Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Humans around the room were turning to look in that slow , clumsy way humans had . |
| 3 | Members of the audience were invited to participate in some games . |
| 4 | Various papers and magazines were beginning to thrive in this new atmosphere . |
| 5 | Instead , the allow castings were starting to oxidise in some places . |
| 6 | By the 1890s self-conscious research schools were starting to emerge in several areas . |
| 7 | Members were asked to assist in these rules and not to play more than the stated fees ! |
| 8 | This Marx and Engels were to attempt to do in more detail in their subsequent works . |
| 9 | In 1854 , appeals were introduced on matters of law and lawyers were allowed to practise in these courts . |
| 10 | The contrast between the total but impersonal dependence of the proletariat and the personal dependence of the slave was an idea which Marx was to continue to develop in most of his later work . |
| 11 | Edward Thomas 's fifteen months at St. Paul 's helped to shape the early pattern of his life as a writer : I was considered to excel in this form of rhetoric . |
| 12 | She had the awful feeling she was expected to behave in some glittering , unusual way to live up to her father 's memory . |
| 13 | Once youth was seen to figure in that problem , it became illogical to suppose that it could be kept separate from the collectivist response . |
| 14 | He had sold Chapeltoun House in Ayrshire , which he had built up over 10 years , and was looking to invest in another business . |
| 15 | However , given the small size of our anticipated samples and the fact that they would not lend themselves easily to quantitative analysis it was decided to focus in this study upon qualitative data . |
| 16 | The judge records her evidence about the circumstances in which she was persuaded to sign in this passage : |
| 17 | ‘ She 's sleeping now , but we thought she was going to die in that last attack . ’ |
| 18 | Luiza , who was always very happy singing Czipra as she spent most of the evening sitting on a gypsy log , had been in superb voice and Therese — Busacher gloated — Therese had made one or two of the more discerning wonder what she was going to do in some of the other productions . |
| 19 | For half an hour their talk was easy and pointless , and then Killion began to wonder whether Mary was going to stay in all night and he became uncomfortable , chatting pleasantly to someone he wanted to get rid of . |
| 20 | SCOTVEC was invited to participate in this transnational project by Borders Training Services ( part of the Continuing Education Department of Borders Regional Council ) which has previously made successful bids to the PETRA and LINGUA programmes . |
| 21 | I did n't and could n't see it as a progressive condition which was bound to culminate in some sort of breakdown or breakthrough . |
| 22 | He called it bacteriophage ; later it was found to exist in many forms ; or rather there were many bacteriophages , each associated with the bacteria of particular species . |
| 23 | It interests me not a little that Sheridan Le Fanu should have found in Dublin sufficient inspiration to write the story of a horrendous shark-like sorceress : Carmilla 's real name was , with appropriate euphony , Countess Karnstein , and when her grave was excavated , her body was found to float in many inches of blood . |
| 24 | To find out I looked closely at all the reptile faunas known from the Triassic ; that is , I looked at each separate assemblage of reptiles that was known to live in any one place at any one time . |
| 25 | Moreover the constitution which the Swedish Diet was forced to accept in that year ( the first in the world to be embodied in a single comprehensive organized document ) was in some ways relatively moderate . |
| 26 | ‘ Ruthven was meant to die in that room , behind a locked and barred door . ’ |
| 27 | However , the policy vacuum which was allowed to develop in this way was inadequately filled by leaving it up to the courts to formulate their own sentencing policy . |
| 28 | Mr Chapman was prosecuted under s 37 of the 1974 Act , which states that where an offence under any of the relevant statutory provisions committed by a corporate body is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of , or to have been attributable to any neglect on the part of , any director , manager , secretary , or similar officer , or a person who was purporting to act in any such capacity , he , as well as the corporate body , shall be guilty of that offence . |
| 29 | ( 6 ) Where an offence under this section committed by a body corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of , or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of , any director , manager or secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate or any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity , he as well as the body corporate shall be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly . |
| 30 | The opportunity was taken to get in some leave . |