Example sentences of "that they were [verb] in the " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | With loop-in wiring , the wires are labelled carefully , and drawn up into the space above the ceiling , where they should be reconnected in a junction box , in exactly the same way that they were connected in the ceiling rose , and a cable taken from this junction box to the light fitting through the hole in the ceiling ( if the new light fitting is in the same place ) . |
6 | Military officials told AI that they were killed in the cross-fire between soldiers and insurgents . |
7 | Yep , well each station in those days had one of the war-time sirens on , on , situated right on the top of the tower of these fire stations , enormous great sirens with a very piercing , loud sound , erm so that was the audible warning , to tell them that they were wanted in the fire station . |
8 | The Select Songs were printed very early : their title page states that they were sold in the theatre as well as in shops . |
9 | The statues in question are inseparable from the archaic series ; their freshness of surface suggest that they did not stand long above ground ; and it seems to me a reasonable conclusion that they were dedicated in the years immediately before the invasion . |
10 | The letter from the Air Ministry stated that the International Red Cross had informed them that Thomas 's aircraft had crashed at Bourbourg outside Cherbourg , that all four crew were killed and that they were buried in the Tourlaville Communal Cemetery . |
11 | All of this sounded pretty impressive until you understood that they were combined in the one room . |
12 | Hollywood hoped that it would use immigrant directors for its own purposes but whatever the frustrations experienced by these foreigners the mere fact that they were working in the American film industry is a reminder that Hollywood was never as monolithic and stereotyped as its critics implied . |