Example sentences of "[noun] that [noun] were [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first , he was sympathetic to the ‘ popular cry that the premier team has not tried to encourage and develop local talent ’ , and assured readers of the club programme that steps were being taken to foster such talent . |
| 2 | I 've heard from people who have visited Brussels that meetings were being cancelled because the British Delegation were not even members of the trade union , but looking at the structure of the works councils in the U K this is no wonder . |
| 3 | It was not just in the treatment of syphilis that advances were being made at this time . |
| 4 | It is unhelpful for the health secretary to spout spurious statistics about increasing throughput and efficiency in the manner , and with the same hollow ring , of a beetroot producer or tractor manufacturer in the former Soviet Union reassuring commissars that norms were being exceeded . |
| 5 | Sir David returned to his previous comments that universities were being swamped by paperwork . |
| 6 | Perhaps it was a relief that matters were being taken out of her hands . |
| 7 | Diplomatic relations with the USA had been broken off after World War II , following Albanian suspicions that attempts were being made to subvert the communist regime of Enver Hoxha , who had taken power in 1944 ; relations with the Soviet Union were severed in 1961 following ideological disputes . |
| 8 | The philosophy lecturers were banned from the campus after allegations by five faculty members that students were being awarded degrees for sub-standard work . |
| 9 | Iskandrov had visited Uzbekistan on Sept. 12 , amid reports that Uzbeks were being driven out of southern Tajikistan . |
| 10 | ALAIN GALLO , a former player with the French club Agen , has made claims that team-mates were being paid as long as 10 years ago . |
| 11 | This in turn led to criticism of the length and complexity of documents that customers were being asked to sign . |
| 12 | But Linfield had no idea that Dinamo were being investigated for suspected bribery . |
| 13 | But Linfield had no idea that Dinamo were being investigated for suspected bribery . |
| 14 | His belief that it was fusion was due primarily to the heat , but he also told Bullough that since October there was some evidence in Utah that neutrons were being produced too . |
| 15 | The ban was imposed on the grounds that dolphins were being killed by the tuna fleet . |
| 16 | It is nevertheless of interest that supplies were being drawn into the Chinese market as early as the Han empire , that it featured among the tribute rendered by the Turkish tribes of central Asia during the tenth century A.D. , that the Portuguese introduced European amber through Macao and that during the Qing dynasty supplies were assured from the mines of north Burma , situated in the same region as the sources of jadeite . |
| 17 | The view that duties were being swamped by particular interests , each wallowing in an orgy of rights , was common among the Idealists , as it was among the New Liberals . |
| 18 | ‘ About two years ago , ’ explains Emyr Hughes , the NFU 's deputy regional director for North Wales , ‘ there were rumours that foxes were being dumped in the Berwyn Mountains . |
| 19 | Although the Yugoslavs had so far had no indication that they were being taken to anywhere but another camp , probably in Italy , and therefore McCreery would have observed an operation apparently going smoothly , we think it unlikely that Verney , Rose-Price and others who disliked the fact that Yugoslavs were being repatriated under a misapprehension as to their destination would have failed to ensure that the Army Commander was given a true picture . |