Example sentences of "was [det] that he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His volume of business was such that he had his own warehouse , built during the 1830s , in Gloucester docks . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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. ] |
| 4 | It still appeared deserted Their excitement was such that he doubted if they could stop now even if the gamekeeper did appear . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A muddy pond was all that he 'd achieved . |
| 9 | That was all that he had in mind , as Prior Robert , bewildered and displeased by what seemed to him very grudging acceptance of a duty that should have conveyed honour upon the recipient , waved Jerome imperiously to the altar . |
| 10 | , he 's gone down , he 's looking for a penalty and it 's been given , the referee consulted the linesman , he looked at his nearside , it was who went in or was it Chris on David , the penalty award has been given by the referee , he looked to confirm it with the linesman on the nearside and that confirmation was all that he had needed to point to the spot . |