Example sentences of "were [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were helping to break down the barriers to access for those companies , such as small scale , under capitalisation , lack of knowledge of quality assurance and shyness in making approaches to the big operators . |
| 2 | People were queueing to get in , but without ration stamps . |
| 3 | Thus throughout the history of local government , units of local administration were formed to carry out administration in localities . |
| 4 | After the lecture was over , groups were formed to try out some of the techniques Luke had discussed . |
| 5 | Turnpike trusts were formed to keep up and improve the " King 's Highway " . |
| 6 | These documents were intended to set out clearly the basis on which services would be provided to a customer , to inform him of his rights and to give him the opportunity of allowing or prohibiting certain types of transactions such as off-exchange transactions , borrowings on his behalf and illiquid investments . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ Having regard to the terms of the correspondence , I am of opinion that the letters were intended to set out , and did set out , matters on which the writers had reached agreement . ’ |
| 8 | The Bank 's sales of Ecus for pounds were intended to shore up the pound against the mark , without resorting to outright sales of the German currency . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | All the fish stocked are extremely peaceful and were intended to get on well — as indeed they have . |
| 11 | The Podkrepa Trade Union Federation remained on strike alert from July 20 , but rejected the UDF accusation that its actions were intended to bring down the government . |
| 12 | In the more stable area people were returning to pick up the pieces of their lives . |
| 13 | Outraged Doisneau fans were mortified to find out that Doisneau himself had taken the pictures , fulfilling one of the commercial assignments which still occupy much of his time . |
| 14 | This was offset by the fact that all the farmers had been on courses but in a family farm situation , where over half the wives were expected to carry out farm work in the case of their husbands ' sickness , some training should be beneficial . |
| 15 | They 'd come to the Chiltern Show at Stoke Mandeville on the understanding that more than 90-thousand people were expected to turn up . |
| 16 | Again LEAs were requested to draw up curriculum policies and schools were expected to set out their aims in writing . |
| 17 | Conversely , the forwards were expected to fall back to help the defence under pressure . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | At least two , the Statesman and the Indian Express , were expected to take up the story in their issues today . |
| 20 | Many parties were expected to take up the offer , although Fernando Belaúnde Terry , a former President and leader of the Popular Action ( AP ) party , stated that unless the holding municipal elections was restored to the current year [ see below ] , the AP would not participate in any talks . |
| 21 | Ministers agreed to open projects to the Soviet Union and Japan for collaboration and were expected to meet in late 1992 to review the situation . |
| 22 | These dances mattered very much to Petipa and all nineteenthcentury balletmasters because they were expected to show off the wealth of talent found in the many imperial , Royal and State theatres , e.g. all the characters from other fairy tales who came to Aurora 's wedding and the character dances in Swan Lake . |
| 23 | Before he arrived Mum made us children bustle about making the place ‘ spic an' span ’ to create a better impression on the visitors who were expected to drop by to pay their last respects to the memory of a notable local character . |
| 24 | According to some estimates in late January , between 500,000 and 1,300,000 people were expected to come out of Iraq as refugees . |
| 25 | The kitchen was small and cramped , the house having been built pre-war with a dining room which you were expected to eat in . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | For this work she received two shillings and sixpence per week , quite a nice sum for the 1880's when farm workers were expected to bring up families on twelve shillings a week . |
| 28 | New taxes were expected to bring in TSh3,000 million ; these included rises in education charges , land rents and duty on alcohol and cigarettes . |
| 29 | Whereas land sales were expected to bring in seventy eight million pounds in the four years of nineteen eighty nine to nineteen ninety , and nineteen ninety two to ninety three , it now seems the figure will only be about thirty six million , less than half that original estimate . |
| 30 | 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 . |