Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the mid-1970s local government spending was under severe pressure from the centre as more and more complex rules were developed to keep it under control . |
| 2 | The Collector and Hookum Singh had their backs to this wall of flesh , with bayonets sprouting from between their legs and under their armpits ; they were shoving and shoving , and they in turn were being shoved by the other Sikhs , who were struggling to keep them in place . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ People were queueing to sign it . |
| 4 | In 1985 the rules governing the practices of solicitors were amended to allow them to advertise . |
| 5 | They were to continue to dominate it until the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | In post-war years , the Balloons remained in the war-time green livery long after the single-deckers , and it generally assumed that the 25 Coronations of 1953 were intended to replace them . |
| 7 | Spain 's dominant classes were therefore permitted the time and opportunity for marshalling their powerful opposition to the very measures that were intended to weaken them . |
| 8 | According to Gregory the slanders against Fredegund were intended to drive her from the court , thus facilitating the elevation of her stepson , Clovis , to the throne . |
| 9 | ‘ The terrible things you refer to were intended to ensure you could continue to live here — in the style you obviously do . ’ |
| 10 | The hideous iron railings round the tombs of the more opulent dead were intended to protect them against the depredations of body-snatchers . |
| 11 | The Leeds local data pointed up a mismatch between predominantly individualized learning tasks and the collaborative setting in which children were expected to undertake them . |
| 12 | A rather similar pattern can be seen in the very different circumstances of the inter-war economic depression , when the Household Means Test meant effectively that young working adults living in the same household as their unemployed parents were expected to support them financially . |
| 13 | As long as they were doing what they were expected to do you see . |
| 14 | They were sent to schools and teachers were expected to teach them . |
| 15 | The following conferences did place racism on the agenda , and all white participants were expected to take it seriously . |
| 16 | His two Cabinet portfolios , which would make him the most powerful member of the government after the Prime Minister , were expected to give him a key role in the formulation of the country 's overall foreign policy . |
| 17 | The difficulty over these cars had arisen because the Brush Co. had demanded an appropriate charge if they were expected to store them at their works in Loughborough . |
| 18 | Mr Sloan took the Social Work Department 's line , and the Panel were expected to follow it too . |
| 19 | You could n't be alone with your tragedy , you were expected to bring it into the living-room with you , as the others brought their newspapers , knitting , homework . |
| 20 | It was a pity Wallace got injured when he did as I thought they were begining to hit it off together . |
| 21 | Eventually the Jesuits were able to persuade the townspeople to rebuild the Gothic tower in Baroque style , but the Jesuits were forbidden to decorate it with Jesuit saints and they were forbidden to enter the tower from the church . |
| 22 | If any government were to try to force them to do so , there would interminable arguments about its definition and measurement , especially at a time when price controls and other government interventions are causing enormous distortions in enterprise incomes . |
| 23 | I was waiting for him to say they were drugged to keep them quiet — their huge eyes blinked as if they were half asleep . |
| 24 | If you are the nominated approver , you should approve this subpackage first ( if you were nominated to approve it ) . |
| 25 | They were designed to unnerve you , to make you start jabbering indiscreetly . |
| 26 | In the next few days there was much wild talk about the dangers of allowing Labour to take office , and many wild schemes were designed to avert them . |
| 27 | The life-style , the communes , the language , the dress , the hair-styles and blue-tinted glasses of the men ( and women ) of the 1860s were designed to distance them from what they saw as the hypocrisy of conventional society . |
| 28 | The other exercises were designed to help me with a problem of co-ordination in hammer-ons and in string skipping . |
| 29 | It is amazing , with hindsight , to see the awakening of the theory of evolution dismissed by Gould as nothing more than a number of ‘ pleasing chats ’ ; but Gould was not a revolutionary and never claimed to be ; his en tire life and all of his works were designed to get him accepted by society and by science , not rejected by them . |
| 30 | Exercises 1–3 were designed to get me out of a rut in my playing . |