Example sentences of "[vb -s] that were [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Butter knives that had no handles , Copper keys that fit no locks , Rings that were too small for fingers , Dried-up leaves and patched-up socks . |
| 2 | She left him to prowl restlessly through the family photographs that were prominently displayed as she first took a shower then dithered over what to wear . |
| 3 | He succeeded by dint of the radical policy of booking bands that were vaguely contemporary , at least moderately interesting and which common sense along suggested would pull a respectable crowd . |
| 4 | Commenting on the rather storm-damaged third quarter figures , Sun Microsystems Inc chief financial officer Kevin Melia said ‘ profitability was below the year-ago level due to gross margin declines that were partially offset by tightly controlled growth in operating expenses . |
| 5 | Commenting on some rather storm-damaged third quarter figures ( see opposite ) , Sun Microsystems Inc chief financial officer Kevin Melia said ‘ Profitability was below the year-ago level due to gross margin declines that were partially offset by tightly controlled growth in operating expenses . |
| 6 | Almost 100 new companies had been formed , and Schach had been able to secure over a million pounds in bank guarantees to finance not only such expensive disasters as Dreaming Lips , Love from a Stranger and The Marriage of Gorbal , but even films that were never made . |
| 7 | Also it was n't exactly pleasant right here , with a November sharpness in the air that had arrived almost as a response to the Christmas lights and store displays that were just about everywhere now . |
| 8 | An individual machinist might be tempted to choose feeds and speeds that were either faster or slower than those appropriate for the job in hand . |
| 9 | Conditions for a Sussex ‘ miner , , or factor carbonis , can have been little different from that of later centuries , a nomadic life lived in the woods , shelter in bad weather being provided by the simple turf-covered pole shelters that were still in use forty years ago . |
| 10 | Because she was tired of looking at flats that were really bedsits , and bedsits that were really cupboards , but cost as much as if they had been flats . |
| 11 | Coopers & Lybrand now audits the whole of the Royal Insurance global network , including the US interests that were once the domain of KPMG . |
| 12 | At the other end of the income spectrum , various social security benefits that were once relieved of taxation ceased to be so in the mid-1980s . |
| 13 | To remain near the screens , he and Elaine had to stand close to the strange woman called Lacuna , but even Lacuna seemed less threatening than the jungle of lines and forms that were still proliferating everywhere else in the room . |
| 14 | 2 patients were colonised transiently and produced only single cultures of P cepacia strains that were phenotypically and genotypically distinct from the epidemic strain ( figure 1A , patients E1 and E5 ) . |
| 15 | During its 25 years with the RAF , the Hercules has fulfilled all the transport demands that were ever placed on it . |
| 16 | The pieces that remain are sought after and valuable , and even chairs that were originally very cheap are in demand . |
| 17 | Most finds that were simply lost ( small and easily mislaid , such as coins and brooches ) or objects that fell into places from which they could not be retrieved , such as wells , are often complete and may be in very good condition , depending on the materials from which they are made and the conditions in which they have been buried . |
| 18 | ‘ No man ’ , he adds , ‘ is created baron excepte he maye dispend of yearly reuenue one thousand poundes , or one thousand markes at the least ’ , figures that were normally exceeded by the estates of earls . |
| 19 | There was a red car waiting outside the farmhouse when she reached it ; the car 's wheels had cut deep tracks through the long grass , tracks that were only just beginning to fade as the plains wind breathed across them . |
| 20 | Yet there can be no room for complacency after shock home defeats by Watford and Barnsley defeats that were all the more disappointing because they came after a long unbeaten home run . |
| 21 | ‘ The Midlands tried back moves that were never going to work against international opposition . ’ |
| 22 | disadvantages were control levers and dials that were too small to use quickly with gloves on , and complex fuel mixing instructions . |
| 23 | Everywhere were bridges that led nowhere ; throughfares that were wholly impassable ; Babel towers of chimneys , wanting half their height ; temporary wooden houses and enclosures , in the most unlikely situations ; carcasses of ragged tenements , and fragments of unfinished walls and arches , and piles of scaffolding , and wildernesses of bricks , and giant forms of cranes , and tripods straddling above nothing . |
| 24 | Two of the patients with idiopathic DU had , however , serum pepsinogen I values that were more than 50% higher than the highest value of all the other groups studied ( Table 2 ) . |
| 25 | At the age of 18 her pupil was enthusiastically tracing the origins of Christian doctrine , reading works that were normally of interest only to scholarly clerics and ecclesiastical historians . |
| 26 | The museum man placed his fingertips together and nodded at Davide as he took trouble to explain , and the colour flowed back from Davide 's cheeks and he slipped the coin into his pocket , with its two faces that were neither mirror images of one another , nor replicas , but a false double , an inexact repeat . |
| 27 | Immigration to Britain from India and Pakistan has followed a slightly different pattern , with the real increase coming in the early 1960s , and later in response to the threat of the immigration controls that were eventually enshrined in a series of Immigration Acts , beginning with the 1962 Act ( Robinson , 1986 ) . |
| 28 | Rarely have I felt aileron and elevator controls that were so light on the ground and had such little friction . |