Example sentences of "were [adj] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three hundred people at R-A-F Brize Norton and the major Oxford hospitals were due to participate in the excercise which would have simulated a runway collision between a V-C Ten and a Tristar . |
| 2 | On Aug. 4 and 5 , in the week before UN staff were due to arrive in the territory to start preparing the January 1992 UN-supervised referendum [ see p. 38169 ] , Moroccan aircraft strafed the oasis of Tfariti in the north-east , near the Mauritanian border , while Polisario Front guerrillas claimed to have shot down a Moroccan aircraft . |
| 3 | Negotiations over Chilean membership of the group were due to resume in the second half of 1991 . |
| 4 | And the Pioneers were right to see in the dispossession by the consumer interest of the rights of the workers in the Manufacturing Society as a fundamental change of Co-operative purpose and as implying the acceptance of a much more limited expectation for it , but wrong not to recognise that that change , that limitation inhered in the idea of a dividend itself : for that , more than anything else , activated the potential conflict of interest created by the differing functions — that of workers making things for sale and that of consumers buying them to use . |
| 5 | A biting , end-to-end wind did not assist the enjoyment of the night for players or spectators , and goals from both sides were each scored in the dying moments of the halves . |
| 6 | The most accessible way of progress was through education , for most people had very little money and men were prepared to study in the early morning and late at night during a long week 's work — 10 hours a day for five days and five hours on Saturdays . |
| 7 | He said Muslim civilians could be evacuated or were free to stay in the enclave and Serb forces would allow the sick and wounded to leave the area . |
| 8 | Fifth , it offered targets , such as the minimum wage , that were impossible to defend in the current climate . |
| 9 | They were content to stay in the back-streets of our towns making their own coffins and providing a much needed service to a community which was either unqualified , unwilling or unable to extend to such outrageous luxuries . |
| 10 | Exhausted by their exercise , they were content to drowse in the sun . |
| 11 | There were personal bests in the high jump for Elaine Murphy of Lagan Valley , who won at 1.62 , with Carrie Donnelly of Lisburn second at 1.56 . |
| 12 | But in real life such oscillations are seldom as rhythmical as those of a stone hanging freely from a string ; the comparison would be more exact if the string were supposed to hang in the troubled waters of a mill-race , whose stream was at one time allowed to flow freely , and at another partially cut off . |
| 13 | When the county 's energetic emergency planning officer , Dr Alan Jones , went through it , he was amazed : for example , two of the local assembly points , where people were supposed to collect in the event of an evacuation , no longer existed . |
| 14 | Two films , Hell 's Angels on Wheels and Rebel Rouser were supposed to follow in the wake of The Wild Angels , even to the point of including some of the cast of that film , like Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd . |
| 15 | The sea-monster became , in the hands of Greek sculptors and vase painters , a composite creature based on the dolphins , whales and tunny they were accustomed to see in the Mediterranean , and to which the general term ketos ( great fish ) was applied . |
| 16 | Rolls-Royce were swift to establish in the courts that their purchase of the trademark Bentley overrode their contract with him , which had banned his own use of his name for ten years only . |
| 17 | They were lucky to survive in the 40th minute when Taylor headed against the crossbar , but Wycombe 's Steve Thompson saw a 49th-minute header was cleared off the line by Paul Raven . |
| 18 | I 'VE DONE IT , MUM JUBILANT Sally ca n't believe she has beaten American rival Sandra Farmer-Patrick to the gold medal — and her mum and dad were quick to join in the celebrations . |
| 19 | The World Bank ranks all the countries of the world according to their GNP per capita , though countries with populations of less than 1 million ( of whom there were 35 identified in the 1988 Report ) are excluded from the main tables . |
| 20 | In neither country were these created in the larger urban areas , but in the principality this only meant a few heavily populated areas in south Wales . |
| 21 | His chapter on the post-1857 situation is confined to a charting exercise in which the context provided is often misleading ( married women 's participation in the labour market did not rise rapidly in the interwar years ) , and in which the facts are sometimes shaky ( not all working-class women were opposed to divorce in the early part of the century ; the Women 's Co-operative Guild gave evidence to the 1909 Royal Commission in favour of it ) . |
| 22 | They were all slumped in the shade of the vehicles , blurred by patches of cigarette smoke . |
| 23 | So we were all herded in the common room together . |
| 24 | The Noble Savage , the Polynesian Beauty , the Paradise Isle were all conceived in the world 's largest ocean . |
| 25 | The Head of Department then went through the objectives one at a time and satisfied the Deputy Head ( Curriculum ) and the Director of Studies that , with different emphases , the objectives were all subsumed in the 3 criteria for the assessment of pupils ' work . |
| 26 | The Peke-faced cat was known back in the 1930s , but the other three were all discovered in the 1960s and were quickly established by enthusiastic local breeders , delighted to be founding new lines of pedigree cats . |
| 27 | We were all dressed in the regulation issue khaki overalls , but Waters had three stripes on his sleeves in case we did n't know what a sergeant was . |
| 28 | They were all dressed in the navy blue suits and their white and their black caps as well . |
| 29 | Local enterprise agencies , the West Belfast Enterprise Board , LEDU and IDB , were all participating in the creation of an infrastructure to attract firms to the area , but no organisation was working with and for the adult community in West Belfast . |
| 30 | They were all killed in the concentration camps during the war . |