Example sentences of "we [was/were] [adj] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were pleased to see the oppressive , grimy terraces pulled down to make way for something bright and modern . |
| 2 | We were shocked to read the factual errors in your article on the Cuban Government 's AIDS policy ( Briefly NI 198 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ We were keen to join the general SVQ pilot from the start . |
| 4 | After all our travels we were sorry to see the trusty GRiD go . |
| 5 | ‘ Then we were right to deny the Hung Mao their heritage ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I believe we were right to rejoin the fair , but I am still not sure how much hard business actually takes place here . |
| 7 | In the Department of Public Relations we were fortunate to have the temporary services of U Kyaw Tha of the Burma Civil Service to undertake all this planning . |
| 8 | When this happened we had to wait until it was repaired , and if it proved impossible we were entitled to see the next film the following Sunday , for nothing . |
| 9 | By that time I had copied her training set-up in my own lab , and we were able to repeat the entire experiment as before . |
| 10 | We reported our finds to the local office where we were able to borrow the official car to transport the goodies to Valiant . |
| 11 | We were able to ask the 83 applicants who mentioned vocational motives as being one reason for their interest , albeit not necessarily the main one , for more detail ( see Table 2 ) |
| 12 | I would also like to erm ask that erm that we do have everything we can to ensure that where this council has the possibility as erm landowner or property owner or whatever that we prevent or certainly discourage the use of such property for car boot sales and I had in mind sales that are taking place based on erm education property and in the case of Hatfield we were able to persuade the relevant authorities to er cause the car boot sale to cease but that particular car boot sale was causing great damage to the legitimate traders in both the Hatfield market and the Hatfield town centre . |
| 13 | The reappearance of one of these tureens after so many years was exciting enough , but only a week later the mail produced a murky Polaroid snapshot of another tureen in South america and we were able to offer the two , reunited on the auction block after about 159 years . |
| 14 | The fact that we were able to change the front page up to 3 am. if necessary gave us a tremendous advantage over the national papers , already on their way to Wales by train . |
| 15 | However , we were able to study the basic history of Buddhism , the life of the Buddha and the simplified summaries which every Buddhist learns . |
| 16 | But we did have to wait until the chimpanzees completely accepted out presence before we were able to observe the other food-gathering behaviour that truly sets apart the forest chimpanzees — regular co-operative hunting . |
| 17 | Emanuel Shinwell , who has never changed his mind on this issue , was clear in 1918 about the wrong-headedness of destroying the people 's grammar schools while leaving unscathed the privileged Public Schools : ‘ We were afraid to tackle the public schools to which the wealthy people send their sons , but at the same time are ready to throw overboard the grammar schools which are for many working-class boys the stepping-stone to the universities and a useful career . |
| 18 | erm our main objective if I could start with education , which is erm the erm predominant service provided by the County , we were concerned to protect the delegated budgets to schools , particularly the primary and the secondary schools . |
| 19 | We were interested to examine the adhesive properties of E coli which we had isolated in studies of the flora closely associated with the rectal mucosa , a flora in which the expression of adhesins and other adhesion associated characteristics might be expected to be favoured or prerequisite , and to compare our results with those reported for faecal isolates . |
| 20 | Bill Crighton , Head of Civil/Structural Engineering at Telford College stated that ‘ We were unable to separate the two — make of that what you will ! ’ |