Example sentences of "[that] were [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A place of historical interest in its small way , especially for its sudden death at the end of the fourth century , after the legions that were its life and its protection had been withdrawn . |
| 2 | There was a frightened gasp and the ghost rose , too , staring at him out of the two hollows that were its eyes . |
| 3 | Of the very few things that were her own , her chastity mattered most . |
| 4 | Again he mirrored her meanings back , and he held up the distorted black lumps that were her errors of syntax . |
| 5 | The only difference was that many of the cars were big limousines , in contrast to the bikes and the pieces of bikes chained to railings that were her last , hazy recollection of the hospital . |
| 6 | Now , he picked up Faye 's chart and quickly took in the plotted lines on a graph that were her blood-pressure and blood glucose measurements . |
| 7 | He was brilliant at invective , and making general statements about the need to communicate a politically responsible set of values , but neither he nor any of his friends were screenwriters , nor were they motivated to work with writers on ideas that were their own . |
| 8 | Although there was nine years between them , there was no doubt that they were brother and sister ; they each had the same deep intense eyes that were their dead father 's legacy , and Patrick had inherited his father 's square chin , and wiry black hair . |
| 9 | That were their logic in saving an animal 's life . |
| 10 | That were what she said to her that day and she says to you , if you carry on I 'm gon na have you put in that orphan 's home . |
| 11 | When we say that what we see is a mile away , we must mean that were we to move forward a mile , we would be ‘ affected with such and such ideas of touch ’ ; and so Berkeley concludes that the things we see are not the same as those we touch . |
| 12 | Nor can we believe that were we to allow this application , potential future witnesses would be deterred from co-operating in investigations yet to come or the police feel inhibited from giving future reassurance as to the consequences of such co-operation in the self-same terms as at present . |
| 13 | And the corridor down and kitch two or three kitchens that were we we went er I asked one of th the attendants I got a I grabbed the another chap with me we we 'd come across together . |
| 14 | I hope that Opposition Members accept that were we to attempt a rushed account this evening it would of necessity be incomplete . |
| 15 | So I think there are difficulties and I might er just finally add that were we to go along the lines he mentioned , we would of course need primary er legislation because we could n't introduce in orders under the relevant legislation this , so it would have to be a matter for another day , were we to er consider that seriously , but it is not the intention of the government . |
| 16 | So what actually happened that were they were brought down ? |
| 17 | And the ones we saw in Marks and all that were nothing were they ? |
| 18 | You know very often , in fact usually the best way of working things out is to go right back to the beginning is n't it , it , to start off at square one and the trouble is sometimes we want to start in the middle , we want to pick it up where we think we can come in and it does n't work that way , we 've got to go right back to the beginning , and what is it at the beginning , well we look to see how God , what God 's plan and his purpose for us is , how God made us , it tells us there in the book of Genesis in the first chapter in verse twenty seven , that God created us to be like himself and you 've got to look in the mirror and I 've got to look in the mirror , not just the glass mirror on the wall , but into the mirror of ourselves and realise we do n't have to be intellectuals , we do n't have to be astute observers , but even the very cursory of glances will show to us that were nothing like it , if God made you and me to be in his image , then something has gone wrong , but that 's how we started , that is how he made us and in making us to be like himself that does something tremendous because it gives to men and women , it gives to human kind a status and a responsibility in creation , he did not make you and me like the animals , no matter how wonderful their abilities are , they 've got tremendous instincts , they 've got tremendous homing instincts , how that tiny bird weighing , weighing less than an ounce can fly thousands and thousands of miles , for the first time and come back , six , nine months later to the very spot where it was hatched out of an nest , now you ca n't do it , I ca n't do it , but for all wonders that God has put into the , into his , to his creative to his , in , in his creation , in animals , in birds and in other creatures , he has done something that marks you and I humanity out above and beyond all his others creation , he has given to us a status and a responsibility |
| 19 | He has taken the off-scourings of this world , the apostle Paul said , those that were nothing , and he has made them into something . |
| 20 | It was inconceivable that the member states would have agreed , after years of negotiations , to a Common Fisheries Policy based on rules of registration that were themselves incompatible with Community law . |
| 21 | As always I got up at once so that I might cherish the ninety minutes until we assembled for work — minutes that were mine — not the authorities . |
| 22 | Heseltine faced the tactical dilemma that were he to campaign openly and be seen to be instrumental in splitting the party and bringing down the Prime Minister , he would be criticised as divisive and disloyal . |
| 23 | In fact , I remember Mr Simpson , the landlord of the Ploughman 's Arms , saying once that were he an American bartender , he would not be chatting to us in that friendly , but ever-courteous manner of his , but instead would be assaulting us with crude references to our vices and failings , calling us drunks and all manner of such names , in his attempt to fulfil the role expected of him by his customers . |
| 24 | When the psychologist Donald Griffin describes the ability of great tits and chickadees to obtain milk from bottles by ‘ pecking through their shiny coverings with the conscious intention of obtaining food ’ ( 1984 : 35 ) , it is obvious that were he not talking of a ‘ conscious intention ’ , in the normal human acceptation of the phrase , he would fail to arouse the average reader 's curiosity and sympathies . |
| 25 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 26 | Will my hon. Friend confirm that were he to make representations to the Chancellor of the Exchequer , there is no constitutional impediment to the Chancellor abolishing taxes before Budget day ? |
| 27 | It sounds slightly improbable that my right hon. Friend will be called to a meaningful debate on Scottish constitutional matters in the near future , but will he assure Conservative Members that were he to be so he is fully aware that people in England would take it amiss if any proposition were seriously entertained which allowed Scottish Members to decide matters in Scotland and then to have a say in English matters in England ? |
| 28 | I have no doubt that were he here today he would tell us that he was merely offering the hypothesis as a basis for argument ; but bearing in mind that the right hon. and learned Gentleman is the author of the words that I uttered a moment or two ago in support of the analysis of the historical nature of the government of Scotland , the Government should certainly take some account of this further straw in the wind . |
| 29 | ‘ We are both aware , I dare say , that were my royal lord with me now , I would not have been brought to such a pass . |
| 30 | Cos I remember once when they asked me at work to deliver the annual speech you know the man that asked me he says er , you know , they 've gone round everybody else and nobody else would do it and would I do it , and I said good lord , that were my first reaction , and I realized like all the company secretaries lo lord , so I did very well there |