Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [was/were] [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | E actually yours made me think of a story that I was told many years ago on a coach trip over Dartmoor |
| 2 | Miss Bhutto is spitting fury , not just over the matter of the provincial assemblies , but also because she says that she was given fewer ministries in the caretaker government ( just under a quarter ) than she deserves . |
| 3 | So good were her father 's hints and tips that she was appointed official yearbook photographer at high school and from there she went on to study applied photography at college . |
| 4 | So good were her father 's hints and tips that she was appointed official yearbook photographer at high school and from there she went on to study applied photography at college . |
| 5 | Well , Val I think you are quite right in thinking that you are not alone in feeling let down after purchasing the ‘ wrong ’ computer for your needs and I do agree that you were given poor advice by the store you purchased from . |
| 6 | Take some pills that you were given last night . |
| 7 | Take some pills that you were given last night . |
| 8 | It did not escape my notice , however , that you were accompanied last night by a rather large , rather muddy man who , I gathered from hints dropped from various quarters , had been your escort that evening . |
| 9 | Yes , things that we were told 20 years ago that were perfectly safe , it 's now being proved that they 're not safe . |
| 10 | Does the Secretary of State realise that we were promised 20 years ago that after 20 years the toll would be abolished ? |
| 11 | Others have suggested that there were paired nasal sacs opening separately and gave rise to the theory that heterostracans might be ancestral to jawed vertebrates ( Fig. 2 B , b ) . |
| 12 | The most recent sequence of excavations has established that there was limited pre-Roman occupation of the site , in the form of a round house , which may have been associated with areas of ploughed fields , found below Roman levels in Annetwell Street , even though they had apparently reverted to pasture immediately before the arrival of the Romans . |
| 13 | A similar study of modular Stage I assessment data ( 1986 ; see Table 6.2 ) showed that there was imbalanced modular provision and enrolment over the academic year . |
| 14 | Bolognese lawyers were so important to both the papal and imperial parties in supplying them with lawyers to staff their governments and administrations that they were given special protection . |
| 15 | The notion that they were mutated terrestrial insects does not bear inspection . |
| 16 | Even if it is n't , I ca n't see that it was pushed any distance … |
| 17 | The company explains its performance by saying that 1989 was the first year that the US contributed the majority of its sales , 61% of the total , and that it was hit that year by a 35% fall in the UK because it was too reliant on one customer ; it raised £1.5m in a rights issue . |
| 18 | The fragment sheds some illumination on what it was like to be a feminist 50 years ago , though we would point out that it was written 20 years after the event with all the problems of interpretation that implies . |
| 19 | Local journalist Mike Stairs has been following the story closely , but says it was n't until the mid-'80s that it was given national attention . |
| 20 | As part of the fund-raising effort , the Scottish Bridge Union ran a National Spring Swiss Teams and this was such a success that it was repeated this year . |
| 21 | It was only in the more enlightened judgments that it was held that resistance was unnecessary where the complainant was overcome by fear . |
| 22 | A taxation of the bills would not prejudice the debtor 's claims that he was given negligent advice . |
| 23 | I think in fact it 's a bit of a cheek for the Chief Constable to go to the Home Secretary here ev , Home Secretary again this year , asking for more officers , when he has n't recruited all the ones that he was given last year . |
| 24 | But it was serious in the sense that he was given wrong advice . |
| 25 | The same year that he was dubbed biggest flirt , Debbie Kauffman was voted her year 's best looking girl . |
| 26 | At its farthest point , that spot where he hovered high in the air before the rope changed direction , he knew that he was suspended sixty feet above Mucky Beck and the perimeter wall . |
| 27 | When pressed , Marsden concedes that previously ICI had not always supplied the farmer with what he wanted , rather that he was sold those items the Company technologists had produced . |
| 28 | The lavish reception afforded to Fidel Castro himself when he went to the Soviet Union the following year is well known , and it was during this visit that he was guaranteed economic concessions , notably a rise in the price paid for Cuban sugar . |
| 29 | ‘ The confidential papers I have seen demonstrate that what were called various tax benefits were central to negotiations . |
| 30 | In a paper written in 1905 , a few weeks before the famous paper on special relativity , Einstein pointed out that what was called Brownian motion — the irregular , random motion of small particles of dust suspended in a liquid — could be explained as the effect of atoms of the liquid colliding with the dust particles . |