Example sentences of "that [noun pl] were [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it became clear that conservatives were dominating the Congress , many members of the Democratic Platform resolved to leave the CPSU and form their own party called ( in November 1990 ) the Republican Party of the Russian Federation . |
| 2 | A turbulent third day 's debate at the Congress of People 's Deputies was marked by emotion and alarms over a report — later discounted — that troops were approaching the Kremlin . |
| 3 | Retreating to her bedroom , flinging things into her suitcase , she was furious to find that tears were pricking the backs of her eyes , and her heart felt as if it might be slowly breaking into a million pieces … |
| 4 | What really annoyed Daugherty was that critics were applauding The Public Enemy , a movie which seemed to him to be just a very well-cut and scripted melodrama that would serve as good ‘ yokel bait ’ . |
| 5 | A 1990 study by the National Academy of Sciences found that shrimpers were causing the deaths of as many as 44,000 turtles each year . |
| 6 | But even as she said this , as Lewis , rather dramatically , told her , the Standard was on the streets announcing that police were treating the case as murder . |
| 7 | He may really have believed that Poles were running the Hungarian rebellion and could carry disaffection north of the Carpathians . |
| 8 | The conductor pushed the door open and peered up the train to see that others were doing the same . |
| 9 | Even so we do sometimes find admissions that women were doing the more advanced tasks . |
| 10 | On the evening of 6 February Ministry of Information landrovers toured Ajdabiya announcing the ward committee elections for the next day and that Ajdabiyans were to elect the popular committees on the day after . |