Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite extraordinarily , even in the first phase of Lunch-time Openings , some Branches were expected to open without any additional staff . |
| 2 | Hitherto member states were expected to pay for all environmental measures themselves . |
| 3 | The price the Jews were expected to pay for this help was cooperation and conformity . |
| 4 | The katun , comprising twenty years of 360 days , was the most important unit of time in the Maya view , because the events in one katun were expected to approximate to those in a previous katun that had ended on a day with the same number . |
| 5 | The rights of the zemstvos were curtailed and they were forbidden to communicate with each other even on the most mundane matters of common concern . |
| 6 | They never met again , for under the probationary terms they were forbidden to associate with each other . |
| 7 | People found their way round such systems by linking issues to file series based on subject , organisational provenance , or function — the Ministry of X 's file series about Y , the registered files of the Ministry of X 's Y Branch , or the Ministry of X 's files on its discharge of Act of Parliament Y. Since paper records were designed to fit into such registry systems , they carried pointers to their position within them ; file covers , file numbers , cross references to other files in the same series or related file series , and so on . |
| 8 | Manufacturers selling a wide range of products over a wide geographical area to a market numbered in millions would find it prohibitively expensive to set up their own Highstreet stores , even if they were permitted to proliferate in this way . |
| 9 | The book was a popular success ; its sales at one time were said to compete with those of Marie Corelli [ q.v . ] . |
| 10 | He read several papers before the society and his published works include observations on the laws of electricity , the height to which rockets can be fired and the influence which two pendulum clocks , in close proximity , were seen to have on each other . |
| 11 | The long-term solution was reached in 1852 when local authorities were empowered to provide for all classes and denominations . |
| 12 | It is not obvious , in reviewing this system , exactly where the element of indirection came in , except in so far as the Residents were instructed to maintain at all costs the ‘ prestige ’ of the emir . |
| 13 | So special rules were made to deal with this . |
| 14 | Are you certain you were told to come to this office ? ’ |
| 15 | Humans around the room were turning to look in that slow , clumsy way humans had . |
| 16 | For example , costs in the area ‘ scrap and rectification ’ were shown to derive from these factors : |
| 17 | These alterations were shown to segregate with all family members known to have the mutant XLA locus in their respective pedigrees ( see Fig. 2 a for pedigree analysis of patient B ) . |
| 18 | Instead of worrying about that , the fashionable thing to worry about was how people were going to adapt to all the leisure which the automated future would provide . |
| 19 | And we described what we were going to do on this walk and where we were going to go and both sort of referred to the same composition and there was a prize for the for the one that was judged the best . |
| 20 | ‘ I thought we were going to talk after this weekend , ’ Vitor demurred , strolling after her into the drawing-room . |
| 21 | It was a special comeback because we did n't really look as though we were going to score for much of the game . |
| 22 | Staying in control had always been Kylie 's top priority , not even the most powerful entertainment men in the world were going to interfere with that . |
| 23 | You were going to think about this one . |
| 24 | Firstly , we , the loss of jobs , er themselves employ a hundred and forty two people , there are a further one hundred and eight people who are employed in er periphery items and other firms on the airfield itself making two hundred and fifty , but this figure has doubled because of the imminent closure in March of Aerodrome and the number of companies who were going to transfer from these , and I hope transfer from these to Hatfield . |
| 25 | Wh what I mean to say is I could n't in advance guess which field it was that you were going to want at any particular moment . |
| 26 | Members of the audience were invited to participate in some games . |
| 27 | Various papers and magazines were beginning to thrive in this new atmosphere . |
| 28 | However , normal mass spectrometers are not sensitive enough to detect 14 C and to reject all other elements or molecules of very nearly the same weight , such as 14 N. As this nitrogen isotope makes up some 80 per cent of the atmosphere it is very common relative to 14 C. The techniques of nuclear physics were brought to bear on this problem in the late 1970s , and it was shown that 14 C could be detected using what is now referred to as accelerator mass spectrometry , AMS . |
| 29 | Our 1985–6 pilot study suggested that coordinators were having to take on more roles than they could cope with . |
| 30 | Instead , the allow castings were starting to oxidise in some places . |