Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] [that] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 However , if the condition in question were designed to ensure that all operators of fishing vessels were based in the United Kingdom , it would inhibit the export of fish by British flag vessels to other member states and so constitute a breach of article 34 of the E.E.C .
2 In effect , the alternatives presented to the ‘ counter-culture ’ by the liminal experience were also available to some of us in our marginal police world , and we were forced to see that those concepts of order and disorder we had once taken almost as the natural way of things were in fact only one model for society ; a single framework for social action !
3 The train lover was fascinated to find that most journeys are undertaken on the railway because Chinese roads are not up to Western standards .
4 It was used to argue that all members of the household should contribute to local revenue if they used local services .
5 He was sobered to find that many Tahitians were already dying from the venereal diseases bequeathed to them on a previous visit .
6 But I was comforted to discover that these highways are antiquities , built by some unfortunate landowner who expected a visit from the king .
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