Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus her choice of the quaint word , ‘ sweet ’ is no coincidence ; sweetness is the quality Victorian men were taught to prize in a woman above all others . |
| 2 | The verderers were intended to act as a check upon the paid Forest officers in the interests of the Crown , but the numerous instances already cited of peculation and extortion on the part of the latter seem to indicate that the verderers were in many instances overawed by the authority and influence of the wardens and foresters of fee . |
| 3 | They were expected to continue for a month , with a 10-day break in early September . |
| 4 | Attempts to rationalize production [ see p. 36635 ] did not , however , hold up prices which were expected to fall to an average of US$1,600 per tonne in the second half of 1989 . |
| 5 | The ACP countries also expressed concern that the aims of the convention would be jeopardized by the planned introduction of a single market in the Community by 1992 , the opening towards East European countries , and the EC 's willingness to grant concessions to third countries under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) , all of which were expected to lead to a dilution of aid and benefits for ACP countries and to weaken the EC 's commitment to the convention . |
| 6 | So should voters , it would be rather absurd I think , well Mill thinks , that if jurors were expected to come to a decision on the basis of what they would prefer , would you prefer this person to be sent down or would you prefer them to get off . |
| 7 | At a subsequent season they were less keen when they found they were expected to work on a raft near the famous Sporting Club . |
| 8 | However 3,076 prisoners and 1,731 others on parole were expected to benefit from a pardon law , details of which were published on May 14 . |
| 9 | The Highlanders were said to live on a diet of children , while the prince 's quartermaster put in a well-timed but no doubt inflated demand for the town to provide billets for 13,000 foot and , a more accurate figure , 300 horse . |
| 10 | Near-by , Pipkin and Dandelion were pretending to feed on a patch of scrub . |
| 11 | New recruits of one futures selling bucket shop were made to listen to a tape recording of a " model " sales presentation . |
| 12 | If you got into trouble you were made to sit on a chair and look at a wall for twenty-four hours a day . |
| 13 | We went up to the top floor and were told to sleep in a room full of grey metal bunks and steel lockers , and to sleep fully clothed to avoid the lice . |
| 14 | They were told to enter in a book the goods and income of all men . |
| 15 | Rough terraces of seats were fashioned to serve as an auditorium . |
| 16 | You said you were going to spend about a pound fifty on each child . |
| 17 | After all , they were going to live in a village they had never even seen , and during the next hour or so they would discover what manner of place their new home was . |
| 18 | One thing that I had grasped about the whole business was that we were going to live in a country area where there would be lots of wildlife , and I had heard of King Arthur , of course . |
| 19 | Because you know money-wise because we were not content to sit back and see er schemes being introduced that , which were going to act as a deterrent to er our members er being able to earn wages er on incentives and so therefore erm what happened was that we agreed that the consultants er head personnel manager would come down and talk to each group of people who were being put on to the incentive scheme , one , in order that he go over everything with them in regard to its application , and two , then answer any practical questions er where our members may find that there could be difficulties . |
| 20 | Her sister was coming to stay the night , they were going to go to a lecture on Charles Rennie Mackintosh . |
| 21 | We need to shift to the procedure that we would probably have and a tell me if I 'm wrong I thought there was a sort of general agreement without it being sort of firmly agreed that we were going to go for a format of subject specific reports still coming to form tutor who would complete some sort of general report , is that |
| 22 | This is something we said we were going to discuss at a time in the future and I thought I 'd stick it on and see how much time we 'd got left . |
| 23 | There was a man who spoke a bit of English and he said they were going to send for a doctor , but I told them you suffered from fits and you 'd be all right . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Why did n't you tell me you were going to jump into a refuse truck ? ’ |
| 25 | Later that evening both men were invited to sit on a Questions Panel . |
| 26 | In 1987 , with the approval of the local medical and optical committees , Islington general practitioners and optometrists were invited to participate in a pilot prompting project . |
| 27 | The dispersal of people to increasingly distant suburbs and the growing concentrations of service industries in city centres were bound to lead to a re-invasion by young professionals and executives of inner areas long abandoned to the working class … |
| 28 | That 's a relief — you were beginning to sound like a Jehovah 's Witness . |
| 29 | They had learned a new set of problem management techniques which they were beginning to use as a matter of course without seeing them as being a single method of solving a particular problem . |
| 30 | But , despite the electric atmosphere , they were beginning to function as a team . |