Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No special arrangements were made in the law for people ‘ cohabiting ’ , but the Assistance Board and their successors were expected to use their discretionary powers to ensure that such people were treated just the same as married couples . |
| 2 | Dissident former members of Jugnauth 's MSM , led by former Finance Minister Vishnu Lutchmeenaraidoo , were expected to form their own party . |
| 3 | We , we were expected , we did , we were expected to keep our own rooms tidy . |
| 4 | Most of the cuts , which were negotiated over 20 months [ see pp. 37201 ; 37267 ; 37335 ; 37473-74 ; 37796-97 ] , would be made by the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact countries , which were expected to reduce their total arsenal by as much as 40 per cent . |
| 5 | It was there for all to see — BR became less of a corporate business , more an overlord for the sectors who were expected to find their own feet with or without government subsidy . |
| 6 | Instead , they were seen to raise their right arms in the ‘ Heil Hitler ! ’ salute of the National Socialist movement . |
| 7 | Members of parliament and top civil servants were made to reveal their financial assets , some of which proved to be astonishingly large . |
| 8 | Various hypotheses based on different kinds of anatomical evidence were offered to identify which invertebrate type had been the ancestor from which the ‘ main line ’ of vertebrate evolution had taken off . |
| 9 | Er Nottingham had about three attempts to pinch , and er the last one they were told to put their own house in order , first , because conditions were so much better than in the city . |
| 10 | When Goanese Christians complained of this discrimination they were told to start their own order , which they did very successfully . |
| 11 | An orphanage , perhaps , like the one where we were going to leave my new-born baby ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ You had a brave face on earlier tonight : you were going to lead your own life , were n't you ? |
| 13 | They were keeping it a secret and they were going to take him some place where they sold parrots . |
| 14 | ‘ Mr Nicholson , ’ Paul Merrick said , brushing loose strands of wispy hair from his face , ‘ you said you were going to show us some kind of answer to the problems of overcrowding . |
| 15 | Your personal recollection of evaluation may be limited to semi-formal evaluation ‘ sessions ’ tacked onto the end of a study block or course , when you were invited to give your personal views and answer preset questions on the strengths and weaknesses of the work or study methods , quality of lectures , usefulness of discussions and so on . |
| 16 | were invited to demonstrate their top grade Chapatti flour recently at the largest ethnic centre in the country at Ealing Road , Wembley . |
| 17 | The idea originated at the Museum and Art Gallery of Walsall in 1989 when local people were invited to display their own collections . |
| 18 | Entrants were invited to send their left trainer in an air-tight packet to Atlantic 252 radio station . |
| 19 | We were invited to contemplate their respective personalities , their little foibles , their dress sense , their wives and even such physical features ( supposedly indicative of their state of mind ) as the colour of their eyes . |
| 20 | But however enthusiastically they cultivated this aura , Australians were bound to feel themselves second-class citizens . |
| 21 | In his memory , Sue and Arabella were beginning to lose their separate outlines . |
| 22 | Outside , Marxist socialism was beginning to be given attention by orators , and syndicalist trade unionists were beginning to flex their industrial muscles . |
| 23 | From a socialist point of view the government was barren , yet incomes policy and fiscal restraint were beginning to produce their intended effects and the expansion of world trade was benefiting the economy . |
| 24 | We were coming to see you last night , and then all day so he said it were n't fair to go anywhere like he was . |
| 25 | Blix warned that the agency was experiencing serious financial difficulty as a result of the ever-increasing demands being made on it without adequate financial provision and because many members were failing to pay their annual contributions in full . |
| 26 | The interior spaces of the wedge-shaped building were converted to suit their new function by artists Robert Irwin and Richard Fleischner , with architect David Raphael Singer , whose particular brief was to retain the all-glass walls of the building while making it a suitable and secure venue for displaying works of art . |
| 27 | THE tiny tots of St Kieran 's Nursery School were asked to pick their favourite ditties . |
| 28 | Supporters in the west were asked to give their first preference to Harry West and their second to John Taylor ; those in the east , vice versa . |
| 29 | In the national audience research survey I conducted in 1970–73 , listeners were asked to state their favourite programme or programmes . |
| 30 | Staff were asked to rate their overall impression of the Back Office system but , as can be see from the branch perception graph , at the beginning of this year the measure was split to get a clearer understanding of branches ' perception of availability and response times . |