Example sentences of "[pron] were [adv] [noun pl] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was while we were yet sinners that Christ died for us ( Rom. 5:8 ) . |
| 2 | Palestinian nationalists became suspicious , since there were soon rumours that he was seeking recognition as Amir of Palestine in return for support of Zionist policy . |
| 3 | The medical reports showed that the appellant was not subject to a definable mental illness , but was disturbed ; there were however signs that he was maturing and that with appropriate treatment he should overcome his difficulties and achieve an increase in maturity and a more balanced outlook on life . |
| 4 | There were probably machines that could have lowered and pulled up the basket easily , but he 'd preferred to loop the wire around a pillar inside the Ship and , with Pion helping inside , to pull themselves up and down by sheer nomish effort . |
| 5 | I mean from rig to rig things work differently and I mean on on Piper , I would say there were probably things that could have been tightened up but then again I do n't think they were part and parcel of what happened and there on July the sixth . |
| 6 | There were already signs that told the motorist he was approaching , say , the Newport Pagnell or Watford Gap service areas . |
| 7 | Within a short space of time , however , there were already signs that the Brussels structure was running away from the British idea . |
| 8 | By this time there were already suspicions that these atoms were not , after all , indivisible . |
| 9 | There were already rumors that the new astronomy was incompatible with Scripture , and he had already been denounced from the pulpit . |
| 10 | There were even rumours that her condition would force her withdrawal , but such scares proved unfounded and she duly arrived in the paddock . |
| 11 | There were even rumours that it was going to go straight through the middle of Henry s house , a thought that , somewhat to his surprise , filled him with savage pleasure . |
| 12 | There were even rumblings that we might represent a sort of Karmic return of this man — who had apparently shared our obsession for their sailing craft , as well as for Bira 's surrounding wildlife . " |
| 13 | There were even suggestions that he change his catch-phrase to ‘ What 's up my frock , Doc ? ’ |
| 14 | There were even suggestions that some MPs had been taken to one side and the name of their girlfriends ‘ mentioned in a threatening manner ’ . |
| 15 | The sense of panic about over-population that had swept across England in the late sixteenth century , and had made emigration look like the answer to problems of poverty and disorder , had died down and there were even suggestions that a substantial population helped economic expansion . |
| 16 | There were even suggestions that the atoll — an unincorporated territory of the USA , controlled since 1934 by the US military — might eventually be used for the reciprocal destruction of Soviet chemical weapons . |
| 17 | Bush faced increasing pressure from within the Republican Party to revitalize his lacklustre campaign , and there were even suggestions that he might stand aside in favour of a more dynamic Republican candidate . |
| 18 | There were also hints that the West German government had paid some sort of ransom for Cordes . |
| 19 | There were also birds that could sing popular songs . |
| 20 | There were also reports that some had jumped on the trains as they passed through East Germany , or that the numbers could have included previously uncounted children . |
| 21 | There were also reports that Iraq had sought sanctuary for many of its most modern aircraft in Iran . |
| 22 | There were also reports that North Korea was developing a new missile with sufficient range to reach Japan , and currently had the capacity to produce 4,500 tonnes of chemical weapons per year . |
| 23 | This was to be expected , as there were also signs that after the construction of the mound someone had dug down and entered the chamber through its roof , but it was not until the late 1970s that excavations in the church revealed their likely motives . |
| 24 | There were also fears that Japan planned to do just what America does : use defence spending and research to help build a civil aerospace industry , and thus beat Boeing . |
| 25 | There were also fears that the same trends of homelessness among mentally ill people as had become apparent in the USA were being repeated in Britain . |
| 26 | There were also fears that the Russian Federation would stop the Soviet practice of supplying oil at well below the world market price while buying Cuban sugar at well above international prices . |
| 27 | There were also fears that public disenchantment with current economic austerity policies , and with widespread corruption in both the public and private sectors , could be used by the military to justify a seizure of power , in line with the abortive February coup attempt in Venezuela [ see pp. 38759-60 ] and the successful military-backed coup of President Alberto Keinya Fujimori in Peru on April 5 [ see pp. 38846-47 ] . |
| 28 | There were also rumours that Ford had now taken its stake up to the maximum 15 per cent allowed under the golden share held in Jaguar by the Government since its privatisation in 1984 . |
| 29 | There were also allegations that ahead of the voting Gorbachev had personally lobbied loyal communist deputies to vote against Yeltsin . |
| 30 | There were also suggestions that Telefunken is already going cool on the terms of the compromise because they would not allow the West German group a large enough share of work on what is regarded as one of the key military avionics technologies . |