Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The talks were due to include discussions of measures to reduce tension between the two states and to promote bilateral exchanges . |
| 2 | On Nov. 7 a government spokesman in Khartoum complained that splits in the SPLA would make it difficult to resume the Nigerian-mediated Abuja peace negotiations which were due to take place in December [ see pp. 38901 ; 38952 for previous peace talks ] . |
| 3 | The Scots , perhaps only now fully acclimatised to Australasia , trained for an hour at Daramalan College before their 35-minute flight to Sydney , where they were due to collect reinforcements in the shape of scrum-half Andy Nicol and forward Derek Turnbull , before their four-hour flight to Fiji . |
| 4 | FC Copenhagen , who were due to play Tbilisi in the first round proper , have no doubt that Linfield will now be their opponents — in Belfast on Wednesday week . |
| 5 | FC Copenhagen , who were due to play Tbilisi in the first round proper , have no doubt that Linfield will now be their opponents — in Belfast on Wednesday week . |
| 6 | England were due to meet Wales in the final match of the round robin series today knowing that a share of the honours would give them the crown . |
| 7 | Quinlivan and McAuley , arrested at Stonehenge a month before the Willesden cache was found , were due to stand trial for conspiracy to murder before escaping from Brixton prison . |
| 8 | Surely she accepts that the Government were right to provide compensation for haemophiliacs who became infected through contaminated blood factor 8 . |
| 9 | If it were possible to have sex with objects , then that would be a different matter ’ |
| 10 | If it were possible to have sex with objects , then that would be a different matter . ’ |
| 11 | Yeah their their funding tends to be they 'll they 'll fund something like a production or they 'll say at you know if you put our name up were give you so much or General Portfolio perhaps will will fund a particular show or a series of show 's or say were prepared to put a thousand pounds could you name six shows and we 'll put our name on those show 's when they 're advertised but no company or other Council 's actually prepared to come along and say were prepared to put money on a regular basis . |
| 12 | First of all , Councillor comments , erm , you know , there seems to be this this er conservative mentality , that is let's drive all our working conditions down to the level of the competition , which means , you know , we would have a a mining industry if we were prepared to put children in , like that do in Columbia . |
| 13 | In case any such revolution should unseat its ruling class , the German leaders were prepared to cease hostilities against their external enemies in order to concentrate on defeating their internal enemies . |
| 14 | Lesser officials sensed that their superiors were prepared to entertain criticism of the conduct of the empire 's affairs and submitted devastating analyses of the particular fields of administration for which they were responsible . |
| 15 | In truth , all that can be said is that , in both the Free Presbyterian Church and in the UPV , there were a small number of people ( none of whom were figures of any stature in the Church ) who were prepared to abet others in the commission of crimes to further the aims which the vast majority of people in the Church and UPV wished to see promoted by less violent means . |
| 16 | Thus feminists prominent in the labour movement and leaders of middle class feminist groups , such as Eleanor Rathbone and Eva Hubback , were prepared to join anti-feminists in using the rhetoric of maternalism to promote the welfare of women . |
| 17 | A note in the Dialogue File provides a clue as to why Warner and Wallis were prepared to indulge Muni on this occasion , for it describes the film as being ‘ a red blooded drama of life in the raw , of men of primitive passions made desperate by hunger and deprivation ’ , ‘ a tale of strife and conflict , of greed and self sacrifice , of love and devotion ’ , and ‘ above all , a stirring plea for human justice ’ . |
| 18 | Christie , who has already signed money-spinning deals with Lucozade and clothing firm High and Mighty since Barcelona , said : ‘ We did n't see why we should pay for a visa when we were prepared to take part in races for nothing . |
| 19 | A condition of the setting up of the Executive was that tri-partite talks should be held between the Westminster and Dublin governments and those Northern Ireland parties which were prepared to take part in the Executive . |
| 20 | The discrepancy between the large number of Party members and the Party 's poor performance at the polls indicates clearly that while Danzigers were prepared to take advantage of it as a social refuge , they were by no means as convinced by it as Forster and Hitler desired . |
| 21 | " If I were prepared to take advice about the way I run my Department from anyone , it would n't be a third-rate paper fetishist with a second-rate degree , who does n't know the difference between scientific proof and intuition . " |
| 22 | But the fact that the attempt had been made at all must have given credibility to Gloucester 's claim that the Woodvilles were prepared to use force in pursuit of their ends . |
| 23 | But the fact that the attempt had been made at all must have given credibility to Gloucester 's claim that the Woodvilles were prepared to use force in pursuit of their ends . |
| 24 | At officer level , the Cambridge Board through Hickson and Pateman not unreasonably argued that its initiatives in rural areas had been successful ; not least because of the financial support received from LEAs who were prepared to grant-aid provision of liberal adult education by the Board more generously than that provided through the District . |
| 25 | Most of the parents , however , had come intending to talk about their boys , either out of a genuine or an assumed interest in them ; and few of them were prepared to waste time on Onyx when there were real teachers on whom to vent their parental concern . |
| 26 | 21–7 " Letters were read from the secretary and convener of the Praise Committee of the Church with regard to a grant for assisting the congregation to secure an instrument to be used in congregational praise , from which it appears that the Committee were prepared to give £10 on condition that the instrument would be introduced in connection with public worship , and that the congregation contributed a suitable proportion of the cost . " |
| 27 | The other teachers in the department were prepared to support Rick in this , partly because of their personal and professional regard for him , but also because they too knew things had to change because of the GCSE . |
| 28 | Hochhauser was becoming an increasingly affluent little town with a new emerging middle class who were prepared to spend money on life 's smaller luxuries , so why not begin her own little dancing academy ? |
| 29 | Many more farmers would be willing to undertake conversion if the Government were prepared to provide subsidies for the first five years to help re-equip . |
| 30 | On the other hand , there were people like Spaak and the Italian premier , Alcide de Gasperi , who were prepared to accept things for what they were , to see the Council of Europe as a first step in the right direction , not an end — and a direction which they believed to be merely inevitable . |