Example sentences of "were [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The team , who were due to monitor environmental damage caused by the Gulf War , had been invited by the Iranian government . |
| 2 | ‘ You were due to lose that job anyway . ’ |
| 3 | Also last season we were due to play Premier Division side Derris Vale in the Cup and doubters said a heavy defeat looked inevitable . |
| 4 | Only last month the French navy intercepted and seized another Greenpeace ship which tried to land to establish a ‘ peace camp ’ on the main test island of Mururoa atoll , where more tests were due to begin next month . |
| 5 | Talks between the two communities were due to begin next month but Mr Clerides has said he intends to seek a postponement . |
| 6 | What we do know , however , is that we were due to finalise proposed changes to the Mountaineering Instructors ' Certificate syllabus at the next meeting . |
| 7 | Our shooting permits , after what had been eleven months of filming , were due to expire that evening and , though shot at the very end , the sequence on Anak Krakatoa was intended to introduce the very beginning of our whole ten years of adventure films . |
| 8 | Accordingly I consider that Glidewell and Butler-Sloss L.JJ. were right to conclude that money paid to the revenue pursuant to a demand which was ultra vires can be recovered as money had and received . |
| 9 | My Lords , I feel no doubt that counsel were right to take this course . |
| 10 | However , if it were possible to keep careful watch over a longer period , you would discover two interesting things . |
| 11 | The findings from the investigation , as given above , caused both the client and the analysts to review the situation and concentrate first on the general organisation of the filing system as a whole , to determine if it were possible to achieve some degree of commonality as a prerequisite to the development of a computer support system . |
| 12 | If only it were possible to avoid these difficulties , and go island-hopping where they speak English , where the controllers are friendly and helpful , where all kinds of services are readily available , taxes are low and fuel plentiful . |
| 13 | The available survey material suggests that , while certain employers were prepared to retain individual workers beyond the official retirement age by virtue of their particular merits ( Shenfield 1957 ) , there was no determined effort by industry to accommodate elderly workers . |
| 14 | Urgent or not , Sladen was experienced enough to give them thirty seconds of plati-tudes while they kicked their briefcases under the table , tugged at their waistcoats — both MI6 men wore them even on a hot June day — and shuffled their papers , although few of them were prepared to put much paperwork on view . |
| 15 | The one time City and England striker , now a millionaire businessman , put the pressure on chairman Peter Swales by revealing that he and two colleagues were prepared to put substantial funds into the club in return for a seat on the board . |
| 16 | Erm Britain and France were prepared to defend Belgian independence . |
| 17 | THE LEADER of the Scottish Prison Officers Association hinted yesterday that his members were prepared to take industrial action against any move by the Government to privatise the prison service in Scotland , writes Eric McKenzie . |
| 18 | This could be achieved if solicitors were prepared to take young people into their offices on a temporary basis . |
| 19 | The majority , however , were adamantly opposed to anything which weakened their absolute control over their crews and were prepared to take any action which would ensure that this was upheld , the most effective method being the recruitment of non-union crews which were prepared to sail at lower rates and under worse conditions than union men . |
| 20 | A few were prepared to take big salary cuts and throw away the security of their present employment — others were just grateful for a job or the chance to work on a national . |
| 21 | They were prepared to take this risk with their careers and with their lives . |
| 22 | The police , it was suggested , were prepared to tackle any outbreaks of ‘ hooliganism ’ or ‘ counterrevolutionary ’ activity . |
| 23 | West Germany announced on Jan. 27 , 1990 , that it envisaged the granting of special credits for short-term and " semi-long-term " transactions and that West German companies were prepared to finance Iranian capital projects . |
| 24 | Employers were prepared to tolerate these rights and provisions in return for a profitable economic environment . |
| 25 | On April 28th the Community agreed to lift the ban on most of the East European countries which were prepared to give 48 hours ' warning before exporting animals and to accept quarantine periods of 14 days . |
| 26 | It 's Britain and France were prepared to support Belgian independence . |
| 27 | Establishments were obviously catering for a different market in the evening , and it can be assumed that customers were prepared to spend more time and to pay more for a different ‘ meal experience ’ . |
| 28 | A separate Resolution 689 on April 9 created a demilitarized zone between Iraq and Kuwait , monitored by an observer mission for which all five permanent Security Council members were prepared to provide military personnel . |
| 29 | On the other hand , if it was successful , they were prepared to commit more resources . |
| 30 | He was quite prepared to hail this as a ‘ great film ’ , for if critics were prepared to lavish that term ‘ on any half-chewed jumble of stills that comes in from abroad , then I am in favour of loosening up with it on the home front ’ . |