Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [to-vb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Lords , I feel no doubt that counsel were right to take this course . |
| 2 | They were prepared to take this risk with their careers and with their lives . |
| 3 | While two companies were prepared to pay this cost for their searches , three others were less willing to do so . |
| 4 | Though the three major Allies — the United States , the Soviet Union , and Great Britain — were willing to concede this parity on occasion , the very act of conceding it demonstrated that it did not in reality exist . |
| 5 | Two-thirds of their sample thought they could obtain their preferred type of job within 24 miles of home , but only 18 per cent were willing to travel this distance daily . |
| 6 | ‘ You were supposed to report this morning . ’ |
| 7 | Were lucky to have this place are n't we ? |
| 8 | Officers were quick to accept this role , and tended to see the army as , in the words of one officer , ‘ the only selfless people in Libya ’ , certainly in the vanguard of revolutionary education . |
| 9 | We were glad to have this food . |
| 10 | These economists were ready to accept that there probably did exist a particular unemployment rate at which inflation was neither rising nor falling but they were unwilling to associate this rate with a state of overall full employment . |
| 11 | The Lebanese were powerless to control this conflict between Israel — a foreign nation with which Lebanon was still technically at war — and their own camps in Beirut and elsewhere in Lebanon . |
| 12 | The official media were unlikely to discuss this issue . |
| 13 | For various reasons they were unable to attend this meeting , and so all the arresting officers could do was to take the names of those who were present . |
| 14 | Unfortunately most of the group were unable to exercise this right due to factors such as the hostile physical environment outside the centres , lack of resources — either money or essential mobility aids , such as electric wheelchairs — or parental overprotectiveness : some of the group were not allowed to go out alone or with disabled peers when at home . |
| 15 | For instance , north London staff requiring temporary accommodation while arranging for permanent housing were given a temporary accommodation allowance for up to 13 weeks whereas those moving from Kent were able to receive this allowance for up to 26 weeks . |
| 16 | During the 1890s the FA left wages to the discretion of individual clubs , but there were complaints that top players were able to use this freedom to extract large sums from the directors despite their contractual bondage to a particular club . |
| 17 | Neither Laura nor Bernard were able to attend this ceremony as by that time they had exported themselves . |
| 18 | Immediately they thought they would make a fortune if they were able to sell this food in shops . |
| 19 | Only three of the housing departments that provided information were able to state how many households on their waiting or transfer list required wheelchair or mobility adapted housing , and only two of these were able to break this information down by bedroom size . |
| 20 | But nineteen thirteen I went to this examination and it was called a Labour Examination , and if you were able to pass this examination you could leave school at thirteen . |
| 21 | When a normal pack of cards was employed , subjects were able to accomplish this task very successfully . |
| 22 | Many of the movements in the 1960s were reluctant to take this step , largely because of their hostility to the bureaucratic character of traditional parties , and they seem to have formed no clear idea of how the desired transformation of the economy , the political system and cultural patterns ( including education ) could actually be carried out in an effective way . |
| 23 | The young leaders who had founded the underground movement and endured the hardships of physical struggle were reluctant to accept this stranger as their mentor . |
| 24 | In fact the Allies were ill-fitted to assume this responsibility and unlikely to find solutions to problems that were largely of their own making . |
| 25 | Few were inclined to believe this version , a scepticism reinforced over the years by countless reports , some highly credible , of sightings of the Swede , in prisons , mental homes and labour camps . |
| 26 | What would they say to her if they knew , these people who were obliged to use this means of transport day in , day out ? |
| 27 | He was due to attend this year 's Ryder Cup match at The Belfry , but illness prevented him . |
| 28 | ‘ About forty minutes before the train was due to arrive this man came up to me and asked if I 'd be interested in making five hundred francs . |
| 29 | The second phase of installation of modern machinery was due to start this month . |
| 30 | THE GODFATHERS have been forced to cancel their British tour , which was due to start this week , after bassist Chris Coyne sprained his wrists fighting off two muggers . |