Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arrangements were duly made to hold a special Wales Link Council meeting which Ms de Jonghe could attend . |
| 2 | On Aug. 4 the Ciskei military forces were confronted on the borders of the bantustan by 30,000 protesters , who were eventually allowed to hold a rally within Ciskei , following negotiations with Brig. |
| 3 | The winners , for example , will collect only around £5,000 less than the £30,000 total prize money that was on offer for the sub-continent 's 1987 World Cup , which is doubtless why Australia and the West Indies were eventually persuaded to join the party after originally blowing it a loud raspberry . |
| 4 | The fact that a Marine battalion from Basilan and a police unit from Leyte were eventually used to confront the rebels , also suggested that the government lacked confidence in the reliability of the local units based in Mindanao . |
| 5 | Before examining the steps which were eventually taken to resolve the various confusions now arising over policies on both Yugoslavs and Cossacks , there was one further development in respect of the Cossacks which must be considered separately . |
| 6 | Together with former generals Rene Cruz and Honesto Isleta — who had played a key role in the Ramos election campaign — Almonte formed part of a group of former military officers who were widely believed to constitute the unofficial power centre of the new administration . |
| 7 | Earlier conference delegates heard Fife 's director of social work , Allan Bowman , claim juvenile crime had always been an area where facts were rarely permitted to obscure the more sensational aspects . |
| 8 | The police were mostly invited to provide a presentation in the classroom . |
| 9 | Many governments , most prominent among which was the former Conservative government of Mrs Margaret Thatcher , accepted the logic of the above argument and were thereby persuaded to swallow the bitter pill of demand deflation and abnormally high unemployment rates in exchange for the boon of a sustained fall in the rate of inflation . |
| 10 | These councils were granted the same economic development powers as the ‘ other districts ’ , but they were additionally invited to submit an annual programme that would normally lead to greater Urban Programme funding than would be made available to the lowest tier of authorities . |
| 11 | The citizens were literally waiting to seize the disembarking troops and bear them off to their homes for lavish entertainment , while singing on the quayside was the ample figure of Perla Siedle Gibson , ‘ The Lady in White ’ . |
| 12 | The specific mechanism suggested by Freud in Totem and Taboo ( and corroborated by my own research ) , is that of the murder of the primal father by his sons — or , at least , by those whose egos were sufficiently evolved to experience the considerable distortion caused by their ambivalence regarding him . |
| 13 | Carrickfergus itself , lacking walls and protected only by a ruined castle , rapidly surrendered when the garrison 's ammunition ran out and the Belfast authorities were sufficiently intimidated to send the French provisions when they demanded them . |
| 14 | ‘ I think we were all going to pay the price for that ’ , said a member of one of Perth 's oldest families . |
| 15 | It was a hurried occasion , as we were all going to catch a train : the same train , as it turned out , for Donald and I were going home to Oxford , and Ivy and Margaret were going with Herman Schrijver — the Dutch interior decorator who became the closest of her men friends — to spend a week at Woodstock , and walk in the park at Blenheim . |
| 16 | Five of those arrested in July were apparently meeting to plan a commemoration of the anniversary of the death of the PALIPEHUTU leader , Remy Gahutu , in prison in Tanzania in August 1990 . |
| 17 | In July 1971 the Chairman of the CDP wrote to three polytechnic directors who were apparently intending to make a direct approach to Mrs Thatcher , as Secretary of State , ‘ in relation to the possible granting of degree awarding powers to your polytechnic ’ : individual initiatives , he considered , were premature . |
| 18 | The new measures were apparently designed to show the administration 's determination to curb state spending , encourage more private investment and accelerate the sale of government assets . |
| 19 | These offences were apparently introduced to combat the white slave traffic . |
| 20 | At the same time , between 12 and 14 IRA men selected to make the escape attempt were apparently preparing to blast an inside gate with some of the smuggled Semtex . |
| 21 | ‘ He journeyed back to his own people , with many adventures along the way ; and when he was in Merkadale he told the Myrcans that they had to stop the killing , that they were only trying to pick an apple that was already in their hands . |
| 22 | This freedom was rapidly curtailed in the 1980s and local authorities were only allowed to spend a fraction of their receipts from sales on new building in any one year . |
| 23 | The children were only allowed to open the present she indicated and only after she had looked at her watch to give the go-ahead to tear the paper off ‘ It was completely mad , ’ says Charles . |
| 24 | The more expert batsmen were only allowed to wield a broomstick the following year , while originality in the style and design of the ‘ willow , was to be positively sought after 1891 . |
| 25 | There was a time when they were only allowed to sing the last verse , not the first verse , because of this er very nationalistic erm , attitude that it portrayed . |
| 26 | Whilst others were only allowed to keep the night watch once each week , Nicholas undertook it three times . |
| 27 | Since I was wearing posh garden visiting attire — a pair of thin striped leggings , white leather ballet pumps , a halterneck top , a cute bolero cardigan and dangly earrings — we were only planning to leave the car for some air . |
| 28 | I were only going to have a look . |
| 29 | We were only going to have an hour together . ’ |
| 30 | Prisons were only used to hold a few people until trial . |