Example sentences of "[that] [pron] were [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm if people are restored to confidence , feel that they are able to travel , that of course reduces the number of people who are going to stay in this country and have their holidays here , and Stan , if I can come back to you , I mean we it is almost arguing against the point that you were making a few moments ago that , you know , you want people to stay in this country . |
| 2 | Well Mr er Deputy Speaker I er do n't wish to er follow the honourable member of one of my er neighbours but I actually think it 's really part of grown up politics to ensure that the political opinion of a nation is adequately represented in the forums of that nation whether it be in this place or in the European er parliament and to that extent I make no bones about it that erm I wish that we were debating a different electoral system and Mr Deputy Speaker going back to the minister 's introduction erm it is a fact , I did n't wish to intervene because I did n't , it 's a short debate and I did n't want to take up er extra time , but it is a fact is it not that our electoral system unique across Europe means that our deadline as opposed to what the French are going to do is different to all the other member states . |
| 3 | And with the help of all these er er pieces of equipment er we found in general that we were reaching a new standard of production , where we were increasing it er and we were able to bargain more strongly and more favourably on behalf of our members . |
| 4 | Imagine if , for instance , we could get him standing up in public , get him photographed , on newsreel , all around the world , saying that we were fighting a just war , that Hitler was insane , that we had to win . |
| 5 | In 1979 , we knew that we were starting a British revolution ; in fact , we were the pioneers of a world revolution . ’ |
| 6 | She told her party conference in Blackpool : ‘ In 1979 , we knew that we were starting a British revolution ; in fact , we were pioneers of a world revolution . |
| 7 | After this debut LP , it became plain that we were talking a complete re-think about English pop . |
| 8 | Halfway between the target and the coast the Night engineer announced that we were having a heavy petrol consumption and the dialogue was something like this : |
| 9 | Ring fences and tall two-hundred-year-old trees showed that we were approaching a stately home . |
| 10 | No doubt it was in part imagination , exaggerating the stillness , but there was no mistaking the impression that we were witnessing a general decline in fertility , a form of degeneration , if not the actual death that we imagined . |
| 11 | On Sept. 21 the two factions announced that they were forming a joint leadership council to oppose the talks , and called on all Palestinians to observe a general strike on Sept. 23 in protest at the talks . |
| 12 | But for the month of December , the students felt that they were riding a well-placed political movement . |
| 13 | The fact that they were creating a possible environmental hazard , did n't enter into it . |
| 14 | What they had begun to realize was that they were getting a rough deal and that no one else would take any notice . |
| 15 | Er it did seem , it did seem , it would seem to a quite a lot of people that they were getting a good deal and they would accept that , and they would , relatively speaking , they were getting a good deal . |
| 16 | Clearly the mines were once again working , and a year later , Gibson wrote again to Sir Michael in London , advising that there were 17 or 18 men constantly at work and that they were getting a good quantity of ore … about 15 tons were then ready for weighing . |
| 17 | The Tamil Tigers , a separatist group in Sri Lanka , are suspects , since Mr Gandhi had complained that they were becoming a parallel government in Tamil Nadu . |
| 18 | When I heard reports of the changing physical shape of German women , that they were becoming a different breed of women we 'd been told from the old , rather heavy , erm motherly plain sort of woman who characterised Germany womanhood before the Second World War , well now we read that their shape and their weight and so on corresponds much more to French or British and American norms . |
| 19 | When questioned , many of these firms said that they were having a radical re-think of the way in which exhibiting money was spent . |
| 20 | They had no desire to progress beyond their barricades : ‘ Their whole rationale was that they were fighting a defensive battle for the protection of their community against arbitrary attack ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 21 | The drag of the loaded inflatable had slowed the catamaran so that they were making a bare five knots . |
| 22 | But she was sensitive enough to let those at the Mill believe that they were making a competitive offer . |
| 23 | He said that they were making a positive contribution , not only to the quality of life , but also to the prosperity of the nation , because without chemistry life on earth would be more miserable , more painful and certainly shorter . |
| 24 | I noticed , during a recent visit to , that they were offering a twenty five percent below capacity . |
| 25 | On the same day as Miyazawa unveiled the changes , Tsutomu Hata — Hayashi 's predecessor as Finance Minister — and a former LDP secretary-general , Ichiro Ozawa , announced that they were to establish a new faction . |
| 26 | In fact , in cobbling together what turned out to be a crudely progressive scheme of taxation , government and parliament can not have been unaware that they were evolving a fiscal taxonomy which corresponded to the main divisions of society . |