Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only two trains to and from British Steel Skinningrove were due to use the bridge yesterday , ’ said a British Rail spokeswoman . |
| 2 | They were due to televise the contest from the Barbican centre in York to local pubs and clubs . |
| 3 | Social workers were due to visit the youngsters yesterday . |
| 4 | Officials from the two agencies were due to visit the country in February to negotiate the terms of an assistance package , the largest ever requested by Papua New Guinea . |
| 5 | The parliaments of both countries were due to ratify the treaty by the end of February 1991 . |
| 6 | It was announced that officials were due to discuss the dispute in London in December . |
| 7 | McKeag 's delight was tempered by regret at the loss of sponsors Rumbelows , who were due to sponsor the Cup for a further two years . |
| 8 | Union officials were due to meet the arbitration service , Acas , this morning for a briefing session . |
| 9 | Representatives from the board , the management and the playing staff were due to meet the fans in tonight 's discussion . |
| 10 | Originally four Carmel Convent sisters were due to make the journey but , sadly , Sister Inge died late last year after suffering an inoperable brain tumour . |
| 11 | After a good night 's sleep , we arrived at breakfast with about 15 minutes to spare , and eventually set off for Hungary where we were due to stay the night with a Weymouth girl married to a Hungarian and is living in Gyor . |
| 12 | Those were not the circumstances at Bilsthorpe , but the mines inspectorate insist they were right to allow the roof bolting in the tunnel , or narrow driveage that 's despite the fact that on one side instead of a good coal pillar , only wooden props supported the roof . |
| 13 | ‘ Second , once sterling left the ERM , and with inflation sharply down , we were right to take the opportunity that gave us to relax policy and get interest rates down . |
| 14 | In fact , so many animals respond to a lunar cycle that people have wondered whether the ancients were right to associate the moon with human fertility . |
| 15 | THE man behind flop BBC soap Eldorado says critics were right to attack the show . |
| 16 | The scientists were hesitant to accept the claims of such a nonentity as Richter without corroboration . |
| 17 | Within two minutes the mob had completely dispersed , with the exception of the odd copper or two and a few stragglers who were loth to leave the scene of all the fun . |
| 18 | If it were possible to diminish the use of gas , to increase British coal production and to erect trade and tariff barriers to ensure that we can not import foreign coal , what would the consequences be for those who want to use the power that is generated ? |
| 19 | Frye is writing here as if it were possible to distinguish the interests of one self sharply from those of another , and as if , were the effects of male domination to be undone , it would not be too much of a problem for the self to know what its interests were . |
| 20 | In other words , if it were possible to remove the grievances of the middle classes against those above them , then it might also be possible to nip off the danger of an alliance between the middle classes and the working classes below them . |
| 21 | It is as though these translators were each construing the poem by supplying a vocabulary reflecting a personal perception of the poet 's intention — or perhaps in some cases caught from other translators . |
| 22 | NAM 's Public Relations Officer , Howard Heeley , said that while the Museum were sorry to see the Mk 4 go , it was more than pleasing to know that it was intended to fly it again . |
| 23 | Fundholders were also free to purchase care for NHS patients in the private sector , so we were interested to see the extent to which this option was being taken up . |
| 24 | As it might be argued that this microflora is more likely to exert pathogenic or protective effects in the intestine than the lumen flora , we were interested to determine the adherent and hydrophobic properties of our mucosal E coli isolates by techniques comparable with those used by others studying faecal isolates . |
| 25 | Some of us were interested to hear the Secretary of State espousing or advocating cross-boundary tendering . |
| 26 | This terminological ambiguity symbolizes a basic contradiction embodied in the whole process of change which followed 1868 , a running tension between those who looked back and sought to revive what they saw as the best in Japanese tradition in the face of a Western onslaught , and those who looked to the future and were prepared to accommodate the values and techniques of their competitors , if only to compete effectively with them . |
| 27 | They were prepared to kill the journalist Broom-Parker rather than let him talk to me . |
| 28 | By going even so short a distance , however , men could free themselves from the control of their lord and the custom of the manor , and it is clear that one can see a similar situation elsewhere in the country ; families were prepared to leave the land to free themselves from their lords ( 79 , p.35 ) . |
| 29 | She guessed these were harlots who were prepared to entertain the men according to their preferences . |
| 30 | Fewer students were prepared to undertake the commitment to submit written work on a regular basis , or to study over long periods , and although the number of Article 24(a) Tutorial Classes rose from fourteen in 1947–48 to thirty in 1951–52 as a direct result of the District 's programme for action , the totals for Article 24(b) Sessional classes declined from forty-one to thirty-two over the same period . |