Example sentences of "that were [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Although it is still possible that subjects ’ perceptions of the tasks could have been altered by the different exemplars of a junction that were viewed in the different experiments , it does not appear that the subset of 24 were unrepresentative of the full 60 . |
2 | He also had repaired many of the roads and bridges that were damaged in the great flood of I 803 and built a bridge at Câmara de Lobos , improved the municipal theatre and presented six beds and a hundred blankets to the hospital . |
3 | As fig. 5.12 shows , these subjects learned the test more readily than did control subjects that were trained on the same task but had received initial Pavlovian training in which the tone and clicker were uncorrelated with reinforcer type . |
4 | but it 's only available for contributions that were withdrawn before the first of June nineteen seventy three and you know if you did n't meet that particular date then the only other way of of covering gaps is which is far more expensive . |
5 | It has gone on reducing the fantastic levels of public sector borrowing requirement that were reached under the last Government . |
6 | We have X-rays and details that were recorded during the conservation process which may help identify them . |
7 | They stayed quite still , smiling back at it , until it disappeared with a plop , leaving ripples of disturbance that were erased by the next wave . |
8 | Built as a Mk II by Blackburn , HS554 was one of 99 ( plus an additional six Mk IIIs ) that were assigned to the Royal Canadian Navy ( RCN ) . |
9 | Even under the equator if you go deep enough you 'll enter water masses that were formed in the polar regions . |
10 | Among those that were formed in the 1930s were Port Talbot and Bedford , while some long-established ones acquired new premises . |
11 | As Buschbacher et al. ( 1987 ) have pointed out , it is doubtful if many of the pastures that were created in the eastern Amazon basin in the 1970s ( section 7.3.1 ) , and have since been abandoned , w ill ever return to forest : they may be permanently covered in heathlike vegetation . |
12 | The only parts of her anatomy with any feeling in them were the parts that were pressed against the harder parts of Guido . |
13 | The other European countries acted much more like the Romans : they had conquered large existing populations in the territories to which they had gone , and had established substantial colonies that were ruled by the sovereign power at home much more directly than was the case in the English colonies . |
14 | The changes that were made for the Oval game took the number of England players used in the series to twenty-three and , as Cowdrey had to withdraw with a bruised foot , Graham Gooch was appointed the fourth captain of the series . |
15 | We followed up the representations that were made by the hon. Lady and by others on that point , and the regional offices of the Department of Employment have been in negotiation with TECs to try to establish the extent to which they need additional resources to meet the YT guarantee . |
16 | The remains of their meal were scattered around them , and some paper sheets that were tugged by the slight breeze off the sea . |
17 | : Mb This scheme has been designed to overcome many of the objections that were raised to the earlier scheme , particularly in relation to the car parking that is now in excess of that which was originally required . |
18 | The leases that were granted in the heady days of 1989/90 when the brewery company landlords invited rental bids from tenants , saw them hungrily bidding up to 12 per cent to 15 per cent of the anticipated turnover . |
19 | The present psychiatric services have to work with many large old hospitals that were built during the nineteenth century as lunatic asylums . |
20 | Well it was the first hundred houses that were built in the New Town and it housed a lot of building trade workers , a lot of engineers and a lot of archi well a lot , a few architects and a few engineers and the rest were building trade workers or of some sort or another , and a few British Hydro |
21 | Nevertheless , what is most notable is the remarkable stability of the complaints and accusations that were arranged around the criminal question , providing firm lines of continuity between pre-war and postwar Britain . |
22 | In my opinion , the sooner that we return to serious discussion about the government of the Province , and about the other considerations that were invested in the earlier talks , the better the people of Northern Ireland will be served . |
23 | The second investigation was just one of hundreds that were done in the sixties . |
24 | In fact , it broadly covers products that were handled by the old Petrochemicals Division which are not now the province of the Petrochemicals business itself . |
25 | The carefully assembled figures , some of them 40 centimetres high when complete , exploited the same colour and texture contrasts between polished gold and carved and polished ivory that were achieved in the large chryselephantine ( literally ‘ gold and ivory ’ ) statues of classical Greece . |
26 | Many of the classifications that were proposed in the nineteenth century rested upon a conception of social evolution , which itself was understood in various ways and was frequently connected with the idea of progress . |
27 | This is mirrored in the huge crowds that were drawn to the special exhibition of books staged by the Educational Publishers Council in London this autumn . |
28 | Liabilities for benefits that were agreed on the average cost basis will not be recomputed , however . |
29 | The first one is the existing arrangements on nursing home care , really reviewing the process , and members will recognize that the arrangements that were agreed in the first agreement with Health Authority related to gaining permission from the Health Authority before our placing nursing homes . |
30 | Earlier last night , two women 's quarter-finals that were postponed from the rained-out day session were played one lasted three sets and the other three games . |