Example sentences of "were [adj] [to-vb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only Flokati and Upper Gumtree were due to run at Winnipeg … |
| 2 | Boro were due to play at Kelso , but declined their hosts ' request to play tonight . |
| 3 | Marchers were due to congregate at Market Square for an open-air meeting . |
| 4 | The analogy was there to draw between what they were prepared to do at home and what they might contemplate doing out of sight in a subjected territory . |
| 5 | Some conscripts were able to live at home for at least part of their service , reporting for duty at 5.30 a.m. and returning in the late afternoon — but usually only those who lived near a training depot had permission to commute to it . |
| 6 | David Raffe ( 11 ) of Edinburgh University found that more than three-quarters of school leavers from sparsely populated areas were able to live at home . |
| 7 | Only a small percentage of black children were able to remain at school beyond primary level . |
| 8 | Southport 's reply was never in any trouble and Swift ( 28no ) and Butler ( 70no ) were able to score at will . |
| 9 | R.A.F. golfers were able to play at Henley on generous terms and at some unknown date an annual match between the Club and Medmenham was started , with the Club and the R.A.F. arranging hospitality alternately . |
| 10 | Those of us who did carry on with the flight , masochistically addicted to the hellish aimlessness of it , were obliged to leave at New Delhi , and spend a day selling brightly coloured scarves and small gold elephants on a souvenir stall . |
| 11 | The problems that juries were liable to arrive at verdicts that were less than helpful and that witnesses and jurors were vulnerable to intimidation were met by the abolition of juries in the criminal courts and the introduction of unorthodox expedients to enable witnesses to remain anonymous . |