Example sentences of "were afraid that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We even stopped going across Vernadsky Avenue , just where the bridge was , because we were afraid that a lorry might come and shove us into the river . |
| 2 | It was a wonder that we escaped so well , as we were afraid that the Waggon would have crushed us . |
| 3 | Economists were afraid that the country was over-populated and believed that the problems of poverty and unemployment would be reduced if the surplus hands and mouths would go overseas , but it did not follow that the government was going to pay for them to go . |
| 4 | Many prophets in the tenth century believed that the world would come to an end in the year 1000 , but according to A. J. Gurevich the legends concerning mass psychoses in Europe as the year 1000 approached originated at the end of the fifteenth century when people really were afraid that the end of the world was imminent . |
| 5 | Its employees were afraid that the death of the expansionist Moghul Emperor Aurangzeb in 1707 would lead to disorder and disintegration , and events in the next half-century showed they were right . |