Example sentences of "were [adj] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only two trains to and from British Steel Skinningrove were due to use the bridge yesterday , ’ said a British Rail spokeswoman . |
| 2 | They were due to televise the contest from the Barbican centre in York to local pubs and clubs . |
| 3 | Officials from the two agencies were due to visit the country in February to negotiate the terms of an assistance package , the largest ever requested by Papua New Guinea . |
| 4 | The parliaments of both countries were due to ratify the treaty by the end of February 1991 . |
| 5 | It was announced that officials were due to discuss the dispute in London in December . |
| 6 | McKeag 's delight was tempered by regret at the loss of sponsors Rumbelows , who were due to sponsor the Cup for a further two years . |
| 7 | Union officials were due to meet the arbitration service , Acas , this morning for a briefing session . |
| 8 | Originally four Carmel Convent sisters were due to make the journey but , sadly , Sister Inge died late last year after suffering an inoperable brain tumour . |
| 9 | After a good night 's sleep , we arrived at breakfast with about 15 minutes to spare , and eventually set off for Hungary where we were due to stay the night with a Weymouth girl married to a Hungarian and is living in Gyor . |
| 10 | Those were not the circumstances at Bilsthorpe , but the mines inspectorate insist they were right to allow the roof bolting in the tunnel , or narrow driveage that 's despite the fact that on one side instead of a good coal pillar , only wooden props supported the roof . |
| 11 | ‘ Second , once sterling left the ERM , and with inflation sharply down , we were right to take the opportunity that gave us to relax policy and get interest rates down . |
| 12 | In fact , so many animals respond to a lunar cycle that people have wondered whether the ancients were right to associate the moon with human fertility . |
| 13 | THE man behind flop BBC soap Eldorado says critics were right to attack the show . |
| 14 | Within two minutes the mob had completely dispersed , with the exception of the odd copper or two and a few stragglers who were loth to leave the scene of all the fun . |
| 15 | If it were possible to diminish the use of gas , to increase British coal production and to erect trade and tariff barriers to ensure that we can not import foreign coal , what would the consequences be for those who want to use the power that is generated ? |
| 16 | Fundholders were also free to purchase care for NHS patients in the private sector , so we were interested to see the extent to which this option was being taken up . |
| 17 | As it might be argued that this microflora is more likely to exert pathogenic or protective effects in the intestine than the lumen flora , we were interested to determine the adherent and hydrophobic properties of our mucosal E coli isolates by techniques comparable with those used by others studying faecal isolates . |
| 18 | Some of us were interested to hear the Secretary of State espousing or advocating cross-boundary tendering . |
| 19 | They were prepared to kill the journalist Broom-Parker rather than let him talk to me . |
| 20 | By going even so short a distance , however , men could free themselves from the control of their lord and the custom of the manor , and it is clear that one can see a similar situation elsewhere in the country ; families were prepared to leave the land to free themselves from their lords ( 79 , p.35 ) . |
| 21 | Fewer students were prepared to undertake the commitment to submit written work on a regular basis , or to study over long periods , and although the number of Article 24(a) Tutorial Classes rose from fourteen in 1947–48 to thirty in 1951–52 as a direct result of the District 's programme for action , the totals for Article 24(b) Sessional classes declined from forty-one to thirty-two over the same period . |
| 22 | The Chilean case shows that the working class were prepared to take the situation into their own hands and adopt radical action over the heads of their own leaders . |
| 23 | Fox in 1792 and Romilly in 1806 were prepared to take the risk . |
| 24 | Soviet leaders were prepared to confirm the neutrality of Cambodia and Laos in this way . |
| 25 | We expected that a number — perhaps an embarrassingly large number — of students would decide that they simply did not like our courses , and we were prepared to smooth the path of transfer . |
| 26 | And , and were prepared to do the work so long as they could get the say so from erm the Highways Authority . |
| 27 | In fact , there was only a small nucleus of non-party men who were prepared to support the Court on all occasions — men such as the Secretary of War , William Blathwayt , or Treasury Secretary , William Lowndes , who were essentially civil servants . |
| 28 | Moreover , the war intensified factional disputes as socialists divided between ‘ defencists ’ who were prepared to support the war effort and ‘ internationalists ’ , among whom Lenin was most uncompromising , who condemned it . |
| 29 | Some , disregarding their oaths , favoured the election of the king of France , Philip Augustus ; others were prepared to support the candidature of King Richard I of England . |
| 30 | If pub owners were prepared to emphasise the interest of genuine historic features , regardless of period , then this type of fakery , which disappoints or sadly deceives the customer in search of the traditional pub and irreparably removes much of a building 's interest for future generations , could be avoided . |