Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rates in Gloucester were due to fall under the Tories . |
| 2 | They were prepared to sit by the bedsides of sick neighbours to relieve the burden of their families and allow them to save their energy to cope with the farmwork . |
| 3 | At least in what other poorer women were telling me , when it came to after work and weekends the men were quite the women were prepared to look after the children and felt it was their role to look after the children while the man was at work ; when the man came back he continued to feel that the woman should look after the children erm for the rest of the time , and the idea of a shared child care arrangement did not operate in at least a number of the families that I talked to and had been one of the causes of the breakdown of the marriage and one of the precipitating factors in the man physically abusing the woman . |
| 4 | And if she says you were wrong to ask for the things , tell her that I say you were right , and that I was pleased to help . |
| 5 | It none the less remains true that there existed within the late seventeenth-century church a group of churchmen who adopted a tolerant approach towards dissent , were willing to respond to the discoveries of the early natural scientists , and were interested in the relationship between religious belief and reason . |
| 6 | Giovanna and her friend Ninetta were willing to help with the hens , in fact to provide physical assistance in the premature delivery of eggs . |
| 7 | Like any other European colonialists , they were content to rely upon the services of interpreters from among the local people as they advanced farther into unknown territory . |
| 8 | Many dealers were content to stay on the sidelines until the publication of April trade figures later in the day . |
| 9 | They were content to stay in the back-streets of our towns making their own coffins and providing a much needed service to a community which was either unqualified , unwilling or unable to extend to such outrageous luxuries . |
| 10 | Rolls-Royce were swift to establish in the courts that their purchase of the trademark Bentley overrode their contract with him , which had banned his own use of his name for ten years only . |
| 11 | We motored on a further thirty miles and when the road ended were lucky to get on a goods train with our precious stock of food . |
| 12 | I 'VE DONE IT , MUM JUBILANT Sally ca n't believe she has beaten American rival Sandra Farmer-Patrick to the gold medal — and her mum and dad were quick to join in the celebrations . |
| 13 | The Panel found that the persons involved in the case were unlikely to comply with the standards expected in the conduct of UK takeovers and consequently reported its conclusions to the SIB , the SROs and RPBs for appropriate action by each of them in the light of their several cold shouldering rules . |
| 14 | Nothing was achieved and several men had to be left ashore as they were unable to swim to the boats , whose RNVR crews would not beach for fear of damage to the crafts ' hulls . |
| 15 | We prefer to subscribe to an alternative explanation : subjects were unable to work through the implications of increased riskiness but wrongly perceived an increase in it as bad . |
| 16 | Of the 24 patients who fulfilled the entry criteria , six were unable to comply with the exigencies of the protocol and did not complete the run in period and one patient was later found to be misusing drugs and her data were not included in the analysis . |
| 17 | Others say they were unable to comply with the surgeons instructions that they undertake no lifting or pulling for a period of time after the operation . |
| 18 | Pickets were unable to communicate with the strike-breakers as they were whisked by — peaceful persuasion was not possible . |
| 19 | As no party emblems were allowed , mostly illiterate rural campesinos ( peasants ) and urban slum dwellers in particular were unable to distinguish between the parties and most failed to vote . |
| 20 | The Authority , and its schools , were able to draw on the skills of six experienced teachers ; the institute and the students were able to use the local knowledge and pragmatic insights of the schools ' staff and the advisory teacher . |
| 21 | We think probably the reverse is the case , and we feel certain that if the industrious factory woman were able to deposit in the savings bank a portion of her earnings in her own name , the school pence for her children would be very seldom withheld ’ . |
| 22 | NOW that the World Cup is over and we are back to the league games again , I think that all rugby supporters who were able to go to the matches or to watch it on television must admit that rugby was the winner . |
| 23 | However , because the New Range project is very recent in history , it was possible to interview key participants who were able to elaborate on the minutiae of the planning process . |
| 24 | Looking at the matter generally , I can not believe that that could conceivably have been the intention of Parliament when passing the Children Act 1989 and thereby , if Judge Galpin is right , taking away from children within England and Wales the right to have an order made in their best interests by returning them to where they ought to be , which was a right which those children had , and parents acting on their behalf were able to claim in the courts , until 14 October 1991 . |
| 25 | Three-quarters were able to distinguish between the T-shirts and pick out the one with their body scent on . |
| 26 | So beware : if we were able to read between the lines that easily , so too can your family and friends ! |
| 27 | Only four wheeled drive trucks were able to pass through the floods but apart from them and buses and lorries , Debenham was cut off . |
| 28 | On the well-defined Teviotdale road they proceeded next morning , and now were able to check at the villages and communities they passed that they were still on Balliol 's route , without the time-consuming searching for tracks . |
| 29 | Families , clans , states and other collectivities could vie with each other in the riches they were able to consign to the graves of departed members . |
| 30 | The families of the victims were reluctant to co-operate with the police at first because they felt the staff at the hospital where Allitt was a student nurse — the Grantham and Kesteven — had done a wonderful job . |