Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [to-vb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we do know , however , is that we were due to finalise proposed changes to the Mountaineering Instructors ' Certificate syllabus at the next meeting . |
| 2 | If only it were possible to avoid these difficulties , and go island-hopping where they speak English , where the controllers are friendly and helpful , where all kinds of services are readily available , taxes are low and fuel plentiful . |
| 3 | West Germany , France and Italy were each to have four votes , the Netherlands and Belgium two votes each , and Luxembourg only one vote . |
| 4 | The available survey material suggests that , while certain employers were prepared to retain individual workers beyond the official retirement age by virtue of their particular merits ( Shenfield 1957 ) , there was no determined effort by industry to accommodate elderly workers . |
| 5 | The one time City and England striker , now a millionaire businessman , put the pressure on chairman Peter Swales by revealing that he and two colleagues were prepared to put substantial funds into the club in return for a seat on the board . |
| 6 | The police , it was suggested , were prepared to tackle any outbreaks of ‘ hooliganism ’ or ‘ counterrevolutionary ’ activity . |
| 7 | Employers were prepared to tolerate these rights and provisions in return for a profitable economic environment . |
| 8 | On April 28th the Community agreed to lift the ban on most of the East European countries which were prepared to give 48 hours ' warning before exporting animals and to accept quarantine periods of 14 days . |
| 9 | A separate Resolution 689 on April 9 created a demilitarized zone between Iraq and Kuwait , monitored by an observer mission for which all five permanent Security Council members were prepared to provide military personnel . |
| 10 | On the other hand , if it was successful , they were prepared to commit more resources . |
| 11 | Sufferers were prepared to travel considerable distances to use such waters . |
| 12 | The problem with consultancy was that companies liked to use the eminent , to whom they were prepared to pay high fees ; getting started was very difficult . |
| 13 | Marie Claire had some novels about English girls lost in the desert at the mercy of proud sheikhs , but those girls were as proud as the sheikhs themselves and defiant too — at least until near the end of the story — and the sheikhs were prepared to make some concessions themselves by that time . |
| 14 | Nearly ninety per cent supported economic sanctions , but less than sixty per cent were prepared to endorse military sanctions , while twenty per cent opposed them and a further twenty per cent evaded the issue altogether by declining to answer the question . |
| 15 | Other cities where papal government might have settled were on important trade routes which might have added to the pope 's powers and security : but Rome remained the favoured city of the popes and , in spite of all the difficulties of controlling the city , the senate and the people , the popes were prepared to suffer all sorts of indignities in order to stay in Rome . |
| 16 | Neither the Labour Party , the Left contributors to Tribune nor the pacifist elements centred around the ILP were prepared to believe these protestations . |
| 17 | In new lands , lords were prepared to offer special advantages to recruits , including a greater measure of freedom . |
| 18 | Recently the fishermen warned agency bosses that they were prepared to fight any moves which would restrict their 300-year-old rights to free access to the port . |
| 19 | The reason HP is rated ‘ difficult to arrange ’ by more people than other credit types is not that people think it would be more difficult to arrange , but that people generally were quicker to apply any comments to it presumably because it has a more prominent image for them . |
| 20 | The chairman and deputy-chairman took two shares each , and the remaining directors one share each , and they were free to use these nominations as they saw fit , within certain broad guidelines established by parliament . |
| 21 | Many Tories and Anglicans were worried about whether their oaths to James could be abrogated , and whether they were free to swear new oaths not just to Mary , who possessed an hereditary claim , but also to William . |
| 22 | In Britain , ministers were careful to introduce any announcements they made on the matter with assurances that there was no intention to bully Denmark . |
| 23 | You were wrong to want such things … . |
| 24 | ‘ Neither the inspections detailed in the approved maintenance schedule nor those recommended by the manufacturer were adequate to detect partial cracks [ which had existed for about 7100 flights ] in the horizontal stabiliser rear spar top chord but would probably have been adequate for the detection of a completely fractured top chord . ’ |
| 25 | The new law retained proportional representation but gave considerable advantage to those parties which were willing to form pre-electoral coalitions ( or apparentements ) with other parties . |
| 26 | There were obviously men in Hollywood who wanted to use social themes , there were audiences who were willing to attend these films , and there were critics who were prepared to praise and even honour these films . |
| 27 | Enraged at seeing their cause thus mugged , Democratic leaders in Congress were willing to perform political somersaults to get some sort of civil-rights legislation through . |
| 28 | On the whole , I was surprised at the extent to which the Moonies were willing to discuss such questions with me . |
| 29 | The Soviets were willing to reduce those forces . |
| 30 | They were mainly interested in themselves and were content to leave historical matters relatively indefinite . |