Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the four old aircraft hangars were erected side-by-side to make the Central Works , construction of the first completely new car began . |
| 2 | This year 's Convention remembered the Doolittle Raiders an impressive collection of B–25 Mitchell bombers were gathered together to re-enact that historic first air attack ( April 18 , 1942 ) by US Forces on Japan , operating , as President Roosevelt called it , from Shangri La ! |
| 3 | Like Jean Rhys 's fictional Englishmen , these real ones were taught early to rely on reason and suppress their feelings , and this opposition made the struggle of their lives . |
| 4 | The businessmen travelled , of course , in the first-class carriages , dividing easily into groups so that compartments were made up between more or less particular cronies … any wife or daughter who had to go to Manchester by one of those trains always travelled third ; to share a compartment with the ‘ gentlemen ’ ( we were taught never to call them just plainly ‘ men ’ ) would have been unthinkable . |
| 5 | All original records on anal cancers coded according to a modified version of the seventh revision of the International Classification of Diseases ( ICD7 ) from 1943 to 1977 were examined manually to avoid inclusion of adenocarcinomas ( n=47 ) and melanomas ( n=19 ) . |
| 6 | Eleven widths of 27 inches wide five frame Chlidema Wilton , Super Decorum quality woven in three ply 80/20 wool/nylon yarn , were joined together to make one large piece measuring 7.6 metres by 15.2 metres . |
| 7 | None of those wretches were distinguished enough to get into Who 's Who so one does n't have anywhere to start from . |
| 8 | By The Seat Of Your Pants by Hugh Morgan is a well researched and presented book on the experiences of volunteer wartime pilots who were posted overseas to undertake their flying training on such schemes as the Empire Training Scheme , the Arnold and the Towers Schemes . |
| 9 | Fife College of Technology , Glenrothes College and Lauder College have formed a consortium and were validated jointly to offer the HNC in Management . |
| 10 | The Government 's beer orders were intended also to create extra competition for drinkers , a better standard of service in pubs , more choice and lower prices . |
| 11 | These taxes , to be imposed annually for three years , were intended both to raise revenue and to prevent the conversion of arable land to pasture . |
| 12 | Thus proposals in the White Paper ( DHSS , 1985b ) were intended instead to reduce the cost of the SERP scheme . |
| 13 | They were intended merely to acquire enough western technical knowledge , particularly in military matters , to help strengthen the defensive powers of an empire increasingly threatened by European armies . |
| 14 | The largely ceremonial meetings which began in Madrid on Oct. 30 were expected to last three days and were intended merely to initiate a wider negotiating process . |
| 15 | In the late 1980s , a number of industrial initiatives were announced that were intended specifically to assist the older urban cores ( DoE and DE , 1987 ; DTI , 1988 ; HMSO , 1988a ) . |
| 16 | Presumably they were expected also to save money for the shipowners . |
| 17 | However , international efforts to halt acid rain pollution ( in part caused by sulphur dioxide ) and to reverse the damage to the ozone layer were expected soon to have an effect , so that overall global warming would increase rapidly from the middle of next century . |
| 18 | Residential workers were expected both to prepare young people for joining a new family and to respond to them if and when these new family relationships failed . |
| 19 | The dues exacted for unlawed dogs and for cheminage were defined and limited , and the foresters were forbidden henceforth to make scotale or to exact contributions from the forest inhabitants . |
| 20 | And , although he had recently been known to talk to an invisible giant white rabbit and peek at his neighbours through binoculars , neither of these traits were deemed enough to blacken him in the eyes of the electors . |
| 21 | From 1964 onwards US wheat prices were subsidized enough to undercut all comers on world markets . |
| 22 | Of necessity , therefore , the larger , more sophisticated structures had to occupy whatever land was available , unless they were specifically imposed upon the plan by official action or were grouped together to form some sort of central focus within the layout . |
| 23 | These were designed partly to ensure the survival of a minimum level of service provision in rural areas , and , in the face of the continued decline of rural services , such a policy may have been necessary m some locations . |
| 24 | Most of these services were designed primarily to help the physically disabled , especially those who had been in work but who were unable to continue as a result of a crippling accident or disease . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , this particular Conservative administration did offer social policies which were designed both to indicate its commitment to dealing with social problems and to undermine the challenge of Labour . |
| 26 | IT was with total disbelief that I read F Jefferay 's letter suggesting that the stiff fines imposed on those caught driving with worn tyres were designed purely to reduce car ownership . |
| 27 | The statutory provisions in section 8 of the Factors Act and section 24 of the Sale of Goods Act constitute one of those exceptions and were designed specifically to help someone in C's position . |
| 28 | The systems were designed specifically to protect critical pit areas beneath the engines during test . |
| 29 | A cultural mausoleum such as the Tate — our primary state museum of recent and contemporary art — cheerfully displays many works that were designed precisely to evade the museum . |
| 30 | Nursery schools , however , were generally supported because they were designed only to promote the health and education of children ; their limited opening hours did not permit mothers to work . |