Example sentences of "that they [was/were] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They told reporters that they were protesting at a police attack on the demonstrators at the Guildhall . |
| 2 | Firstly , we have to recognise that they were lending in a market which was being actively encouraged . |
| 3 | In the announcement of their forthcoming System 7 software they revealed that they were moving towards the concept of using outline fonts to generate the screen displays and that they were developing their own proprietary format , then known as Royal but subsequently re-named TrueType . |
| 4 | Soon their captors would be out again , driven into the night by the terror above their heads , but now Allen and Marian by keeping the Tower behind them could be sure that they were moving in the direction of the forest . |
| 5 | This reflected the nature of the environment , the local pride of the individual Australian colonies , and the awareness of the railway builders and architects that they were building for a grander , though then unrealized , future . |
| 6 | I found it odd that they were building on the most exposed and inconvenient site on the hill , though the view was no doubt prodigious . |
| 7 | So she did not notice that they were riding off the main road and into The Chase , the oldest wood in England . |
| 8 | A fresh squall tore the rainwater off the road surface , cascading it down so that they were riding in the inside of a waterfall as Trent powered onward in the lee of the embankment . |
| 9 | Only 12 per cent of the ‘ No ’ voters — 6 per cent of all voters — admitted that they were voting against the president , and this by no means implies that they would necessarily have otherwise voted ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 10 | The pupils were allowed to think that they were listening to the voices of 12 different speakers , but actually there were only 9 . |
| 11 | When the delegates assembled for the Special Conference on August 15th they heard a lot of revolutionary-sounding rhetoric from leaders who knew that they were kicking at an open door . |
| 12 | If you or any member of your family suffer death , bodily injury or illness arising from negligence of our suppliers ( other than air and sea carriers performing any domestic , internal or international carriage of whatsoever kind for whom we accept no liability ) , their sub=contractors , servants and/or agents , we will accept responsibility provided that they were acting within the scope of or in the course of their employment when the accident occurred . |
| 13 | This was largely because the Dutch were conscious that they were operating on a narrow margin , and they did not want anything to distract them from their main purpose , which was to bring goods for trade and re-export to their great complex of ports , banks , and merchant houses around Amsterdam . |
| 14 | Tom Kelly , director general of the Betting Office Licensees Association , confirmed that they were looking into the circumstances of the Lingfield race . |
| 15 | It was the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Medau College in Berlin in 1929 but not much was made of this , Dr Jochen Medau explained that they were looking to the future rather than the past . |
| 16 | Caspar was explaining in a hushed voice that they were looking at the Robemaker 's stocks of enchantments . |
| 17 | McLeish thanked him , scrambled up the embankment , drawing in deep breaths , and walked carefully down the side of the track in the sizeable footsteps of his squad , explaining to them that they were looking for a sharp-edged weapon . |
| 18 | The unions said that they were looking for the second week in January to begin an all-out stoppage . |
| 19 | They are said to have explained that they were looking for the conductor to buy their tickets as Stonehouse station did not sell tickets at that time of night . |
| 20 | And I was told that he was going to die shortly , and that if I wished , the measures that they were using with the respirator could be removed at my request , because he was in a terminal stage ; it was just a matter of time , and I really felt that I could n't make that decision myself . |
| 21 | Oh aye aye er there was always that in the back of their mind that the the more rivets they put in per day , although it meant more money at the end of the week possibly , er it also meant that the the boat was therefore progressing or the ship was progressing that quick , that they were getting nearer the gate as the the saying went . |
| 22 | They recognized that they were living in an immense natural vault , with many extra security features also built in . |
| 23 | of patients surveyed were either satisfied or very satisfied with the service that they were receiving at the Northern General hospital trust — an impressive result . |
| 24 | Mr Justice Douglas Brown said that the defendants were negligent ( 1 ) in failing to appreciate that they were dealing with a husband of substantial means who might well be able to afford to pay , not only a lump sum , but also substantial periodical payments ; ( 2 ) in failing to obtain full disclosure of the husband 's financial affairs ; ( 3 ) in failing to realise that because of family trusts and wills the husband had an expectation of further assets ; ( 4 ) in advising the wife to obtain a mortgage when she had no taxable income ; ( 5 ) in recommending a settlement which removed the wife 's undoubted right to maintenance ; and ( 6 ) in failing to use ouster proceedings to remove the husband from the matrimonial home . |
| 25 | The consistency of these distortions and the immediacy with which they occur convinced the Gestalt psychologists that they were dealing with a fundamental property of the brain rather than something that we have learned . |
| 26 | Let them know from the start that they were dealing with a kulak , not a noble . |
| 27 | There was never any doubt in his mind that they would or could do so , and indeed he heard their shouts and as the next wave lifted him was able to look down upon them and see that they were luffing to the wind and preparing to beat back towards him . |
| 28 | However , in this case , it would not be necessary to determine that all the quanta came from the same direction : it would be enough to observe that they all arrived within a very short time interval to be reasonably confident that they were coming from the same burst . |
| 29 | The sounds of shouting and gunshots might have alarmed Ianthe had she not realised that they were coming from the television programme in the basement . |
| 30 | It was n't Lloyds fault , it was just that they were complying with the original P E P regulations about reporting and , and er so on , so they had to charge more . |