Example sentences of "[noun] [that] they [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he was not back tonight , then he would be tomorrow and if he was late , she must tell Bert that they were going to Ireland on Tuesday , early . |
| 2 | Radical sects like the Quakers , the Shakers and the Methodists all encouraged the faithful to feel the divine in tangible forms ; some Pentecostal sects would speak in tongues , hear voices or experience powerful feelings which came upon them with such force that they were believed to come from God . |
| 3 | Disappointment that they were losing the best American M D they had ever had , after less than one year , and alarm in the knowledge that his demotion almost certainly meant the end of the recovery and expansion plans , and possibly the end of vehicle manufacture in the UK . |
| 4 | The peasantry of Telana had become involved in international trade , with the result that they were affected by world booms and slumps . |
| 5 | So stable were these chemical compounds that they were passed on from prey to predator by their accumulation in fatty tissue , involving a metabolic process which led to higher concentrations as the insecticide was passed along the chain . |
| 6 | It was also weighing on Bernard 's mind that they were opening more and more shops in Europe and yet the European commercial scene was not as stable as that in the UK . |
| 7 | When Norwich and Arsenal appeared at Lancaster Gate the FA was concerned not only that neither club had condemned the incident immediately but that Norwich had not given any indication that they were going to punish some of their players , apart from fining them for making comments to newspapers . |
| 8 | On several occasions they had er displayed guns where people would back into their driveway or er show some indication that they were going on to their property , then guns were revealed , people coming out of the the buildings out there with guns and what have you . |
| 9 | Leith thought that idea , to change , was quite a good one in view of Naylor 's stated intention that they were taking a walk . |
| 10 | There were other huts visible as outlines in the mist of early afternoon , but it was to the hut with the figure ‘ 2 ’ painted in yellow on the doorway that they were led . |
| 11 | In other words that they were shifting the blame . |
| 12 | It was clearly patronage that they were seeking , rather than a confrontation with another class . |
| 13 | But , but if he knew , if he knew Ken that they were coming . |
| 14 | It was only under President Carter 's administration that they were returned to Hungary , having been removed from the potential clutches of Germans and Russians in 1945 . |
| 15 | The family was willing in principle to loan or sell some of the most important contents of the staterooms to a hotel , but only on condition that they were given proper conservation safeguards . |
| 16 | While the French police eventually traced the pieces to Osaka , lack of cooperation on the part of the Japanese authorities meant that they were not returned to France until June 1990 , and then only on the condition that they were returned to Japan by December of that year . |
| 17 | His view that the accountants in the earlier case owed a duty of care was based on the fact that they had actual knowledge of the plaintiff 's intended and actual reliance on the accounts that they were to prepare . |
| 18 | And the woman smiled but pointed at the direction that they were to go . |
| 19 | Walton J. dismissed the petition on the ground that the payments were not made in discharge of a demand illegally made under colour of office , though in the course of his judgment he observed , at p. 745 , that the moneys were paid under a mistaken belief on the part of the employers that they were bound to pay them . |
| 20 | The agenda of the sessions were the cases that they were asked to write ahead of time . |
| 21 | grandma er said when she went to China and that she saw these bogeys on the back of bikes that they were carrying |
| 22 | The government has also failed in its responsibility for the Health and Sa Safety Executive by restricting year after year adequate resources for them to carry out the function that they were designed for . |
| 23 | Now for a motor car I think you can say that the practical desirabilities of a car , and the acceleration and performance and looks are very important , one could also say that the fact that many people have their cars bought for me by the firm they work for means that they will therefore buy a larger car than they would if it was their own money that they were spending , so the market for cars is perhaps not one which is determined by energy efficiency or even optimum efficiency in terms of people 's and prestige is coming into it as much as these other factors and it is determined by who pays the money . |
| 24 | Unless pressure is put on the Government , they will simply substitute that money for money that they were going to spend in the regions anyway , and the regions will not receive any direct benefit , although that was the whole purpose of the RECHAR regulations . |
| 25 | erm That 's to say , nothing in the programmes of any of the powers could possibly warrant or justify the measure that they were adopting . |
| 26 | Seen from the church at Pras des Chamonix , or bustling Montenvers , they rise : a single phallus of red granite , so impossibly shocking to Victorian sensibilities that they were left untouched until well after Alpinism 's ‘ Golden Age ’ passed in 1865 with Whymper 's epic on that other quintessential alp , the Matterhorn . |
| 27 | Yassir Arafat and Kemal Jumblatt had been summoned the previous winter to Damascus , where they told Assad that they were winning the war and wished to move all the way into the Christian heartland . |
| 28 | Shanti and Chris discovered in February that they were expecting a baby , There was tremendous excitement and we all began to look forward to this addition to the family . |
| 29 | The two other presidential candidates , Alfonso Santos of the Christian Democratic Front and Guadalupe de Seita , an independent , announced at the end of February that they were withdrawing from the ballot , complaining that government funds had been made available for the Trovoada campaign . |
| 30 | Two rebel factions , the Armed Forces of Liberia ( AFL ) and the Independent National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( INPFL ) , had announced at the end of May that they were ceasing hostilities . |