Example sentences of "that [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The door had a black painted cast-iron knocker , brass numbers and handle that were polished each week , and when I became old enough to be trusted with this job , I felt very grown up . |
| 2 | I WAS interested to see the All Blacks trial teams that were announced last week . |
| 3 | Word is circulating that Digital Equipment Corp will be laying off 1,000 software engineering staff in Europe over the next couple of weeks on top of the 6,000 redundancies worldwide that were announced last week . |
| 4 | ‘ Some of the things that were said last Sunday were the most severe I 've heard in my life . |
| 5 | The dream of the New Look has to have taken place during or after the summer of 1950 , because in it I wore one of my two summer dresses , one of green and one of blue gingham , that were made that year and that lasted me , with letting down , until I went to school . |
| 6 | All the changes that were made underlined trends already evident before Fulton reported and none made any basic difference to the civil service . |
| 7 | Despite the strenuous efforts that were made each time to prevent them , accidents would happen . |
| 8 | Thank you Chairman , I appreciate that erm prudence is n't flavour of the month in the current majority at this County Council and that indeed has been proved by several speeches from the opposition parties that were made this morning |
| 9 | Last year the Association of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences and the Association of Social Research Organisations set up the Social Science Forum ( SSF ) to campaign on issues that were affecting social scientists . |
| 10 | From his mother , and her more easy-going and less consciously nonconformist relations , he found sanctions for that profound exploration of sensations that were given early expression in his gift for ‘ composition ’ . |
| 11 | The one they stood at was made of heavy chain-link , stretched between towering concrete posts that were spaced fifteen metres apart . |
| 12 | Finally , the ambiguous powers conceded in the donations left large areas of doubt that were to make political advancement by the popes difficult . |
| 13 | I suspect that the hon. Gentleman may have in mind some initial teething troubles that were experienced this year in connection with local management of primary schools . |
| 14 | During its short life Gandalf 's Garden evolved a style which made It , Oz , and the others that were to come later models of detachment and worldliness . |
| 15 | Prick out cinerarias , primulas and calceolarias that were sown last month before seedlings become overcrowded . |
| 16 | It is built with proprietary 0.8 micron CMOS technology , and follows the 1.2 micron 256Kb and 512Kb Flash memories that were introduced last year . |
| 17 | Such incidents were symptomatic of tensions within the socialist movement that were to have long-term consequences . |
| 18 | Thomas Cook and his family were without doubt the single most important innovators , establishing not only a major business enterprise but methods of operation that were to have global implications . |
| 19 | Neutron stars , however , were not observed until 1967 , when Jocelyn Bell and Antony Hewish at Cambridge discovered objects called pulsars that were emitting regular pulses of radio waves . |
| 20 | Further encouragement for the existence of black holes came in 1967 with the discovery by a research student at Cambridge , Jocelyn Bell , of objects in the sky that were emitting regular pulses of radio waves . |
| 21 | Or perhaps it was his fingers that were having that effect . |
| 22 | This was the same youngsters that were playing two years ago . |
| 23 | Easy though it is to criticize Positive Images ' theoretical short-comings , the fact is that this was almost the only group in the country that was addressing these issues at all . |
| 24 | Walter Bagehot 's The English Constitution , published in 1867 , constituted a classic description of a Constitution that had not previously been so well sketched , yet a Constitution that was to undergo significant modifications as a result of the passage that very year of the Second Reform Act . |
| 25 | I can tell you that that this area is not far from the area that was hit last month , also in helicopter raids , by forces . |
| 26 | Secondly , he devised the beginnings of a new mechanics that was to replace Aristotelian mechanics and with reference to which the mechanical arguments against Copernicus were defused . |
| 27 | The car , an ancient Pontiac taxi that was painted six shades of yellow and purple , stopped outside the twin piles of broken coral that were Bonefish 's proud gateposts . |
| 28 | erm but that specifically is one of the developments that is has had to be the cut with the budget that was made last month . |
| 29 | After being placed in quicklime to dry , they were steamed for twelve hours — a process that was repeated several times . |
| 30 | This machine here is doing the work that was done last year by twelve men . ’ |