Example sentences of "that were [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was taken for granted that education was beneficial to those who received it , and that its universal provision was one of the great social improvements that were to mark the end of the war . |
| 2 | also that it was the Party cadres that were taking the lead , but in the settling of accounts the peasants |
| 3 | In fact , the Germans detonated only one of the British Army 's mines before the massive explosions that were to herald the attack . |
| 4 | I could tell , though , that she was beginning to have some uncomfortable suspicions — like the ones that were spreading the chill all through me . |
| 5 | The reason lay in the large economic changes that were affecting the world economy , the government 's own responses and the particular nature of the new machinery of control . |
| 6 | Tyson 's past had come back eerily to haunt him — this time not in street violence but in the way Desiree Washington , a competitor in the Miss America Pageant accused him of the crimes that were to see the world heavyweight champion 's status reduced to that of a common criminal . |
| 7 | They were positively received in the parliaments of the six states that were to take the initiative in integration in the following decade . |
| 8 | And I looked upon the earth and saw a dish set , and workmen lying by it , and their hands were in the dish : and they that were chewing chewed not , and they that were lifting the food lifted it not , and they that put it to their mouth put it not thereto , but the faces of all of them were looking upward . |
| 9 | Thomas Tait in the lead , closely followed by Jack Coia , Basil Spence , T. Waller Marwick , A. D. Bryce , and other members of the team , the architects picked their way through the mud and piles of bricks that were to become the Empire Exhibition . |
| 10 | Now it was his men that were paying the penalty . |
| 11 | While there he received one of the fateful telegrams that were to dot the history of the underground : ‘ Phone Hoppy ’ it said . |
| 12 | The head bored through the blockages that were reducing the blood flow . |
| 13 | He was really getting to her , and it was n't only the accusations he was flinging at her that were doing the damage . |
| 14 | We have er found that to be the case there is a downward trend , but I do make the point , and I did make the point to the inspectors notwithstanding that , all of our respecting officers bar those that were doing the training of course do produce a higher work output per individual than most of our peers up and down the country and we have statis statistical evidence to support that . |
| 15 | You children were excited on the journey to Gibraltar and kept running from side to side of the boat looking out for the small destroyers that were guarding the convoy . |
| 16 | In our opinion not all of the pouch excisions performed would not be necessary ; in some of the earlier cases of fistulas that were encountered the pouch might now be salvaged . |