Example sentences of "that were [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Charles craved was a return to classical architecture , to buildings that were sympathetic to their surroundings , that were well proportioned and sensitive to human feelings , and not purely functional . |
| 2 | I I think these are fellows that were either killed or died on active service . |
| 3 | The other Met girls , Sheila , Marjorie , Babs , Dora and Jean were all very easy to get on with , and the Met Office was custom built for the job , with benches that were properly lit and stools the right height for us to work from . |
| 4 | ‘ Care ’ , particularly by that route , threatened to rupture relationships that were already strained and fragile . |
| 5 | There were also occasions when trains were run from stations that were already closed but could be brought into operation for special purposes such as excursions , et for Wakes Weeks in Lancashire and the Potteries . |
| 6 | Sadly , it was not only their wilder impulses that were sternly checked but , all too often , ( as clinical psychologist Allan Fromme puts it ) , their ‘ creative imagination , curiosity , intellectual expressiveness , and capacity for enjoyment ’ . |
| 7 | Sounds as if the guy is suffering from Hemingway Syndrome : ‘ computers may see their silicon lives flash before their eyes , so to speak , just before they die , ’ Prodigy Services Co suggests , reporting that physicist Stephen Thaler of McDonnell Douglas Corp has been playing with neural networks as a way to speed diamond crystal growth but while by day , he created and trained the neural nets , by night , he began annihilating them to see what would happen , randomly severing links , and when between 10% and 60% of the links were destroyed , the network regurgitated nonsense , but as it approached death , 90% of the connections severed , it generated distinct values that had been trained into it , and at times even output ‘ whimsical ’ states , where it would generate values that were neither trained nor ones that would appear in a healthy net , says Thaler , who thinks it may say something about near-death experiences for humans — ‘ It may not just be fancy biochemistry , ’ he suggests . |
| 8 | She left him to prowl restlessly through the family photographs that were prominently displayed as she first took a shower then dithered over what to wear . |
| 9 | This probably reflects the fact that all such work tended to attract men from similar areas — those that were conveniently situated or with low levels of local employment . |
| 10 | Miss Grimsilk had a clean good skin , clean good hair of an indeterminate brown , used no make-up and wore trousers and jacket that were excellently cut and of clean good British wool , but of a miserable dirty slate-grey colour . |
| 11 | At the airport , he replied to interviewers with words that were memorably misreported as being : ‘ Crisis — what crisis ? ’ |
| 12 | Of the courses that were specifically described as management training , 67% of them were carried out by libraries who expected an above average number of programmes for the coming year , who themselves comprised 27% of the sample . |
| 13 | Observing in the classroom , we have been very encouraged to see that many programs that were originally designed and written to be used with a whole class ( maybe as many as 30 pupils participating ) are very effective with groups of pupils working on their own , either with the same approach taken with the whole class or with a subset of the possible activities offered by the program being tackled ( eg , PIRATES , JANEPLUS and TRANSPOTS ) . |
| 14 | And the slides that were then machined and put into it so that the , the , the , the arm of the , the stabilizer could slip into the water you know . |
| 15 | Hands that were quickly withdrawn when the need for them was over . |
| 16 | On the other hand , the audience for the images that were sometimes drawn and painted inside such books — portraits of the evangelists , for instance , or ( like the picture on the cover of this book ) of a royal patron — must have been very restricted . |
| 17 | There are , of course , countless buildings that were purposely designed as pubs , yet many more occupy buildings intended for some other , usually domestic , use . |
| 18 | Scarman identified two views that were commonly held as to the causation of the disorders . |