Example sentences of "that were [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was taken for granted that education was beneficial to those who received it , and that its universal provision was one of the great social improvements that were to mark the end of the war . |
| 2 | Its voluntaristic side , influenced as it was by the ideas of G. H. Mead , had more affinity with the analyses of the acquisition of motives , techniques , and so on , that were to characterise the ‘ symbolic interactionist revolution ’ of the 1960s . |
| 3 | also that it was the Party cadres that were taking the lead , but in the settling of accounts the peasants |
| 4 | I found one of those plastic and formica Little Chefs that were replacing the old greasy spoon eateries and went straight into the Gents . |
| 5 | In fact , the Germans detonated only one of the British Army 's mines before the massive explosions that were to herald the attack . |
| 6 | I could tell , though , that she was beginning to have some uncomfortable suspicions — like the ones that were spreading the chill all through me . |
| 7 | There she bargained with the Queen , and in return for not harrying the English ships that were pursuing the Spanish Armada , O'Malley was allowed a free hand in Connaught . |
| 8 | One or two instances that were favouring the fifty percent . |
| 9 | Nor could capitalist or socialist states deal by themselves with the threat of a nuclear catastrophe , or the difficulties that were facing the developing countries . |
| 10 | The reason lay in the large economic changes that were affecting the world economy , the government 's own responses and the particular nature of the new machinery of control . |
| 11 | Tyson 's past had come back eerily to haunt him — this time not in street violence but in the way Desiree Washington , a competitor in the Miss America Pageant accused him of the crimes that were to see the world heavyweight champion 's status reduced to that of a common criminal . |
| 12 | They were positively received in the parliaments of the six states that were to take the initiative in integration in the following decade . |
| 13 | In the previous chapter a distinction was made between the attitudinal function of intonation and several other functions that were given the collective names of syntagmatic functions . |
| 14 | The latest Microprocessor Report says the cancelled Motorola Inc 68050 , a minor upgrade of the 68040 , fell prey to a resource battle with two next-generation implementations that were to follow the 68050 : the LP040 , a low-cost , low-power re-implementation of the 68040 in 0.5 micron technology due to sample in late 1993 , and ‘ Q ’ , a fully static modular , superscalar , superpipelined part that borrows from the 88110 and will probably come out as the 68060 . |
| 15 | The sturdily independent high tech sector had naught for the comfort of either major party in the run-up to today 's by-election in Newbury , Berkshire when the big guns from party headquarters showed up for photocalls during the build-up : Labour chose Vodafone Group Plc and tried to commiserate about the recession , only to be told that business had been going gangbusters for several months , the Tories went looking for green shoots at Micro Focus Plc , only to be told that the UK market was flat on its back , and that it was only foreign sales that were keeping the old Coboller busy . |
| 16 | However , some of the problems that were to haunt the postwar aviation industry had already begun to appear . |
| 17 | And I looked upon the earth and saw a dish set , and workmen lying by it , and their hands were in the dish : and they that were chewing chewed not , and they that were lifting the food lifted it not , and they that put it to their mouth put it not thereto , but the faces of all of them were looking upward . |
| 18 | Thomas Tait in the lead , closely followed by Jack Coia , Basil Spence , T. Waller Marwick , A. D. Bryce , and other members of the team , the architects picked their way through the mud and piles of bricks that were to become the Empire Exhibition . |
| 19 | When South America and Australia broke away to begin their long periods of isolation from the rest of the world , they each carried their own cargo of dinosaurs , and also of the less-prominent animals that were to become the ancestors of modern mammals . |
| 20 | Then you 'll hear from the second of officers namely the officers that went into the flat that were carrying the guns , carrying and who conducted the operation and from their evidence you 'll be able to judge whether or not the force used was reasonable and was necessary . |
| 21 | Now it was his men that were paying the penalty . |
| 22 | While there he received one of the fateful telegrams that were to dot the history of the underground : ‘ Phone Hoppy ’ it said . |
| 23 | The head bored through the blockages that were reducing the blood flow . |
| 24 | He was really getting to her , and it was n't only the accusations he was flinging at her that were doing the damage . |
| 25 | We have er found that to be the case there is a downward trend , but I do make the point , and I did make the point to the inspectors notwithstanding that , all of our respecting officers bar those that were doing the training of course do produce a higher work output per individual than most of our peers up and down the country and we have statis statistical evidence to support that . |
| 26 | and er he said to himself there 's something I , I , I do n't know what it is necessarily but there is something , go to a specialist and the specialist was very very good you know blah blah blah blah you want some te I want some tests , you know , so I had some tests , you know and the crew that were doing the tests they knew what they were looking for and they either found it or they did n't , do n't know . |
| 27 | So , with a tail wind , he began the 130/140 miles , picking some carrots and apples en-route , and noticing the barrage balloons that were protecting the factories . |
| 28 | The experiments that were set the ‘ preconceptual ’ children would offer no problems to the children at this stage , but they still can not engage in abstract thinking . |
| 29 | You children were excited on the journey to Gibraltar and kept running from side to side of the boat looking out for the small destroyers that were guarding the convoy . |
| 30 | It was here that were found the richest markets . |