Example sentences of "that they were [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Tønder example , however , the vugs occur in the subsurface on top of a salt dome , with thick units of halite above and below , and it is more probable that they were formed by the same late-leaching process that was responsible for the intercrystalline porosity ( Clark 1980a ) . |
| 2 | A preview of the Commons debate was held in the Lords yesterday where Lord Ennals , a former Labour Health Secretary , warned the Government it could not push the proposals through the NHS in the knowledge that they were opposed by the medical profession 's leaders . |
| 3 | A close comparison of all the details of the heads reveals no differences , and shows that they were struck from the same die . |
| 4 | Some were so bulky that they were borne into the Rante sitting upright like pugnacious lords in specially constructed litters , carried by as many as eight straining porters . |
| 5 | From the detailed observation of fifteen boards , it was evident that training often followed the pattern of immediate demand rather than being linked to any developmental plan ; thus , a board might ask the headteacher or member of staff for further elaboration of a topic which surfaced at a meeting , such as subject choice by S3 , or individuals might decide to attend an area session on interviewing skills only once they knew that they were to participate in the selection of a senior member of staff . |
| 6 | Both the Schools Council and Nuffield approaches shared in most of the projects they supported an essentially instrumental view in that they were based upon the managerial assumption that the initiators determined the content and progress of the programme ( although Arts and the Adolescent ( Schools Council , 1975 ) was a notable exception ) . |
| 7 | ‘ I told them that they were barred from the club from now on . |
| 8 | When Raft came to , he flew at Beery and it was only after several punches were exchanged that they were separated by the crew . |
| 9 | In the announcement of their forthcoming System 7 software they revealed that they were moving towards the concept of using outline fonts to generate the screen displays and that they were developing their own proprietary format , then known as Royal but subsequently re-named TrueType . |
| 10 | Soon their captors would be out again , driven into the night by the terror above their heads , but now Allen and Marian by keeping the Tower behind them could be sure that they were moving in the direction of the forest . |
| 11 | I found it odd that they were building on the most exposed and inconvenient site on the hill , though the view was no doubt prodigious . |
| 12 | So she did not notice that they were riding off the main road and into The Chase , the oldest wood in England . |
| 13 | A fresh squall tore the rainwater off the road surface , cascading it down so that they were riding in the inside of a waterfall as Trent powered onward in the lee of the embankment . |
| 14 | Only 12 per cent of the ‘ No ’ voters — 6 per cent of all voters — admitted that they were voting against the president , and this by no means implies that they would necessarily have otherwise voted ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 15 | R.R. Darlington stressed that the ecclesiastical content of several tenth-century law codes suggests that they originated as the canons of synods. Æthelstan 's first code , for example , and his Ordinance on Charities , both say that they were framed on the advice of Archbishop Wulfhelm of Canterbury and other bishops , and the text known as I Edmund appears from its prologue to be a set of decisions taken purely by the ecclesiastical wing of the witan ( royal council ) ; they may eventually have been issued as a royal decree , but that I Edmund in its surviving form is something other than this is implied by the fifth chapter , which exhorts the king to put churches in order . |
| 16 | Reports from the clergy in some of the affected dioceses show that they were perplexed by the variety and number of the movements emerging at this time . |
| 17 | The pupils were allowed to think that they were listening to the voices of 12 different speakers , but actually there were only 9 . |
| 18 | Even today the older houses have gables and mullioned windows which show that they were built in the seventeenth century and some of the later cottages that were erected in rows or clustered in folds during John Hey 's lifetime retain their long ranges of upstairs windows which allowed the maximum amount of light to fall on the looms . |
| 19 | Clearly there is a distinct problem , not so much in the poems , but in the fact that they were written by the same man , they present so clearly different opinions of nature and the role of man , and his enlightenment . |
| 20 | If you or any member of your family suffer death , bodily injury or illness arising from negligence of our suppliers ( other than air and sea carriers performing any domestic , internal or international carriage of whatsoever kind for whom we accept no liability ) , their sub=contractors , servants and/or agents , we will accept responsibility provided that they were acting within the scope of or in the course of their employment when the accident occurred . |
| 21 | Ammianus also thought that they were descended from the Romans . |
| 22 | Seated together on a bench seat by a warm hearth , it seemed to Joan that they were isolated from the intrigue and controversy that were presently raging around the royal family . |
| 23 | Hampshire Police confirmed yesterday that they were called to the scene of a fight outside the Captain 's Corner nightspot in Southampton around midnight . |
| 24 | Tom Kelly , director general of the Betting Office Licensees Association , confirmed that they were looking into the circumstances of the Lingfield race . |
| 25 | It was the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Medau College in Berlin in 1929 but not much was made of this , Dr Jochen Medau explained that they were looking to the future rather than the past . |
| 26 | Caspar was explaining in a hushed voice that they were looking at the Robemaker 's stocks of enchantments . |
| 27 | The unions said that they were looking for the second week in January to begin an all-out stoppage . |
| 28 | They are said to have explained that they were looking for the conductor to buy their tickets as Stonehouse station did not sell tickets at that time of night . |
| 29 | And I was told that he was going to die shortly , and that if I wished , the measures that they were using with the respirator could be removed at my request , because he was in a terminal stage ; it was just a matter of time , and I really felt that I could n't make that decision myself . |
| 30 | Any dispositions of property or payments made by the bankrupt between the date of the presentation of the bankruptcy petition and the vesting of his assets in his trustee are void except to the extent that they were made with the consent of the court or were subsequently ratified by the court ( s 284(1)-(3) ) . |