Example sentences of "[that] [was/were] [verb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I was working in the quarry , and er it 's last March turned round and said he wanted a new implemented with a new miracle saw that he had bought and he did n't really give us much warning about what he was gon na do but all he said was that er he was gon na scrap our old bonus contract and implement a new one no matter what , and from various figures that were bandied about we all realized we were gon na back quite a lot worse off because of it . |
| 2 | Second , the small congregation at St Barnabas ' , of some fifteen , that were to be ‘ moved in on ’ had had to accept radical changes that were presented to them prior to the move for their agreement . |
| 3 | I want to first of all express our extreme pleasure for having the arrangements that were made by our good English friends , especially those associated with the Three-Ninetieth missile , well I 'm sorry but I 'll get that missile straightened out , Three-Ninetieth Memorial Air Museum . |
| 4 | Working holidays , similar to the defunct Woofer scheme ( Working Weekends on Organic Farms ) met with mixed success and varied from the chap who took all day to clean out the rabbits that I , 8½ months pregnant , did in half an hour , to those that were accompanied by their little horrors . |
| 5 | … the primal father had prevented his sons from satisfying their directly sexual impulsions ; he forced them into abstinence and consequently into emotional ties with him and with one another which could arise out of those of their impulsions that were inhibited in their sexual aim … . |
| 6 | Yo you know the numbers that were allocated to you last time . |
| 7 | Over the whole experiment clones of clover that were returned to their original grass associate made more growth than those introduced to alien sites ( significant at P < 0.001 ) . |
| 8 | True , he attempted to look a little more learned by wearing silver-rimmed spectacles that were dwarfed by his large face but were , he thought , all the more pedagoguish because they did n't flatter . |
| 9 | Yes you were going to try and wash some of those that were stained in something strong . |
| 10 | Painter Marsden Hartley and critic Paul Rosenfield , two of Stieglitz 's close friends , were strongly influenced by his conception of O'Keefe and her work , and they extended the influence of his ideas in essays about O'Keeffe 's art that were published before her 1923 show . |
| 11 | I think for example of the sensitivity of some of the small market towns , the point for example that was made to us last week about the sensitivity one settlement with which I 've come increasingly familiar over the last fortnight and that is town centre . |
| 12 | The point that was made by my hon. Friend the Member for Stockton , South ( Mr. Devlin ) related to unit costs . |
| 13 | If I may my Lord there is an issue that was raised in my learned friends reply er which er was a new point er and where I do take issue with him and this concerns the issue of the relevance of the directive here the , the issue relating to er whether or not the er Lloyd 's Act and the society have got any relevance in respect of the directive , his submission as I understood it , was that under article one , eight , nine the directive only addressed itself to states , to the British Government and that therefore the reliance on the directive by the society and in relation to the Lloyds Act was er a misconceived er reliance . |
| 14 | ‘ I think people get even angrier if they think about this precise thing that was done in their so-called formative years that made them the way they are . |
| 15 | Subtitled ‘ A short history of Everton , its Mother Church , and one of its mid-Victorian Churchwardens , including notes on how to start tracing a Family Tree ’ , it highlights the fortunes of the Mould family and by so doing it provides insights into the character of a place that was overwhelmed by its powerful neighbour 's rapid expansion . |
| 16 | Stok took off his evening-dress jacket and put it over a hanger that was lying on my open suitcase . |
| 17 | Passion ruled her , admitting no distractions , thought and emotion denied , anything that was known outside her acute physical awareness merely sensed . |
| 18 | I was not of that minority , but the argument sharpened my concern for the education of the most-talented pupils — a concern that was to run through my last years in Banbury and into my work in Oxford . |
| 19 | It was perhaps one slight rejection of the conformity that was expected of him that night . |
| 20 | They are a genuine substitute for the talk and shared companionship that was missing from his first year at Oxford . |
| 21 | And suddenly she felt as stiff and cold and fragile as the champagne glass that was clutched in her shaking hand . |
| 22 | I shall not attempt to express an opinion , but I well remember a very good party that was held in our front room in Portmanmoor road , Splott , back in 1970 . |
| 23 | A few days after the action that was taken by my right hon. Friend , a magic wand was waved and somehow money was found to improve the Southend line . |
| 24 | She trembled with a vivid awareness that was tingling through her whole body , bringing warmth to her skin and champagne into her bloodstream . |
| 25 | But your readers will still get some satisfaction in the end from hearing what the detective deduced from something that was put before their own eyes and which they passed over . |