Example sentences of "that were [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And snowflakes were huge beautiful things that were hung from the ceilings on bits of thread . |
| 2 | IBM is believed to be working on a much less radical plan to copy General Motors Corp and issue different classes of common shares , each standing pari passu all the others in the event of a break-up , but each paying dividends that were tied to the performance of a single IBM unit , be it AdStar , Application Business Systems or Pennant Systems . |
| 3 | She had to get away somewhere on her own , before she found herself blurting out things she had never meant to say , making decisions that were swayed by the influence he still had over her . |
| 4 | yeah , but he was here the other Sunday and he , he , they were , he , he was reading my paper and he come back and he the following Sunday he said you have n't got last Sunday 's paper mum , I said I do n't know I might , oh I think I threw it out , anyway just happened to find it , it was something he read of some woman that were meddling on the pools and the , the , what she 'd used , you know and the |
| 5 | Then the floodlights that were hidden in the roof came on . |
| 6 | When they looked closer they saw that he was whipping , not a fallen beast , but a spindly-legged Annamese ; both carts , they could see , contained refuse and had shafts front and back that terminated in cane , big wooden halters that were locked around the necks of four sweating Annamese . |
| 7 | He looked at her for the first time and saw the tears on her cheeks that were glistening in the starlight . |
| 8 | Thus , Becker , in his historical survey of the numerous monographs published on the subject in the hundred years up to 1950 , notes that the vast majority had reached that conclusion ; though he also comments on the many different interpretations that were placed on the evidence . |
| 9 | Davies and Brooke found that model eggs that were placed in the host 's nest in the morning were more likely to be ejected than those placed there in the afternoon . |
| 10 | The decision lifts restrictions that were placed by the court on the tiny company several months ago that forbade it from distributing advance copies of BSD/386 code for beta testing , or production software . |
| 11 | The Army have not dropped their controversial access conditions as was reported , but have amended them following the representations they have received from the BMC and the views that were expressed at the Castlemartin meeting in March . |
| 12 | There was a problem during the er evidence to the various committees that were looking at the coal crisis and the problems in relation to coal , in that very often people were translating it into tonnage and the number of pits etcetera , whereas the argument needed to be that the rules of the game had been rigged in the first place at the privatization of electricity and the rules of the game need to be changed if we 're gon na succeed . |
| 13 | We had disagreements in the House about the number of Territorial Army personnel that were serving in the Gulf . |
| 14 | After all we knew that subsidy did n't exist to subsidise empty seats but rather the necessary and new ideas that were wanted at the time . |
| 15 | Let us look at what has happened to other utilities in Great Britain that were fixed by the Government before they broke down . |
| 16 | In a number of schools there remain underlying — and sometimes still overt — conflicts that were provoked by the Teachers ' Action of 1986–7 . |
| 17 | The depths they had dived to , that were recorded on the sheets before her , were exceptional . |
| 18 | Betty went over and locked the door , and Lydia looked out of the window at the shadows that were gathering under the trees . |
| 19 | Further basinwards , the aprons pass into thin , laminated , organic-rich muds that were deposited in a basin plain environment ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 20 | I went to do some work , attempting to photograph some ducks and mergansers that were sheltering from the sun . |
| 21 | The two large and rusty freighters that were berthed in the docking area , however , were very definitely of human manufacture , as witnessed by the sweaty crewmen who swarmed all over them , almost as numerous as the dead fish which clogged the oil-choked water . |
| 22 | Beginning in the spring of 1883 , he toured around the 50 sites in the UK that were scheduled by the act , with two assistants to help with drawing and surveying , noting any damage , and deciding what measures were required for their protection . |
| 23 | It may have been trapped in the pores of rocks that were formed beneath the sea ; it is saline , and not good for drinking . |
| 24 | This Act also included the notorious Clause 28 , which prevented councils from supporting the activities of gay rights ( including in many instances AIDS hotlines and counselling services ) by outlawing any financial support for activities that were defined by the Act as promoting homosexuality . |
| 25 | Where geographic information systems ( GIS ) were used to assess proposals and display data in the course of evaluating road or building development plans , not only the data must be preserved , but also the software , any specialised graphics hardware , and even the virtual records that were created during the decision making process . |
| 26 | Figure 4.6 Starlings normally migrate south west during the autumn ; the points on the left hand map show where starlings that were banded in The Hague , Holland , were later recovered in the winter and in the breeding season . |
| 27 | This picture can either be given as a present for a ninetieth birthday , or made from some flowers that were presented on the day itself . |
| 28 | The lines began to shake and the two flags that were pushed into the heaps of stones soon fell over , but Bobbie ran across and picked up one of them . |
| 29 | After all the overtures that were made to the FA to get the game switched from Leeds to Wembley the demand for tickets has vindicated that decision . |
| 30 | This is in accord with the assumptions that were made for the attention focusing explanation given for the different relationship between risk and P(A) in the two cases . |