Example sentences of "an [noun] that was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He kissed her with an expertise that was outside her experience , with a knowledge that was never learned from any book , and , much to her surprise , she felt a stab of jealousy for all those other women who must have stood as she stood now , arms round his strong frame , mouth ravaged by his skill . |
| 2 | ‘ When we discussed the new season with the League there arose an opportunity that was of advantage to all of us . |
| 3 | The first concerned an aircraft that was in the hangar undergoing engine cylinder pressure checks . |
| 4 | Like the FAOR Field Trial ( Chapt 10 ) it took place in an establishment that was under the control of a Social Services Department . |
| 5 | They made love a third time before falling into an exhaustion that was beyond pleasure , their naked bodies sprawled together , arms and legs tangled , and when they woke up late the next day Damian made love to her again until her eyes closed and she shuddered in hot delirium against him . |
| 6 | I stopped for a bite at an eating-place that was in a huge hove-bubble , drifting slowly about the roof-tops along one of the main spiral streets intersecting the city centre . |
| 7 | A priori then , it would seem that Ho Chi Minh and his government were only to be regarded as an extension of Soviet power ; an assumption that was to be reinforced by the second constraint which originated in the Department of State . |
| 8 | The room fell silent , and from his great height he gazed over the room with that familiar expression he put on when being headmasterly — an expression that was at once dyspeptic yet predatory ( for were they not , after all , his prey ? ) . |