Example sentences of "[vb base] that they [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The location and age of these massive outpourings of basalt — Cretaceous to Eocene in India and Early Jurassic in South America — suggest that they were associated with the break-up of Gondwana ( see Section 4.5.2 ) . |
| 2 | Both lists are in this respect artificial , and the errors on Æthelnoth and Hakon suggest that they were copied from exemplars . |
| 3 | R.R. Darlington stressed that the ecclesiastical content of several tenth-century law codes suggests that they originated as the canons of synods. Æthelstan 's first code , for example , and his Ordinance on Charities , both say that they were framed on the advice of Archbishop Wulfhelm of Canterbury and other bishops , and the text known as I Edmund appears from its prologue to be a set of decisions taken purely by the ecclesiastical wing of the witan ( royal council ) ; they may eventually have been issued as a royal decree , but that I Edmund in its surviving form is something other than this is implied by the fifth chapter , which exhorts the king to put churches in order . |
| 4 | In view of the marks ’ being similar at each end of the incision , I conclude that they were caused by the weapon which killed the subject . ’ |
| 5 | Even today the older houses have gables and mullioned windows which show that they were built in the seventeenth century and some of the later cottages that were erected in rows or clustered in folds during John Hey 's lifetime retain their long ranges of upstairs windows which allowed the maximum amount of light to fall on the looms . |
| 6 | Reports from the clergy in some of the affected dioceses show that they were perplexed by the variety and number of the movements emerging at this time . |
| 7 | Nos. 18–26 passed into the hands of London Transport in 1933 and their records show that they were sold to Cohens for scrapping on 17 May 1934 , Nos. 18 , 21 , 22 , 23 and 26 in Penge depôt and 20 , 24 and 25 at Fulwell , where No. 19 followed on 2 October . |
| 8 | Miocene/Pliocene trondhjemite , tonalite and ignimbrite comprise the final magmatic event ( 5Myr ) in the central Andes of Peru ; we consider that they were produced by partial melting of lower crust that had recently been , or was still being , thickened by magma underplating . |
| 9 | In the main , its teachers in the early years came from London , and the minutes record that they were issued with free tickets weekly . |
| 10 | The same method of the die study is also useful in establishing mints , as die links between coins indicate that they were made at the same mint . |
| 11 | References in the work of Constantine Porphyrogenitus , written in the tenth century , indicate that they were settled in Dalmatia in his time and had probably been there for two hundred years . |
| 12 | Experts believe that they were made in Mortlake between 1630 and 1660 , but it is by no means clear how and when they reached Bratislava . |
| 13 | Tony and Ian Greig , in turn , soon served notice that they were headed for higher arenas . |