Example sentences of "[pron] were [adj] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were right , Nigel , to say that there are talented individuals not yet part of a team — and you were right to say that Western Samoa are a bit useful . |
| 2 | In the first study we were able to show that clients treated in either mode were significantly less depressed at the end of treatment than those held on a waiting list for the same length of time ( Scott and Stradling , 1990 ) , and that this reduction in symptoms was maintained for up to 12 months post treatment — see Figure 3 . |
| 3 | They were right to insist that documents should not be released to the court because , he said , that was what they had to do . |
| 4 | But they were alarmed to discover that sanitarians had been displaced by a new force in sexual politics : the militant voice of articulate middle-class women who pointed to men as the root cause of immorality . |
| 5 | They were surprised to find that carbon dioxide concentrations were higher in water taken from inside the algal blooms than outside it . |