Example sentences of "that [was/were] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it is still possible that subjects ’ perceptions of the tasks could have been altered by the different exemplars of a junction that were viewed in the different experiments , it does not appear that the subset of 24 were unrepresentative of the full 60 . |
| 2 | And snowflakes were huge beautiful things that were hung from the ceilings on bits of thread . |
| 3 | He also had repaired many of the roads and bridges that were damaged in the great flood of I 803 and built a bridge at Câmara de Lobos , improved the municipal theatre and presented six beds and a hundred blankets to the hospital . |
| 4 | IBM is believed to be working on a much less radical plan to copy General Motors Corp and issue different classes of common shares , each standing pari passu all the others in the event of a break-up , but each paying dividends that were tied to the performance of a single IBM unit , be it AdStar , Application Business Systems or Pennant Systems . |
| 5 | She had to get away somewhere on her own , before she found herself blurting out things she had never meant to say , making decisions that were swayed by the influence he still had over her . |
| 6 | As fig. 5.12 shows , these subjects learned the test more readily than did control subjects that were trained on the same task but had received initial Pavlovian training in which the tone and clicker were uncorrelated with reinforcer type . |
| 7 | Can you give me some idea of some of the other trades that were represented in the er in the shop ? |
| 8 | yeah , but he was here the other Sunday and he , he , they were , he , he was reading my paper and he come back and he the following Sunday he said you have n't got last Sunday 's paper mum , I said I do n't know I might , oh I think I threw it out , anyway just happened to find it , it was something he read of some woman that were meddling on the pools and the , the , what she 'd used , you know and the |
| 9 | Then the floodlights that were hidden in the roof came on . |
| 10 | but it 's only available for contributions that were withdrawn before the first of June nineteen seventy three and you know if you did n't meet that particular date then the only other way of of covering gaps is which is far more expensive . |
| 11 | When they looked closer they saw that he was whipping , not a fallen beast , but a spindly-legged Annamese ; both carts , they could see , contained refuse and had shafts front and back that terminated in cane , big wooden halters that were locked around the necks of four sweating Annamese . |
| 12 | He looked at her for the first time and saw the tears on her cheeks that were glistening in the starlight . |
| 13 | Thus , Becker , in his historical survey of the numerous monographs published on the subject in the hundred years up to 1950 , notes that the vast majority had reached that conclusion ; though he also comments on the many different interpretations that were placed on the evidence . |
| 14 | Davies and Brooke found that model eggs that were placed in the host 's nest in the morning were more likely to be ejected than those placed there in the afternoon . |
| 15 | The decision lifts restrictions that were placed by the court on the tiny company several months ago that forbade it from distributing advance copies of BSD/386 code for beta testing , or production software . |
| 16 | The Army have not dropped their controversial access conditions as was reported , but have amended them following the representations they have received from the BMC and the views that were expressed at the Castlemartin meeting in March . |
| 17 | It has gone on reducing the fantastic levels of public sector borrowing requirement that were reached under the last Government . |
| 18 | There was a problem during the er evidence to the various committees that were looking at the coal crisis and the problems in relation to coal , in that very often people were translating it into tonnage and the number of pits etcetera , whereas the argument needed to be that the rules of the game had been rigged in the first place at the privatization of electricity and the rules of the game need to be changed if we 're gon na succeed . |
| 19 | We had disagreements in the House about the number of Territorial Army personnel that were serving in the Gulf . |
| 20 | After all we knew that subsidy did n't exist to subsidise empty seats but rather the necessary and new ideas that were wanted at the time . |
| 21 | Let us look at what has happened to other utilities in Great Britain that were fixed by the Government before they broke down . |
| 22 | In a number of schools there remain underlying — and sometimes still overt — conflicts that were provoked by the Teachers ' Action of 1986–7 . |
| 23 | The depths they had dived to , that were recorded on the sheets before her , were exceptional . |
| 24 | We have X-rays and details that were recorded during the conservation process which may help identify them . |
| 25 | As Mr. Ron Lord , Wakefield 's assistant chief financial officer , points out in the Municipal Journal , they could at least introduce the poll tax ’ against a background of a stable rating system which managers were able to put on automatic pilot while diverting their attention to the multitude of practical problems that were to arise with the new system . |
| 26 | Betty went over and locked the door , and Lydia looked out of the window at the shadows that were gathering under the trees . |
| 27 | I went to do some work , attempting to photograph some ducks and mergansers that were sheltering from the sun . |
| 28 | They stayed quite still , smiling back at it , until it disappeared with a plop , leaving ripples of disturbance that were erased by the next wave . |
| 29 | The two large and rusty freighters that were berthed in the docking area , however , were very definitely of human manufacture , as witnessed by the sweaty crewmen who swarmed all over them , almost as numerous as the dead fish which clogged the oil-choked water . |
| 30 | Beginning in the spring of 1883 , he toured around the 50 sites in the UK that were scheduled by the act , with two assistants to help with drawing and surveying , noting any damage , and deciding what measures were required for their protection . |