Example sentences of "[pron] were [adv] [adj] [verb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pearn and I were very concerned to ensure that the troops who would liberate Burma should know something of the country and its people , for the army that fought the retreat in 1942 had had little time to learn any of the background . |
| 2 | Moreover , it was those that were most likely to suffer long periods of unemployment and non-employment and for whom early retirement was a realistic option , i.e. those aged 60–64 , who were most likely to say that it would be very effective in dealing with unemployment : 46 per cent , compared with 34 per cent of the 55–59 age-group and 30 per cent of those under 30 . |
| 3 | This proposal was readily dismissed by geophysicists who were easily able to demonstrate that the Earth is far too strong to be deformed by such tidal forces . |
| 4 | We were also glad to report that the lease holders at the time found that it was n't profitable and relinquished their rights . |
| 5 | An international team of distinguished academics reported recently in the journal Minerv'a that ‘ We were particularly amazed to discover that the autonomy of German universities to make admissions policies and admissions has been substantially curtailed by the establishment of a single central admission procedure , the ZVS , located in Dortmund and utilising a programmed computer ’ . |
| 6 | Said Brian , ‘ We were then able to ascertain that the cards were counterfeit . |
| 7 | We were only later to learn that these were the Spinner Dolphins , the most acrobatic of all their family . |
| 8 | In previous years the British Independent Programme Producers Association had taken a stand and we were initially distressed to find that this was not to be the case in 1990 — a decision based on the exorbitant cost ( they will retain a stand at MIP-TV ) . |
| 9 | And what we 've done now , and with colleagues from Germany , is to take cores off north west Africa , say about twenty metres down into the sediment , we sample them in the lab here and took the small amounts of sediment and examined them for these long chain compounds and we were extremely excited to see that as we went down this core , back through the last few hundred thousand years , we could see our signal on sea surface temperature oscillating about roughly in the same way that er has been found with other methods of getting at the past history of the climate . |
| 10 | We were indeed able to confirm that pairs of dunnocks were often joined by a third bird in breeding , but this provided a mere foretaste of what was to come . |
| 11 | They were probably right to suspect that St Petersburg had begun to think of intervening in their affairs . |
| 12 | They were both amazed to find that because of the war scare young men who had been quite content to go out with them on their terms suddenly wanted to start serious courting . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Where the phrenologists went wrong was to be too arrogant about their pronouncements ; they were also wrong to suppose that the human skull gives us much information about the brain it was designed to protect . |
| 15 | They were later surprised to find that the Misses Dolan had left wills , leaving the house and contents , except for some specific bequests , to Margaret ‘ for her devoted care of us ’ , and a cabinet containing a doll 's china tea-set and porcelain figures which she had played with ‘ to our darling Molly ’ . |
| 16 | The training officer group were more likely to refer to joint or group decisions , none of them specifically mentioned the need for central approval , few mentioned relevancy to post as being essential ( or if they did it was within a wider framework of reference than relevance to post alone ) , and they were more likely to specify that the needs of the service and the needs of the individual were both taken into account . |
| 17 | They were senior captains from the flagship of Everard 's coasting fleet and they were somewhat surprised to learn that we had a flagship too . |
| 18 | That they were usually successful indicates that the thieves understood the workings of the colonial bureaucracy , and that government did not function in the way intended by higher officials . |
| 19 | The landowners ' letters to the Home Secretary revealed the extent to which they were initially unable to accept that their labourers were more than usually discontented ; according to the more alarmist gentry , ‘ travelling incendiaries respectably attired ’ were racing round the area in fast carriages , firing incendiary pellets from slings or crossbows into haystacks . |
| 20 | They were therefore unable to ensure that justice was duly done because Amanieu de Fossat was protecting him . |
| 21 | If , for example , two people watch young tearaways behaving in an abusive manner towards them from a safe distance across the street , a conviction would be proper only if they were really likely to fear that violence would be likely to be used against them ( or another ) . |
| 22 | The police , too , had drunk quite a lot of beer by now , and before long they were very willing to believe that Oliver was not the robber of the night before . |