Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] do [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he wrote to Eulalia , abbess of Shaftesbury : ‘ I am so harassed in the archbishopric that if it were possible to do so without guilt , I would rather die than continue in it ’ . |
| 2 | He knew the duchy well and , Powicke concluded , ‘ he never wished , even if it were possible to do so , to relax his grasp upon the affairs of his distant province ’ . |
| 3 | They were prepared to do almost anything to retain that ‘ insurance policy ’ . |
| 4 | Thornton saw no sign that they were prepared to do so . |
| 5 | I can confirm as a matter of fact that the Scottish National party did not join the convention , although some distinguished individuals , no doubt at some political disadvantage to themselves , were prepared to do so . |
| 6 | Urged to present their own reduction package , some Democrats , such as House budget committee chairman Leon Panetta , were prepared to do so . |
| 7 | To this end it can be quite a good idea to sit down and make a list of all the social activities you would like to enjoy if you were free to do so -such as visiting and entertaining friends , going to the theatre , cinema , concerts , evening classes , study groups , church activities and special interest clubs , as well as the occasional holiday . |
| 8 | Researchers interviewed 1,030 adults across the country and found that 49 per cent would like to settle abroad if they were free to do so , compared with 36 per cent in 1973 and 28 per cent in 1955 . |
| 9 | This carries two great dangers : It risks damaging the UN 's moral authority and reputation for impartiality if it is seen as the vehicle of superpower foreign policy ; it causes huge embarrassment to the UN when , because of its own priorities , the US is unable to help , and the UN is then confronted with the question why have you failed to act decisively in our crisis while you were willing to do so in the case of Iraq 's aggression ? |
| 10 | We just did what we were supposed to do really ha ha we actually read the first one of the quests together , so it was good you know , we decided what to do how to do it . |
| 11 | The Fellows were accustomed to do mostly what the Master , Sir Henry Willink , Bart. , wanted . |
| 12 | Many who moved were glad to do so and the economy as a whole has benefited from the release of agricultural labour to take up employment in the expanding manufacturing and service sectors . |
| 13 | Well they , er nowhere , we did n't get them from anywhere we just used to think them up and everyone thought we were potty did n't they ? |
| 14 | The reactions after Hiroshima , er when the bombed had dropped were erm , somewhat strange , people with documentation say that people even though they were injured did n't actually want to move away from their home early , erm , and so that possibly the same sort of thing happened in Chernobyl . |
| 15 | They were filled with admiration for her highly individual personality ; they had been trained to sink their personalities into the line and were happy to do so . |
| 16 | There are many walkers , both locals and visitors who would like to use this road if only it were safe to do so . |
| 17 | This article suggests that the British hoped to create an international civil aviation environment favourable to their interests , but were unable to do so because of American opposition . |
| 18 | For the producers of material X , for example , although not currently selling X to exporting firms , can argue that , if they were not supplying firms that sell only on the home market , those firms would have to buy imported supplies of X , and that , if the firms that now supply X to exporting firms were unable to do so , they would be able to take their place . |
| 19 | In it he recounted the farcical activities of a couple who wished to divorce but were unable to do so unless one partner committed , or pretended to commit , an act of adultery . |
| 20 | For the poll tax the Government gave councils 18 months to get their computer software in order , but the councils were unable to do so because they did not have the resources and the rules and complexities kept changing . |
| 21 | Many " names " ( whose assets supported Lloyd 's underwriting activities ) criticized Lloyd 's Council for a decision of June 4 to demand a levy from " names " to double to £1,000 million the market 's " last resort capital fund " ( which was used to meet claims if " names " were unable to do so ) . |
| 22 | " Unfortunately we were unable to do as much as we would like in terms of giving the product a visual identity-the exercise was fairly restricted by the basic product . |
| 23 | The European Commission yesterday duly called for total deregulation of telephone service in the European Community by 1998 and asked telecommunications ministers to endorse that goal at their Council of Ministers on May 10 : the UK is the only European Community country where the body responsible for installing phones and running the service has been forced to make room for a competitor , but national territorial monopolies were not suited to the needs of a single Community market and technological advances meant they were no longer justified in any case , the Commission said ; Industry Commissioner Martin Bangemann said the Commission would soon produce another paper on whether development of telephone networks should also be dealt with under a free market system , adding that the Commission believed companies from outside the Community should be free to reap the benefits of deregulation as long as EC firms were able to do likewise on those firms ' home territory ; but the Commission pulled back from recommending that large companies be free to lease spare capacity on the networks of utilities such as gas from the start of next year . |
| 24 | I think it was significant that we were able to do well without Sandy Lyle and without Bernard Langer contributing a point — Ballesteros , Woosnam and Faldo also failed to score on the last day . |
| 25 | Anselm was at this time in exile , so it is clear that the monks , who now had a prior whom Anselm had appointed , were able to do publicly what the Anglo-Saxon enthusiasts had had to do surreptitiously before Anselm 's arrival . |
| 26 | But it was these same heads of kindreds and lords who were the major factor in ending feud and in maintaining order within local society ; and they were able to do so not as individuals but as men of power with powerful backing . |
| 27 | But they were able to do so only because — by chance — monkeys and apes failed to reach this island . |
| 28 | The enemy cannoneers withdrew ; but not all their pieces were able to do so . |
| 29 | The rules , however , would allow people to repay the capital sum at a later date if they wished to , and were able to do so . |
| 30 | It has not been explained how they were able to do so without taking any instructions from Mrs. Steed , but it has not been suggested that Mrs. Steed authorised them to do so . |