Example sentences of "of [noun] that were [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The enthusiasm of the common people for the old sports was weakened to such an extent that there was a genuine receptiveness on the part of the mass of the population to the revised forms of play that were being nurtured amongst the privileged in the mid-Victorian public schools . |
| 2 | Or were they simply concerned at the number of rules that were being broken by the programme 's makers ? |
| 3 | In fact , one of the major tensions was precisely that between the residual kinship patterns and the new form of relationships that were being constructed in the course of the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | In this way , delegates were able to see both the kinds of questions being asked by the wider conference and the form of solutions that were being proposed . |
| 5 | Had it been only the interests of traders that were being considered , there would have been no need for Britain to have responded to the competitive challenge of other European states by formalizing and expanding her own empire , with all that this entailed in provoking international tensions , arms expenditures , and general insecurity . |
| 6 | There is a significant divide between Cavalcanti 's surrealism and Powell 's romantic mysticism but , within their bizarre plot , the Powell-Pressburger team also show us how land girls were being absorbed into the rural workforce , and the sort of connections that were being formed between British and American soldiers . |