Example sentences of "[that] [verb] [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first episode , the house that crumbled was in a real North London street designated for demolition . |
| 2 | The most striking change that occurred was with regard to the parties ' respective attitudes towards Court–Country issues . |
| 3 | The prayer that occurred was in a small group and it was a prayer for power for the church . |
| 4 | Adjustment for risk factors known before the start of labour made little difference to perinatal mortality rates , but such differences that occurred were in the expected direction . |
| 5 | The radio was on , whatever it was that shrieked was at it full-blast , and from somewhere upstairs came music that sounded as if it proceeded from a violin . |
| 6 | The last time that happened was with an Irish judge in the 1830s . |
| 7 | Er all those that finished was in the finishing union , yeah . |
| 8 | The years that followed were in many respects his heyday . |
| 9 | Stalin was less interested in Korea and the type of state that developed was of idiosyncratic character , in some respects resembling the Soviet Union and in others the kind of communist party devised by Mao Tse-tung during the Yenan era . |
| 10 | Suddenly the only thing that mattered was to be home , safe , away from all this noise , this heat , the perpetual anguish . |
| 11 | Although conceding that manufactures were in many respects deserving of the " high encomiums " bestowed upon them , a pamphleteer of 1782 went on to remark : Scarcely are we fed , lodged , clothed , warmed , without sending multitudes to their grave . |
| 12 | The picture that emerged was of couples predominantly against the idea of adoption with contact . |
| 13 | However , in spite of having continually plundered Arabia through the centuries and taken thousands of its best horses , by the beginning of this century few of their descendants remained and those that did were in a very sorry state of deterioration . |
| 14 | The O'Donnells of Donegal had built a stone Tudor mansion on the site of a twelfth-century castle , and the walls that remained were of surprising elegance . |
| 15 | All that remained was for the Lord Chancellor by statutory instrument to appoint a day for s9 to come into effect . |
| 16 | But did you realize that dare was for you ? |