deep and vivid shade of blue , cladding a figure that was anything but fat . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The Thing made the little clicking noise that was its equivalent of clearing its throat . |
| 14 | He made a noise that was something like a laugh . |
| 15 | He took her through to show her the four-roomed suite that was his private living space within Liston Hall . |
| 16 | He stared at the sooty-looking ball of black chaos that was her hair , wanting her , terrified of her . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Where 's the money that was there ? |
| 20 | Now I invest her money , the money that was mine . |
| 21 | The catholic school which was the only school available then to us fo with the field that was we which we needed . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Two of the Presidential guardsmen were giggling as they pointed to the name of the village that was his target . |
| 24 | Just possible , hut that was something else I had never seen . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It was the candid charm that was his greatest public asset . |
| 28 | Guinness ' decision to withdraw its alcohol-free bitter , Smithwick 's AFB , last February appears to endorse the persistent gloom surrounding a sector that was one described as a dynamic , vibrant and burgeoning niche . |
| 29 | A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home . |
| 30 | He climbed the ladder and studied his face for half an hour in the silver disc that was his halo . |