Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two possibilities were developed to deal with man 's new homelessness in the world , his exposure , as Foucault puts it , to the finitude of the event , which attempted to draw all these heterogeneous histories together again : either men sought for some fundamental law through which a new general history could be constituted , or historicity as such was defined in terms of ‘ man ’ — whether as progress , economic laws , or cultural totalities . |
| 2 | Four alleged militants of the FIS were paraded on television on Oct. 1 and were heard to confess at length to the bomb attack at Algiers airport on Aug. 26 which killed 10 people [ see pp. 39072 ; 39118 ] . |
| 3 | The Romans left fewer substantial marks on what they called Caledonia than they did on southern Britain , largely because so many of their attempts to establish regional centres collapsed when they were recalled to deal with unrest in southern Britain , or even back to Continental Europe and to Rome itself . |
| 4 | In March , a judicial inquest into the death of 42 people in Sebokeng township in September 1990 concluded with the presiding judge finding members of the South African Defence Force criminally responsible for the deaths of four people and rejected claims that the concerned were provoked to shoot in self-defence . |
| 5 | Results from Hungary indicated that vaccines were exposed to heat during transport and that facilities for refrigeration were inadequate , and recent British studies have shown that the storage of vaccines is inadequate in general practices and health authority premises . |
| 6 | The regulations originally were intended to come into effect on 11 September 1991 , but the commencement date was brought forward to 31 August . |
| 7 | As well as maintaining a good posture , women were expected to move with grace , which was the principal reason for dancing lessons A woman attempting to achieve this ideal of beauty needed to spend a great deal of money , and so labouring class women were automatically excluded , even if they were possessed of ‘ natural ’ beauty . |
| 8 | Winter barley is ripening rapidly on the heavy lands of North Humberside , and combines were expected to move from mid-week onwards , according to barometer farmer John Fenton , who manages Yokefleet Farms , Blacktoft . |
| 9 | Knowledge of what they were expected to do on discharge was equally scanty and the elderly people did not seem to connect the pattern of drug-taking in hospital with a possible continuation once they were home . |
| 10 | In those early days they were expected to go to chapel every morning ; bells seemed to announce every change in the timetable . |
| 11 | This village had been built solely for the duration of the festival , for the thousands of funeral guests who were expected to arrive on foot from the far corners of the kingdom . |
| 12 | On that second and final dinner of the conference — most guests were expected to disperse after lunch the following day — the company had lost much of the reserve that had been noticeable throughout the previous days . |
| 13 | It was estimated that more than 500,000,000 people worldwide were suffering from chronic malnutrition , of whom 17,000,000 were expected to die from hunger . |
| 14 | Visitors were expected to pay in advance but credit was always given to favourites like Modigliani and Leon Trotsky the Russian revolutionary . |
| 15 | People were expected to come on time , but that was accepted as Claudia being a bit eccentric . |
| 16 | Large numbers of recruits to English would offset the small numbers who were expected to apply for French . |
| 17 | Literary accomplishment was to be valued : all aspiring gentlemen were expected to know by heart the Gulistan ( The Rose Garden ) and Bustan ( The Orchard ) of Sa'di ; but more important still was grammatical correctness : ‘ In society the mirza should [ always ] try to guard against the shame of committing any mistake in conversation , for such incorrectness in speech is considered a great fault in a gentleman . ’ |
| 18 | She found that domestic life imposed more constraints upon girls than upon boys , for they were expected to stay at home and help with housework . |
| 19 | The tags , stuck on with tape , were expected to stay in position for up to three months . |
| 20 | Women were forbidden to work at night in any industry ( a move opposed by some feminists ) . |
| 21 | Many of the people who were targeted to move from hospital under the scheme have been in hospital for many years , many of them for more than 40 or 50 years . |
| 22 | The campaigns were designed to run as television or cinema commercials and as large street hoardings — media that is seen by people in groups rather than in isolation as would be the case of newspapers . |
| 23 | I now turn to the adoption minutes of city hall and now it is a process of in that city hall did not endorse a recommendation from the finance panel , the budget that came from finance panel erm so we are in the slightly unusual position of having to debate the proposals of finance panel as we were recommended to do by city hall , erm that means as I understand it that er the chair of city hall will now present the annual budget statement erm and since he is going to do that in a form of an amendment er that seven other unusual features about the way in which we would normally do it which would mean that there would be er a budget statement and where there would then be the the formal proposals and amendments themself , erm so what I would propose is to try and make sure that everybody has , has maximum opportunity to have their say erm because no two amendments can be on the floor at one time er to take what the leader of the council said first of all erm then to allow the other two leaders to present their budget alternatives as it were , without it be , this is just not did n't take it at that point if they do n't want to . |
| 24 | Equal quantities of purified GST or GST-protein A ( GST-PA ) were applied to nitrocellulose from left to right as 5 µl drops in four-fold dilutions ( in NT buffer — 150 mM NaCl , 50 mM Tris-HCl , pH 7.5 ) from 1 µg to 1 ng . |
| 25 | Between 20 and 60 people were said to remain in detention following what was described as a failed coup attempt on Jan. 8-9 by Afar politician Ali Aref Bourhan . |
| 26 | The facts of Calvin itself were said to fall into category three . |
| 27 | Biological features of the colonizing vegetation were seen to change with time and from the rate of change in these features a time for ecosystem recovery was calculated . |
| 28 | ( It must be remembered it was still another nine years before women were franchised to vote in Government Elections , and then had to be over 30 ) . |
| 29 | All were bailed to appear in court to face public order charges . |
| 30 | Women were empowered to speak about sex , challenging the authority of the experts and drawing attention to their gendered power relations . |