Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite extraordinarily , even in the first phase of Lunch-time Openings , some Branches were expected to open without any additional staff . |
| 2 | Hitherto member states were expected to pay for all environmental measures themselves . |
| 3 | The price the Jews were expected to pay for this help was cooperation and conformity . |
| 4 | The katun , comprising twenty years of 360 days , was the most important unit of time in the Maya view , because the events in one katun were expected to approximate to those in a previous katun that had ended on a day with the same number . |
| 5 | The rights of the zemstvos were curtailed and they were forbidden to communicate with each other even on the most mundane matters of common concern . |
| 6 | They never met again , for under the probationary terms they were forbidden to associate with each other . |
| 7 | People found their way round such systems by linking issues to file series based on subject , organisational provenance , or function — the Ministry of X 's file series about Y , the registered files of the Ministry of X 's Y Branch , or the Ministry of X 's files on its discharge of Act of Parliament Y. Since paper records were designed to fit into such registry systems , they carried pointers to their position within them ; file covers , file numbers , cross references to other files in the same series or related file series , and so on . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The book was a popular success ; its sales at one time were said to compete with those of Marie Corelli [ q.v . ] . |
| 10 | He read several papers before the society and his published works include observations on the laws of electricity , the height to which rockets can be fired and the influence which two pendulum clocks , in close proximity , were seen to have on each other . |
| 11 | The long-term solution was reached in 1852 when local authorities were empowered to provide for all classes and denominations . |
| 12 | It is not obvious , in reviewing this system , exactly where the element of indirection came in , except in so far as the Residents were instructed to maintain at all costs the ‘ prestige ’ of the emir . |
| 13 | So special rules were made to deal with this . |
| 14 | Are you certain you were told to come to this office ? ’ |
| 15 | For example , costs in the area ‘ scrap and rectification ’ were shown to derive from these factors : |
| 16 | These alterations were shown to segregate with all family members known to have the mutant XLA locus in their respective pedigrees ( see Fig. 2 a for pedigree analysis of patient B ) . |
| 17 | Members of the audience were invited to participate in some games . |
| 18 | However , normal mass spectrometers are not sensitive enough to detect 14 C and to reject all other elements or molecules of very nearly the same weight , such as 14 N. As this nitrogen isotope makes up some 80 per cent of the atmosphere it is very common relative to 14 C. The techniques of nuclear physics were brought to bear on this problem in the late 1970s , and it was shown that 14 C could be detected using what is now referred to as accelerator mass spectrometry , AMS . |
| 19 | Indeed variations in profitability were found to account for some three-quarters of the variations in capital stock during this period ( European Economy , 1991 ) . |
| 20 | There were two groups in East Africa who had a direct interest in discrediting Masai administration and suggesting that officials were ‘ soft ’ on the Masai : these were , most importantly , the white settlers who wanted Masai land for farming , and enthusiasts for wildlife conservation who wanted the Masai driven out of areas where their interests were believed to conflict with those of game . |
| 21 | In November 1637 commissioners were appointed to compound with all offenders in the Forests of Dean , Essex , Rockingham , Whittlewood and Salcey — to buy their pardon and the disafforestment of their land . |
| 22 | Penn , Topham , Burgess and Benezek were asked to deal with any proposals that might be made to the committee regarding a building that would be suitable as a hospital , and Messrs Shepperson and Reynolds of Oxford Street were appointed ( for what immediate purpose is not clear ) booksellers and stationers to the institution . |
| 23 | Members were asked to assist in these rules and not to play more than the stated fees ! |
| 24 | If members of the opposite sex were graded along a continuum from familiar to very novel and the animals were allowed to choose between all the possibilities , then progress can be made . |
| 25 | In 1854 , appeals were introduced on matters of law and lawyers were allowed to practise in these courts . |
| 26 | They were allowed to speak to each other in low voices but never to interrupt an adult . |
| 27 | Chairman you 've got to allow me because by the time I 've finished you wo n't be able to stop me , er , but I mean if there 's a lot of money floating about in this area then I think that er , some committee or other should be looking at the the refurbishment of the courts in Devizes which are a disgrace , and partly the fault of this council when th they were allowed to get into such a state , and I mean at some stage or other , something or else is gon na to have to happen to them and I would hope that the magistrates in their wisdom in some committee or other are , are deciding to take these courts back into use . |
| 28 | Before all these developments it was widely accepted that knowledge was something that was ‘ transmitted by words and absorbed by words ’ , and suddenly when faced with ‘ establishing the criteria for the arts as higher education subjects … we were forced to look at these subjects … and at what way they contributed to the role of higher education … |
| 29 | Scotland coaches Johnny Brown and Bob Easson praised their side 's defence , yet they were left to lament on some daft errors in a match which was pockmarked by two flare-ups — one straight from the kick-off — and some rank inconsistent refereeing , where the advantage law was entirely disregarded . |
| 30 | Muhammad ibn Ali promoted a campaign which used the medium of itinerant missionaries and was calculated to appeal to most of the people who for different reasons were discontented with the Umayyads . |