Example sentences of "were [adj] [to-vb] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | My Lords , I feel no doubt that counsel were right to take this course . |
| 9 | However , if it were possible to keep careful watch over a longer period , you would discover two interesting things . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Erm Britain and France were prepared to defend Belgian independence . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They were prepared to take this risk with their careers and with their lives . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It 's Britain and France were prepared to support Belgian independence . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | Other members of the crew were prepared to admit some blame and accept temporary demotion or early retirement . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Many still felt that the chief need was for full employment and adequate pay , which would enable the working class to provide for their own needs and to retain their independence of state control ; though they were prepared to accept immediate state help for those whose needs could not be met in this way , such as the aged . |
| 24 | ‘ Producers were prepared to pay good money for quality stock and the number of sheep sold this year was higher than in 1990 . ’ |
| 25 | While two companies were prepared to pay this cost for their searches , three others were less willing to do so . |
| 26 | The United States sought to maintain an atomic energy monopoly — both military and civilian — as a God-given right ; but for the purposes of conventional warfare they needed the support of allies and were prepared to buy international collaboration with superficially altruistic aid programmes . |
| 27 | To compensate , Asian families were prepared to cut current consumption drastically , thus raising the ratio of savings to GDP to heights ( such as 39 per cent ) unheard of in developed countries . |
| 28 | We should , of course , widen the context even further for , if in the movies preaching usually came hand in hand with melodrama , this should remind us that films were still firmly in the hands of showmen and they were free to use social comment and social settings as they thought best . |
| 29 | By law they were free to publish any work which related to a period before the Romanov dynasty came to the throne . |
| 30 | The reason was that as a result of bullying some Asian children were afraid to eat Indian food at school . |