Example sentences of "were [verb] that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only when the new temples were built that pictorial frescoes were attempted . |
| 2 | Continued allegations were made that surplus revenues were being applied for civic and municipal purposes and not for the improvement of the Harbour in accordance with the Acts of 1799 and 1826 . |
| 3 | If proof were needed that intelligent children 's television is a friend of children 's books , the recent BBC serialisation of The Borrowers provides it amply . |
| 4 | Both were agreed that nuclear weapons and US forces should stay in Europe , and that NATO should be the core of the Western alliance , with a united Germany being a full member of NATO , including its military structure . |
| 5 | ‘ If it were thought that other clubs would try to copy them , their example might , I am afraid , be unfortunate . |
| 6 | Yet if it were known that microcephalic babies ( perhaps older infants as well — would it make a difference ? ) were regularly sold to research laboratories , then there would undoubtedly be an outcry . |
| 7 | The judges , with the concurrence of the Inns of Court , resolved when these arrangements were created that disciplinary powers over barristers should be exercised in accordance with the regulations governing the new Senate , and by those regulations a committee of the Senate , known as the disciplinary tribunal , exercised those powers . |