Example sentences of "[that] they [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Tønder example , however , the vugs occur in the subsurface on top of a salt dome , with thick units of halite above and below , and it is more probable that they were formed by the same late-leaching process that was responsible for the intercrystalline porosity ( Clark 1980a ) . |
| 2 | You should be prepared for the fact that some of her views and opinions will be rather different from your own , remembering that they were formed in an entirely different social climate . |
| 3 | A preview of the Commons debate was held in the Lords yesterday where Lord Ennals , a former Labour Health Secretary , warned the Government it could not push the proposals through the NHS in the knowledge that they were opposed by the medical profession 's leaders . |
| 4 | One of the answers which emerged was that they were eating diets high in natural fibre — while we , in the West , were stripping this cell-wall material from our day-to-day diet by refining our cereal foods and sugar . |
| 5 | Others , conscious that they were eating the equivalent of a diamond brooch or a sapphire pendant , sat down to a last giddy meal eating before the Collector could get his hands on it , all at once , what they had hoarded for weeks . |
| 6 | Surprising when you consider that it 's ‘ not so very long ago ’ that they were eating each other ( laughter ) . |
| 7 | They told reporters that they were protesting at a police attack on the demonstrators at the Guildhall . |
| 8 | Apart from the inflation associated with the Korean War , this period was marked by a combination of unprecedentedly low unemployment rates with price levels which were admittedly creeping upwards , but at rates which were so modest that they were regarded as tolerable . |
| 9 | When I suggest to Hopkins that many abductees could in fact be drawing on repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse and , as a result of bad hypnosis , end up believing mistakenly that they were messed around with by aliens instead , he agrees it 's a possibility , but then argues that some cases of childhood sexual abuse may in fact be alien abductions . |
| 10 | Hundreds of people were arrested on the grounds that they were suspected of rebel activity . |
| 11 | The large and thriving congregation was stunned by the Jesuits ’ sudden announcement , in March 1989 , that they were to close and sell off the church on the open market — ‘ for any reasonable use ’ , according the sale particulars . |
| 12 | Each one had to be made to feel that they were noticed , for as Eugénie said , it is not so much that Princes are surrounded by flatterers as that they themselves must be ever ready to flatter others : |
| 13 | The operations management data are largely those given by companies in their annual report and accounts , with the difference that they were collected directly from company executives and not as published for the benefit of shareholders . |
| 14 | An obvious example is the Pre-Raphaelites , who , whilst still being spurned in England , except that they were collected by , I do n't know , Manchester businessmen , spurned in London , let's say , were enormously influential in Brussels , in Paris , and in Germany and Austria . |
| 15 | The failure of the ITC to arrive at a negotiated settlement with its creditors , who claimed that they were owed a total of £513 million , led to a protracted battle in English courts [ see pp. 35293 ; 36635 ] . |
| 16 | In the announcement of their forthcoming System 7 software they revealed that they were moving towards the concept of using outline fonts to generate the screen displays and that they were developing their own proprietary format , then known as Royal but subsequently re-named TrueType . |
| 17 | It also said that solicitors employed by large companies should not be allowed to appear in higher courts because the fact that they were employed might stop them from showing impartiality and detachment . |
| 18 | Such contributions were highly valued because the members felt that they were learning much about their own school . |
| 19 | Already they knew that they were nearing the trees , for the burning Tower was low and far off . |
| 20 | The deputies announced that they were resigning because the government " has not been able to keep its promises " with regard to the Kurdish population . |
| 21 | These punches might consist of elements of the design ( such as part of the king 's crown ) or of letters in the inscription , and a careful examination of the coins can reveal that they were struck from dies made from the same punches ( fig. 5 ) . |
| 22 | A close comparison of all the details of the heads reveals no differences , and shows that they were struck from the same die . |
| 23 | They were concerned least the Shah should think that they were rebuking him for comparing him unfavourably with them of steel . |
| 24 | I thought that they were cribbing up last night 's French homework but it turns out that they were playing a game called ‘ Ouija ’ . |
| 25 | As Coleman 's real job was to file back-channel reports on the operations of DEA Nicosia , the DIA was hardly likely to have told Hurley that they were lending him a full-time agent . |
| 26 | Firstly , we have to recognise that they were lending in a market which was being actively encouraged . |
| 27 | Some were so bulky that they were borne into the Rante sitting upright like pugnacious lords in specially constructed litters , carried by as many as eight straining porters . |
| 28 | They feared that if their paintings were not all shown together most of the impact would be lost ; but to ensure that they were hung together , the rules of the Salon had to be modified . |
| 29 | From the detailed observation of fifteen boards , it was evident that training often followed the pattern of immediate demand rather than being linked to any developmental plan ; thus , a board might ask the headteacher or member of staff for further elaboration of a topic which surfaced at a meeting , such as subject choice by S3 , or individuals might decide to attend an area session on interviewing skills only once they knew that they were to participate in the selection of a senior member of staff . |
| 30 | Now they were perfectly entitled to claim this but this was going to confuse the jury and the jury would also be confuse by the fact there was going to be no mention of the fact which everybody was aware of that the men claim that they were beaten up while they were in custody . |