Example sentences of "that were [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five of the seven ethnic groups that were relocated in this way were rehabilitated and partially repatriated to their native territories in 1956–7 . |
| 2 | Darwin 's theory threw the relationship between the organism and its environment into a new light by stressing the pressures that were exerted on any population by limitations of resources . |
| 3 | Finance Ministers and central bank governors ( i ) commented that the United Kingdom was moving towards economic recovery , that recovery was under way in the United States , that growth was projected to pick up in Italy and France , and that in Japan and Germany growth had slowed from the rapid pace in 1990 to a more sustainable rate ; ( ii ) noted the importance of strengthening global savings ; ( iii ) reaffirmed the need for effective measures to avoid the recurrence of " recent irregularities that were revealed in some financial markets " ( a reference in particular to scandals in Japan — see pp. 38529 — and to the collapse of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International — see pp. 38396-37 ; 38355 ; 38545 ) ; ( iv ) called on the Paris Club to continue discussions on how best to implement promptly additional debt relief measures , on a case-by-case basis , which went well beyond the relief already granted under the " Toronto terms " [ see pp. 36123-24 ] ; and ( v ) noted that it was essential for developing countries to encourage private capital flows . |
| 4 | The hon. Gentleman illustrated his argument graphicaly , and so shall I. No hon. Member will forget the riots in Trafalgar square and elsewhere in the country that were provoked by those opposed to a system of taxation endorsed by Parliament . |
| 5 | Erm , it has actually worked , erm , in that it seems that there 's a very fair chance that er , in spite of the very discouraging things that were said by some of the people on my right when I moved this , erm , there is a very good chance now for a reasonable er , settlement in South Africa , which I think should erm , make everyone in this chamber very happy , and it is that , undoubtedly the case that economic pressure had a great deal to do with that . |
| 6 | We undertook to , you sorry , you authorised us to de-recognise the three unions that were recognised in that field , if the unions agreed , I have to report that two of them have , and the other one naturally , discussions are still going on . |
| 7 | The analyses that were constructed for these frescos were found to be useful in the examination of more famous works . |
| 8 | Okay , in terms of the first bit , all it 's completed is the number of quiffs that were raised on each of these audits . |
| 9 | Kilometres wide , with a wall hundreds of metres thick , this conduit for the world 's inner heat fed the various power stations that were built within that wall from the factory levels upwards : heat into energy . |
| 10 | Large new stations designed to do just that were built in these three cities after the Second World War . |
| 11 | So in relation to section 13(1) of the Acts of 1974 and 1976 , for a judge ( who is always dealing with an individual case ) to pose himself the question : ‘ Can Parliament really have intended that the acts that were done in this particular case should have the benefit of the immunity ? ’ is to risk straying beyond his constitutional role as interpreter of the enacted law and assuming a power to decide at his own discretion whether or not to apply the general law to a particular case . |
| 12 | Finally , erm various terms have been erm thrown around about new settlements being an engine of growth and a sinkhole for future growth , erm the only point I want to make there is that any future growth beyond the present structure plan period of two thousand and six would of course be subject to the planning system , there is no automatic erm growth erm of any new settlement that is proposed or may be proposed beyond two thousand and six , and Mr Davis has indicated that at that time a new study will be carried out on the relative merits of the alternative options that were seen at that time . |
| 13 | A sequence when Custer attacks an Indian village could not help but stir vivid memories of the My Lai massacre and the photos of Vietnamese on fire that were seen in all the newspapers and on television during that dark period in America 's history . |
| 14 | erm And certainly the work which Julia Knight and Michael Eraut and I were involved in , those two will be talking of course later in the series , brought out some of the problems that were generated by that atmosphere of distrust . |
| 15 | Younger Palestinians — Palestinians who were born in Lebanon , for example — can remember how their parents angrily threw the keys away in the early 1950s , how the documents that were guarded with such care in the initial days of exile were mislaid or destroyed as their true meaning became clear ; because they proved ownership of a world that had disappeared . |
| 16 | It is remarkable that mental qualities that were selected for these purposes should have stood us in such good stead in the very different circumstances of the present day . |
| 17 | I do n't know if any of you are old enough to remember the sort of rubber corsets that were worn in those days . |
| 18 | Someone reading the latest work on the control of food intake , for example , might be puzzled at the amount of effort that went into understanding the effects of hypothalamic lesions on eating and at the theories that were erected around those experiments . |
| 19 | The broad-fronted houses stood between oak trees that were dressed in all the splendour of autumn bronze . |
| 20 | Do you recall any of the activities that were associated with either of them ? |
| 21 | Outside the site offices local people queue for jobs that were promised to each family . |
| 22 | Lord Sands in Murray v IRC at p138 stated : Now , that would be a sound view [ the view that expenses could not be deducted ( author 's insertion ) ] no doubt if any expenses that were incurred before any payment was made to her had been expenses incurred by somebody she had employed to collect the money , because then these expenses would have been her expenses if they had been incurred by someone whom she was free to employ or not to employ . |
| 23 | The characteristics of the 24 stimuli that were chosen for this experiment are described in greater detail in Chapter 7 . |
| 24 | In late 1988 the right was rendered well-nigh obsolete in Northern Ireland , by changes that were introduced without any consultation — we shall examine this further in Chapter 7 . |
| 25 | The US military were already spending vast sums on making tritium for warheads and the reactors that were used for this process had been closed , pending repairs , in 1988 as a result of nervousness about reactor safety following the Chernobyl accident . |
| 26 | Since this distribution is similar to that obtained in Study 2 these 14 categories were divided into the same six categories that were used in that study . |
| 27 | Have you got any information about the efficacy of the treatments that were used in those ? |
| 28 | Figure 7.5 shows the differences in P(A) for the films that were used in this study , a comparison of this figure with Figure 7.1 suggests that although the total amount of information in a stimulus does play an important role in memory it is clearly not sufficient to explain the recognition results . |
| 29 | The Agia Triadha sarcophagus is invaluable in showing us the funeral ceremonies that were offered for some important person around 1400 BC . |
| 30 | The second would be to hold by-elections in areas that were excluded from this week 's election because they were controlled by the Khmers Rouges . |