Example sentences of "that [was/were] [verb] [prep] " 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 | Although it is still possible that subjects ’ perceptions of the tasks could have been altered by the different exemplars of a junction that were viewed in the different experiments , it does not appear that the subset of 24 were unrepresentative of the full 60 . |
| 3 | In the first place developing countries accepted the loans that were thrust at them because they believed what the West was telling them — that it would be possible for them to industrialize , to develop their economies to the point where paying back the loan later on would be an easy matter . |
| 4 | And snowflakes were huge beautiful things that were hung from the ceilings on bits of thread . |
| 5 | Erm as I say he was a he was brilliant man er I mean we all we I 'm about one of the last of the ones that were taught under him . |
| 6 | Slowly , she walked towards him , struggling to quell the alarm bells that were ringing inside her head , and she should have listened to them because the minute she was inside the room Damian closed the door behind him and double-locked it . |
| 7 | He also had repaired many of the roads and bridges that were damaged in the great flood of I 803 and built a bridge at Câmara de Lobos , improved the municipal theatre and presented six beds and a hundred blankets to the hospital . |
| 8 | Neither he nor the Council was fully aware of the pressures for expansion that were to intensify from 1972 , or of what might be involved in a response to such injunctions as those of the THES to make the influence of the CNAA more widely felt . |
| 9 | Beneath the filmy topcoat he wore a black shirt and black trousers that were tucked into tall black boots . |
| 10 | Even sanguine members of the Cabinet dreaded the return of the taunting yellow ribbons that were tied to trees in Carter ’ s time , and feared especially the visits of grieving relatives to the White House . |
| 11 | IBM is believed to be working on a much less radical plan to copy General Motors Corp and issue different classes of common shares , each standing pari passu all the others in the event of a break-up , but each paying dividends that were tied to the performance of a single IBM unit , be it AdStar , Application Business Systems or Pennant Systems . |
| 12 | We accordingly vary the appellant 's undertaking to allow him to hand over to C.N.L. those P.C.A. documents that were incorporated in his appeal bundle , C.N.L. for their part undertaking to use those documents only for the purposes of defending the libel proceedings currently being pursued against them . |
| 13 | She had to get away somewhere on her own , before she found herself blurting out things she had never meant to say , making decisions that were swayed by the influence he still had over her . |
| 14 | It is probable that the jawless fish lived by grubbing in the sediment , or perhaps by filter feeding , possibly exploiting organic material derived from the plants that were taking to life on land at the same time . |
| 15 | It may be that the battle of Otford was a Kentish response to Mercian interference in the mid-770s in areas that were regarded by Ecgberht as within a Kentish sphere of influence . |
| 16 | It was during my visit that I made my acquaintance with Woolworths and thought it a marvellous store with goods that were priced at either 3d or 6d ; the firm did not arrive in Salisbury until 1927 . |
| 17 | As fig. 5.12 shows , these subjects learned the test more readily than did control subjects that were trained on the same task but had received initial Pavlovian training in which the tone and clicker were uncorrelated with reinforcer type . |
| 18 | We should view the Bill in the light of the package of panic measures that were announced in December , as the rapidly rising tide of repossessions threatened finally to engulf the remnants of this lame-duck Government . |
| 19 | It proved a complex process to eliminate variables that were related to intelligence without removing any that might be directly related to lead . |
| 20 | Can you give me some idea of some of the other trades that were represented in the er in the shop ? |
| 21 | yeah , but he was here the other Sunday and he , he , they were , he , he was reading my paper and he come back and he the following Sunday he said you have n't got last Sunday 's paper mum , I said I do n't know I might , oh I think I threw it out , anyway just happened to find it , it was something he read of some woman that were meddling on the pools and the , the , what she 'd used , you know and the |
| 22 | Then the floodlights that were hidden in the roof came on . |
| 23 | ‘ I warded off the blows that were struck at me and Sir Oswald did the same . |
| 24 | Always I had regarded them as only incidental to the main theme , the real great things that were to happen to me . |
| 25 | One could hardly wear garments that were ripped to shreds and spattered with blood . |
| 26 | but it 's only available for contributions that were withdrawn before the first of June nineteen seventy three and you know if you did n't meet that particular date then the only other way of of covering gaps is which is far more expensive . |
| 27 | Beneath the outward appearance of self-assurance and scholarly success , deep-seated psychological tensions were being set up in Nizan 's personality , tensions exacerbated by changes in Nizan 's family and educational situation , tensions that were to lead to a personal crisis . |
| 28 | When they looked closer they saw that he was whipping , not a fallen beast , but a spindly-legged Annamese ; both carts , they could see , contained refuse and had shafts front and back that terminated in cane , big wooden halters that were locked around the necks of four sweating Annamese . |
| 29 | Simplicity , the raid was preceded by three military helicopters that were fired upon before the cattle trucks even got here . |
| 30 | 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 . |