Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | They were expected to leave on the tide late last night and if everything goes according to plan will be back in Whitby by September . |
| 32 | The workload that students were expected to do on the ward , however , was exhausting . |
| 33 | This was to be repaid from savings of £7.5 million which were expected to accrue on the achievement of the closure . |
| 34 | A short time ago Bilal and Samir were expected to arrive at the hospital near Aylesbury . |
| 35 | Thousands of protesters were expected to take to the streets again today , angered by the jury 's verdict in the killing of physician and former guerrilla leader Hugo Spadafora . |
| 36 | Doctors were expected to decide in the next few hours whether Nicola would be allowed home today . |
| 37 | As a crucial feature of their role in cultural reproduction , schools were expected to inculcate in the nation 's children a proper sense of patriotic moral responsibility . |
| 38 | However , those who came to Remaisnil for meetings could not but be struck by a paradox ; they were expected to remain in the château for meals and afterwards , until they retired to bed . |
| 39 | These were similar to those signed with Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland in June 1990 [ see p. 37535 ] , which were expected to result in the signature of free trade agreements with EFTA in the first half of 1992 . |
| 40 | The actual sales were expected to begin in the second half of 1991 . |
| 41 | That the four lead artists got on so well with each other was a distinct advantage in coping with the pressurised working schedules they were expected to maintain over the next year . |
| 42 | Almost 3,000 delegates attending the opposition Labour Party convention in Jerusalem on Nov. 18-21 voted on a number of policy issues which were expected to figure in the general election due by November 1992 . |
| 43 | These quite explicitly linked vocational education with the low status black people were expected to occupy in the social hierarchy . |
| 44 | It was the policy that residents were expected to contribute to the life of the community . |
| 45 | It is , however , a very special kind of autobiography , and may be compared to the accounts of their own lives which the early Methodists were expected to write at the time of their reception into the church : in such spiritual autobiographies divine visitations were singled out for special mention as evidences of God 's grace and power ; they were contrasted with laments over sinful behaviour and backsliding , and led to the culminating moment of conversion . |
| 46 | Historians lower down the hierarchy were expected to work within the guidelines advanced by their superiors . |
| 47 | A few years back each golfer used his own collection of chipped and misshapen balls and the caddies were expected to stand at the end of the practice area and collect them . |
| 48 | Leaves were forbidden to fall from the trees because they made a mess , and when the trees took no notice of this they had their leaves glued onto their branches … but that did n't work , so they were fined ; every time they dropped leaves , they had twigs and then branches sawn off . |
| 49 | Interestingly , after September 1987 factory and mines inspectors were forbidden to speak to the press on pain of disciplinary action . |
| 50 | The numbers of tumours at each site were predetermined according to the approximate frequency of presentation at that primary site . |
| 51 | People were deemed to consent to the system of government they were born under when they came of age by virtue of the fact of their remaining within that particular society . |
| 52 | As time went on and the primitive physically competitive urges were becoming supplemented by the more devious mental ways in which one being could gain ascendance over another , the opportunities to use those beliefs were exploited by the more skilful members of the society . |
| 53 | Although Liberals like Sir Richard Acland were becoming identified with the Campaign , the Communists remained hostile to Lloyd George and his Five Point Group . |
| 54 | At the lower levels of the movement , however , many were becoming attracted to the prospect of ending the feuds of recent years . |
| 55 | The transcripts for the 20 subjects were grouped according to the film section to which they referred . |
| 56 | When patients were grouped according to the severity of the attack , however , a stepwise fall in polyunsaturated fatty acids was observed as the disease became more severe . |
| 57 | All patients were grouped according to the classification of Child and Turcotte with the modifications of Pugh et al and Christensen et al , which are closely related . |
| 58 | Just as the civic buildings in Moscow expressed the confident power of the Communist regime , so the new housing blocks were designed to conform to the new ideals of social life . |
| 59 | The history of the North Wing of Bedford General Hospital is deeply rooted in legislation ; in laws which were designed to deal with the problems arising from unemployment , sickness , destitution and vagrancy . |
| 60 | Sometimes long narrow friezes were designed to run along the upper part of a wall . |