Example sentences of "were [adj] [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coetzee checked to see that the pockets were empty so that nothing could be lost at the scene of the crime . |
| 2 | We were glad enough that the weather seemed set fair for the remainder of our voyage and next morning set off on the last few miles of our northerly course to round the utmost tip of Shetland . |
| 3 | They were glad then that all was calm , as he guided them to the harbour they desired ’ ( Psalms 107:29–30 ) . |
| 4 | Her lips were open so that the cold air came gasping there like water flowing much too fast to drink . |
| 5 | Interviews were tape-recorded so that a trained rater could play back the tape and rate the relatives on : critical comments , hostility , overinvolvement , warmth and positive remarks . |
| 6 | This approach was mirrored in the Law Commission Working Paper No 85 on the Sale and Supply of Goods ( 1983 ) where a recommendation was made to abolish the automatic classification of statutory implied terms as conditions , the buyer in a consumer sale being given the right to reject for any breach of the implied terms unless the consequences and nature of the breach were trivial so that rejection would be unreasonable . |
| 7 | The UCD [ Union of the Democratic Centre under the leadership of Adolfo Suárez ] government consented to things which were not totally justified but which were necessary so that the mass of the workers could see that the country had changed and that dialogue was beginning . |
| 8 | The improved neutron detector was finally ready ‘ later in the year ’ and ‘ within a few weeks ’ the results were positive enough that they formed the basis of the paper that was sent for publication on 23 March 1989 , the paper that should have been sibling to that of Fleischmann and Pons . |
| 9 | Some of the latter were portable so that a current of air could be allowed to play direct on to the patients ' faces . |
| 10 | In this particular case many more than 3,800 papers were transferable so that the value of each paper was less than .01 and therefore no transfers could be made . |