Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [to-vb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chippendales were due to perform at the Leisure Centre two years ago . |
| 2 | Liz was right to vanish , as the boys were right to congregate at the Maid Marian and avoid their grandmothers . |
| 3 | At the lower end of the social scale , the dusty rather than the ‘ fit-to-be-dusted ’ classes , people were prepared to encamp at the station for days . |
| 4 | One of the strongest indications of class throughout the world came to be the length of time the travellers were prepared to spend at the station and the quantity of baggage which they had with them when they passed through it . |
| 5 | It was clear to the classical writers that there were tens of thousands of workers who were unemployed and who were prepared to work at the going ( real or money ) wage rate . |
| 6 | He and Shinwell had told the Central Authority at their first meeting in September 1947 that , while general price rises could be ruled out , they were prepared to look at the possibility of controlling demand at peak times by differentially higher prices for peak use or by mechanical load-restricting devices . |
| 7 | ‘ We were wrong to laugh at the idea of Europeans mastering football , ’ said Chapman in the Sunday Express after the game . |
| 8 | With these , but with no filming permits , since they were impossible to obtain at the time , we winged it to the steaming metropolis of Jakarta . |
| 9 | During his first march into the west Gorbad broke into many Dwarf tombs and stole the magic weapons they contained , an act of desecration that enraged the Dwarfs but which they were powerless to prevent at the time . |
| 10 | And they were shocked to hear at the end of the three-month trial that Allitt suffered from a dangerous personality disorder . |
| 11 | Just a few weeks before the zoo was due to close at the end of September , a meeting of the Zoological Society of London , which owns both Whipsnade Wild Animal Park and London Zoo , revealed that after struggling on despite falling attendances , the zoo 's finances have finally broken even . |
| 12 | ‘ He was due to retire at the end of the year anyway . |
| 13 | He had been selected from hundreds of applicants with stars in their eyes by producer Harry Adair , and was due to appear at the Broadcasting House auditions on Saturday . |
| 14 | Proceedings were expected to be dominated by the question of a successor to Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , whose second five-year term as UN Secretary-General was due to expire at the end of 1991 . |
| 15 | For a few moments he was content to look at the maid 's face and the way the orange firelight lent it strength and mystery . |
| 16 | When he invited Derek to confirm the existence of Tristram Abberley 's letters to his sister , it was impossible to guess at the purpose of his enquiry . |
| 17 | Willi Herget , a Luftwaffe nightfighter ace with 74 confirmed kills , told me that halfway along this track it was easy to guess at the target , because a line of burning British bombers pointed the way to Nuremburg . |
| 18 | The natural British attitude to sex made any open homosexual conduct such as was supposed to exist at the French Stalags inconceivable , while the lack of any privacy made public school secrecy impossible . |
| 19 | Where the nuisance was in existence at the time the abatement notice was served , and continued or was likely to recur at the time proceedings for a nuisance order began then whether or not it was continuing or was likely to recur at the date of the hearing , the court must also order the defendant to pay the local authority the cost of the proceedings to obtain the nuisance order . |
| 20 | Where the nuisance was in existence at the time the abatement notice was served , and continued or was likely to recur at the time proceedings for a nuisance order began then whether or not it was continuing or was likely to recur at the date of the hearing , the court must also order the defendant to pay the local authority the cost of the proceedings to obtain the nuisance order . |
| 21 | The girl was quick to catch at the hint , drawing breath gratefully . |
| 22 | When the new SLD was born , its leader , Paddy Ashdown , was quick to grab at the notion . |
| 23 | If for any reason the plaintiff was unable to come at the time fixed for his hearing , he became ‘ non-suited ’ , and the man he hoped to sue could collect the deposit he had left with the clerk on starting the action . |
| 24 | However , thanks to a nervous disorder , Cameron Nielson III was unable to play at the party and , at the last minute , Cameron agreed to step in . |
| 25 | The higher order of passenger was able to arrive at the station shortly before the departure of the train and proceed directly to accommodation on it . |
| 26 | So inviting was the gap created that the loose forward was able to score at the back of the posts , leaving Maskill with another simple kick . |
| 27 | Gerald became so successful in farming and property that he was able to retire at the age of forty . |
| 28 | Even so , he was able to look at the fireglow of the Chariot , and he was able to look into the light and see the salamanders with their wise faces and their eyes filled with ancient knowledge . |
| 29 | First , black workers were recruited for precisely those jobs , usually poorly paid and involving unpleasant working conditions , which the indigenous white working class was able to reject at the time of economic expansion , thus preventing the development of bottlenecks in production and permitting higher levels of capital accumulation . |
| 30 | also , I was able to work at the painting knowing I could obliterate any unwanted areas ; this gave me the freedom I needed . |