Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [adv] [verb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morrissey and the lads were apparently miffed that their last two singles were n't as successful as they had hoped . |
| 2 | Then he got peevish and decided on a rain storm and the dinosaurs were so overgrown that they would n't fit into the ark so the flood destroyed them all . |
| 3 | A light came on whenever a subject paused for longer than 600 milliseconds , although subjects were merely told that the light indicated when their story-telling was poor . |
| 4 | Sir James Graham of Netherby Hall rebuilt the trap and the Scots were so enraged that they gathered a small army of local people and set out to tear it down . |
| 5 | The tinc benz and zinc oxide plaster treatment is the cornerstone of blister therapy ; however , the sergeant 's feet were so damaged that a layer of ‘ moleskin' had to be applied . |
| 6 | At the beginning of the twentieth century , Poor Law administrators were still noting that older women seemed more able than older men to survive without any apparent source of income , because of the domestic services which they could perform ( Roebuck and Slaughter , 1979 ) . |
| 7 | The potatoes were so filling that there was n't a great deal of room left for all the other foods they usually ate . |
| 8 | However , the companies were reportedly assured that UI 's 1993 programme would continue , along with its input on requirements , early access , licensing and conformance and its work in promoting and marketing Unix . |
| 9 | But matters were so arranged that for most the outlook was not completely bleak ; almost everyone could arrive eventually at a state of relative freedom from intimidation and enjoy a measure of authority over others . |
| 10 | And Elizabeth Williams , who lived at a time when universities were so enlightened that they would actually permit women to sit examinations ( but not , alas , be awarded a degree ) . |
| 11 | In the last reports they were able to compile , in April 1940 , Sopade observers were still noting that ‘ many prefer to keep Hitler than to envisage what could come after a defeat ’ , that fear of chaos and revolution still predominated among the bourgeoisie , but that ‘ there is no doubt that up to now the majority of the people is still convinced of Germany 's victory ’ . |
| 12 | She was near the east bank of the River , five hundred paces south of the town , lying on a flat white rock where the crocodiles could not get her , though by the time she was discovered by a Medjay patrol at the sixth hour of day when the sun was at its highest , the vultures had eaten her eyes and part of her face , and the flies were so glutted that they could not leave the feast unless they were picked off . |
| 13 | Other awards were also won that same year , the most significant being a Design Council Award presented by the Duke of Edinburgh . |
| 14 | By the spring of 1949 , the Boards were triumphantly arguing that they had been proved right in that the differential charge had had no effect on consumption and merely provoked public discontent . |
| 15 | Then , economists were openly predicting that the recovery would be more in line with previous post-recessionary periods , but that optimistic bubble has now burst and most experts are admitting that the recovery will be painfully slow . |
| 16 | As many of their domestic loans were backed by property , the banks were also betting that Japan 's land bubble would not burst . |
| 17 | The Maronites were later to claim that there had been provocation for the killings but the attack appeared to have been carefully planned . |
| 18 | Delegates were generally agreed that the ideal solution was to remove migrants ' reasons for wanting to leave . |
| 19 | Although some of its own experiments were now showing that air pollution in southern England damaged leaves and made them fall early from trees , it could not bring itself to say as much . |
| 20 | Fears were thus expressed that , while the ratio of all dependents to the total population might be no greater in the immediate future than in the past , the cost per dependent had grown and would continue to grow . |
| 21 | This broadcast was immediately preceded by a report where predictions were already showing that the Conservatives were very likely to gain an overall majority . |
| 22 | But this was Vadinimia , where no questions were ever asked that did n't concern anti-theft procedures . |
| 23 | Changes of character brought about by the fluctuation of material conditions were so marked that they were noticeable even at the time from within the camp . |
| 24 | Prices and conditions were so controlled that there was little scope for initiative . |
| 25 | Conditions were so harrowing that only two of them survived . |
| 26 | In the course of an item on The Late Show , viewers were confidently told that Sean 's Show is ‘ the first postmodernist sitcom ’ , that it goes out on Thursdays , and that it 's a Channel 4 programme . |
| 27 | None the less , it seems likely that the course of studies was so arranged that the students would pass through the same grades of medreses as those in which they would later teach : such would in any case seem to have been the practice in later times . |
| 28 | By the end of the 1970S the additions to the housing stock had been so considerable that arguments were increasingly heard that Britain had enough houses . |
| 29 | As expected , most ulcers were so sited that venous insufficiency was immediately suspected : 392 ( 85 per cent ) were situated in the classic gaiter area . |
| 30 | Patients were simply told that we were aware that emotions could influence how they reacted to illness and were asked to participate in a survey investigating their response to hospital admission for minor surgery . |