Example sentences of "that were [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The alarm bells that were ringing around popular amusements and freedoms as the new century arrived moved in concert with a much darker current of anxiety about national decline and incohesion , involving some quite spectacular fantasies of racial degeneration . |
| 2 | that were tied on with a ribbon |
| 3 | We used to have to use a generator for our electricity and that used to go off at ten o'clock at night so if there was an operation that needed doing , there were two car batteries that were turned on and you used to have to do it by those . |
| 4 | I mean , of course there were things that were missed out I suppose , but also , I suppose , we were quite young , so it may have quite embarrassing and we did n't want talk about certain things . |
| 5 | A double bottom , say for instance , you you might get rivets that were missed out . |
| 6 | In the meantime , he complained of the waste of experimental data that were locked away and the emphasis on compliance rather than scientific inquiry . |
| 7 | Naval tactics early in the war avoided such ship-to-fort confrontations ; but by 1943 the accepted practice was to blast coast defences , stripping them of camouflage , if not destroying their guns in sea and air bombardments that were timed so navy shells did not cut the path of strafing planes . |
| 8 | ‘ They were special theatrical pyrotechnics that were fired electrically , using a detonator and a battery pack . |
| 9 | As it does , old divisions that were welded over by the fight against communism will reappear . |
| 10 | She did , I 'd never forget it as long as I live , I thought to myself well you stupid cow , all she could think of was a fifty pence key , so I , I said to them , I said to the girls I 'm glad to be out but of course when they all went cos there was Lynda and all the girls from customer service that were kicked out and all of us that were there and they all said oh we 've got ta go back to work and we said oh ai n't that a shame you know , and we all went |
| 11 | Riven was already thinking of bright hearths and warm beds as they made their way along the summits , following Bicker in single file now , their mounts ' hoofs throwing up bobbles of snow that were swept away into the air as quickly as they were kicked up . |
| 12 | Well there were two that were bandied about as a cost of national Of social chapter in this department . |
| 13 | Sleek towers that were telescoping down into the undercity , leaving great smooth plazas where they had previously reared , chequerboard-patterned spaces with a hint of roof outlines . |
| 14 | He tried to tear himself away from them , but they seemed to draw him in , seeming to darken as if they were wells that were dug deep beyond the limit of the sun 's rays . |
| 15 | Were those dark eyes that were gazing down at her really Guido 's ? |
| 16 | For others it provided a safe environment in which they could recognise the insecurities that were messing up their lives . |
| 17 | Then came the two incidents that were to echo down the long ages of Elf history and set the stage for the great dramas that were to follow . |
| 18 | Robyn pressed her lips together and half turned so that Anne would n't see the tears that were welling up in her eyes again . |
| 19 | She saw the building that Adolph Brückner had looked at on his arrival that day , the pain in his head threatening like the thunder clouds that were drifting back over the mountain tops . |
| 20 | She walked by the tiny marina , where the halyards jingled on the masts of the half dozen boats that were berthed there . |
| 21 | As Taff and I crouched in our trenches eating our afternoon meal and trying very hard to ignore the clouds of mosquitoes that were buzzing all around us , I looked at Taff . |
| 22 | They all , even all the girls that were screaming like yeah |
| 23 | In all cases it could still be wise to check back against the nine more general objectives that were stated earlier and also refer to the draft checklist 1 ( page 85 ) . |
| 24 | James , asked subtle , Dalgleish-like questions that were fielded languorously . |
| 25 | I mean there 's people I had n't even seen for years that were staying there in Aberdeen came along and offered help . |
| 26 | In this task , known to be sensitive to right hemisphere damage ( Kimura , 1963a ) , subjects were required to report the number of dots that were presented randomly in one or other visual field . |
| 27 | All four schools were awarded prizes for reaching the semi-final stages that were presented afterwards by Lyn Davies , head of the computing and information department at Sittingbourne . |
| 28 | And then me grandfather suddenly appeared , many years later , when they 'd got children that were grown up then , all of them , he appeared to these girls , would you believe it ? |
| 29 | Clouds of little-crested parrots and rose-breasted cockatoos swarmed upon the woods that were dotted here and there over the grasslands . |
| 30 | Her gaze skimmed over the fishing rods and tackle that were stored neatly against the side wall , and kept in place by a solid retaining bar . |