Example sentences of "that they were [adj] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , there was some feeling that the report had tried to deal simultaneously with too many different groups of teachers and , in doing so , it had failed to get to grips with the needs of adult tutors ; by assuming that they were similar to those of part-time teachers it had failed to recognize the large managerial element in their work . |
| 2 | He was told that they were unaware of any plan to switch the ceremony to the afternoon and that arrangements were the same as in previous years . |
| 3 | When the House of Commons considered the matter in 1953 , its views were affected by the fact that they were unaware of any evidence of pressure for change from the churches themselves . |
| 4 | Worse still , over 63 per cent of the cadres surveyed admitted that they were involved in some form of corrupt practice . |
| 5 | Or you might argue that they were misleading after all . |
| 6 | It seemed , after all , that they were indispensable to each other ; or , if that was putting it too strongly , they fulfilled a mutual need . |
| 7 | What matters to us is that they were independent of each other and , to the best of our knowledge , ignored each other . |
| 8 | Were the Allies so bad at war that they were incapable of any victories ? |