Example sentences of "[noun] were [adj] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marchers were due to congregate at Market Square for an open-air meeting . |
| 2 | David Raffe ( 11 ) of Edinburgh University found that more than three-quarters of school leavers from sparsely populated areas were able to live at home . |
| 3 | R.A.F. golfers were able to play at Henley on generous terms and at some unknown date an annual match between the Club and Medmenham was started , with the Club and the R.A.F. arranging hospitality alternately . |
| 4 | The price of 36s. has thus some claim to be called the true equilibrium price : because if it were fixed on at the beginning , and adhered to throughout , it would exactly equate demand and supply ( i.e. the amount which buyers were willing to purchase at that price would be just equal to that for which sellers were willing to take that price ) ; and because every dealer who has a perfect knowledge of the circumstances of the market expects that price to be established . |
| 5 | Boro were due to play at Kelso , but declined their hosts ' request to play tonight . |
| 6 | Now your meal began at seven thirty and the readings were due to begin at nine , although Sir Thomas did not begin until a quarter past nine . |
| 7 | Lucy wanted to call after Charlie , to beg him to come back and to take her away ; this was all wrong , it was n't the way things were supposed to go at all . |
| 8 | Secondly , if England 's minders were fit to work at a half decent night club , how come their client was left rolling in the gutter early in the game ? |
| 9 | Those who ignored the role of adaptation were able to flourish at the same time as those for whom adaptation was the primary consideration , because the range of problems that could attract research funding allowed both approaches to find suitable niches for themselves . |
| 10 | At the lower end of the social scale , the dusty rather than the ‘ fit-to-be-dusted ’ classes , people were prepared to encamp at the station for days . |
| 11 | By draining meres and felling trees the inhabitants of the north Shropshire parish of Myddle were able to clear at least 1,000 acres of land between the late fifteenth and the early seventeenth century . |
| 12 | If the Government were concerned to arrive at a proper system , they would accept that fairness was the answer . |
| 13 | The problems that juries were liable to arrive at verdicts that were less than helpful and that witnesses and jurors were vulnerable to intimidation were met by the abolition of juries in the criminal courts and the introduction of unorthodox expedients to enable witnesses to remain anonymous . |
| 14 | The orchestra were able to laugh at this exactly on cue . |
| 15 | Some conscripts were able to live at home for at least part of their service , reporting for duty at 5.30 a.m. and returning in the late afternoon — but usually only those who lived near a training depot had permission to commute to it . |
| 16 | The Chippendales were due to perform at the Leisure Centre two years ago . |
| 17 | One of the strongest indications of class throughout the world came to be the length of time the travellers were prepared to spend at the station and the quantity of baggage which they had with them when they passed through it . |
| 18 | Only a small percentage of black children were able to remain at school beyond primary level . |
| 19 | Only Flokati and Upper Gumtree were due to run at Winnipeg … |
| 20 | The boys at school were sure to snigger at him behind his back , and the Irishman and his rough friends would have one more excuse to belittle him for their own amusement . |
| 21 | Liz was right to vanish , as the boys were right to congregate at the Maid Marian and avoid their grandmothers . |
| 22 | It may be too that in the lower regions of society women were freer to find at least part-time employment : the distaff provided occupation for almost all , and even if the invention of the spinning wheel may have reduced the opportunities for some , it enormously increased those of others . |
| 23 | Bishop 's Castle Railway employees were able to travel at a much reduced rate on all railways in the British Isles . |
| 24 | Failing to pass through it , or change their strategy and invest the compound from another route , over the fence , as he had done , their plan had stalled at the resistance the settlers were able to muster at that very node . |