Example sentences of "[that] [adj] were [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JJKKLLmm … ttuu ; or any other combination of genes such that half were capital forms and half lower case forms . |
| 2 | There were tortoises , very similar to the mainland forms except that these were many times bigger , giants that a man could ride . |
| 3 | Dhlakama later claimed that these were defensive actions and warned that they would continue unless the government withdrew its troops from areas under Renamo control . |
| 4 | It is safe to assume that these were prominent factors when Biggs was considered as a possible opponent for Mason who will go to his corner at the Royal Albert Hall in London tonight with a record of 31 professional victories , 30 inside the distance . |
| 5 | It was not intended to suggest that these were battered wives . |
| 6 | And I must stress that these were all problem patients and if tumours were present they were recorded as so on that previous slide but they were often present in greatly reduced numbers . |
| 7 | Lugh said with amused tolerance that these were all fairy tales , but some of the soldiers said , were they indeed . |
| 8 | To suggest , however , that these were all wrinklies dusting off the cobwebs to have one final fling before a tranquil retirement would be a serious misapprehension . |
| 9 | She still admired her education and artistic breadth but had come to realise that these were all Miss Hatherby could share with her . |
| 10 | It struck Nathan that these were all people who had been unable to get in . |
| 11 | one of the criticisms or possible criticisms of the M R C figures was that these were all patients who had been entered into superficial bladder cancer studies and they do n't therefore re represent all because people are selected to go into the trial and perhaps they are lower risk patients than others and in fact I believe that the recurrence rate in the M R C studies are lower than you would expect for er superficial bladder cancer in general . |
| 12 | When I consulted a textbook it seemed that these were nuchal organs , important in food detection . |
| 13 | In this chapter I shall be concerned with the description and interpretation of past states of language , bearing in mind that these were variable states , and with ‘ the use of the present to explain the past ’ . |
| 14 | Or , on the other , it could be claimed that these were long-term objectives and that the animal was conscious only of intermediate ends ; the hyena was following the promptings of its hunger . |
| 15 | I mean if , if he 's saying that these were amazing things and they |
| 16 | The assumption is that these were wounded veterans , from the wars with the Saracens in Spain , rather than victims of hunting accidents , and that it was Arab , not Christian surgeons who were adept at fitting these early attempts at an artificial limb . |
| 17 | On more than one occasion French writers explained the defeats and set-backs suffered by their kings and military leaders by emphasising that these were divine punishments for civil disorder and pride . |
| 18 | There were , however , divisions within the Labour movement between those prepared to press for unemployment benefits and public works and those who argued that these were mere palliatives , and that shorter hours , higher pay and ultimately social ownership of industry should be the fundamental aims . |
| 19 | The Court held that these were mere statements of fact and as such were not relevant . |
| 20 | In the case of the Brixton gang , the prolific use of photographs of the accused after conviction seems to be to emphasise that these were black youths . |
| 21 | Rather than carrying the usual disclaimer about the characters bearing no relation to living persons , the introduction said that these were real stories from Eleanor 's life . |
| 22 | Images of Nazism and the war appear so often on the screen that it took some effort to realise that these were real people inside those costumes ; that the peaked cap and leather boots were n't on hire from the wardrobe department . |
| 23 | I deny that there were any evictions ; they may have got letters of removal , but I deny that these were any evictions in the sense of evictions . " |
| 24 | He knew that these were sensitive matters and he was relieved , though not altogether surprised , that this scion of the aristocracy and military England should appear so benign about the matter . |
| 25 | These two examples of successful problem-solving when dozing or dreaming are typical only in that a feeling of certainty accompanied them — what is unusual is that these were realistic solutions . |
| 26 | If you think that individual people have a big role in history , like and Woodrow Wilson , I doubt if he did , I mean everybody would admit that these were important figures obviously , but the question is , how important were they , compared with social , political and economic factors , possibly beyond their control ? |
| 27 | That these were exceptional arrangements agreed during a period of acute difficulty for the District is revealed in the following table which summarises the provision of Chapter III courses in England and Wales in 1935–36 : |
| 28 | Nora composed a tart reply for John to sign , pointing out that these were difficult times for everyone and that sound firms and sound bankers would survive them best by staying calm . |
| 29 | The major problem was that these were ill patients in whom the slightest disturbance caused a major exacerbation of their underlying medical condition . |
| 30 | Subsequently he changed his mind , possibly in relation to pressure from outside , possibly in an attempt to make psychoanalysis more acceptable , possibly because he could n't come to terms with the fact himself and he then came round to the point of view that these were fantasised seductions as he called them . |