Example sentences of "were [adj] [noun pl] [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were large boats there that could have been called ships ; they were webbed with a confusion of lines and ropes , and had the spider figures of men clinging to them . |
| 2 | ONLY a month before the publication of Lord Justice 's Taylor 's full report on football safety there were disturbing suggestions yesterday that some clubs have failed to implement interim recommendations made in the wake of the Hillsborough disaster , writes David Hopps . |
| 3 | ONLY a month before the publication of Lord Justice 's Taylor 's full report on football safety there were disturbing suggestions yesterday that some clubs have failed to implement interim recommendations made in the wake of the Hillsborough disaster , writes David Hopps . |
| 4 | However , there were lingering fears yesterday that Nigel Lawson might yet be forced to raise rates even higher if another run on the pound develops because of poor trade figures . |
| 5 | MI6 's wartime reputation also suffered from the fact that several of its senior members were Soviet agents so that , as with MI5 , it required some drastic reorganisation after the war . |