Example sentences of "[was/were] [det] that [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only was the amount of rubbish an eyesore , the conditions were such that anyone wishing to spend a night , whether in emergency circumstances or voluntarily , would find it a most unpleasant experience . |
| 2 | The bulk of the drawing rules were such that you got the pin diameter plus you know , their size pads and all this and stuff . |
| 3 | The latter 's delight and enthusiasm were such that he insisted that Nicholas should be sent to study at Oxford University and maintained there at the royal charge ; but a month later the youth died , on his twentieth birthday . |
| 4 | Debasement of the coinage led Wriothesley to call the Mint ‘ our holy anchor ’ ; its profits were such that he told Paget to keep its operations secret , ‘ for if it should come out that men 's things coming thither be thus employed , it would make them withdraw and so bring a lack ’ . |
| 5 | And when he wrote ‘ Tho ’ my errors and wrecks lie about me' , I believe that cantos like 107 and 108 were those that he had in mind ; and that he was right to judge them thus harshly . |
| 6 | What , what was that that you said you liked ? |
| 7 | It did n't work , and by about the third instalment the outcry was such that we abandoned it . |
| 8 | Equally loyal and effective was the Lady-in-Waiting , the Duchess de Bassano , whose husband was Grand Chamberlain of the Court , and whose devotion to their sovereigns was such that they followed them into exile , remaining faithful unto death . |
| 9 | The Roman appetite for pearls was such that they supplemented imported marine pearls by seeking out those from the freshwater mussels which grew in the rivers of their temperate provinces , despite their relative dullness and lack of lustre . |
| 10 | By 1970 the generosity of tax concessions for new investment was such that they wiped out the effect of corporation tax and rendered the post-tax rate of profit virtually as high as the pre-tax rate . |
| 11 | Despite the publicity giving the facts surrounding the transmission of the disease , ignorance was such that they became afraid of normal social contact . |
| 12 | Despite the publicity giving the facts surrounding the transmission of the disease , ignorance was such that they became afraid of normal social interaction . |
| 13 | Despite the publicity on transmission of the disease , ignorance was such that they became afraid to even visit me . |
| 14 | When they arrived at Auckland Alexander asked them for the silver and his Presence was such that they did not dare to tell him that they had no silver , so Joan said that it was ‘ in the bank ’ . |
| 15 | Your brilliance was such that you had made the background virtually vanish ; she seemed to be floating on air . ’ |
| 16 | His volume of business was such that he had his own warehouse , built during the 1830s , in Gloucester docks . |
| 17 | His distrust of the king was such that he had recently refused to attend or to do so without a large and menacing retinue ; now he agreed to be present and to keep the peace , while the bishops guaranteed his safety . |
| 18 | By this time Sisson 's reputation was such that he had begun to receive orders for large astronomical instruments , such as mural quadrants , zenith sectors , and transit instruments for observatories all over Europe : for Utrecht , Bologna , Leiden , Paris , and Pisa , as well as for the private observatory of George Parker , second Earl of Macclesfield [ q.v. ] |
| 19 | It still appeared deserted Their excitement was such that he doubted if they could stop now even if the gamekeeper did appear . |
| 20 | His fascination with these systematic orderings of society by kinship was such that he undertook a massive comparison and classification of as many systems of kinship terms as he could find from around the world , terms such as ‘ cousin ’ , ‘ uncle ’ , etc . |
| 21 | Thome de Gamond realised the importance of preliminary geological investigations and this enthusiasm was such that he dived without any form of equipment to depths of 100 feet to survey the Channel bed . |
| 22 | Not only did he find this crude form of seal unsuitable for his normal still wines , but when he began to produce sparkling wines the total inadequacy of wooden pegs for imprisoning the carbonic gas was such that he set out to discover a more efficient seal . |
| 23 | The tension was such that she felt sudden relief as they went out of the small room into the air . |
| 24 | Although as a legacy of the Gullane incident , she felt that her father never fully trusted her again until his dying day , the shock , allied to the S.L.G.A 's threat of a ban , was such that she mended her ways at once . |
| 25 | The shock was such that she stopped crying immediately , but what was worse , she stopped crying at home as well and felt simply awful , physically and mentally , until able to cry again . |
| 26 | Her fortitude was such that she did not need to unload on to him her emotional worries . |
| 27 | My difficulty in breathing was such that I clutched my throat . |
| 28 | The threat of unemployment , even for apparently ‘ qualified ’ people , was such that I had to cast round desperately for a job . |
| 29 | The antithesis between the modern-day racing car and the Stone Age circuit was such that I knew every driver was taking his life in his hands in the most ludicrous degree . ’ |
| 30 | At the time my athletic naivete was such that I did n't even know what a Director of Coaching was . |