Example sentences of "that [was/were] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we do n't want to be any under any illusions about that , and the same can be applied to the fact that we have made no real provision for nursery education , that we were in trouble over special needs in this county , that was a a requirement to restore services that were well below the S S A on Social Services , and we really all this er this er , new administration has done , has been brought those up , those services up to what would have been regarded as a quite an unacceptable level with most of the the the authorities in this country . |
| 2 | In sharp contrast , others reject such determinism while emphasising the non-economic elements in human welfare including such ‘ eternal verities of history that as societies become wealthy they are no longer able to afford pleasures that were well within their reach when they were poor ’ [ F.J.Fisher , ‘ The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries : The Dark Ages in English Economic History ? ’ , |
| 3 | And again apprentice squads done er lesser jobs than the the journeymen such as er riveting casings , etcetera , that were not on watertight and er filling in the odd er seams here and there that er were left out while a riveter was progressing with his job . |
| 4 | The people that were left behind such as the section leaders — the gunnery leader , flight engineer leader , navigation leader and one or two people that were not on the battle order for that night , would meet these people and speak to them . |
| 5 | During the months of recuperation and the months of rediscovering himself as a changed person , a quick-tempered , irritable person , nervous and hypochondriacal , Tom thought of sex and love as remote concepts that were not for him , that were ridiculous for him to consider . |
| 6 | A number of courses were mentioned that were not at present available ( see under Personal Development ) . |
| 7 | Emilia showed little wish to speak , Louisa had to content herself with reading aloud beside the bed , though the books she suggested were soon rejected in favour of such verses as those of Felicia Hemans and Anna Letitia Barbauld — works that were not at all to her own taste . |
| 8 | An occasional phrase , a glance … clues that were not at all tangled . |
| 9 | He began to run about in front of her , to turn , to perform grotesque dance movements that were not without some grace . |
| 10 | The epistemological importance of such an exercise is evident , as is the fact that care would have to be taken to avoid circularity , to ensure that we did not make the credibility of a claim to knowledge depend upon beliefs that were not in the foundation . |
| 11 | Minton was surprised when the young man revealed an already developed interest in the opera , but it was perhaps this that first made Minton recognise in Bowler possibilities that were not in Ricky . |
| 12 | If the consignor wanted to ensure that no person other than the consignee or the lawful holder of the bill could claim delivery , he could stipulate that delivery required production of all the copies or parts of the set that were not in the master 's possession . |
| 13 | But I will tell you the details that were not in the report . |
| 14 | The answer is straightforward : the exchange-rate mechanism would continue , run by the enlarged chamber of governors , and all currencies that were not in stage three could remain in the exchange-rate mechanism or outside it , depending on what they chose . |
| 15 | There were two things that were not in the letter which Sean wanted . |
| 16 | American travellers became stranded in Europe and turned into expatriates or exiles in Henry James 's novels , shadowy amalgamation of foreign manners with shreds of familiar accents that were up to the narrator to decipher , but it could n't happen to her , not in 1928 , even with a crash . |
| 17 | Well a mixture between both cos I can er ah go back but there 's lots of things I do just now that were n't about in those days . |
| 18 | You referred to the fact of erm , er items that were n't on the , on the rations such as liver . |
| 19 | The children And that were n't for a day , for a night , it were for weeks and weeks on end . |
| 20 | FRINGE BENEFITS Colin Ward samples alternatives that were n't in the manifestos |
| 21 | And er coming through all the problems with the work permit and er again things that were n't in my hands . |
| 22 | In fact the Allies were ill-fitted to assume this responsibility and unlikely to find solutions to problems that were largely of their own making . |
| 23 | For instance , a unified acrylics business was created from two that were previously in Mond Division and two in Petrochemicals & Plastics . |
| 24 | And that were right till the end of January . |
| 25 | And then they had a points system which meant that er you had so many points and you could , there were certain foods that were just on points and er you could choose to spend your points on whatever you wanted . |
| 26 | If we group together all the industries that were predominantly in public ownership on the departure of the Labour government , we find that their total employment was thrown into decline in the North from 1978 to 1981 , but that it continued to grow in the South . |
| 27 | Thucydides credited the Minoan kings with organizing the first naval fleet , and it is possible that the Minoans did indeed have a squadron of specially designed and equipped warships that were ahead of their time . |
| 28 | He admits the Xtra requirements gathering process sometimes lags behind vendors ' product introductions but said he thought XPG4 would contain some elements that were ahead of current offerings on interoperability . |
| 29 | Instead , the police relied upon the wide range of old laws that were already in place . |
| 30 | For example , they selected only the second of Byrd 's two four-part In Nomines , and neither of the models ( by Tye and Parsons ) that were evidently in Byrd 's mind when he composed his own pair . |