Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were intended to compete with the vans that circulate the scheme . |
| 2 | Thousands of protesters were expected to take to the streets again today , angered by the jury 's verdict in the killing of physician and former guerrilla leader Hugo Spadafora . |
| 3 | Historians lower down the hierarchy were expected to work within the guidelines advanced by their superiors . |
| 4 | Leaves were forbidden to fall from the trees because they made a mess , and when the trees took no notice of this they had their leaves glued onto their branches … but that did n't work , so they were fined ; every time they dropped leaves , they had twigs and then branches sawn off . |
| 5 | The history of the North Wing of Bedford General Hospital is deeply rooted in legislation ; in laws which were designed to deal with the problems arising from unemployment , sickness , destitution and vagrancy . |
| 6 | Certainly no boyfriends were permitted to call on the boarders . |
| 7 | Top dealers with plummy accents who had passed the registered Representatives ' and Traders ' examination were primed to speak with the inspectors . |
| 8 | We were told to turn off the lights , turn off anything making a noise and talk to him quietly . |
| 9 | Eggs were thought to descend from the ovaries only as a consequence of intercourse . |
| 10 | These were articulated more often when students were invited to talk about the arts than when students simply talked about physics . |
| 11 | This meant that senior Labour leaders were brought to deal with the problems of the post-war treatment of Germany and the need for providing occupation forces . |
| 12 | In subsequent proceedings for false imprisonment , it was admitted that the sole reason for arresting her was the constable 's opinion that ‘ police inquiries were more likely to be fruitful in clearing up the case if Mrs. Mohammed-Holgate were compelled to go to the police station to be questioned there ’ . |
| 13 | As was common with branch lines , engines of an older and secondary nature would be used ; thus , Sturrocks 0 — 6 — 0 tender engines were known to operate on the goods and sometimes the passenger trains . |
| 14 | Problems like overcrowded home conditions or a husband 's alcoholism , which had been going on for at least two years and which were rated as major difficulties ( 1–3 on a 6-point scale of severity ) , were found to occur in the lives of a great many more psychiatric cases than normal women . |
| 15 | If the scope of that measure were widened to take in the contents of magazines which are easily accessible to persons under 18 , it would form a useful adjunct to the powers of the police . |
| 16 | The same meeting also approved the Conveyances of the land from the Bolney Estate Company and Mr K.K. McKenzie , and the Trustees were authorised to pay over the sums of £3,000 and £1,000 respectively ( this is several weeks after part of the course had been opened for play ! ) , and Mr J. C. Walker , the Treasurer , was asked to draw up some proposals for the Club 's bye-laws . |
| 17 | His vassals were asked to swear on the Gospels what these rights and obligations ( deveriis ) were , and the thrust of the inquiry appears to have been towards municipal and communal liberties . |
| 18 | They were asked to talk to them and find out for themselves about the families who had been thrown into such torment ; they were asked to talk about the children and about their lives at home . |
| 19 | In the early part of the nineteenth century employees were assumed to consent to the risks in the work that they did . |
| 20 | Fortunately for the players , only accredited golfing journalists were allowed to encroach on the fairways and everyone else was kept firmly behind the ropes and barriers which ran along the perimeter of each hole . |
| 21 | The IMF was then authorized to ration that currency among its member countries , and the latter were allowed to discriminate against the exports of the country in question . |
| 22 | The ferrets were allowed to acclimatise in the cages over 10 days , being fed pieces of prairie dog . |
| 23 | In almost all cases , relatives were not officially informed of the executions and were forced to search for the victims ' bodies in mass graves . |
| 24 | These lands the king now claimed as his ‘ proper soil ’ , and tenants were forced to compound with the commissioners by paying fines to the Crown and an annual rent thereafter . |
| 25 | But the agency ran into trouble when sponsorship funds became increasingly difficult to attract and management were forced to call in the liquidators earlier this month . |
| 26 | Environment spokesman Jack Straw said £5 billion was lying idle while thousands were forced to sleep on the streets . |
| 27 | Hocazade was reconciled with his father , for whom he subsequently gave a great feast ; so great was the press of notables , however , that his brothers were forced to stand among the servants . |
| 28 | As a result of their financial difficulties , Athletico were forced to resign from the Mid-Counties League and for the 70/71 season played no football at all , thereby suffering no defeats and thus securing their most successful season ever . |
| 29 | In the Labour Party the supporters of rearmament — Dalton and Bevin — were forced to work behind the scenes . |
| 30 | Commentators were forced to ponder on the implications of allowing , or not allowing , the enfranchisement of the working class in a context in which either course of action seemed fraught with danger . |