Example sentences of "that they [was/were] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were an organisation of " warrior monks " who became so powerful that they were eventually disbanded by the Crown . |
| 2 | Ralph Glaber reports that Cnut fought a long war against Malcolm and the Scots , that they were eventually reconciled through Emma and Richard of Normandy , and that he received Malcolm 's ( otherwise unknown ) son from the baptismal font . |
| 3 | Another feature of Roman temples was that they were generally raised on a podium instead of the Greek stylobate . |
| 4 | It is the sort of thing known by its fruit ; and by the second half of the nineteenth century conservation of matter and of energy were such effective assumptions that they were generally taken for established truths . |
| 5 | Both systems were termed revolutionary in that they were both expected to radically influence the financial decision-making of government . |
| 6 | For two people who both were always in control , this was something of a miracle — to let go of control completely — to trust enough that they were both hurled into the abyss of pure sensation , pure feeling . |
| 7 | The fact that so few complied not only testifies to the courage of those who signed , but also gives the lie to the notion that they were somehow conned into signing or that they did so out of temporary frustration with events immediately following the Danish vote . |
| 8 | But the gimmicky nature of those films ( stooping to ‘ Blackula ’ and ‘ Blackenstein ’ ) and their poor production values — not to mention the fact that they were frequently made by white directors — ensured that their popularity quickly faded . |
| 9 | So popular were these annotated flower-pieces , engraved by Henry Fletcher [ q.v. ] , that they were frequently copied at the time , and later reprints kept them in circulation . |
| 10 | Elsa Chaney found , in her study of women active in government in Peru and Chile in the late 1960s , that they were overwhelmingly engaged in feminine stereotyped tasks related to education , health , social welfare and cultural fields . |
| 11 | SENIOR Bulgarian Communist Party leaders yesterday offered to resign after high-level accusations that they were closely associated with the fallen hardline leader , Mr Todor Zhivkov , and had implemented few changes since coming to power . |
| 12 | Therefore it is not a feature of such crises that they were immediately preceded by a lack of effective demand on the market for consumer goods . |
| 13 | Mozart probably played them himself , being a highly competent fiddler : we know that they were also played by the Italian konzertmeister at Salzburg , Antonio Brunetti . |
| 14 | Garland has argued that the reason why the early , biological positivists had the extraordinary ambition of arriving at a theory of the causes of crime where both the theory and the category of behaviour it was explaining had nothing to do with the criminal law , was that they were also engaged in a struggle to assert themselves as a ‘ new ’ profession of penal experts against the ‘ old ’ , legal profession . |
| 15 | Participating gastroenterologists were asked to enrol eligible duodenal ulcer patients consecutively but none was permitted to enrol more than seven patients since the aim was to recruit patients over a short a time period as possible while ensuring that they were also drawn from many different parts of the country . |
| 16 | Their recovery from graves shows that they were used as personal ornaments , but the discovery of large numbers in the peat bogs , sometimes enclosed in eared flasks , suggests that they were also used as votive offerings , a sign which suggests in itself that amber was regarded as precious enough to serve as conspicuous waste . |
| 17 | It would not be true to say that they were well received at Holywell Haugh that evening . |
| 18 | Not that anyone was shooting up heroin at their desks or anything , but the glazed eyes of some of the dishevelled staff suggested that they were well acquainted with the teachings of Robert Nesta Marley and perhaps worse . |
| 19 | So that when we get to the mock interview stage , no , no one can actually back out , no one can pretend that they were just sent by their council . |
| 20 | Conversely , the reason why readers of the lowbrow press had such strong preferences for television news was not that they were particularly dissatisified with their papers but that they were particularly enthusiastic about the quality of television . |
| 21 | On 26 April 1991 the Bank of England , who have entered the action as interveners pursuant to my order made on the first day of the hearing last Tuesday , served on the defendants a notice pursuant to section 39(3) ( a ) of the Banking Act 1987 , requiring them to produce at Threadneedle Street at noon on 9 May 1991 a number of specified documents ( comprising all or some of the documents covered by the injunction ) and stated to concern or relate to the accounts or related business of seven of the plaintiffs including A , on the ground that they were reasonably required by the Bank of England for the performance of its functions under the Act . |
| 22 | Already , they have appeared with great acclaim for five years in succession on the Fringe of the Edinburgh Festival — so successfully , that they were finally invited to the ‘ official ’ Edinburgh International Festival — the first cabaret artists since Marlene Dietrich to be so invited ! |
| 23 | It was the warden 's duty to see that the deer in the forest were supplied with sufficient food in times of scarcity , and that they were not hunted by anyone without authority from the king or the Chief Justice of the Forest . |
| 24 | He was ringing people he did not like to tell them that they were not invited to his party on Wednesday night . |
| 25 | There is evidence to suggest that they had indeed been introduced before this to some offices — possibly as early as before Christmas 1872 — but it is clear from the strike committee minutes that they were not regarded by the union as a threat of any significance compared with that of outside labour . |
| 26 | Their problem is not that they could not take on this responsibility before but that they were not asked to . |
| 27 | Franco had been grateful to receive Italian planes in July and August , but he was not happy with the massive despatch of foot-soldiers , partly because Mussolini had the temerity to send more than had been agreed , and partly because the Duce insisted that they were not deployed as part of the Spanish Army , but formed an independent corps , with their own officers . |
| 28 | The only basic concession we made to the Chancellor was to exclude the self-employed on the grounds that they were not covered by SERPS in any event . |
| 29 | He recently ruled that they were not covered by the buildings section because they were no longer part of the structure ; nor classed as contents . |
| 30 | The common factor in all these cases is that they were not discovered by MI5 . |