Example sentences of "that [was/were] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These books speak of betrayal — of betrayal of the ideals of a public library system , of the system of higher education and the education of our teachers , and , at the highest level , of gifts and endowments and the historical integrity of collections that were at the heart of the country 's literary culture . |
| 2 | Someone more thoughtful than the rest had ordered to be shut the big river gates that were at the point where the Ankh flowed out of the twin city . |
| 3 | All these uneasy feelings that were at the back of her mind from time to time . |
| 4 | mhm It 's interesting , because the two schools I 'm I 'm the governor , as all County Councillors are , of schools , and of two primary schools , and the special needs advisory teachers were the things that were at the top of the list to be saved by both my schools . |
| 5 | And that were on a Wednesday and then on Saturday when I went and asked him come home , got changed , and went down to the club . |
| 6 | His espousal of Blast closed to him just those doors that were on the point of opening ; and twenty years later , when he desperately wanted such access to the power-wielding centres of society , he was condemned to the world of fantasy in which he thought he could influence United States policy by way of such unlikely intermediaries as Senators Borah and Bankhead , and Italian policy by way of Ubaldo degli Uberti . |
| 7 | I was spellbound by the brass bedstead and all the knick-knacks , but what held my attention most were the knitted bedspreads that were on the bed and draped over the chairs . |
| 8 | Those stitches that were on the selected needles have been transferred to the needle on the left . |
| 9 | A mass-circulation paper was more risky , but it was much more exciting , and with the bigger sales that were on the cards , it could be very profitable . |
| 10 | People say they become imperceptive ; they spend hours looking for the car keys that were on the table in front of them all the time ; they become preoccupied and inattentive to what other people are saying to them ( ‘ But I told you the Smiths were coming over yesterday . |
| 11 | There 's something else the children were convinced that the goblets were n't actually clay , the goblets that were on the erm , the table as opposed |
| 12 | It was er The village centre is about the same as it was when I was a boy , more busier of course , all the private houses that were on the front , you know , Street ? |
| 13 | A cold drying wind expressively called a yerdzook dried out stacks that were on the wet side . |
| 14 | Now The Trust Deed and rules were asked for prior to their consent and the company made it clear that they would not be available until after the new scheme commenced on the first October nineteen ninety and indeed it was some eight days later on the ninth October at er Trustee meeting that the company presented the Trust Deed and rules and it was resolved that the Committee of Management would er transfer all the close scheme members er into the new nineteen ninety scheme and er the same Trustees appointed themselves er Trustees of the nineteen ninety scheme and one hour later were the presentation of a draft deed amending the British Steel Pension Scheme and a draft interim Trust Deed establishing the British Steel Pension Scheme in nineteen ninety and a draft Trust Deed and rules of the British Steel Pension Scheme of nineteen ninety were tabled for noting ; and those very Trustees that were on the first meeting agreed to transfer the assets to the new scheme , set as Trustees of the new scheme one hour later , accepted the assets and er without er seeking either legal or actuarial advice and in this case er Watsons were advisors to the company to the old scheme Trustees and to the new scheme Trustees . |
| 15 | That 's a those were the little erm things that were on the tables . |
| 16 | Well this morning I were listening to er Roy Normal on the , the Welsh radio programmes and he was talking to er various people and he told one young woman who had been in a certain area in world where they were filming , er and she 'd gone to see this filming with Alan Ladd and all these , you know , and anyway she goes she went into the er local chip shop and the er assistant for the film , the labourer came in and ordered , ordered forty packet of chips and er and he was saying oh it were for film you see , so she thought I 'd go down and see what 's happening , so she went down to the pier end and they were all er doing the performance and er , the producer says now all you people there , he says that 's interested , he said would you all go onto the pier , he says and talk he says and read , make it , you know make it interesting , so they all piled onto the pier and er , they filmed what they had to film with the pier in the background and all the people that were on the pier , so this girl was on the film you know , then after it had finished , he thanked everybody , he says now then do n't walk off the pier , he says will you as you 're going off walk past this , the table at the end there and their bloke give them three pound ten a piece |
| 17 | Traffic was strictly regulated in Arcady , ground vehicles being confined to certain routes , especially those that were outside the city regulations concerning fuel effluent , such as the Star Eye trucks . |
| 18 | ‘ There were some meetings that were during the week and I enjoyed going away , ’ he remembered . |
| 19 | Having read this I was drawn to the words of the Apostle Paul when he wrote ‘ But when the fulness of time was come , God sent forth his Son , made of a woman , made under the law , to redeem them that were under the law , that we might receive the adoption of sons . ’ |
| 20 | The countries that were under the control of ruling Marxist-Leninist parties represented , for the USSR , the ‘ world socialist system ’ , a community of nations that shared the same political , social and economic interests . |
| 21 | As we saw , this was partly because their stance of ‘ scientific detachment ’ precluded too close an involvement in matters of ‘ policy ’ and partly because the causes of crime that they generated tended to involve factors that were beyond the scope of penal practitioners . |
| 22 | Critical of the quest for final causes in nature , he was inclined to distinguish between revealed truths that were beyond the realm of intellectual inquiry and scientific truths that were not . |
| 23 | However , a truly " liberal " or " higher " education could inculcate a higher subjectivity which transcended nature by offering experiences , feelings , and pleasures that were beyond the mindless routines thought to be engaged in by most of mankind . |
| 24 | A comparison of the 52 estimates of annual lampsilis growth that were with the 247 estimates of measurement error shows that shell shrinkage is much greater than would be expected from measurement errors alone ( n=299 , P<0.0001 ) . |
| 25 | He sent messages en clair which were highly secret and carefully ciphered messages that were of no possible secret value . |
| 26 | After four weeks there were significant improvements in symptoms as well as sigmoidoscopic and histological grades that were of a similar degree in both groups . |
| 27 | It is probable , however , that this was an exception rather than the rule — most deaf people before the start of deaf education did not marry , and those that did , like Sir John Gawdy , Sir Edward Gostwicke and Alexander Popham , all came from wealthy families where there was a desire to continue the family line and marriages were made with daughters of families that were of the landed gentry . |
| 28 | If a company called Joe Bloggs and Company that were from a back street … came with a similar proposal and they obviously had n't got two ha'pennies to rub together and certainly were n't gon na employ a chemist or anything like that , then … you would view that as a completely different proposition . |
| 29 | Can you tell me about the buildings that were around the airport ? |
| 30 | Although all Colleges that were within the control of the LEA had broadly similar organisation structures , at a detailed level there were significant differences ( ie in structural arrangements and in the numbers and expertise of staff ) , and it was not appropriate to make detailed proposals for individual Colleges at this stage . |