Example sentences of "that [pron] [noun pl] were [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , it came as something of a disappointment when a Ms Mel Chevannes , who ran a black supplementary school in the West Midlands , wrote to the Wolverhampton Express and Star to protest at my testing ‘ hypotheses that black people are ‘ happy-go-lucky or very physical in their outlook ’ ’ and that my aims were to ‘ damage even further the life chances of black children ’ ( 25 June 1980 ) . |
| 2 | Feeling a little like I imagined a tomb-robber might feel , but knowing that my motives were of the very best , I relocked both doors and left without a backward glance . |
| 3 | Sated with a whole morning of freedom and indulgence , work seemed almost a pleasure , the more so in that my students were in the same post-prandial daze as myself All serious business was dispatched in the morning . |
| 4 | I could n't find out anything about him , not even where he lived , though I told him my entire address ( 17 Daffodil Cottages , Bourton-on-the-Water ) and my age ( nineteen ) and that my parents were in Saudi Arabia where my father was computerising oil production . |
| 5 | ‘ I was greatly heartened and told myself I must previously have misjudged the situation — that my subjects were after all behind me and would see that right was done . ’ |
| 6 | I could see her now that my eyes were in the shadow of a branch . |
| 7 | The Foreign Ministry announced on April 19 , 1989 , that the Soviet press agency Novosti would be allowed to reopen its office in Berne on condition that its activities were within the normal range of a news agency 's functions . |
| 8 | The Mandal report was shelved by successive Congress ( I ) governments during the 1980s and V. P. Singh 's announcement in early August that its recommendations were to be implemented startled all sections of Indian society . |
| 9 | But it points out that its representatives were in September already handing out a booklet to GPs ‘ which included the studies on elderly patients ’ reported to the Paris symposium . |
| 10 | Even so , there are signs that its inmates were under pressure from the king and his officials . |
| 11 | Johnson 's account acknowledges the woman 's pastoral existence , and he dignifies her with a detailed report , pointing out that her circumstances were by no means on the lowest and most impoverished social scale . |
| 12 | Now that her sons were off her hands , and Olivia , at twelve , the only one of the children whose education was not completed , Dinah felt able to dismiss the tutor and his wife , with a warmly written reference for long and faithful service . |
| 13 | Despite this she continued to wheeze daily and thought that her inhalers were of no benefit . |
| 14 | She owned that her insides were in a mammoth flutter , but there were several reasons for that . |
| 15 | Her pink flying suit had two dirty orbs where her backside had imprinted itself on the ground and I noticed for the first time that her trainers were at least size 9 ( men 's ) . |
| 16 | Buyers would also have to be satisfied that their documents were in order . |
| 17 | Gradually they realised that their chances were at par , and dropped off , though wistfully . |
| 18 | A number of people were granted exemption on the grounds either that they were too poor to pay taxes and rates or that they had a certificate signed by the minister and parish officers to the effect that their premises were worth not more than 1 per annum or that their personal property was worth less than £10 per annum ; however , no exemption was allowed anyone possessing more than two hearths . |
| 19 | If the ownership of rivers and lakes were as well de fined as houses and factories , then the law of tort and contract would ensure that their owners were in a position to take legal action against any company which pumped effluent into them . |
| 20 | Owners had ( by law ) to ensure , for example , that their properties were in good sanitary condition , that new buildings conformed to certain building standards , that streets were of a minimum width , and so on . |
| 21 | In the succeeding months it became plain that the determination of American leaders to play the key role in shaping the new world order was to clash with the equally determined insistence of the Russians that their interests were of paramount importance over a large part of the globe . |
| 22 | Fratter ( 1989 ) adds that ‘ the belief that the welfare of a deprived child was best served by his being prevented from having contact with his family — that their interests were in conflict — remained largely unchallenged ’ ( p. 4 ) . |
| 23 | ‘ Funnily enough , we could detect how the readership was developing from book signings : initially it was the children who came ; then mothers , mumbling that their children were at school , and then the fathers saying , ‘ I want to know what my children are reading ’ ; and finally , the parents on their own , no longer needing childish excuses . ’ |
| 24 | Mothers complained that their children were at risk from other serious diseases because they were missing out on vaccinations because of repeated colds . |
| 25 | The people understood that their children were with God , but no one could explain that to Emily 's dog , Keeper . |
| 26 | All the parents were told that their children were in very nice foster homes , with very nice families . |
| 27 | The higher the father 's status , the greater the child 's chance of attending a grammar rather than a secondary modern school , though the occupational group ‘ skilled manual workers ’ was so large that their children were by far the largest single group in all types of school . |
| 28 | On Friday , 10 March , by which time Pons was becoming convinced that their hopes were at last being confirmed , Ron Fawcett , the US editor of the Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry , called him on a personal matter . |
| 29 | The move comes on top of NCR UK 's December announcement that 8% , or 150 to 160 sales and marketing staff had been told that their jobs were in jeopardy . |
| 30 | In February the commander of the Border Guard announced that his forces were to be cut from 22,000 to 9,000 over the following five years . |