Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | he , he were due to go back in the army and he overstayed |
| 2 | Existing UN food supplies were due to run out by the start of 1991 . |
| 3 | Tony took the overdose on Sunday night , at around the time when his father , his father 's girl friend and her son were due to come back from the pub . |
| 4 | But there was a limit beyond which the furtherance of working-class interests conflicted with the national interest ; few were prepared to advance there in the first two years of the war . |
| 5 | There were none the less in the later eighteenth century a number of rulers and ministers in Europe who were prepared to break radically with the past , to override vested interests and disregard deep-rooted traditions in the interests of the States they ruled . |
| 6 | The West Germans were prepared to pay handsomely for the right to emigrate of hundreds of thousands of German-speaking Romanian citizens whose ancestors had lived in the country for centuries . |
| 7 | And whatever the scholars of the sixteenth , seventeenth , and eighteenth centuries may have said or thought in private , there were very few who were prepared to come out into the open and publish opinions directly at variance with Holy Writ . |
| 8 | This was a surprising development ; Derry had a relatively weak Labour movement and had too small a population to create a sizeable pool of individuals who were prepared to stand out against the political and social attitudes of the majority . |
| 9 | They were afraid to come too near the house , so he escaped . |
| 10 | This carries two great dangers : It risks damaging the UN 's moral authority and reputation for impartiality if it is seen as the vehicle of superpower foreign policy ; it causes huge embarrassment to the UN when , because of its own priorities , the US is unable to help , and the UN is then confronted with the question why have you failed to act decisively in our crisis while you were willing to do so in the case of Iraq 's aggression ? |
| 11 | We were relieved to stop off at the Hotel de la Cachette in Arc 1600 for a delicious buffet lunch . |
| 12 | They were content to lie there in the sun , and it was all as Cassie had wanted it to be . |
| 13 | Most of them would be unlikely to sponsor a wholesale reconstruction of the educational system and were content to work strenuously within the generous limits of the new Act of 1944 . |
| 14 | Calero said he had never heard of it , except to read about it : ‘ Was that the one we were supposed to blow up on the high seas ? ’ |
| 15 | Hypocrisy entered this pattern of behaviour only in so far as the bourgeois women were supposed to remain entirely outside the game , and therefore in ignorance of what the men , and women other than themselves , were up to . |
| 16 | They were supposed to come back to the offices and do a three hour training |
| 17 | When the hot tub craze swept through California in the late 1970s middle-aged Wesley Laroya and his wife Helen were quick to get in on the action . |
| 18 | The Hugh Bell School in Middlesbrough opened on 7th January 1895 with 7 scholars as a deaf class in a cold , cramped room near the magistrates ' courts — who were wont to complain frequently about the noise from the alleyway between the classroom and the courts where the children played . |
| 19 | His footsteps were hard to pick out in the roaring darkness . |
| 20 | After seven hours of rock hopping and scree climbing we were glad to slide down to the mist-covered mountain lake to pitch our tent . |
| 21 | He added : ‘ The teacher is one of the very people who were glad to get away from the CTC and find employment in a properly-run county school . |
| 22 | The damp close air was heavy about them , it slowed their pace and they were glad to get back to the steading and watch Sullivan repairing the tractor . |
| 23 | I was not trained in economics , and economic matters were sure to figure largely in the run-up to the election and in the years to come . |
| 24 | three years ago , they actually announced first round dates which would have allowed for such a break and only changed their mind after being petitioned by a group of players who had been persuaded by ATP to say they were unhappy to play immediately after the Open . |
| 25 | Senior Tories were unwise to stay away from the forum . |
| 26 | Away to the west towards Memo , Lieutenant D. St. A. Dexter , supported by Turton , blocked the enemy 's eastward push that had overrun Dutch positions , but with the difficult hill country between them and Mape , they were unlikely to link up with the other columns . |
| 27 | Wingti 's position was improved by the defection to his government of a further six MPs , but it was widely assumed that some of those not rewarded with Cabinet office were unlikely to remain permanently within the government coalition . |
| 28 | The early 1800s produced a wealth of eccentric houses and cottages ornées by the seaside , built by the frustrated rich who were unable to go abroad during the Napoleonic Wars . |
| 29 | But the plans came to nothing when council officers were unable to come up with the money to help host the event which runs from March 3–5 . |
| 30 | Er and so the therefore you see , these are some of the reasons why w we were unable to get close to the er er er younger members , who were or or or the younger people who were employed in the coal industry . |