Example sentences of "were [adj] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You were due to lose that job anyway . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | My Lords , I feel no doubt that counsel were right to take this course . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They were prepared to take this risk with their careers and with their lives . |
| 10 | The police , it was suggested , were prepared to tackle any outbreaks of ‘ hooliganism ’ or ‘ counterrevolutionary ’ activity . |
| 11 | Employers were prepared to tolerate these rights and provisions in return for a profitable economic environment . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | On the other hand , if it was successful , they were prepared to commit more resources . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | Other members of the crew were prepared to admit some blame and accept temporary demotion or early retirement . |
| 16 | Not , they were n't members of ours and they were n't er skilled in the trade , but hey were just people who were prepared to work any way and and scrambled through as best they could . |
| 17 | While two companies were prepared to pay this cost for their searches , three others were less willing to do so . |
| 18 | Marie Claire had some novels about English girls lost in the desert at the mercy of proud sheikhs , but those girls were as proud as the sheikhs themselves and defiant too — at least until near the end of the story — and the sheikhs were prepared to make some concessions themselves by that time . |
| 19 | Other cities where papal government might have settled were on important trade routes which might have added to the pope 's powers and security : but Rome remained the favoured city of the popes and , in spite of all the difficulties of controlling the city , the senate and the people , the popes were prepared to suffer all sorts of indignities in order to stay in Rome . |
| 20 | Neither the Labour Party , the Left contributors to Tribune nor the pacifist elements centred around the ILP were prepared to believe these protestations . |
| 21 | Recently the fishermen warned agency bosses that they were prepared to fight any moves which would restrict their 300-year-old rights to free access to the port . |
| 22 | The chairman and deputy-chairman took two shares each , and the remaining directors one share each , and they were free to use these nominations as they saw fit , within certain broad guidelines established by parliament . |
| 23 | By law they were free to publish any work which related to a period before the Romanov dynasty came to the throne . |
| 24 | In Britain , ministers were careful to introduce any announcements they made on the matter with assurances that there was no intention to bully Denmark . |
| 25 | You were wrong to want such things … . |
| 26 | ‘ You were brave to make that request . |
| 27 | So lively did it get on occasions that Bishop Story had to order the pilgrims to carry crosses and banners in 1478 instead of the coloured staves with which they were prone to hit each other at the height of their religious fervour . |
| 28 | Priorities were changed ; more importance was attached to paid work and hence they were willing to give more time to union affairs . |
| 29 | There were obviously men in Hollywood who wanted to use social themes , there were audiences who were willing to attend these films , and there were critics who were prepared to praise and even honour these films . |
| 30 | The price of 36s. has thus some claim to be called the true equilibrium price : because if it were fixed on at the beginning , and adhered to throughout , it would exactly equate demand and supply ( i.e. the amount which buyers were willing to purchase at that price would be just equal to that for which sellers were willing to take that price ) ; and because every dealer who has a perfect knowledge of the circumstances of the market expects that price to be established . |