Example sentences of "[noun pl] [that] were [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | In accordance with the main theme of this book the accounts given here are drawn from the school sector ( primary and secondary ) and concentrate on activities that were conducted at the level of the whole institution ( although , in practice , the whole of the school may not have become involved ) . |
| 2 | Bombs that were thrown at monarchist gatherings in Europe must not be thrown in London . |
| 3 | If not , does he have any figures relating to such campaigns , the number of forms that were received at offices and the percentage of claims that were rejected ? |
| 4 | The Army have not dropped their controversial access conditions as was reported , but have amended them following the representations they have received from the BMC and the views that were expressed at the Castlemartin meeting in March . |
| 5 | As far as the police part of the Bill is concerned , the er Government er under considerable pressure from erm er er members on their own side er as well as from these benches , have made the er very welcome concession that the chairman of a police authority shall no longer be appointed er by the Secretary of State , by the Home Secretary , but elected from among the members of the police authority er they have also made provision that the er er er i in response to the er criticisms that were made at second reading that the size of the p of a police authority shall no longer be limited to er sixteen members but could er by er order of the Secretary of State be extended to er twenty er er er twenty-four members . |
| 6 | A striped shirt without a collar , and trousers that were held at a slender stomach by braces , and carpet slippers in checked shades of brown , and a smell of pipe tobacco . |
| 7 | FIG. 1 The stable carbon isotope composition of upper leaves from C3 and C4 plants that were grown at daytime [ CO 2 ] from near 350μmolmol -1 |
| 8 | Both authors appear to belittle the great range of plants that were living at the times of their animals and the ways in which these plants were constantly evolving and migrating . |
| 9 | After all we knew that subsidy did n't exist to subsidise empty seats but rather the necessary and new ideas that were wanted at the time . |
| 10 | There was a problem during the er evidence to the various committees that were looking at the coal crisis and the problems in relation to coal , in that very often people were translating it into tonnage and the number of pits etcetera , whereas the argument needed to be that the rules of the game had been rigged in the first place at the privatization of electricity and the rules of the game need to be changed if we 're gon na succeed . |
| 11 | There were the other things that were written at the time — there are at least 15 cues . ’ |
| 12 | There were mediaeval chroniclers , working from monasteries and sometimes from the courts , and those chroniclers were producing history which was an attempt as it were to set down what seemed to them to be the most important things that were happening at the time , with a few asides . |
| 13 | It can also be viewed as combining elements of treaty law with territorial competence : the acceptance of the territory within the previously agreed boundaries incurs acceptance of any conditions that were negotiated at the time of the boundary settlement . |
| 14 | Only a handful of the numerous pamphlets that were published at the time are included in the catalogue . |
| 15 | Notwithstanding the efforts that were made at the conference to din the contradiction between conservation and utilitarianism into the brains behind DOCOMOMO , the lure of the rolling expense accounts of museum culture was too strong . |
| 16 | It was during my visit that I made my acquaintance with Woolworths and thought it a marvellous store with goods that were priced at either 3d or 6d ; the firm did not arrive in Salisbury until 1927 . |
| 17 | I originally had this idea through the workers union in Manchester , and I was wondering if there were any comparative studies that were happening at the same time , and that would be really interesting to see how Oxford compares to other areas . |
| 18 | The House will recall that in the latter part of last year both my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer and my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State outlined measures to be taken by both the Government and mortgage lenders with the excellent aim of reducing the level of repossessions that were occurring at that time . |
| 19 | In the first place developing countries accepted the loans that were thrust at them because they believed what the West was telling them — that it would be possible for them to industrialize , to develop their economies to the point where paying back the loan later on would be an easy matter . |
| 20 | The status of items that were looked at er educated and uneducated , intelligent unintelligent , wealthy poor , successful unsuccessful , and ambitious and carefree . |
| 21 | However , the ideal could be pursued , which was the basis of the arguments that were considered at a later stage . |
| 22 | The tears that were burning at the back of her eyes began to fall as soon as she entered her room , and , flinging herself on the bed , she gave way to helpless misery . |
| 23 | The various trade and commercial directories that were published at regular intervals during the nineteenth century are a particularly useful source for the study of old market towns . |
| 24 | After two cancellations that were made at the behest of the managing director , Peter Threfall , I had had enough . |
| 25 | This is not the place to discuss the report at length , but to mention one or two points that were aired at the press conference to introduce it . |
| 26 | ‘ I warded off the blows that were struck at me and Sir Oswald did the same . |
| 27 | If you decided that you 're really only interested in long priced horses because you wanted win a large sum of money , so you only started looking at horses that were offered at fifty to one or longer odds than that , then if you look at the statistics then you 'll find that the rate of return on such bets is even lower than the rate of return that we 've quoted on football pools , but on the other hand if you look at horses which are offered , say , at odds-on or at very low odds , evens , two to one and things like that , then the rate of return is pretty close to a hundred per cent of your money . |
| 28 | Well , I do n't have up-to-date figures because I have n't had the time to compile them , but I do know — I know it 's twelve years ago , but — in nineteen seventy three if you look at horses that were offered at precisely fifty to one , then you 'd find that there were five hundred and thirty horses offered at those odds during the whole of that season . |
| 29 | On the other hand , if you went to the other end of the scale and in that same season you looked at all horses that were offered at precisely two to one on , then you 'll find that there were twenty two horses which were offered at those odds and fifteen of them won . |
| 30 | On his feet were a pair of odd socks that were holed at the toes . |