Example sentences of "were [adv] [noun] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were mostly things that had already reached the west . |
| 2 | But these features were obviously not the ‘ causes ’ of crime , they were merely signs that supposedly enabled us to spot criminals . |
| 3 | In the course of a statement to a congressional committee on Jan. 23 Greenspan said that such comments were not putting pressure on the Federal Reserve , but were merely statements that lower interest rates were preferable to higher ones . |
| 4 | Palestinian nationalists became suspicious , since there were soon rumours that he was seeking recognition as Amir of Palestine in return for support of Zionist policy . |
| 5 | Oh yes , but they were just things that you tied at the back and and er had a frilled round here They were bonny . |
| 6 | They were just movies that did n't come together — poorly executed , I guess . |
| 7 | The andirons with the brass flowers at the ends appeared unreal ; the burning logs were just logs that were burning and not the comfortable symbols of an indestructible mode of life . |
| 8 | By this time there were already suspicions that these atoms were not , after all , indivisible . |
| 9 | There were already signs that told the motorist he was approaching , say , the Newport Pagnell or Watford Gap service areas . |
| 10 | Within a short space of time , however , there were already signs that the Brussels structure was running away from the British idea . |
| 11 | There were already rumors that the new astronomy was incompatible with Scripture , and he had already been denounced from the pulpit . |
| 12 | There were early fears that the sooty plumes would disrupt the Asian monsoon . |
| 13 | But there were still things that needed to be said , explanations to be given , and in the end it was David who broke the silence . |
| 14 | They just wiped the cities out completely , raised them to the ground , but there were still people that survived it . |
| 15 | There were still rumours that the Caldecott business methods were not above suspicion , but he became part of the establishment . |
| 16 | There were also birds that could sing popular songs . |
| 17 | This was to be expected , as there were also signs that after the construction of the mound someone had dug down and entered the chamber through its roof , but it was not until the late 1970s that excavations in the church revealed their likely motives . |
| 18 | There were also reports that some had jumped on the trains as they passed through East Germany , or that the numbers could have included previously uncounted children . |
| 19 | There were also reports that Iraq had sought sanctuary for many of its most modern aircraft in Iran . |
| 20 | There were also reports that North Korea was developing a new missile with sufficient range to reach Japan , and currently had the capacity to produce 4,500 tonnes of chemical weapons per year . |
| 21 | There were also hints that the West German government had paid some sort of ransom for Cordes . |
| 22 | There were also fears that Japan planned to do just what America does : use defence spending and research to help build a civil aerospace industry , and thus beat Boeing . |
| 23 | There were also fears that the same trends of homelessness among mentally ill people as had become apparent in the USA were being repeated in Britain . |
| 24 | There were also fears that the Russian Federation would stop the Soviet practice of supplying oil at well below the world market price while buying Cuban sugar at well above international prices . |
| 25 | There were also fears that public disenchantment with current economic austerity policies , and with widespread corruption in both the public and private sectors , could be used by the military to justify a seizure of power , in line with the abortive February coup attempt in Venezuela [ see pp. 38759-60 ] and the successful military-backed coup of President Alberto Keinya Fujimori in Peru on April 5 [ see pp. 38846-47 ] . |
| 26 | There were also rumours that Ford had now taken its stake up to the maximum 15 per cent allowed under the golden share held in Jaguar by the Government since its privatisation in 1984 . |
| 27 | There were also suggestions that Telefunken is already going cool on the terms of the compromise because they would not allow the West German group a large enough share of work on what is regarded as one of the key military avionics technologies . |
| 28 | There were also suggestions that Telefunken is already going cool on the terms of the compromise because they would not allow the West German group a large enough share of work on what is regarded as one of the key military avionics technologies . |
| 29 | However , there were also indications that heroin use continued to thrive in such areas as Rock Ferry , New Ferry , Bidston , New Brighton , Tranmere , Bromborough and Liscard . |
| 30 | There were also indications that branches of physical geography were acknowledging the necessity for studies of processes in view of the way in which processes were featuring more prominently in related disciplines . |