Example sentences of "were [adj] [to-vb] that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Peace Ballot and the East Fulham by-election suggested a strong sentiment against war but few established politicians were prepared to argue that the rise of fascism made a future war probable . |
| 2 | Never to volunteer for anything , for instance ; to keep her bedspace clean and tidy ; never , ever , to forget the eleventh commandment , Thou shall not get found out ; and if you were prepared to agree that every word of King 's Regulations was Holy Writ and accepted that leave was a privilege and not a right , then life in the Navy need n't be all that bad . |
| 3 | Moreover , trust in Hitler was not simply based upon an early end to the war , but on an early victorious conclusion , and all the indications are that before late 1942 and early 1943 — centring around Stalingrad , the North African reverses , and the mounting allied air supremacy — only a minority of Germans ( around a third of the population according to American surveys carried out in 1945 ) were prepared to concede that the war was lost . |
| 4 | Thus birth control groups during the inter-war period were careful to argue that the use of birth control would not necessarily lead to an increase in childlessness or very small families , but rather would result in better planned families and healthier mothers and children . |
| 5 | Unlike their Mancunian rivals New Order , they were willing to prove that a sense of style was n't necessarily a barometer of blandness . |
| 6 | The next morning , realizing and regretting what they 'd done , they went back to the pub and were relieved to discover that the publican had n't cashed their cheque . |
| 7 | However , after completing the purchase , they were horrified to find that the cottage was infested with dry rot — this cost them £5,000 to deal with . |
| 8 | Piaget ( Piaget , Jean , The Child ' s Conception of Number , Chapter I , Routledge & Kegan Paul , 1952 ) has described many experiments of this type with children of four years upwards and concluded that it was not until about the age of seven that children were able to see that a quantity of liquid remains constant although it appears to change when poured into different shaped containers . |
| 9 | Scrambling ashore , and scuffing their way inland through ankle-deep ash , the party were able to see that the centre of all the excitement was the small cone of Perboewetan , at the northern end of Krakatoa . |
| 10 | By examining the costs , prices , and profits of the two firms they were able to conclude that the outcome of the conduct of the firms , however that conduct may be described , was against the public interest or , in economic terms , highly distortive of economic efficiency . |
| 11 | There was almost unlimited space for Leicester to expand ; and in 1845 the commissioners were able to report that the town ‘ was spread over an unusual extent of ground in proportion to its population ’ . |
| 12 | By analysing element of the calls back at the laboratory , the biologists were able to show that the prairie dogs distinguished between them reasonably well , effectively creating a distinctive call for each person . |
| 13 | They investigated the rate of autoshaped pecking controlled by the first of two keylights presented serially and were able to show that the rate was elevated when the first element was an inaccurate predictor of its consequences . |
| 14 | However we were called in and were able to advise that the building could be saved . |
| 15 | However , relatively speaking , Reagan and his staff , in the first year of his presidency , were brilliantly successful in maintaining control over the budgetary process and were able to ensure that the budget that eventually emerged was reasonably close to their original blueprint . ’ |
| 16 | Despite some evidence of change in teachers ' attitudes and behaviour , they themselves were reluctant to admit that the project had influenced them . |
| 17 | But school chiefs were stunned to think that a sex offender was going to be let loose to warn children of the dangers of immoral goings-on . |
| 18 | Last month we phoned Lydia and were shocked to hear that the Appeal against the convictions of the prisoners had been postponed , condemning them to another nine months in prison — until May 1991 . |
| 19 | Losers instantly have their spur leg amputated with a machete , and we were shocked to find that a cock which even for a moment turns and runs has instantly lost . |
| 20 | Scanning the area with our glasses , we found a party of eider duck and were excited to see that the flock not only contained common and king eider , but a number of Steller 's eider , a ‘ new ’ bird for all of us , which breeds along the Siberian coast and into Alaska . |
| 21 | Worcestershire were next to discover that the demon remains intact , 7 for 29 bringing Sussex consecutive Championship victories for the first time since August 1990 . |
| 22 | Although we did not foresee any difficulties , we were astonished to hear that the Secretary of the Cabinet , Sir Robert Armstrong , had asked for the programme on the Suez operation of 1956 , in which Mountbatten had been First Sea Lord , to be deferred ‘ possibly for some months ’ . |
| 23 | When the Nethercotts shifted their furniture into the wreckage , they were surprised to discover that the house was considerably bigger outside than in . |
| 24 | A party of girls who went on an outing to a local Guides ' camp were surprised to find that the accommodation there was even more primitive than that at Great Engeham . |
| 25 | Employing an electroencephalogram to measure the brain waves of opossums when awake , when asleep and when playing dead , investigators were surprised to find that the condition of the brain when death-feigning is taking place is the same as that in the wide-awake animal . |
| 26 | Looking at the facts as a whole , the General Commissioners were entitled to conclude that the platform fell within the definition of plant . |