Example sentences of "were [adv] [adj] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had an unpleasant suspicion that some of the letter writers were rather disappointed that 1984 will not see an enormous ministry for rewriting history and so on . |
| 2 | Many of the reformers were keenly aware that their proposal would entail an extension of state activity and the curtailment of the voluntary principle . |
| 3 | We were keenly aware that the local and national authorities , to say nothing of the international archaeological community , would have been horrified by such a spectacle . |
| 4 | Medics and educationalists were keenly aware that the best way of inculcating the laws of health was through a stress on the pleasures to be gained from PT . |
| 5 | And , when , finally , she did emerge from her curtain cubicle to face the other girls , they took it very well , for they could afford to be charitable , and they were secretly glad that Clara 's style was cramped , for without some handicap she would have been a more serious threat . |
| 6 | Neither writers nor architects were wholly unaware that these were to be houses for human beings to live in . |
| 7 | The Foreign Office and the Ministry of Defence were acutely aware that the Republic of South Africa is the sole stable country in Africa ; that its government is opposed to the increasing presence of the USSR and China in Africa and that it controls the sea route to the Indian Ocean where the USSR has mounted a powerful naval challenge . |
| 8 | Staff and prisoners at Maidstone were acutely aware that , in a training prison , they were relatively well off compared to the overcrowded local prisons , whose barren regimes often mean prisoners being locked in their cells twenty-three hours each day . |
| 9 | As women escalated their campaign of militant action in 1912 and 1913 they were acutely conscious that male attitudes-deeply embedded in the legal profession , the police and the courts-sustained not just men 's political power but also women 's sexual oppression . |
| 10 | And the minority who chose to behave in this way were mostly aware that they had no one to blame but themselves — which made it all the more painful . |
| 11 | Disarmers were uneasily aware that , even if all existing nuclear weapons were destroyed , the knowledge of how to make them would be revived fast enough in the event of a future global war . |
| 12 | So th- people were most concerned that women 's morale should be kept up and that one should should n't worry too much . |
| 13 | Trousers , she now realised , were so designed not because their wearers had funny legs but because men were constantly worried that an essential part of themselves might have gone missing . |
| 14 | ‘ People were extremely disappointed that conservationists could not come up with exciting positive solutions for potential land that might come out of agriculture , ’ says Miss Appleby . |
| 15 | However many of the group 's participants were extremely disappointed that the Chairmen of the Welsh Development Agency and the Development Board for Rural Wales withdrew their support from the statement just before its publication , despite their officers having contributed fully to its preparation . |
| 16 | When the news got back to them , on 27 September , the County Council were extremely annoyed that two of ‘ their cars ’ should be loaned outside the County and demanded their immediate return . |
| 17 | By the beginning of the second week , the organisers knew that the strike had achieved a substantial measure of success , but were much concerned that the media reports suggested the contrary . |
| 18 | In fiscal 1992 , the drain on finances was development costs for the Sparcbook , exacerbated by a fall in demand for the board-level products : these were sufficiently severe that the company had to raise £572,000 in March in another rights issue after having to throw itself onto the mercy of its bankers and creditors in order to continue trading . |
| 19 | The new ideas were an outgrowth from this , but were sufficiently novel that they could n't be pursued within the terms of his research contract with the DOE . |
| 20 | At the time the analysts and the client were somewhat concerned that it was not practicable to implement fully either of the FAOR technical solutions , as expectations had been raised about the final outcome before the implications of these solutions were known in any detail . |
| 21 | Those responsible for initial teacher training , for example , were apparently relieved that the Polytechnic , upon its merger with the Lady Spencer Churchill College of Education in 1975 , was not intending to leave them as a monotechnic island in the interdisciplinary sea of the Polytechnic , particularly when it remained possible ( as confirmed by subsequent experience elsewhere ) that isolation would mean a low ranking in whatever prioritization exercises the Polytechnic might be forced to undertake . |
| 22 | Yet Ministers only received £5000 and Permanent Secretaries in the civil service £3500 , and the Treasury were naturally concerned that public sector industries should not get too far out of line . |
| 23 | In the five steps above there were only two that were dramatic — where one partner had to speak in role and the class improvised . |
| 24 | The waves of protest were so strong that I almost gave up there and then . |
| 25 | Even before IRCA , the ties between Mexican workers and the American labour market were so strong that migration was bound to increase . |
| 26 | ‘ Those days Australia were so strong that once you were out of the team it was extremely difficult to get back in . |
| 27 | It was hard , travelling home in that bus , and surrounded by the immense , evident , and varied liberties of people and land , to believe in the small impossibilities of her own home , and she felt , as she so frequently felt , the will to believe it to be different : the truth was too grotesque and too unnatural , and her hopes were so strong that she carelessly let them wander a little , giving them a little leeway , letting them sniff and pry and explore . |
| 28 | It seemed to the court that in its current form the civil components of the process of judicial review were so strong that an application which claimed the civil relief authorised by section 21K was to be regarded as a civil cause or matter . |
| 29 | Her own memories were so strong that she feared that she would burst into hysterics before him , and that would never do . |
| 30 | Nuclear weapons were so destructive that those states which possessed them had to be very careful about getting involved in any conflicts , whether with other nuclear states or with their allies . |