Example sentences of "they were [adj] that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than two thirds of people surveyed in Gloucestershire said they were dissatisfied that the offender involved had been cautioned . |
| 2 | Initially this satisfied the Marne growers , since they were pleased that the government had not ratified the Aube 's claim that it too was part of Champagne . |
| 3 | The police assured her they were certain that no warrant had been issued for his arrest and that they did not even know his name . |
| 4 | They believed implicitly in the effectiveness of their method of preparing and getting the bone , and they were certain that the bone 's power stemmed as much from the special treatment it had during the ceremony as from the actual jailing or drawing substances with which they afterwards impregnated it . |
| 5 | Tewkesbury borough council says that they were unaware that the wall was dangerous : |
| 6 | Sixteen patients were erroneously not entered into the programme by the supervising physician because they were unaware that the patient was eligible for surveillance . |
| 7 | In adult life they were confident that the eleven-plus had separated them from ‘ the dim ones ’ and saw no reason to be troubled about the ‘ intellectually inferior ’ working-class boys and girls who had left school at the age of fifteen or sixteen . |
| 8 | Even those countries that formed the oil cartel in the mid-1970s were very careful , says Quinn , about enforcing posted price increases until they were sure that the cartel would hold . |
| 9 | If the police said they were satisfied that the death was accidental , that was good enough for him , and should be good enough for the jury . |
| 10 | The Tobacco Advisory Council refused to be interviewed , but said they were happy that the industry was keeping to the code . |
| 11 | Though the authorities do not seem to have been aware of the scale and significance of capital flows within the sterling area , they were aware that the exchange controls in that area were not all that London hoped . |
| 12 | See , we 'd given away all our oil , so we did n't need any barrels , and they were aware that the oil was a storage problem . |
| 13 | They resented its reluctance to accept that the opinion of a psychologist based on test evidence was more valid than the opinion of the man in the street — or on the jury — based on observation , and they were annoyed that the court failed to recognise that the tests involved were as confidential as those carried out by any other medical practitioner . |
| 14 | At Cannington itself the first informal session was so full that the inquiry organizers told us afterwards they were concerned that the balcony might not be able to sustain the weight . |
| 15 | They were concerned that the object might have been a hang glider who 'd got into difficulty . |