Example sentences of "were [adj] [verb] that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Western powers were wrong to believe that tsarist troops in Poland were aimed at the heart of Europe , for they were needed where they were . |
| 2 | The new arrangements were supposed to ensure that true fans got a fair chance , but a Sunderland Supporters Association spokeswoman said yesterday that was not the case . |
| 3 | In a letter to Hopkins on the Southampton situation dated 10 August 1911 , he wrote " all the reforms the Southampton people are asking for we discussed at the Executive Meeting before the strike took place and we were all agreed that certain alterations had to take place , but when women and children are starving in one port and there is money locked up in Southampton I think it is one of the most cruel tragedies imaginable " . |
| 4 | Whilst , as noted earlier , the SEA provides for harmonization measures to be dealt with on a majority voting basis , the British were able to insist that fiscal matters should be excluded from that rule . |
| 5 | In a preliminary set of experiments we were able to see that these antibodies are specific to each protein . |
| 6 | Siple , Fischer and Bellugi ( 1977 ) were able to demonstrate that semantic aspects of ASL signs are stored ( for recognition purposes ) similarly to lexical items in the English language . |