Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hoarse words were intended to come out as a joke , but instead they held a raw note of emotion which seemed to hang in the air between them . |
| 2 | The Lebanese army did not enter a nearby camp used by Dev Sol , the Turkish urban guerrilla group , but were expected to do so at a later date . |
| 3 | But because interest rates were expected to drop gradually over the coming 12 months , the view was that by early 1991 confidence would have returned , volumes picked up and prices started to lift — even if only by the inflation rate . |
| 4 | You may have then had a verbal exchange with your next in line , but bar that you were expected to get on with the work . |
| 5 | New arrivals were expected to blend smoothly into the fabric of Canadian life . |
| 6 | We could n't often see them from the main road which passed in front of the building because they were forbidden to look out of the windows . |
| 7 | The Blackpool cars were the largest , seating 84 , and two conductors were carried to cope respectively with the upper deck and the large platform doors . |
| 8 | Under South Korean electoral law only officially registered campaign workers were permitted to participate formally in the campaign . |
| 9 | The other structures were dispersed to linger only in the imagination of designers ; in its place Conservative freedom provided London with the first of the giant company headquarters built in the style of Orwell 's Ministry of Truth — the Shell building ( 1958 ) . |
| 10 | Indeed in cases where such companies had a vital stake , as with the British South Africa Union Minière in Zaire they were seen to behave badly at the very point at which their host countries became independent . |
| 11 | They were made to lie down on the floor in the back . |
| 12 | It seems that when they were made to lie down in the back of the truck and their hands were tied behind them , Katrine remembers there being rags underneath her . |
| 13 | From the back of the room where they were made to stand apart from the family for the rest of the ceremony , the three children were able to hear only snatches of their grandfather 's words as he conducted a long discourse praising the virtues of his dead parent . |
| 14 | Unfortunately those officers were needed to help out with the incident at Milton Keynes … shortly before the display . |
| 15 | We were woken up at 5.30 am , and Alex and I were told to go over to the kitchens to fetch the breakfast . |
| 16 | After a fortnight we were told to go down to the airfield for a possible lift into Assam , but often refugees went in the morning but were back in the evening as the planes were so busy taking out wounded soldiers . |
| 17 | Furthermore , they were told to point out to the mother that LGS would not reduce the output of stool from the sick child , but was meant to prevent the dehydration associated with the diarrhoea . |
| 18 | A second controlled explosion was carried out at 10.55pm and people were told to stay up to a mile away from the scene . |
| 19 | ‘ It was a serious fire and people were told to stay indoors as a precautionary measure . |
| 20 | Ray Angel and Brian Hodgson were entrusted to come up with a suitably electronic-sounding voice . |
| 21 | On arrival , conference participants were invited to sign up for a workshop of their choice . |
| 22 | Above all , the historians were inspired to carve out of the record of the past an exclusive nationalist slice . |
| 23 | However , the principle in Williams v Singer can not be taken too far and Lord Sands in Reid 's Trustees v IRC made the point that if the trustees were actually to receive the income which they were bound to pay over to the beneficiaries they will not avoid an assessment on themselves . |
| 24 | The blame fell on pollution ; not the clouds of smoke and occasional waves of sulphur dioxide which were known to drift up from the industrial valleys of the Ruhr and kill off the sensitive firs , but the more insidious long-term changes implied by acid rain . |
| 25 | Mounted officers called ‘ rangers ’ were appointed to drive back into the forest deer which had strayed into the purlieus . |
| 26 | In one task — rhyme monitoring — subjects were asked to listen out for a word which rhymed with a cue word given in advance ( e.g. doubt ) . |
| 27 | In the other task — category monitoring — subjects were asked to listen out for a word belonging to a particular semantic category ( e.g. fish ) . |
| 28 | Instead the 20 District Health authorities involved were asked to come up with a £9,000 each by tomorrow afternoon . |
| 29 | The two understudies were asked to come back on the Friday afternoon , when there was going to be a complete run of the play for the producers and Malcolm Harris . |
| 30 | Subjects were asked to look either to the left or to the right while choosing the odd one out from among three Hebrew words . |