Example sentences of "were [adj] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such was their anxiety during the two days that were left before the exam results were due that Mona and Sheila found it hard to eat or sleep . |
| 2 | And as you said it seemed to be erm the norm that people assumed that if you were pregnant that you did n't want to be and therefore |
| 3 | If Marshal Piłsudski and Colonel Beck , the Polish leaders in Warsaw , were upset that France had not given them stronger backing over the Wilia crisis , then they were also relieved to find that Hitler was not prepared to go to war over the city — at least not yet . |
| 4 | When , in April 1948 , West European states met in Paris and created the Organisation of European Economic Co-operation ( OEEC ) to supervise the Marshall aid programme , the Americans were upset that it was an inter-governmental body , working on a basis of unanimity . |
| 5 | They were upset that their efforts had been misunderstood . |
| 6 | It was true that those concerned with the enforcement of the law in this country were apprehensive that the abolition of the death penalty would be followed by an increase in crimes of violence ; but their predecessors had in the past opposed for the same reason the abolition of the death penalty for offences less serious than murder and their apprehensions had not in the event proved justified . |
| 7 | More than two thirds of people surveyed in Gloucestershire said they were dissatisfied that the offender involved had been cautioned . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , Rangers were grateful that Alan McDonald was under the bar to head away after John Cooke had eluded Kenny Sansom . |
| 9 | The visitors , who needed 427 to win after starting on 16 for three today , were grateful that the weather permitted only 17.1 overs . |
| 10 | We were grateful that skilful programming precluded any of us from finding ourselves in the wrong session ! |
| 11 | Conservative politicians were over-confident that they knew the right policies , and to a large extent they were contemptuous towards the professional teacher . |
| 12 | But all the children I questioned afterwards were emphatic that they would like to repeat the experience . |
| 13 | The British were emphatic that Virgin 's application and the question of PanAm 's third frequency were unrelated . |
| 14 | As already noted the British service chiefs were emphatic that American aid was imperative in the event of war with the USSR . |
| 15 | Even as the day began , rumours were rife that the band had refused to play . |
| 16 | Rumours were rife that Wigan were poised to swoop for the 22-year-old Great Britain star and Saints were lining up Featherstone Rovers ' international Paul Newlove as a replacement but Mr Latham adds : ‘ There have been no enquiries for him he is contracted to us . ’ |
| 17 | It would be sensible to cut off most of her hair , but so much of it had grown when her parents were alive that it seemed somehow unfaithful to their memory to scissor it all away . |
| 18 | The Roman Catholics were interested that a combination between a Russian refugee , Georges Florovsky , an English high churchman , Michael Ramsey , and a dogmatic Swiss Protestant , Karl Barth , brought the ecumenical movement to an impasse because none of them was prepared to put up with a Protestant federation , and the union of these unlikely allies was too powerful to overcome . |
| 19 | In the first half we attacked the Kop end and hopes were high that Crewe would conceed a bagful of goals in the first half when Deane actually managed to score in the 17th minute . |
| 20 | Prof David Carter of Edinburgh University 's department of surgery , who is supervising the project , said that hopes were high that good results produced in laboratory studies could be repeated in patients . |
| 21 | Both the Colonel and Mrs were insistent that he do well at school — his father had the elite military academy at Randung in mind for him and maybe America later , too . |
| 22 | This was reflected in an interesting phenomenon noticed by Mellanby : many school medical officers in safe urban reception areas were insistent that head lice had been virtually unknown in their area until the dirty , verminous and ill-mannered inner city evacuees arrived ; they were shocked when confronted with past hospital records for their town showing that this was not so . |
| 23 | Murray and other civil servants were clear that they were being bamboozled on issues like the Clow differential ( p. 37 above ) but accepted much of the industry 's case . |
| 24 | Gaitskell and Citrine were clear that Gibson was innocent of the whiff of corruption surrounding the allegations , to which he had no opportunity to reply ( and Churchill in this case expressed his sympathy for Gibson ) , but his resignation had , inevitably , to he accepted . |
| 25 | However , white , British women were clear that their support for anti-imperialist struggles had to be unconditional ’ . |
| 26 | The authors of the Black Report , who included one of the most eminent Fabian academics , Professor Peter Townsend , were clear that such disparities were socially unjust and the NHS needed policies to address them , but they were forced to conclude from the evidence that the major causes of health inequalities lay beyond the NHS and were rooted in the material conditions of life experienced by the different classes . |
| 27 | First of all , I think it would be useful if we were clear that with the new , ministry was a waste ! |
| 28 | The British had retreated so far from the position they had held at Chicago that Sir William Hildred and Sir Henry Self , in charge of the British delegation , were afraid that they would be overruled by the Air Ministry and BOAC . |
| 29 | The city was in chaos and we were afraid that armed men would attack us . |
| 30 | They were afraid that owners might respond , as they are entitled to do , by serving a purchase order on the council . |