Example sentences of "[adj] that were " in BNC.
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| 1 | The train was hauled by BR Standard 75069 , and was formed of five goods brakevans comprising one LMS , one SR , one GWR ‘ Toad ’ and two BR Types of van which give ample space for the party of 43 that were carried , the majority of whom had travelled up from the Bath-Bristol area by coach . |
| 2 | The number density of energetic ions and electrons is so high that were you or I to cross the belt we would receive 500 times the lethal dose of such particles . |
| 3 | In the spring of 1970 , eight finished films were banned and 12 that were being shot were stopped . |
| 4 | Things have been quiet … no messages for 24 hours after picking up the 49 that were waiting yesterday . |
| 5 | I 've got some that were grown in Tradescant 's time . |
| 6 | There were some that were quite valuable , a Churchill , I think , and a Boss , but they were sent to his gunsmith in Glasgow , Peterson and Briggs , and they were sold . |
| 7 | I thought I had sent him some that were very good , but I received a most snarky letter from him saying " They may be very fine artists but they do n't know anything about teaching , and I 'm not interested in any of your geniuses unless they really take trouble about the job in hand " . |
| 8 | So the very few that were still on the road I really treasured and appreciated seeing . |
| 9 | There was no intention ever to remove these , nor the few that were established on the central ridge dominating the West Bank . |
| 10 | The few that were left he had rejected after investigating them and their backgrounds . |
| 11 | In contrast to certain other African countries , Zambia had remarkably few periodicals published by churches or religious organizations ; the few that were published all had small circulations . |
| 12 | We had to put it in erm oh what did we call it oh dear a little vice and er put a ball , about three inches long and then er put it into the plug and erm put the cap , the little brass cap but also the I 've made a mistake there , before we did that we had to put the natural plug in and in that plug there were five like aluminium coloured er pins , each of a different size and we had to learn to read the key for the various depths you see and we had boxes of pins with the different sizes in and er then put those in the plug and then push the key in and but we 'd got to , we got to file , we had to file the bars and also the little brass caps to get all the edge the , I forget what we used to call it now , off the cap to get it smooth and then get it in our own vice and screw , screw them down and there were thirty two , there were three key keys to each , each lock , and er we had to file them until they were ready and they worked easily push the key in properly , and we also used to put black lead in , you could not put oil because they would have stopped the springs working and we had a little box of ordinary oh like the black lead that we used to black lead the graves , put some on the key and push that then and work it round , and that was the erm that was made it work freely you see and then there was erm a half a gross to each board , and three , three keys to each one and then erm we , we filed the various things ourselves , but then they would take that away from you and bring you more you see and then when eventually the keys had to be polished and it was only a favourite few that were allowed to sit down to sort the keys out to com to complete them you see , but it was very very interesting work and I enjoyed being there but you |
| 13 | It is so loud that were the bats to hear it , their hyper-sensitive ears , tuned to detect the faintest of echoes , would be seriously overloaded . |
| 14 | It is perhaps possible that were Murad II returning from a great victory , Molla Yegan might have come from Bursa to greet him , but such seems not to have been the case . |
| 15 | Anyway , I did it with him you know and he said , sorry that were n't long enough , he said what 's your telephone number ! |
| 16 | In 1670 Wigston contained 161 households , including forty-seven that were exempted from payment of the hearth tax on the grounds of poverty . |
| 17 | Oh I thought oh I , I , I seemed to remember the Whitney Bay bit and I mean I do n't know what I 've done with the blinking programme last year , I mean they 're all in the magazine rack , but I do n't think that one 's there that was terrific that were n't it ? |
| 18 | Ooh usual that were yes , oh lots of people did that . |
| 19 | And she was the first that got on horseback , and with some fifty that were with her , did some hurt to the company of the Cid ; but in fine they slew her , and her people fled to the camp . |
| 20 | The second investigation was just one of hundreds that were done in the sixties . |
| 21 | maybe five or six that were quite serious one . |
| 22 | Of the 55 serum samples taken in 1969 that were positive , 41 were retested in 1978 and of these , 37/41 ( 90.2% ) were still seropositive . |
| 23 | When the psychologist Donald Griffin describes the ability of great tits and chickadees to obtain milk from bottles by ‘ pecking through their shiny coverings with the conscious intention of obtaining food ’ ( 1984 : 35 ) , it is obvious that were he not talking of a ‘ conscious intention ’ , in the normal human acceptation of the phrase , he would fail to arouse the average reader 's curiosity and sympathies . |
| 24 | The ‘ compact ’ skis of the 1970s that were such a wheeze ( as opposed to a sneeze ) in powder were up to 10% broader than the skis we use today — they had typical sidecuts at the waist of around 70mm , compared to the slimline ( 63mm to 66mm ) skis that are more common today . |
| 25 | I was sure that were such a scheme to be imposed , it would be vigorously resisted and criticised . |
| 26 | A covered platform to keep off the worst excesses of the monsoon rain , a ticket office , and a large , bare waiting-room or shed with a stand-pipe outside were all that were provided . |
| 27 | Breach of the peace and police powers of arrest These two sections in the Public Order Act were not all that were available to the authorities before 1979 . |
| 28 | Three Fulmars were already up — Red Section of 807 Squadron — and four more ( all that were now immediately available ) were scrambled , the incoming attack proving to comprise twenty-eight Ju87s of l/St.G 1 from Cagliari , in two formations , with a top cover of six Bf110s of 9/ZG26 , these led by Hpt . |
| 29 | But she had gone up before him , her narrow back and bunched skirts all that were visible of her from below . |
| 30 | And on top of all that were the meetings of groupings from around the globe , with early morning delegation meetings to talk tactics ( and more of same late each evening ) . |