Example sentences of "that was " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | The child , possessed by wonder and nameless hauntings , tried to join together the heavings and creakings and groans and gasps and little cries he had heard as he lay on the floor , his mother 's disturbed concentration now , his father 's stillness as if felled , and the sticky warmth in which he lay between them , something more than the sweat that was there before , a substance he divined as elemental , mysterious , newly decanted , that touched his flesh and his senses with profound , unattainable meaning . |
| 3 | Soon after this we learn that Doyle thinks he has sold his rights by serving the system as a teacher for ‘ a large wheen of pennies ’ : ‘ He was an article that was corrupt … corruptio optimi pessima … ’ . |
| 4 | Although the story of my doing Balthazar B and the Beastly Beatitudes is a bit strange inasmuch as I ended up playing the part that was completely opposite from the one I was originally intended to do . |
| 5 | When I did Nurse Ratchett in One Flew Over The Cuckoo 's Nest up in Manchester I read the novel and found a speech in the book that was really wonderful on the character and I asked the director if I could read it for him . |
| 6 | After cooking supper that was more like a banquet than an ordinary meal he played us some medieval things on the organ and then some Elizabethan things on the clavichord . |
| 7 | The public clearly believed that this ‘ restoration ’ would enhance the building 's interest despite destroying an historic element ; he must also have felt that a new timber framed facade , despite its inauthenticity , would give the pub an ‘ historic ’ character that was more readily recognisable and instantly attractive to potential customers . |
| 8 | Marion Conroy was on stage until the final curtain calls and came up the stairs with the rest of the cast afterwards , observing as she did that Pepper went into his No. 2 and shut the door but that Cissy opened it and went in after him , the wide-eyed babyish stare that was the caricaturists ' joy quite absent . |
| 9 | It was n't a medical poison that was used to kill Mrs Tyler . ’ |
| 10 | I smiled a smile that was meant to signify interest in this excursion , but Carla was far too intelligent to believe it showed anything of the sort . |
| 11 | There were two scheduled stops on my journey : the first was a company that was going to hold my bulkier items in storage ( a firm that my now ex-landlord had told me about which had some spare space in a lock-up in a basement car park ) ; the second was of course the Palace Hotel where I was going to drop off everything else . |
| 12 | The safest course of action seemed to be to shore up the bunker and make sure I did nothing to upset the fragile eco-system that was supporting me , for however much we wanted to disguise it , I had nothing to fall back on . |
| 13 | Eventually I arrived down near Leicester Square , found a cafe that was still open and bought myself another cup of tea . |
| 14 | At the heart of the counter-culture there also lay a vision that was politically troublesome . |
| 15 | It possessed a sense of communitas that was essentially perceived as being dangerous to structure : |
| 16 | But in this new raw situation that was flooding up round them , nothing could be clear , not yet . |
| 17 | It was a childhood rich in the family traditions of Judaism , one that was made to feel all the more in need of protection , thanks to the brutality against them and their people in Europe . |
| 18 | Significantly , he adduced the work of the American poet Wallace Stevens at this point , a man torn between the profession of law and the poetic muse , whose view of lost faith and a ‘ disconnected ’ tradition imbued his poetry with a wistfulness and a challenge that was taken very seriously by Leonard and Layton ; or , perhaps , viewed by them as a satisfactory replacement . |
| 19 | What really stands out in my mind was the homage that was instantly paid to a good poem and the individual who had written it . ’ |
| 20 | Not so quiet was a parallel revolution that was reshaping the music scene , with which Leonard had an ongoing affair . |
| 21 | Professor Dudek had envisaged the series coming out in paper covers ( the format that was just becoming the way to the mass market ) ; Leonard ensured that it went into hard ; Dudek had not meant the books to be prestigious in format but vehicles of introduction ; Leonard saw to it that his book could stand alongside the best that there were from both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 22 | He was already on the way to establishing his role as a leading spokesman for the ‘ sixties generation ’ — a generation that was forced to handle change as never before , as Bernard Levin commented , in ‘ The Pendulum Years ’ : |
| 23 | Moreover , Canada itself was changing — in the great building programmes in and around Montreal ( not least at McGill itself , one of whose schemes resulted in the superb McLennan Library ) and , more ominously , in the growth of separatism that was about to rock , in Pierre Trudeau 's words , ‘ the smug complacency ’ of English-Canada , the Canada of the WASPS ( ‘ White , Anglo-Saxon and Protestant ’ ) and of the Roman Catholic Church , a party to the ‘ Quiet Revolution ’ . |
| 24 | Longing was the key : ‘ I long to hold some lady , ’ a longing that was inexhaustible , tumultuous and yet ardently romantic . |
| 25 | A world that was , per impossibile , purely particular , in the sense of not allowing forms or universals to be an essential component or determinant of it , would have nothing which intellect could grasp . |
| 26 | Something that was not form , but was only matter , could not become general in this way and could not answer to the generality of the concepts with which we think . |
| 27 | Work such as that of Young et al ( 1988 ) has even shown us how something that was traditionally assumed to be as intangible and subjective as the nature of conscious awareness itself can be disrupted by physical damage to the brain and can be successfully studied by the observational techniques of cognitive psychology . |
| 28 | That we used to walk home from school at one p.m. in the burning sun and play barefoot in grass that was dry and scratched our calves . |
| 29 | Not merely that , I was putting my strongest accent on the syllable that was n't ! |
| 30 | In my day and at a good school , it was easy , as you moved up from class to class , to miss out totally on some period of English history — the only history that was taught . |