Example sentences of "that [was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among those that were formed in the 1930s were Port Talbot and Bedford , while some long-established ones acquired new premises . |
| 2 | The second investigation was just one of hundreds that were done in the sixties . |
| 3 | We will certainly not again make the mistake that was made in the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 4 | This Havoc was owned by Howard Hughes ' Hughes Aircraft Co and was an executive conversion that was retired in the 1960s . |
| 5 | One of my lasting impressions as an undergraduate studying at the London School of Economics in the early 1960s , dominated as it was by the Popperian conception of science and the quest for a Positive Economics , was of the great gulf that was fixed between the two worlds of social science and religious belief . |
| 6 | Many rural authorities followed the example of Cambridgeshire village colleges inspired by Henry Morris , the chief education officer , so that Devon , Somerset and Leicestershire all wrote the notion into their development plans and did actually build some , which would support the argument that the major move towards equality that was achieved by the 1944 Education Act was the diminution of the gap between rural and urban children — this was not Butler 's two nations becoming one but it was a step towards it . |
| 7 | By this stage they had a 4 mm rod that was running with a 0.8 amp current . |
| 8 | It was the beginning of an on-off professional relationship that was to persist into the 1970s , by which time , in London , Neville would even write for Rowe 's new magazine , Spare Rib . |
| 9 | So it 's part of this larger view of psychoanalysis that was emerging in the thirties . |
| 10 | It must have been built to fill a space that was left after the five houses had been completed . |
| 11 | I am s one that has just been recently appointed to one of these er regional ecumenical teams and at a meeting that was held for the three presbytery areas in the sort of west coast of Scotland , around the Greenoch area , erm it was , it became apparent that all these people who are being appointed er through their , their churches are in the main clergy and the convenor of the local committee himself a ruling elder of the Church of Scotland expressed concern about this , that there is no real er and I would just put it to the , to the assembly , there is there is no need for these members to be members of the clergy , in fact it would be good if presbyteries remembered when making a nomination eh that it , er it need n't be , it could be a , a an elder or indeed er a lay person holding no particular office within the church . |
| 12 | Given the extreme paucity of provision in the past , to close rather than merely narrow the gap between white education provision and that of other racially defined groups would require an investment well beyond anything that was envisaged before the 1990s . |
| 13 | Formed in the aftermath of the 1931 financial crisis , PEP exemplified that liberal-reformist strand of ‘ middle opinion ’ that was to grow in the 1930s and provide the basis for the political shift leftwards during the Second World War . |