Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [to-vb] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly no boyfriends were permitted to call on the boarders . |
| 2 | Later that evening both men were invited to sit on a Questions Panel . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Environment spokesman Jack Straw said £5 billion was lying idle while thousands were forced to sleep on the streets . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Washington were left to sweat on the Packers ' result when Vince Evans ' three-yard touchdown pass to Tim Brown with 13 seconds left gave the Los Angeles Raiders a shock 21-20 victory . |