Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [to-vb] [pron] " 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 | From this starting point , a series of models were developed to determine what changes in practices would encourage Colleges to move towards a state of equilibrium in the new circumstances . |
| 3 | It was a set of problems that were problems to no-one but Germany , and the solutions were calculated to satisfy no-one but Germany . |
| 4 | Studies of processes were undertaken to remedy what many physical geographers perceived to be a deficiency and in doing so it was necessary to overcome considerable resistance such as that in geomorphology where Wooldridge ( 1958 , p. 31 ) avowed : |
| 5 | Men cheered as Artai descended the steps in front of his palace , then walked along a corridor of his guards through the crowd of Khans and other notables who were gathered to witness his accession . |
| 6 | All of us were working on no salary , just expenses , but we found nice facilities on 58th Street and were taught to charge everything . |
| 7 | This is a significant issue in a culture where women were taught to value themselves by their beauty . |
| 8 | Children were taught to show their parents obedience , duty , and respect , taking their hat off to their father as a matter of manners , and at solemn moments kneeling to receive his formal blessing . |
| 9 | In 1985 the rules governing the practices of solicitors were amended to allow them to advertise . |
| 10 | We were assigned to protect your friend , Mr Trimmler . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Holy Dying was written under the impact of the death of Lady Carbery as well as that of Taylor 's own wife — ‘ The bundles of cypress which were intended to dress her closet but now come to dress her hearse ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Even in decay , Hitler 's edifices were intended to recall his past might . |
| 16 | It was , understandably , the peace which was essential information for the descendants , for it influenced their present actions to some extent ; and the solemnities were intended to impose themselves on the memory of the participants and witnesses and their children . |
| 17 | ‘ The terrible things you refer to were intended to ensure you could continue to live here — in the style you obviously do . ’ |
| 18 | The hideous iron railings round the tombs of the more opulent dead were intended to protect them against the depredations of body-snatchers . |
| 19 | Pupils were expected to analyse their inquiries ; check Prestel on-line ; locate , scan and extract information from the tables on screen ; and incorporate this information into their project . |
| 20 | They , likewise , would find it most unusual and uncongenial if they were expected to devote themselves to constraining and criticizing a Conservative Government . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | They were primary sources of information , some became newspaper leader-writers but , perhaps more significantly , they also ‘ contracted an assortment of interlocking alliances with editors , leader-writers , and proprietors , all of whom were expected to do their bidding ’ . |
| 24 | Many unemployed people found the fact that they were expected to do nothing when unemployed or risk losing benefit ‘ extremely difficult ’ . |
| 25 | As long as they were doing what they were expected to do you see . |
| 26 | No special arrangements were made in the law for people ‘ cohabiting ’ , but the Assistance Board and their successors were expected to use their discretionary powers to ensure that such people were treated just the same as married couples . |
| 27 | We were expected to put our hands in our pockets and shell out regardless of whether or not we were getting value for money . |
| 28 | In higher education an estimated 400,000 students were expected to lose their grants as a result of a proposal to target the federal student grant fund of $5,800 million , a rise of 7 per cent , at students from families with incomes lower than $10,000 . |
| 29 | How we were expected to conduct ourselves . |
| 30 | They were sent to schools and teachers were expected to teach them . |