Example sentences of "were [that] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Was n't only the Cap'n , there were that Dr Plumb and his missus and the sugar-baker what'sisname … |
| 2 | It came to nothing and the two settled for the broadbrush alliance on the PowerPC RISC and the creation of Taligent Inc and Kaleida Inc , but it now seems clear that the idea of the big one still appeals to John Sculley , and according to the Independent on Sunday , Sculley was very much considered as the successor to John Akers , but his terms were that IBM sell the mainframe business and merge with Apple to create a profitable $30,000m a year company , and the courage of the outside directors failed them when they considered what announcement of such a deal might do to the IBM share price . |
| 3 | ( 27 November 1777 ) Among his complaints were that Mozart and his mother had stayed too long in Munich and Augsburg using up their money on lodging expenses without having any means of earning money , that Mozart was not keeping him fully apprised of exactly where his plans lay , how he was proposing to get from one place to another and by which route and when , that he was not keeping up with his composition , nor arranging to have existing works copied so that he could present them to an influential Prince or noble , and that he had not taken the right sorts of composition with him — too many symphonies and not enough church music . |
| 4 | They were that girls thought 16 was the right age to lose their virginity and that 75 per cent of them admitted to saying yes to sex when they really wanted to say no . |
| 5 | Er the things that she said were that women used more hedges , such as I think er hedges are sort of things that get put into the conversation if al allegedly if somebody wants to give the impression that they 're not quite sure , and they would n't w You know like I would n't want to say it for sure but I think that . |
| 6 | Among the wilder rumours in strong circulation were that Lenin was dead , that the French had chosen Nicholas as their Tsar , and that England had declared war on Russia , so there would be wholesale peasant mobilization once again . |
| 7 | The criteria adopted by the Court of Appeal in Newell ( 1980 ) were that courts should only take account of characteristics with which the provocation was concerned ; permanent characteristics such as race and , probably , religion may be taken into account , but transient conditions such as intoxication and exhaustion may not . |
| 8 | The conclusions were that Ardakke was small and remote with nothing much to offer , where dull people led uneventful lives . |
| 9 | All went to plan , until he was delayed by a revolution in Venezuela , the consequences of which were that Stewart missed the replay which Casuals lost 4–1 . |
| 10 | Her only comments at dinner afterwards as she gorged herself on tournedos , raspberries and cream and St Emilion were that Shylock was almost as beady about money as Alejandro and that Bassanio was a wimp . |
| 11 | The suggestions were that Bernie Ecclestone , as vice-president of Promotional Affairs for FISA , was keen Mansell should stay in F1 , particularly if Senna should take a year off . |
| 12 | The general conclusions drawn from the case studies in Oxfordshire schools were that teachers were responding ritualistically to the scheme by conducting relatively superficial reviews of their schools , and presenting reports which were mainly descriptive in their nature . |
| 13 | All reports I 'd heard were that Sterland would be fit by now . |
| 14 | The facts were that B agreed to buy goods from S. S sent to B a bill of lading together with a bill of exchange ( see Chapter 3 , paragraph 3–25 above ) . |
| 15 | Their findings were that parents regarded a good school as being one where : |
| 16 | The findings were that RTs to high frequency approximations were responded to faster in the RVF . |
| 17 | The facts of the Sen case were that Mr Sen was dismissed on 9th July 1990 . |
| 18 | The plus points were that Hick has gained his confidence and should now bat at three , and Fairbrother should be persevered with . |
| 19 | They were that Filmer 's bedroom was in that car . |
| 20 | ‘ It is plain that all the indications were that Monsieur Gebrec had taken his own life … it was only on account of my promise to his mother … ’ |
| 21 | If only two hundred were to be seen , then the chances were that Balliol would assume that this was their full strength . |
| 22 | and with so much steam coming from the forwards all the signs were that Gloucester were going to take sale to the cleaners … |
| 23 | Other reports were that numbers of people had set out on foot from Tirana for Dürres and Vlore in response to rumours . |
| 24 | but you see they reckon it were that Sandra do n't they ? |
| 25 | Research conclusions were that SBATs suffered a serious problem of non-attendance of claimants , that it ‘ required telepathic powers to understand ’ the reasoning in written decisions , that the informality with which proceedings were conducted led to inadequate enquiry into appeals and an imbalance between claimants and the SBC 's presenting officers , which rendered SBATs partial in their decision making . |
| 26 | Our proposals were that SERPS should be abolished and that the second pension should come from a variety of new options in the private sector which we would make available . |