Example sentences of "that [pron] [was/were] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For all the assurances from those around me that I was perfect Legion material , I could not accept that the prestigious French Foreign Legion would have any need of the services of somebody whose military prowess was earned more at the bar than in the field . |
| 2 | It is even fitted with a carburettor heat control and the only thing I found slightly confusing was that there were four cylinder head temperature gauges fitted . |
| 3 | But anyway it transpired that there were two groups sort of working towards the same end and nobody could work out what sort of erm role each played and it was terrible . |
| 4 | and because she was in Mustique and had n't bought me a birthday present she made sure that there were two Gardenia plants at the party that night she bought me . |
| 5 | Opposition sources also claimed that there were two assassination attempts against Kadhafi in 1989 , including one during the visit in March by President Assad of Syria ( for which see p. 37101 ) . |
| 6 | The police became irritated too with the need to check her unsubstantiated claim that there were communist arms dumps and Russian involvement in plans for revolutionary uprisings . |
| 7 | Earlier in the nineteenth century it was estimated that there were 2000 handloom weavers within a radius of 7 or 8 miles from Portadown . |
| 8 | I did discover that there were substantial government files on the Bodyline crisis . |
| 9 | Even in the late eighteenth century Colquhoun estimated that there were 50,000 London prostitutes ; in the 1830s and 1840s others fixed the total at some 80,000 , while the Westminster Review fixed the national totals at anything between 50,000 and 368,000 . |
| 10 | And as I recall , there was some talk that there were some machine gun bullets in in in in the boat . |
| 11 | However , it must be stressed that the High Anglicans reserved their contempt for the Whig bishops ; they recognised that there were some sound bishops ( though not as many as they would like ) , and they remained committed to the defence of the institution of episcopacy . |
| 12 | Well i it 's becoming slightly unfair because Watsons is n't on the stand , Watsons would also you know probably spell out in a little bit more detail , but their advice was comprehensive that there were Inland Revenue rules that it would put the tru and so on and one would want to s to say that tha that as well , but I do want to move on . |
| 13 | Erm now it may be that on a particular site erm conditions could be laid down to ensure and secure that there were significant employment benefits accruing from the development of that site . |
| 14 | It must be remembered , however , that there were important earth movements in North America in mid-Devonian times . |
| 15 | Where a range of success rates is given , this indicates that there were several assessment items for a particular skill or task and that performance covered a fairly wide band — an immediate warning that a criterion statement based on such tasks will not tell us much about pupils ' achievements . |
| 16 | In the previous chapter we saw that there were social class differences in mortality and morbidity among the older age groups . |
| 17 | So although the absence of key workers in Newham meant that there were few boundary disputes , it also meant that the development officer could become very closely involved in organising other services , and perhaps feel that other services took advantage of the Home Support Project and showed less involvement than would have been necessary without the project . |
| 18 | This exercise suggested that there were few class differences in community nurse use or acute hospital care . |
| 19 | He said he had spent four days taking rock samples in the area of the dam and had found that there were interconnected limestone layers above and below the dam site through which the water might leak away . |
| 20 | It was also noted that there was little family concern for Todd and since his coming to the home his parents had been divorced . |
| 21 | ‘ After they had gone ( they left one evening after dark , Constanza having said that there was one thing Michel refused to put on me — he will have to learn to be a bit less scrupulous , poor lamb — so that she would have to do it , and it was not to let on : ‘ Tell our friends I 've gone to Italy to look after my papa ; as for Michel , he 's God knows where , you do n't know , it 's nobody 's business and they 're used to his comings and goings . ’ |
| 22 | We also realised that there was insufficient classroom time for the testing of children individually in dramatic performance . |
| 23 | It considered that there was strong community support for such legislation , which came into effect in 1981 . |
| 24 | A detailed ultrasound assessment was undertaken before the procedure to determine : ( a ) the position of the gall bladder to ensure that it was suitable for safe percutaneous puncture ; ( b ) the size and stone load of the gall bladder to ensure that there was adequate working space for the lithotrite and that a vortex could be achieved ; and ( c ) the function of the gall bladder by use of a standard fat stimulus . |
| 25 | She had no idea how to go about it but she disliked waking an hour early from her rest and having nothing to do , and she disliked even more the idea that there was some household task or mechanical appliance which might defeat her . |
| 26 | I understood that there was considerable air traffic from the U.S.A. across Canada to Alaska , and thence over the tundra of the Siberian wastes to the land of our ‘ great Russian allies ’ . |
| 27 | Deed in his History of Stamford School says that ‘ although there were halls and places of learning in Stamford there is no evidence that there was any university organisation ’ . |
| 28 | Not that there was any firework display , but simply that , whereas I had usually initiated lovemaking , it was now Grant who turned to me . |
| 29 | So now I knew how the Sorley/Cawthorne private intelligence line worked , and I was willing to bet that there was another Fax machine at Pegasus Farm currently on ‘ receive ’ . |
| 30 | However , from Blair 's letter it is clear that there was another Mr Miller working at Chelsea as Isaac Rand 's assistant ( acknowledged in the Preface of his Essays ) , hence the resulting confusion . |