Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [prep] [be] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought vets were supposed to be on twenty-four-hour call . ’ |
| 2 | In America , they made six hundred prints of the film and decided these bits were supposed to be in black-and-white and they could fix it ! |
| 3 | In this respect England 's relations with Brittany were likely to be of great importance , not only for the positive reason that a friendly duke of Brittany would allow the use of his duchy as a stepping-off place into the mainland , but for the negative one that a hostile duke might cause untold harm to English maritime interests , both military and commercial , by failing to stop the activities of Breton pirates and privateers whose ships gave much trouble at sea , as complaints in Parliament and in some of the political literature of the time , notably The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye , testify . |
| 4 | Moreover , research rather suggested that the former groups mounted one-off campaigns targeted at parliament or public opinion , whereas the latter groups ( and especially the trade unions and employers associations ) were of greater power and were likely to be in regular day-to-day contact with ministers , government , and the permanent administrative side of the state machine . |
| 5 | Helpful though such measures were likely to be in domestic terms , the simultaneous resignation of the Soviet Chief of Staff suggested that not all powerful institutional interests had been persuaded of their necessity . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | None had been seen at that time in the Harwell experiments that preceded ZETA but Kurchatov announced that the Soviets were seeing some neutrons which were due to fusion occurring , but were unlikely to be from thermonuclear fusion because the rate of their production did not vary with current in the expected way . |
| 8 | Although the Atlantic dump site was supposed to be of low fishing interest , the Rainbow Warrior had regularly seen fishing boats in the area . |
| 9 | Meanwhile for ship 's captain Kit Lee from the Forest of Dean , it was good to be in familiar waters : |
| 10 | Though too few to be presented as typical , examples such as these confirm that letting was apt to be of small parcels — commonly portions of tenements — for short terms . |
| 11 | After Easter and many other alarms , when none of the girls was able to be in Great Meadow , Rose had her sister buy a brown Franciscan habit in the town . |