Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hoarse words were intended to come out as a joke , but instead they held a raw note of emotion which seemed to hang in the air between them . |
| 2 | High-sulphur content coal mining areas , such as the Mid-West , were expected to lose out in favour of lower-sulphur coal from the West Coast and abroad . |
| 3 | According to some estimates in late January , between 500,000 and 1,300,000 people were expected to come out of Iraq as refugees . |
| 4 | You may have then had a verbal exchange with your next in line , but bar that you were expected to get on with the work . |
| 5 | Judy Jones , team manager ( mental health ) in the London Borough of Brent , said community care funds for the financial year were expected to run out within three or four months . |
| 6 | The Arab masses , indignant at the western humiliation of Saddam Hussein , were expected to rise up against their pro-western leaders . |
| 7 | We could n't often see them from the main road which passed in front of the building because they were forbidden to look out of the windows . |
| 8 | Western practices and ideas were modified to fit in with Japanese reality — though there were periods when ‘ Westernization ’ was very much the vogue . |
| 9 | Often , as the night drew on , a number of people were seen to lie down in odd places , both in Partisan Street and on the Embankment . |
| 10 | They were made to lie down on the floor in the back . |
| 11 | It seems that when they were made to lie down in the back of the truck and their hands were tied behind them , Katrine remembers there being rags underneath her . |
| 12 | Maybe it is time you were made to come out of your shell . ’ |
| 13 | Unfortunately those officers were needed to help out with the incident at Milton Keynes … shortly before the display . |
| 14 | We were woken up at 5.30 am , and Alex and I were told to go over to the kitchens to fetch the breakfast . |
| 15 | After a fortnight we were told to go down to the airfield for a possible lift into Assam , but often refugees went in the morning but were back in the evening as the planes were so busy taking out wounded soldiers . |
| 16 | Furthermore , they were told to point out to the mother that LGS would not reduce the output of stool from the sick child , but was meant to prevent the dehydration associated with the diarrhoea . |
| 17 | On 16th December 1991 , the building societies and bank bosses were called in by the Government for an emergency briefing and were told to come back in two days with solutions . |
| 18 | ‘ We raised the possibility of an MBO and were told to get back in our box , ’ says finance director Nick Pearch . |
| 19 | A second controlled explosion was carried out at 10.55pm and people were told to stay up to a mile away from the scene . |
| 20 | Ray Angel and Brian Hodgson were entrusted to come up with a suitably electronic-sounding voice . |
| 21 | On arrival , conference participants were invited to sign up for a workshop of their choice . |
| 22 | The Whitby Gazette announced that there would be a high tide on Ascension Eve that year , and readers were invited to write in with their views on the subject . |
| 23 | Above all , the historians were inspired to carve out of the record of the past an exclusive nationalist slice . |
| 24 | Yes I mean th th th th the fact that you 've got a whole range of problems an an and you , you were bound to come up against those problems if you try and define Marxist in a strict sense , and therefore you , you were always seeking to sort of make . |
| 25 | However , the principle in Williams v Singer can not be taken too far and Lord Sands in Reid 's Trustees v IRC made the point that if the trustees were actually to receive the income which they were bound to pay over to the beneficiaries they will not avoid an assessment on themselves . |
| 26 | We were scheduled to fly out over East Anglia and the North Sea , crossing the coast of Holland and then on to the Ruhr as far as Cologne , returning over the same route . |
| 27 | The blame fell on pollution ; not the clouds of smoke and occasional waves of sulphur dioxide which were known to drift up from the industrial valleys of the Ruhr and kill off the sensitive firs , but the more insidious long-term changes implied by acid rain . |
| 28 | Mounted officers called ‘ rangers ’ were appointed to drive back into the forest deer which had strayed into the purlieus . |
| 29 | In one task — rhyme monitoring — subjects were asked to listen out for a word which rhymed with a cue word given in advance ( e.g. doubt ) . |
| 30 | In the other task — category monitoring — subjects were asked to listen out for a word belonging to a particular semantic category ( e.g. fish ) . |