Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [adv] that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently additional facilities were completed so that the Department now comprises a purpose-built Food Studies/Cookery Room and a separate Textile Studies/Fabric Work Area . |
| 2 | and myself or as he was better known , came through B Seventeen Transition School at in Florida together and where the crews were formed so that the names in the Army of course are worked alphabetically , so everybody on my crew is trained with everybody on crew and their last name is just ahead erm in the alphabetic in the class that they were in , so that my navigator came from the same school , the same navigation class as . |
| 3 | To make the link between the activities , information and functional groups , further fields were added so that the possible users of the information could be identified . |
| 4 | Last year , Scotland 's 16 health boards were reconstituted so that no trade unions or local authorities had the right of membership , and they are now dominated by the Tories ' natural allies — business people — under the cloak of rhetoric about bringing in commercial nous ( see box ) . |
| 5 | They would first have inspected judicial practice to see whether almost all other judges were agreed either that the words of a statute must be given their " literal " meaning , even when that was not what the legislators intended , or the opposite , that the words must not be given their literal meaning in these circumstances . |
| 6 | We were told later that the fraud was so enormous — a total of $10 million — that reconstruction was impossible , and that any money the majority shareholders could put in would soon disappear into a large hole . |
| 7 | Employees at the Dupont nylon fibres factory in Brockworth , Gloucester were told today that a quarter of the workforce … 250 out of a total of 990 , are to lose their jobs . |
| 8 | Political correspondents were told initially that the Prime Minister believed his activities to be ‘ unorthodox but in order ’ . |
| 9 | Union leaders were told recently that the Essex plant , which currently produces the Sierra and the Fiesta , was experiencing more stoppages than any of the company 's plants in Europe and that quality levels were also the worst . |
| 10 | Journalists who telephoned the divisional police were told bluntly that the men had not even been interviewed at the time the army spokesman had made his statement . |
| 11 | The Babylonians paid particular attention to the seven-day periods associated with successive phases of the moon , each of these periods ending with an ‘ evil day ’ on which specific taboos were enforced so that the gods could be propitiated and conciliated . |
| 12 | When stoppages were called so that the canal could be repaired the blacksmith would go on site to fit the ironwork he had made . |
| 13 | LABOUR delegates were warned yesterday that the party would lack electoral credibilty if it promised increases in public spending which could only be met by higher borrowing or taxes . |
| 14 | They said they were warned yesterday that the Washington area centre would also be privatised if there were any problems in its running . |
| 15 | In 1989 , however , the 1980 , 1981 and 1982 extensions were repealed so that the relief now only applies to business assets . |
| 16 | The muscles were divided so that the cut end of the bone was covered and a flap of skin was left that could be used to cover the wound . |
| 17 | He said the intention was that beds in intensive care units were managed so that the were occupied 70pc of the time leaving a 30pc capacity to take emergency cases like road accident victims . |
| 18 | Over ten , half hour meetings were held so that every employee in the group had an opportunity to attend . |
| 19 | We now went further , proposing changes in the way that doctors were paid so that the remuneration system much more clearly recognized the good doctors and the good practices . |
| 20 | In this situation the circulation was altered so that a cold polar vortex remained until the end of the simulation , thereby maintaining the presence of PSCs for a much longer period . |
| 21 | Largely as a result of these influential criticisms , the law was altered so that the requirement of intent was abrogated . |
| 22 | It was emphasized above that the market model is essentially an ex-post version of the CAPM . |
| 23 | The brake and infectious cases car contained 18 cots and was arranged so that the patients in it were isolated . |
| 24 | At Ryswick in 1697 the building in which the two sides met was arranged so that the Swedish diplomat who acted as mediator had a central position , with the French representatives and those of the anti-French coalition each occupying an identical wing . |
| 25 | The ‘ vertical ’ division of London was adjusted so that the weekend franchise would run from 7.00 pm on Friday , not from Saturday morning . |
| 26 | In early April it was reported locally that the government , as part of a proposed 15-point economic programme , was seeking to stabilize the economy without " shocks " , and to promote wide-ranging sectoral agreements to curb inflation ( still running at over 20 per cent a month ) while stimulating production and preserving jobs . |
| 27 | It was reported also that the Justice Ministry had on Feb. 12 begun proceedings to extradite former President Duvalier from France on charges of the theft of US$800,000,000 , the abuse of power and the murder of political opponents . |
| 28 | It was argued then that the term furnished tenancy could be expressed as , f ( a , b , c , d … n ) = furnished tenancy . |
| 29 | It was argued earlier that the role of state enterprises partly reflects the interests of social classes and groups and the way they are represented within the polity . |
| 30 | It was said afterwards that the remains of the truck could have been packed into a kitbag . |