Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | In chapter 8 , rules were formulated which dictated which way to run the proportions when dealing with the hypothesized effect of one variable upon another : proportions were calculated so that they summed to 1 within the categories of the explanatory variable . |
| 2 | As work in the mountains was restricted to the summer , the field seasons were arranged so that lower ground was surveyed during spring and autumn . |
| 3 | These were arranged so that eight of those attending the seminar gave evidence as expert witnesses . |
| 4 | Recently additional facilities were completed so that the Department now comprises a purpose-built Food Studies/Cookery Room and a separate Textile Studies/Fabric Work Area . |
| 5 | Deformed sperms , de-energised sperms and sperms deterred by the acid environment of the womb , were catalogued so that when the camera followed the successful ones on their journey it seemed a miracle that any got to their destination at all . |
| 6 | The Seven Points to Remember were revised so that they mentioned the four types of diarrhoea ( previously described ) and stated that all four types should be treated with LGS . |
| 7 | And guilds were formed so that they could trade these garments around the country and eventually around Europe . |
| 8 | and myself or as he was better known , came through B Seventeen Transition School at in Florida together and where the crews were formed so that the names in the Army of course are worked alphabetically , so everybody on my crew is trained with everybody on crew and their last name is just ahead erm in the alphabetic in the class that they were in , so that my navigator came from the same school , the same navigation class as . |
| 9 | The first foragers to a feeding site were captured and their light-sensitive cells were painted so that when they returned to the hive they orientated their dances with respect to gravity . |
| 10 | The stones of the wall did not seem to be held together with mortar , but instead they were keyed so that each lay on the other with hardly a sign of a join . |
| 11 | Even if the brain were designed so that components could be easily removed , there is the issue of what we can conclude about the functions of its components from knowing the effects of removing one of them . |
| 12 | The questionnaires were designed so that responses would be given in one of three ways : a yes-no answer ; a comment ; or a choice from either three or five possible responses . |
| 13 | Individual elements in the building complex were designed so that they could be separately defended if the outer defences fell . |
| 14 | The electricians were apprised so that all electrical appliances could be in perfect order . |
| 15 | To make the link between the activities , information and functional groups , further fields were added so that the possible users of the information could be identified . |
| 16 | Wheels , rods , cranks , and other components were added so that boys ( girls were never specified in the advertising ) , with instruction manuals , could build the illustrated models . |
| 17 | Originally the church had one dome raised on a tall drum but in later periods further domes were added so that now there are six . |
| 18 | Farmers were evacuated so that their land could be made available for Japanese immigrants or industrial concerns ; labour conscription was widespread . |
| 19 | However , if such probes were programmed so that , each time they encountered a planetary system , they located a suitable asteroid and from its raw materials built several replicas of themselves , which were then despatched to further stars , the chances of success would be staggeringly increased . |
| 20 | Some groups were organised so that each worker carried out an independent part-task with little reference to the total task , whereas in other cases each worker had a commitment to the total task and carried out various sub-tasks in this context . |
| 21 | The participating banks each knew who the other participants were , but the figures in the report were presented so that readers could not work out which figures came from which bank . |
| 22 | There have been many theories accounting for the prevalence of North , North East and East facing galleries , including a favourite one that they were built so that thrifty spinners might sit out and catch the last of the waning daylight . |
| 23 | Changes in the parole system were promised so that serious offenders would serve a longer proportion of their time in jail . |
| 24 | The hon. Gentleman will recall that , on some exceptional days , schools were closed so that teachers could be trained . |
| 25 | These were checked against a lexicon as they were produced so that unacceptable letter strings could be ruled out as early as possible . |
| 26 | Last year , Scotland 's 16 health boards were reconstituted so that no trade unions or local authorities had the right of membership , and they are now dominated by the Tories ' natural allies — business people — under the cloak of rhetoric about bringing in commercial nous ( see box ) . |
| 27 | Such officials were used so that if anything went wrong the papal see would be entirely free from reproach . |
| 28 | They would first have inspected judicial practice to see whether almost all other judges were agreed either that the words of a statute must be given their " literal " meaning , even when that was not what the legislators intended , or the opposite , that the words must not be given their literal meaning in these circumstances . |
| 29 | We were told later that the fraud was so enormous — a total of $10 million — that reconstruction was impossible , and that any money the majority shareholders could put in would soon disappear into a large hole . |
| 30 | Employees at the Dupont nylon fibres factory in Brockworth , Gloucester were told today that a quarter of the workforce … 250 out of a total of 990 , are to lose their jobs . |