Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [to-vb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ministers agreed to open projects to the Soviet Union and Japan for collaboration and were expected to meet in late 1992 to review the situation . |
| 2 | The kitchen was small and cramped , the house having been built pre-war with a dining room which you were expected to eat in . |
| 3 | New taxes were expected to bring in TSh3,000 million ; these included rises in education charges , land rents and duty on alcohol and cigarettes . |
| 4 | Whereas land sales were expected to bring in seventy eight million pounds in the four years of nineteen eighty nine to nineteen ninety , and nineteen ninety two to ninety three , it now seems the figure will only be about thirty six million , less than half that original estimate . |
| 5 | Western practices and ideas were modified to fit in with Japanese reality — though there were periods when ‘ Westernization ’ was very much the vogue . |
| 6 | Patients were instructed to fill in the two diaries for 14 days , but were not told that the computer automatically records date of data entry , nor were they given instructions of what to do should they have forgotten to make the daily entry . |
| 7 | In 1972 members of the international armed forces based in Western Europe were invited to join in and Brigadier Graham Hollands , who is the very able Chairman of the Championships , is shortly hoping to include a Russian team ! |
| 8 | The Whitby Gazette announced that there would be a high tide on Ascension Eve that year , and readers were invited to write in with their views on the subject . |
| 9 | Not only was there no capping of the excessive expenditure that Labour councils were bound to indulge in , but my right hon. Friend insisted that it should be introduced not as a phased tax but all in one year . |
| 10 | The ‘ Dublin ’ trolley masts which did not have caps over the swivelling tops , were found to let in water and the top parts were soon fitted with waterproof canvas socks . |
| 11 | Semistructured interviews were conducted with clinicians and practice managers ; other staff in the practices were asked to fill in questionnaires . |
| 12 | On the results sheet , subjects were asked to fill in their handedness using scores that they obtained in a handedness inventory ( example in Appendix A ) . |
| 13 | Customers were asked to fill in a brief form stating whether they knew or had seen Mr McEvoy . |
| 14 | He was too racked by sobs to reply , but … the warder explained that whenever the number of prisoners in jail went up , the police were asked to bring in boys to help with the chores . |
| 15 | Candidates were asked to send in their applications with testimonials to Mr. Leech , the secretary . |
| 16 | You were asked to phone in , so , erm , so our phone was out of order , so I had a phone card and it had four units on it . |
| 17 | Finally we were allowed to shuffle in , pair by pair , with the other animals , paid our money at the one-person-only box-office , and spent the remains on hot snacks from the kiosk to bring the blood back to our frozen digits . |
| 18 | When the guards had surrounded the train we were allowed to get in . |
| 19 | The masters were forced to give in to wage demands in 1772 and 1775 . |
| 20 | The French were crushed by the native forces and the Americans were forced to move in to take their place in order to safe-guard their investment , going a little deeper into the quicksand . |
| 21 | Those who criticize post-revolutionary Romanians for their lack of civic virtue and their insensitivity to the problems of their fellow citizens , particularly the abandoned young , should remember what sort of society they were forced to live in and what sort of values were imposed on them . |
| 22 | Officials were forced to step in to calm the pair as they rowed on board a British Airways flight to a summit in Ottowa , Canada . |
| 23 | THE Chancellor and the Bank of England were forced to step in to halt a further dangerous slide by the pound yesterday morning which overshadowed the later , dramatically better news on inflation . |
| 24 | Ken played Julius Caesar in a picture that , with no apologies , was intended to cash in on the fame of the Elizabeth Taylor Richard Burton fiasco of the previous year . |
| 25 | Then in chronological order came the following : Hemel Hempstead ( 1947 ) replacing Redbourn as proposed in the Abercrombie plan , was designed to fill in the area between Harpenden , St Albans and Remel Hempstead itself ; Harlow ( 1947 ) , 23 miles north-east of London , expanded a small settlement of 4,500 people ; Crawley ( 1947 ) , a town of 9,500 population , lay astride the Brighton Road , 30 miles south of London ; Hatfield and Welwyn Garden City ( both 1948 ) lay very close to each other 18–20 miles north of London ( Welwyn was already a sizable town of 18,500 inhabitants ) ; Basildon ( 1949 ) met rather different objectives , planned not only to accommodate overspill but to tidy up an untidy area of shack development between London and Southend ; Bracknell ( 1949 ) replaced Abercrombie 's proposal for White Waltham , three miles south-west of Maidenhead , west of London . |
| 26 | Increased taxation on oil companies was expected to bring in 31,000 million francs CFA , compared with just over 4,000 million francs CFA in 1989 . |
| 27 | ‘ And some time after you went round to the front of the house a woman was seen to go in . ’ |
| 28 | Some through passage is also noted , particularly in November , March and April , and one was seen to fly in from the sea at Selsey Bill on 1 May 1968 . |
| 29 | In the original DES document in which the proposals for the schools were outlined the overall aim was said to fit in with the Government 's aims set out in their document Better schools , ‘ to improve standards ’ being the key phrase . |
| 30 | It was decided to bring in Leeds-based Moss International to promote and find sponsors for the 1988 pie , ‘ pie ‘ 88 ’ as it came to be known . |