Example sentences of "that [pron] were [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It seems they had two er registers really , one register meant that you were a part of the movement , the other register I imagine meaning you were actually an enemy of this movement so if you got on that register you , you were in , that that would er spell very bad news , so consequently you were trying to join the , the , the first association .
2 Khan that before this meeting ‘ all we knew about you was that you were a member of certain pacts — even though paper pacts — and we were doubtful and cautious about you ’ .
3 " He probably took the trouble to find out as much as possible about you when he knew that you were a candidate for the job here .
4 Did you ever have the feeling that you were almost more a part of management that you were a representative of the workforce ?
5 You said about the buyer 's guide that it 's , that you were a representative of Friends Provident , you 're an employee and it 's very very important to stress that because people like Abbey National were appointed representatives but we are employees and that 's one of the things , that 's one of the good things you can get out of the buyer 's guide .
6 What we 're forgetting is that you were an actor in civilian life . ’
7 You say in your book that many of your problems stem from the fact that you were the wife of an ambitious politician .
8 ‘ Jones and Nicky Kai were leaving the building when I arrived this evening , and as Jones seemed to imagine that I was here to call on him I simply explained that you were the object of my presence . ’
9 Someone said that you were the father of Jane Davenant 's son . ’
10 ‘ When did you tell your uncle that you were the father of Cissie Jordan 's baby ? ’
11 I can see that people must have thought we were being very mysterious then , that we were a bit of a mystery , that The Bar was a very strange place ; but it never seemed that way to us .
12 That we were a reincarnation of The Jam
13 It is , and that is the advantage of Kuwait , and that is one thing which which perhaps the world should appreciate , that we were a haven for ex-patriots to come there and make a living and work .
14 I 'd not expected to convince the police at the top of the falls that I was a very sane person , nor did I expect them to believe Paul 's emergency story that we were a group of passing Hippies taking our kayaks for a walk .
15 They found , for example , that there were no forms in Hopi which corresponded to English tenses like past , present and future .
16 With so much good will in the air one might have been forgiven for thinking that there were no differences worth talking about .
17 Even more interesting is the finding by Drudy and Drudy ( 1979 ) that there were no differences between male and female school-leavers regarding their expectation of migrating .
18 Brittan correctly observed in the late 1960s that there were no differences between left and right in British politics on most important domestic issues , except ‘ around the concept of ‘ equality ’ .
19 Table II shows that there were no differences in duration of diabetes between the two groups .
20 would say that there were no differences in mortality rates when looking at the various classifi classifications and control .
21 She knew that men were total shits , that there were no limits to their depravity , selfishness or filthy desires .
22 Field sales manager said , ‘ It was important to reduce any stress on the pigs and essential that there were no changes in diet while they were travelling ’ .
23 The only saving grace was that there were no injuries except my pride .
24 Former chief environmental health officer with the City of Westminster , Robert Crozier , said that there were no surprises in the document as much of the legislation was already covered in the Food Safety Act .
25 So while it would be difficult to argue that there were no benefits for Ghana , or for other Third World countries in similar projects , it is quite clear that the interests of the TNCs in obtaining cheap power in Ghana as part of their global industrial strategy run counter to the interests of Ghanaian development .
26 Finally I came in as a ‘ check ’ knitter , making the garment to the written instructions to see that there were no errors in them .
27 It will be the first time that the Unita leader has met a British minister , and only a few days ago the Angolan ambassador in London was assured by a Foreign Office official that there were no plans for such a meeting .
28 Prolonged correspondence with the Department of the Environment revealed that there were no plans for restoration .
29 The Irish Times meantime had suggested that British Telecommunications Plc and AT&T Co were bidding for a stake in Telecom Eireann ; a spokeswoman for Telecom Eireann said that the company had received an assurance from the Irish government that there were no plans for its privatisation .
30 Defence Ministers of the Visegrad Three countries ( Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland ) met at Zruby in Slovakia on Sept. 25 , when Imrich Andrejcak of Czechoslovakia was quoted as saying that there were no plans for the three countries to sign a military pact or form a military union .
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