Example sentences of "[noun prp] were [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Porter and Paisley were frequently to be found leading such marches and various Ministers for Home Affairs found themselves being denounced by loyalists at Orange rallies . |
| 2 | Arsenal were through to the next round , and it was the turning point in the club 's history . |
| 3 | Both Jenny and Kathleen were up to various things and I 'd been having a go myself , but although my name was appearing on more and more waiting lists , nothing substantial seemed to be happening . |
| 4 | Mr Bigg said speed restrictions on rail lines in East Anglia were about to be introduced because there was not enough money for line maintenance . |
| 5 | Mr Glynn Ford , Labour leader in the Euro-parliament , said the Tories led by Sir Christopher were about to ‘ live in sin ’ . |
| 6 | Yugoslavia and possibly Albania were also to be invited to the meeting , although neither was a COMECON member . |
| 7 | The wetlands and wastes of England were soon to be loud with their tumults . |
| 8 | There were at least a dozen big-wave specialists on the North Shore who , if the Eddie Aikau were actually to be held , could reasonably expect to make a small fortune . |
| 9 | With the last action of the match Ferguson reduced the deficit when he headed powerfully past Bonner , but Celtic were not to be denied a deserved victory . |
| 10 | Leeds did well , but it looked as though top points would be shared with Huddersfield as , on the last Saturday of the tournament , the Peacocks were away to Bradford City while Huddersfield , two points behind , were home to Bradford ( Park Avenue ) . |
| 11 | By then Cambridge were down to ten men after skipper Danny O'Shea had been sent off in the 70th minute for a second bookable offence . |
| 12 | ERCO were soon to be kept busy producing war materials , and it was not until August 1945 that production of the Ercoupe resumed . |
| 13 | The cartoons were hilarious , Guttersnipe was at the height of his form , Hind and Mosco were up to their mischievous tricks . |
| 14 | ‘ You clearly knew nothing about what Jeff and Silvia were up to . |
| 15 | Such was their condition — they were pulled off the ice last week ‘ more dead than alive ’ — that Sir Ranulph and Dr Stroud were off to the Army Personnel Research Establishment for tests on the way their bodies held up to it all . |
| 16 | Côte 304 and the Mort Homme were both to be assaulted simultaneously . |
| 17 | Aj was directing the action as though he was a producer in charge of a play , and Hugh , Mike and Debby were up to their thighs in stinking lake water ; Debby was fetchingly attired in green chest waders and looked like a cross between Jeremy Fisher and a model in kinky rubberwear . |
| 18 | The prays … the dreams of the skipper the Reverend Bob Shepton were about to be fulfilled … |
| 19 | the finish is at Drumlanrig castle … they 've been running … slipping … sliding over the mounatins for seven hours … they 've climbed into the clouds … they 've crossed the streams … they 've run through the glens for mile after mile … the Oxfordshire team of Bunn and Thetford were up to second place but have finished fourth … its been a long hard day … |
| 20 | And on twenty five minutes , Nigel Mott got that opening goal as an excellent through ball from Paul Biddle found him in space and he placed the ball wide of the Fairmile goalkeeper Mark Carrigan ; Fairmile were not to be perturbed by this as on their half an hour Wayne Glossop went close for the home side . |
| 21 | If the WCC were not to be involved , then we would also have to fund air fares ( say £1000 ) . |
| 22 | I suppose they imagined we were going to expose their uninteresting little rackets , whereas I was only interested in what the Josephs were up to . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Whatever you and Peter were up to last night , ’ he went on savagely , ‘ it was n't enough to satisfy you . |
| 24 | Contributions to federal funds for the development of Kosovo and for disaster relief in Serbia proper and Vojvodina were also to be withheld . |
| 25 | The Smallwoods were off to Oxfordshire . |
| 26 | Widnes were back to a full complement of players by the time Tony Thorniley scored Warrington 's second , again from an inspired Mackey pass , but the visitors were powerless to prevent the centre reaching the line from 25 yards . |
| 27 | By 1845 the Pennines between Manchester and Sheffield were about to be conquered , and a terminus in Sheffield was opened at Bridgehouses on July 14th of that year . |
| 28 | And right at the death , when Bangor were down to 14 men with scrum half Stephen Matchett receiving treatment , McMaster finished off a fine move sparked by McCall 's half break . |
| 29 | But Everton were not to be denied , and they produced another brilliant move as Beardsley and Warzycha combined to allow Cottee a simple tap-in . |
| 30 | That is just what both BSN and LVMH were up to . |