Example sentences of "[pron] were [adj] to [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some regions there was permanent lowland pasture , particularly in fenland and level areas which were liable to be under water for some of the year , or where the risk of flooding was endemic . |
| 2 | Extraordinarily enough for a couple who were supposed to be at such odds , they seem to have no problem over their conversation . |
| 3 | Oswine 's power was clearly already weakening by January 690 for he refers in the grant to Abbess Aebbe at that time to those Kentish nobles who were able to be with him . |
| 4 | How many men were there in Vienna known to Fräulein Müller , who were likely to be on the scene when needed , and now preferred to remain anonymous ? |
| 5 | You were lucky to be in the kitchen at the time . ’ |
| 6 | I thought you were supposed to be at the gallery ! |
| 7 | But , if you were prepared to be of service to us … ’ |
| 8 | As you will see from the enclosed letter , it would be good if you were able to be in touch with Mawe de la Fuent . |
| 9 | We were delighted to be on land again , and while the men looked for a river or a lake , I walked for about a kilometre away from the beach . |
| 10 | We were fortunate to be in Luxor in mid-summer when the heat makes it off-season . |
| 11 | He says : ‘ There have always been mail orders firms and telephone shopping and , at one stage , we were supposed to be on the verge of TV shopping . |
| 12 | Cos we were supposed to be on the rota . |
| 13 | They were proud to be in the show but terrified that their parents would send for them if they knew of such blatant nudity . |
| 14 | Maybe they were anxious to be at the School of English , maybe at the place next door to it . |
| 15 | Descartes believed firmly that universals were formed in the mind and that ideas possessed ‘ objective ’ and ‘ formal ’ reality ; that is , that it was an irreducible feature of ideas that they were able to be about a class of objects . |
| 16 | They were unlikely to be in real danger , the Whistler stalked at night , not in broad daylight , and no vehicle had passed him since he left the coastal road . |
| 17 | They were eager to be on their way . |
| 18 | North Yorkshire chief executive Ron Leyland said they were glad to be among the first considered but felt the present system worked well . |
| 19 | Initially , if they belonged to the Church of England , they were likely to be of the evangelical tendency so disturbing to comfortable Anglican parsons and laymen . |
| 20 | They also regarded their influence as a finite resource to be husbanded , used on major issues , and not frittered away on minor skirmishes or issues on which they were likely to be in a minority in Cabinet . |
| 21 | Obviously most firms would readily sacrifice some profit if it meant that they were likely to be in business for some time . |
| 22 | In the paper I saw they were supposed to been at Bury but they played Bilston , Bedford |
| 23 | Drawn up by a UN team and representatives of the Kenyan government , the report found that tens of people were dying each week in camps set up for the refugees in the remote border region of Kenya and described it as " appalling and embarrassing " that they were supposed to be under the care of the Office of UN High Commissioner for Refugees . |
| 24 | They were supposed to be at a play were n't they ? |
| 25 | The only problem was , they were supposed to be on piece work , and it meant working at the same pace . |
| 26 | In my day well every man had an allowance er and we bought our own provisions but every man er they were supposed to be by the commissioners but you got I think seven and six pence a day each man got seven and six pence and we clubbed that money together and bought our provisions er like that . |
| 27 | Yeah well they were supposed to be in flat and then when they 're cut it out you supposed , their supposed to turn it over |
| 28 | Their case is that if they had been properly and correctly advised as they were entitled to be under the contract , they would not have proceeded to exchange or to completion . |
| 29 | This , this foal should of been worth , it were due to be worth two hundred and fifty thousand that 's what she said |