Example sentences of "they [was/were] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were invariably attached to a two-storey building of more conventional shape . |
| 2 | They were not given to silly pranks at any time , let alone a quarter to two on Sunday morning . |
| 3 | Although members of the community dressed alike , the women in black robes , they were not bound to celibacy . |
| 4 | The Macrory review considered the existing proposals for reshaping local government in Northern Ireland but they were not limited to these in making their recommendations . |
| 5 | Many were recovered from dark caves and rock crevices where they were not intended to be seen by mortal eyes . |
| 6 | Very many misunderstandings occur because messages are decoded in ways in which they were not intended to be . |
| 7 | If — hairbrush microphones in hand — they were not pretending to be Abba , it was Welsh star Bonnie Tyler who was the inspiration for their unenthusiastic warblings . |
| 8 | He was making sure they were not exposed to any form of light source , however muted . |
| 9 | They were stationed at a poli number two police station , which was the custom house at the Ipswich docks , and they spent most of their time when they were off duty just lying on stretchers lying about , then of course evening time , when there was er more activity , course they came out and my word , if they told strikers they were not to go to this part of the town or road . |
| 10 | Their problem is not that they could not take on this responsibility before but that they were not asked to . |
| 11 | They were not related to the duration of gestation . |
| 12 | He was ringing people he did not like to tell them that they were not invited to his party on Wednesday night . |
| 13 | They were not addressed to this particular issue . |
| 14 | People in literature departments are not used to handling ideas , it not being their métier , and traditionally they were not required to , beyond such elementary tokens as the Elizabethian World Picture or the Death of God . |
| 15 | They were not used to all this fervour and zeal . |
| 16 | One or two mentioned that they would look forward to the course and that if they were not going to an ATB event they would be out anyway . |
| 17 | He had , and was going to have , the worst hangover of his life , but even in the throes of it he was aware of a sense of relief that they were staying there , they were not going to Greece . |
| 18 | Ansel Key 's subjects knew they were not going to be starved to death , being part of a controlled experiment under constant medical supervision , so in their cases the implications of hunger were not life-threatening . |
| 19 | They knew now that it was on these and on nothing else that their lives depended , and they were not going to waste anything they possessed between them . |
| 20 | The three boys set out , but they walked so slowly that Oliver thought they were not going to work at all . |
| 21 | They were not going to be involved in what he did . |
| 22 | Fenella gasped and felt the sour bitterness of evil magic touching her and remembered that the Stroicim Inchinn was the most strongly forbidden enchantment of all , and that whatever else they were going to be doing here , they were not going to be dealing with forbidden spells . |
| 23 | But the management did respond and er I think it was just because of the sheer pressure of the shop stewards er making continuous overtures to them on each and every problem that came up , and they were not going to be set aside er with a simple answer er that would n't satisfy a member . |
| 24 | He was dressed for dinner and she knew without doubt that they were not going to be invited to join him . |
| 25 | Could she not say that it had been her own choice to leave the Longhills , that they were not suited to one another ? |
| 26 | While the French police eventually traced the pieces to Osaka , lack of cooperation on the part of the Japanese authorities meant that they were not returned to France until June 1990 , and then only on the condition that they were returned to Japan by December of that year . |
| 27 | In addition , while they were not restricted to any one social class , they did develop a clear sense of identity , fostered by a number of distinctive badges , such as their preference for Christian names of an Old Testament origin or of their own elaborate and didactic construction , such as Sin-deny , Be-Thankful , Praise-God , and Sure-Trust . |
| 28 | Previous generations may also have felt a passing pang of regret as they allowed the younger generation to take their place , but they were not subjected to the pressure to stay young which affects men and women of forty or fifty today . |
| 29 | The remaining two pups were not registered with the AKC , as they were not thought to be of high enough merit . |
| 30 | The place had n't filled up yet but she noticed that the boys were congregating at the end of the hall beneath the balcony and on the left hand side while the girls were spread between the tables and chairs on the opposite wall , chatting and giggling and trying to pretend they were not waiting to be asked to dance . |