Example sentences of "[be] [that] [pron] were [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been no second rescue attempt — the first vessel had been destroyed by a rigged explosion — and the conclusion the survivors had arrived at had been that they were assumed killed . |
| 2 | Only two people in this group said that the difficulty had been that they were refused credit . |
| 3 | It may be that they were climbing up into the older parts of the mine above the Grand Level to ascertain whether all the worthwhile ore had been taken out . |
| 4 | It might suggest that all bets were off on the release stakes or , ever hopeful , it might be that they were planning on letting us go and did n't want us to be able to give any hint , however vague , as to the whereabouts of the Yanks . |
| 5 | Erm , I ca n't remember the exact conversation but the basics of it were that we were looking for somebody called Lawrence and he was at the present time at erm and that he was in possession of a gun and that the caller was concerned for the safety of the occupants of those premises . |
| 6 | Much as we longed for another child , and overjoyed as we were that we were to have another daughter , we both said that it was the hardest thing we had ever done , to see a lovely young mother say goodbye to her daughter . |
| 7 | ‘ My dad thinks it 's because they were what they were that they were killed . ’ |
| 8 | The terms of reference of the Committee were that they were to consider , firstly , the law and practice relating to homosexual offences and the treatment of persons convicted of such offences by the Courts ; and secondly , ‘ the law and practice relating to offences against the criminal law in connection with prostitution and solicitation for immoral purposes ’ . |
| 9 | The most important complaint is that we were given no information . |
| 10 | but what I meant was is that we were gon na have a sort of a little gathering before but I suppose we could have that today sort of . |
| 11 | ‘ People asked me and Derrick what we were doing over the past two years and the answer that I want to give is that we were waiting for everybody to catch up . |
| 12 | He noticed the one bagpiper like I did , and what I say is that we were meant to . |
| 13 | The most dramatic feature about the genes mutated so as to cause muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis , however , is that they were discovered by reverse genetics — neither dystrophin nor cystic fibrosis transmembrane receptor were known to exist in the body before they were discovered by Kunkel and Tsui respectively . |
| 14 | This shows that one of the major factors that distinguishes the films of motorways and bends in roads from those of junctions is that they were rated as having less to see in them . |
| 15 | He also commented : ‘ It must be wondered why so many different guides have been produced , with so much duplication of effort , particularly when the overall impression is that they were prepared within libraries without reference to the needs of readers and without consultation or collaboration with the subject teachers . ’ |
| 16 | The defence of the format of these books is that they were written as part of a struggle . |
| 17 | What all three things have in common is that they were caused by autumn . |
| 18 | In consequence , it has been claimed that the buildings were seldom used , but a more likely explanation is that they were kept scrupulously clean for official travellers . |
| 19 | They are mentioned by name on eighteenth-century maps and referred to in Sir Walter Scott 's The Bridal of Triermain ; they are often supposed to mark the county boundary , which they do not , and the most popular theory is that they were erected at the time of the Border raids to delude Scots advancing up the Eden valley , from which they are conspicuously in view , into the belief that an English army was encamped there . |
| 20 | One theory is that they were carried by ice sheets . |
| 21 | Another suggestion is that they were put there by shepherds so that they could find their way off the fell in bad weather , the idea being that by the number of cairns the shepherds would be able to tell where they were and by the pattern they could know which direction to follow . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , the only conclusion is that they were lured to their deaths . |
| 23 | ( p. 253 ) Instead , the major complaint is that they were forced to give up political activity after the struggle . |
| 24 | One theory is that they were stolen by experts with an order already in mind . |
| 25 | All I know is that they were delivered . ’ |
| 26 | The key to this paradox is that they were talking about different kinds of capitalists . |
| 27 | One favourite story is that they were brought there from Japan by Phoenician traders thousands of years ago . |
| 28 | My private idea , which I hardly dare mention in case I 've got it all wrong , is that you were copying the style of some book or other to see if I would recognize it . |
| 29 | The difference is that you were left holding the baby . |
| 30 | I could not understand how it was that they were discussing so placidly Jean-Claude 's current compositional ideas for the ‘ Chansons de Mani ’ . |