Example sentences of "were [adj] [coord] that it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Addressing the opening session , acting head of state Lt.-Col. Amadou Toumani Touré , who was elected chair of the conference , said that national reconciliation and tolerance were imperative and that it was the conference 's task to build unity and security . |
| 2 | However , the Senate foreign relations committee on Sept. 9 voted against the treaty , after a week of hearings at which most speakers backed the bases , on the grounds that the end of the Cold War meant that US military bases in the Philippines were redundant and that it was a " one-sided , unequal agreement " . |
| 3 | The task therefore was to recover greater autonomy at the centre and limit the state 's obligations to those that were essential and/or that it could carry out . |
| 4 | She held firm because she knew that the road to compromise was without signposts , that the possibilities for getting lost were manifold and that it was paved with flawed imitations of the truth . |
| 5 | The worse criticism , of course , is not that Carpenter 's Gothic was cheap nor that most of the styles chosen were imitative but that it did no good . |