Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ] . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Surely she accepts that the Government were right to provide compensation for haemophiliacs who became infected through contaminated blood factor 8 . |
| 4 | If it were possible to have sex with objects , then that would be a different matter ’ |
| 5 | If it were possible to have sex with objects , then that would be a different matter . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | " 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 . " |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | Neither the government nor the employers were prepared to accept redistribution on this scale . |
| 19 | The big show-piece cinemas were built to pull in the fashionable trade but they were not designed for the exclusive use of a social elite ; rather they were provided for all those groups who were prepared to pay money for the movie entertainment that was being provided as part of the delights offered by the down-town city . |
| 20 | As it became clear that the Bolsheviks were prepared to make peace on terms which fully restored Polish territorial integrity , the wave of anti-war feeling subsided as quickly as it had appeared . |
| 21 | Social democratic policies of state intervention and Ostpolitik were now in favour with the electorate , especially among young people and , after the liberal reforms at the Second Vatican Council , even Roman Catholic voters were prepared to lend support to the SPD . |
| 22 | Regions were free to allocate revenue to districts as they wished . |
| 23 | Following de Klerk 's visit to Nigeria in April [ see p. 38851 ] the Nigerian Foreign Ministry announced on May 22 that Nigerians were free to transact business with South Africa . |
| 24 | There are numerous examples in English wills throughout the centuries of men who were careful to make provision for their widows by insisting that children who inherited some property would allow their mother to stay somewhere comfortable for the rest of her life . |
| 25 | Mr Coase 's favourite case of externality was an American icon , the wood-burning locomotive — whose sparks , regrettably , were prone to set fire to farmers ' fields . |
| 26 | Yet often such writers , while denouncing despotic or absolute rule in principle , were willing to take advantage of the practical benefits it might bring . |
| 27 | Students were asked to provide a contact address if they were willing to take part in this follow-up : 89 per cent of students did so . |
| 28 | Their headteachers were approached early in 1984 and asked if they and their staff were willing to take part in the survey . |
| 29 | Whatever their private opinions , the liberals were willing to establish catholicism as the sole religion of Spain , to make heresy a crime , to allow episcopal censorship of religious works ; as Larra was to observe , it was a one-legged freedom that permitted only ‘ political ’ discussion and it shows the limitations imposed on liberalism by fear of the Church . |
| 30 | Some elderly residents of John Broadwood House in Bridle Lane , behind Piccadilly Circus , were fortunate to escape injury as the blast , caused by a device containing less than 1lb of high explosives , blew out windows of their homes . |