Example sentences of "that [was/were] [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perez says he is well aware that expert systems have n't lived up to the promises and claims that were being made for the technology three or four years ago , but claims Neuron Data was well aware of its limitations at the time and was already busy putting Open Interface together . |
| 2 | These are the affirmations that were being made as Jesus trotted in Jerusalem with this little donkey , his followers gathered all around him looking from the heights of the walls of Jerusalem , there must have been one or two curious , astonished , worried eyes , the Sanhedrin , the Chief Elders , |
| 3 | Finally it must be remembered that , at this stage , the majority of the Cossacks still had no inkling of the preparations that were being made by the British to hand them back . |
| 4 | And a lot of the contacts , the social contacts , that were being made by unemployed people were n't very positive ones . |
| 5 | Or were they simply concerned at the number of rules that were being broken by the programme 's makers ? |
| 6 | In fact , one of the major tensions was precisely that between the residual kinship patterns and the new form of relationships that were being constructed in the course of the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | The government estimates that an additional 11,250 reports will be required each year , on top of the 250,000 or so social inquiry reports that were being called for in the years preceding the Criminal Justice Act 1991 . |
| 8 | There is a significant divide between Cavalcanti 's surrealism and Powell 's romantic mysticism but , within their bizarre plot , the Powell-Pressburger team also show us how land girls were being absorbed into the rural workforce , and the sort of connections that were being formed between British and American soldiers . |
| 9 | For instance he read every morning newspaper before midnight on the previous day ( in contrast to Harold Macmillan who claimed not to read newspapers ) and as a result he went to bed fully — and very ill-advisedly — informed of the disagreeable things that were being said about him , since almost all the papers had Tory proprietors and Tory-inclined editors . |
| 10 | We therefore put our name down to rent one of a group of new flats that were being built in the marketplace . |
| 11 | And if you remember in the past , we agreed that we would send either one or two people on the project management safety courses that were being run by Vic . |
| 12 | The enthusiasm of the common people for the old sports was weakened to such an extent that there was a genuine receptiveness on the part of the mass of the population to the revised forms of play that were being nurtured amongst the privileged in the mid-Victorian public schools . |
| 13 | However , she was able to judge the sounds that were being mouthed by faces in photographs , and showed other evidence of normal lip-reading abilities . |
| 14 | Some of the authors were also aware of new approaches to the study of organic relationships that were being discussed in France and which were leading radical anatomists to challenge Cuvier 's authority . |
| 15 | Mr M asked for a receipt for all the items that were being removed from his home . |
| 16 | Perspicacious as ever I asked the council 's marketing director , John Howard , if he had then researched what consumers were looking for during the 60 seconds that were being removed from their lives for ever . |
| 17 | Generally speaking , the Bank stated that the pilots were operating successfully and the problems that were being experienced by staff could be rectified by the introduction of systems . |
| 18 | One of the problems of the economy was the level of its resources that were being sucked into the long-running colonial war in French Indo-China , a war which France could not win and one which was effectively concluded by the humiliating surrender in May 1954 of the cream of the French army at Dien Bien Phu . |
| 19 | She was apparently bemused as to what these hip young people wanted with £8-a-pair shoes that were being bought by grannies as cheap slippers . |
| 20 | That the audition process was one that examined you totally — your private behaviour as well as your theatrical ability , the two feeding into each other to find a way to suit the requirements of the part and the particular aspects that were being looked at by the director , Michael Blakemore . |
| 21 | Hitchcock was triumphantly able to achieve this sort of synthesis , but it is not surprising that Woolf was suspicious of the highbrow values that were being propagated around this time , and decided to challenge their deployment on this film . |
| 22 | We formed a group among ourselves and used to meet and play through the works that were being performed at the opera that next day — two pianos , four pianists , some singers , a small chorus . |
| 23 | Beneath the Old Red Sandstone ( Devonian ) lay the Silurian and Cambrian systems that were being described by Murchison and Sedgwick . |
| 24 | He knew the fine private collections that were being amassed by men like Frank Burty , who was a friend , and most of all he must have been interested in the objects bought by his painter friends . |
| 25 | Metals was used for barrels but only for ones that were being taken a long way away like wine barrels that were being taken to or from Gascony . |
| 26 | In 1820 he was sent to Fort Augustus , where the locks of the Caledonian canal were under construction , and , as his father was well known to everyone there , he was given the opportunity of learning not only masonry but all the branches of civil and mechanical engineering that were being practised at that time . |
| 27 | The winds that were being reported for the hurricane did not include the ground speed that the storm was tracking . |
| 28 | It was the people that were being drawn by the nose and paying for the whole thing . |
| 29 | However , UI chief Peter Cunningham , speaking from the dais , alluded to discussions that were being held at the highest levels and suggested that they were very close to some sort of agreement . |
| 30 | In signing off one night , at the end of the news , there was time to mention one or two events that were being held in the region . |