Example sentences of "[vb pp] that [pron] were [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | further investigations disclosed that they were in fact glued on with a resinous adhesive which appeared transparent to the X-rays . |
| 2 | A telephone enquiry disclosed that there were in fact two St Peter 's Schools in Wapping and that while we were in one of them the audience was in the other . |
| 3 | Canals may have performed a general price-lowering function in , to use Professor Mathias 's phrase , " cracking open " local monopolies , but it should not be forgotten that they were in themselves mono-polies , even though canal companies hardly ever operated carrier services and confined themselves to earning from tolls . |
| 4 | An aeroplane , carrying over five hundred passengers , had reported that they were under attack . |
| 5 | I had n't realised that you were from an academic background . ’ |
| 6 | Was there any feeling when these letters were received that they were to be taken seriously or they were in fact a bluff ? |
| 7 | Upon closer examination , however , it was revealed that there were at least three ways in which such a conclusion would be misleading . |
| 8 | Most participants in special programmes simultaneously answered that they were in temporary jobs because they had been unable to find permanent work ; a small proportion , consisting mainly of YTS participants , saw their places on the scheme as jobs which were temporary because they involved a contract for training . |
| 9 | He had previously ascertained that there were at least two aircraft with similar radio fits and noted their positions . |
| 10 | Where this is the case men have thought that they were in touch with reality . |
| 11 | We have thought that we were on the brink of the final synthesis at least twice before . |
| 12 | The ‘ Articles concerning the Charters ’ ordained that they were to be observed in full , including those regarding disafforestment , and read out in every county court four times a year . |
| 13 | Governments had to be persuaded that they were in a position to run their eyes down a list of options so as to gauge the inflationary consequences of a particular package of demand management policies . |
| 14 | They set to work cutting down trees and brushwood , far and near , to drag up to the terrace , to fill in the ditches — or at least , the two outer ones , for when they came to the inner ones it was promptly demonstrated that they were within range of the defending cannon . |
| 15 | Drescher , however , has demonstrated that there were at least twenty-seven public meetings for anti-slave trade petitioning in 1788 . |
| 16 | When it became known that they were to be repatriated , fighting broke out , the gates were forced , and Italian police opened fire after being attacked with stones and planks . |
| 17 | During the first few tens of Ma Jupiter would cool so quickly that it hardly matters what the initial temperatures were provided that they were at least a few times 10 000 K. After a few hundred Ma , the exact time depending on the initial temperatures but in any case a small fraction of Jupiter 's lifetime , the rate of cooling would be far less . |
| 18 | Two were unaccounted for eventually , and it was presumed that they were on loan . |
| 19 | On one occasion , he told the guests , ‘ you might have believed that we were on the verge of adding 3,500 redundancies to the total of Scottish unemployed . |
| 20 | It was believed that they were to stage yet another demonstration at the Party conference , this time during tomorrow 's crucially important debate on immigration . |
| 21 | On five different occasions ( and in three countries ) I have asked teachers to mark essays , projects , assignments , and I have sometimes indicated that they were by boys and other times that they were by girls . |
| 22 | The islands were well-known for their beauty to the passengers of the steamships passing up and down the Straits , but few of those who leant on their ship 's rail on sultry moonlit evenings , gazing out at the serene islands could ever have conceived that they were to be the site of some of the most catastrophic events that the world has ever seen . |
| 23 | Ministers believed the same , asserting as had been asserted when they were created that they were in some way different from the universities . |
| 24 | By June 6 about 300 such detainees were being held under light security in Addis Ababa , and the interim government had stated that they were to be tried in the presence of international observers . |
| 25 | TWO children were strangled only 10 days after police were warned that they were in danger , it was claimed yesterday . |
| 26 | Most of the older people interviewed perceived that they were in good health . |
| 27 | When she had casually mentioned that they were in the forest to hunt for the unicorn he had flung Allen into the stream . |
| 28 | ‘ We are informed that you were at a lecture , on the thirteenth of last month . ’ |