Example sentences of "that [pers pn] were [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It will be apparent that we were fascinated by the phenomenon of crofting , as we presume most other newcomers to it must be . |
| 32 | Only gradually did my colleagues and I come to realise that we were reporting on a social phenomenon — an aberration triggered by fear of being left behind in a pay race , aggravated by mounting greed and , finally , sustained by sheer bolshieness . |
| 33 | ‘ All we knew was that we were walking down the street and people were throwing eggs . |
| 34 | I forgot to mention that we were accompanied on the walk by our own Welsh collie bitch and a borrowed Corgi dog . |
| 35 | Nevertheless , we felt we were missing something , that we were excluded from a wider world . ’ |
| 36 | NSS , in common with virtually every other publication in the country , got its fingers burnt last week as a result of giving too much credence to the pollsters ' consistent message that we were heading for a hung parliament . |
| 37 | And the good news was that we were told of a live album for release early next year that should capture the music more honestly than either of his two studio outings have managed to do so far . |
| 38 | Basically this calls for an identification of present requirements and an assessment of likely requirements over the next 5 years , subject to review/upgrading in year 6 ; it may be that our letter conveyed the impression that we were asking for a ‘ 12-year plan ’ , this is not the case . |
| 39 | It was partly because these artificial agglomerations soon broke up that we were left at the finish with a lot of little scraps , which nobody , when not talking through the back of his head , could mistake for potential nations . |
| 40 | In his view , there are times when you have to fight fire with fire , or , as he put it rather more eloquently during his defence of the Grand Slam Cup decision , ‘ It was a sad reality that we were left with no real option but to protect tradition with the modern deterrent — money . ’ |
| 41 | ‘ There was a feeling of disappointment that we were held to a draw in Bruges and the atmosphere in the dressing room at the Olympiastadion only lifted after we heard that Marseille had suffered the same result against CSKA , ’ said McCall . |
| 42 | Yes , I 'd argue that it does make a difference , because we are announcing the fact that er we are coming along to possibly alert somebody er that we were coming into a building and then hence we encounter even more problems . |
| 43 | I then resolution two which is continuing the process that we were introduced to the last Synod and the previous Synod consideration of the endless discussion document on Christian initiation . |
| 44 | Now I do not actually recall er us going into detail about the harbouring er and I certainly do n't recall erm that we were talking about a hostage situation . |
| 45 | A second reason is perhaps that we have not obtained many of the much-trumpeted benefits that we were promised from the original Common Market . |
| 46 | You should be prepared for the fact that some of her views and opinions will be rather different from your own , remembering that they were formed in an entirely different social climate . |
| 47 | In the Tønder example , however , the vugs occur in the subsurface on top of a salt dome , with thick units of halite above and below , and it is more probable that they were formed by the same late-leaching process that was responsible for the intercrystalline porosity ( Clark 1980a ) . |
| 48 | A preview of the Commons debate was held in the Lords yesterday where Lord Ennals , a former Labour Health Secretary , warned the Government it could not push the proposals through the NHS in the knowledge that they were opposed by the medical profession 's leaders . |
| 49 | They told reporters that they were protesting at a police attack on the demonstrators at the Guildhall . |
| 50 | A close comparison of all the details of the heads reveals no differences , and shows that they were struck from the same die . |
| 51 | Firstly , we have to recognise that they were lending in a market which was being actively encouraged . |
| 52 | Some were so bulky that they were borne into the Rante sitting upright like pugnacious lords in specially constructed litters , carried by as many as eight straining porters . |
| 53 | From the detailed observation of fifteen boards , it was evident that training often followed the pattern of immediate demand rather than being linked to any developmental plan ; thus , a board might ask the headteacher or member of staff for further elaboration of a topic which surfaced at a meeting , such as subject choice by S3 , or individuals might decide to attend an area session on interviewing skills only once they knew that they were to participate in the selection of a senior member of staff . |
| 54 | He says of the liberals that they were placed in a predicament by the fall : ‘ A democracy can not be imposed by force , the majority must favour it , yet the majority wanted what Khomeini wanted — an Islamic republic . ’ |
| 55 | On March 20 the Indian authorities rejected Pakistani government charges of human rights violations , claiming that they were based on a " terrorist disinformation campaign " ; the most dramatic allegation related to the mass rape on Feb. 23 of 30-60 women and girls when 800 troops of the 4th Rajput Rifles had sealed off the village of Kunan Poshpura . |
| 56 | Both the Schools Council and Nuffield approaches shared in most of the projects they supported an essentially instrumental view in that they were based upon the managerial assumption that the initiators determined the content and progress of the programme ( although Arts and the Adolescent ( Schools Council , 1975 ) was a notable exception ) . |
| 57 | ‘ I told them that they were barred from the club from now on . |
| 58 | ( The curious names of Svalocin and Rotanev are due to the fact that they were christened by an otherwise obscure astronomer named Nicolaus Venator ! ) |
| 59 | When Raft came to , he flew at Beery and it was only after several punches were exchanged that they were separated by the crew . |
| 60 | Morley denied that they were intended as a prelude to parliamentary government . |