Example sentences of "were [verb] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had only been back for a few hours when company orders were posted showing that Colonel Hamilton wished to see Lance-Corporal Trumper at eleven hundred hours the following morning . |
| 2 | Both of these measures were intended to ensure that banks continued to regard the traditional discount market as an important outlet for surplus funds and source of liquidity in the event of shortage . |
| 3 | Departments were expected to ensure that paper series were preserved , that suitable selections were made from them , and that lists itemising the contents of administrative series were produced . |
| 4 | These were designed to ensure that consumers were protected , but at the same time companies earned a fair rate of return on their investment . |
| 5 | Religious and biological concepts of moral and natural law were used to argue that chastity and self-control were essential to personal health and to the future progress of the nation . |
| 6 | If any proof were needed to insist that confessors and directors should avoid pressing their penitents into any clearly established scheme but instead should simply wait upon the Lord and watch and assist his working in the individual soul , this diversity among the great masters of the spiritual life should be sufficient . |
| 7 | Several key portfolios in the national working committee ( NWC ) , the ANC 's " shadow cabinet " , were taken by a younger generation of ANC leaders , who were thought to believe that Mandela had assumed too much personal power since his release from prison . |
| 8 | The room was twice the size of their back-street Holland Park offices but for a couple of hours all comers were invited to believe that Women 's Word was on the same financial footing as its big competitors . |
| 9 | Art dealers were beginning to realize that paintings could become valuable investments for speculators . |
| 10 | Yet , in October 1987 , in the post ‘ Strangeways ’ scramble , Andy Rourke , Mike Joyce and , to a lesser extent , Craig Gannon , were beginning to realise that life after The Smiths would be like starting over again . |
| 11 | Car horns had no effect , and we were beginning to think that shanks ' pony was the only way of attracting his attention when someone came up with this idea . ) |
| 12 | Luke reports that ‘ … a feeling of expectancy had grown among the people , who were beginning to think that John might be the Christ . ’ |
| 13 | In September 1978 a discussion paper was published and exhibitions were mounted to ensure that public opinion was reflected in the preparation of the road plans . |
| 14 | Nevertheless a handful of American politicians , writers and others were coming to believe that situations could arise wherein close , if not formal , co-operation with Britain might be appropriate . |
| 15 | But the views in winter are rather more spectacular , and although we were starting to feel that snow was coming on the strengthening wind , we at least enjoyed the open sweeping aspect to the south and east as we walked . |
| 16 | The upward spiral on which film budgets were set suggests that Rank might have had to go on losing money for a long time before hitting on a way to achieve a steady supply of sellable films . |
| 17 | Ballyskeagh 's nights which were done after we were led to believe that Wednesday was Dungannon 's best night of the week . |
| 18 | Feeling rather ill due to lack of visibility , we stumbled into Chalet des Pierres , just above Courchevel 1850 , and were disheartened to feel that justice could not be done to such a fantastic display of food . |
| 19 | John Gunn of British & Commonwealth , John Ashcroft of Coloroll and , to some extent , the Saatchi brothers are among those who were tempted to believe that expansion was synonymous with diversification . |
| 20 | Salah persuaded the fathers or brothers of the girls to consider the schemes and these men were reassured to know that women had discussed the matter and had achieved some consensus . |
| 21 | Using the end point of investigator 's assessment of remission , it was calculated that 226 patients were required to show that fluticasone propionate was at worst 15% inferior to prednisolone . |
| 22 | In the 1957 parliamentary elections , Chamoun 's supporters claimed that the opposition were in reality Nasser 's candidates ; political constituencies were gerrymandered to ensure that Saeb Salam , the most prominent Sunni leader in Beirut , and Kamal Jumblatt , the Druze leader in the Chouf , were defeated . |
| 23 | Bishops were ordered to ensure that prayers were said in every church for the success of the king 's expeditions to France , and news of the great victory of Crécy was proclaimed throughout the realm . |