Example sentences of "were [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Undertones were due to re-form for the night but John and Damian O'Neill had to return to Derry following the tragic death of their father . |
| 2 | The Second World War broke out the day before the majority of deaf schools were due to reassemble after the summer holidays . |
| 3 | Three hundred people at R-A-F Brize Norton and the major Oxford hospitals were due to participate in the excercise which would have simulated a runway collision between a V-C Ten and a Tristar . |
| 4 | On Aug. 4 and 5 , in the week before UN staff were due to arrive in the territory to start preparing the January 1992 UN-supervised referendum [ see p. 38169 ] , Moroccan aircraft strafed the oasis of Tfariti in the north-east , near the Mauritanian border , while Polisario Front guerrillas claimed to have shot down a Moroccan aircraft . |
| 5 | The Chippendales were due to perform at the Leisure Centre two years ago . |
| 6 | initial destinations questionnaires were sent to 171 SERC-funded students : SERC provided details of the names and departments of students holding information engineering awards that were due to come to an end in 1984 ; |
| 7 | Former Chancellor Fred Sinowatz , former Interior Minister Karl Blecha and former Foreign Minister Leopold Gratz were due to appear before the court in this respect . |
| 8 | The canoeists were due to travel along the coastline from Lyme Regis to Charmouth . |
| 9 | And the Pioneers were right to see in the dispossession by the consumer interest of the rights of the workers in the Manufacturing Society as a fundamental change of Co-operative purpose and as implying the acceptance of a much more limited expectation for it , but wrong not to recognise that that change , that limitation inhered in the idea of a dividend itself : for that , more than anything else , activated the potential conflict of interest created by the differing functions — that of workers making things for sale and that of consumers buying them to use . |
| 10 | Liz was right to vanish , as the boys were right to congregate at the Maid Marian and avoid their grandmothers . |
| 11 | If ever it were possible to agree upon a scheme of regional government , then there might be a basis for regional representation , but attempts at this have so far failed . |
| 12 | Those gaping soldiers were prepared to die for the queen , not because they loved their mother , not because they had been drilled in the ideals of patriotism , but simply because their brains and their jaws were built by genes stamped from the master die carried in the queen herself . |
| 13 | At a concluding public rally , attended by over 250,000 people , he declared that the people were prepared to die for the revolution if the United States invaded the country . |
| 14 | At the lower end of the social scale , the dusty rather than the ‘ fit-to-be-dusted ’ classes , people were prepared to encamp at the station for days . |
| 15 | Arrangements were made for her to go to a home specialising in care for people who were motivated to look after themselves , and the staff were prepared to cope with the deafness . |
| 16 | We 'd gotten to the stage where we were selling out venues like the Hammersmith Odeon and none of us were prepared to return to the club circuit , so we quit while we were ahead . |
| 17 | In the fifties it was very run-down and it was possible to buy the glory of a house with a painted ceiling and good stucco if you were prepared to do without the luxury of heating and hot water . |
| 18 | While the leadership of the IFL was evidently opposed to Mosley , they were prepared to co-operate with the rank and file of his organization . |
| 19 | One of the strongest indications of class throughout the world came to be the length of time the travellers were prepared to spend at the station and the quantity of baggage which they had with them when they passed through it . |
| 20 | As one who joined the Leader of the Opposition in voting against the Single European Act , before the right hon. Gentleman became a Euro-fanatic , may I appeal to my right hon. Friend to warn the voters about the huge dangers to the much-improved labour relations of Britain if they were to vote into power any Government who were prepared to pass over the power to wreck our trade union reforms by majority vote in Brussels ? |
| 21 | It was clear to the classical writers that there were tens of thousands of workers who were unemployed and who were prepared to work at the going ( real or money ) wage rate . |
| 22 | He was used to working with crews who knew him and who , like his casts , were prepared to work round the clock to achieve the effects he desired . |
| 23 | In all , 30 companies contributed ; in addition to the 13 questionnaire replies , nine were prepared to speak on the telephone , of a total of 25 called , and eight were visited and interviewed in more detail . |
| 24 | Last night none of the defendants were prepared to speak about the matter . |
| 25 | Respondents were asked how far they were prepared to travel for a conference : |
| 26 | Erm but one of the reasons that , that we got the audience was , was so that they , they obviously the audience were prepared to pay for the fact that |
| 27 | the bank were prepared to pay for the business to be purchase only on condition that the home , that the family home was then sold and the proceeds were given straight to the bank , so with that eighty thousand pounds of equity in the property and the purchase fund for the business was about twenty five thousand pounds . |
| 28 | I believe that 's something that needs to be looked at and if the government were prepared to embark on a review of auditing er generally then that is something that I think there is some useful point in pursuing further er it 's interesting that er er erm when Bingham examined this point at paragraph three er point three nine in his report er he has a long paragraph er discussing these matters and er he says that er he at the end of the day he does n't come to a concluded view er although he does er acknowledge the fact that there are many people er depositors or example , share holders and employees who might have an interest in a particular company . |
| 29 | He and Shinwell had told the Central Authority at their first meeting in September 1947 that , while general price rises could be ruled out , they were prepared to look at the possibility of controlling demand at peak times by differentially higher prices for peak use or by mechanical load-restricting devices . |
| 30 | Although railway-building in North America has been described above as ‘ quintessentially capitalist ’ , in fact railway companies were prepared to build to the West only in return for massive inducements . |