Example sentences of "[art] [adj] were [prep] [be] " in BNC.

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1 In comprehensive schools , all the British were to be treated the same , despite the obvious differences between us of sex , class , culture , ability , religion , race , and so on .
2 The French were to be excluded from offices in Scotland — and Scottish noblemen must reject French pensions .
3 Subsequently , the three were to be released on the grounds that the statements of King and others had prejudiced their case .
4 Basic unemployment benefits were reduced , while other supplementary benefits for unemployed people , for single parents and for the sick were to be subjected to means testing .
5 Six of the latter were to be elected by the two Irish universities .
6 The latter were to be encouraged by Party propaganda at the uezd level to send in supportive letters to the press .
7 If the EEC did wish to go beyond the 1962 agreement on agriculture , the arrangements of which were in any case due to expire in 1965 , if financing was permitted to come from the EEC 's own resources , and if the latter were to be levied on imports , then it was sensible for the EEC budget to come under the control of the European Parliament .
8 Finally , countries were no longer required to pay a quarter of their IMF quotas ( or quota increases ) in gold ; in future they were allowed to use foreign currencies or SDRs , assuming further allocations of the latter were to be made .
9 In March 1922 ‘ snobbish clerks ’ on the Moscow Kursk line , which had been on of the most revolutionary , in 1905 and 1917 , were refusing to attend meetings where common signalman and the like were to be found .
10 The Act stated that all instalments after the first were to be paid weekly .
11 In this respect , as in others , the 1290s were to be a period of crisis and change which was to make an impact on Anglo-French relations .
12 These were the clause condemning the impanelling of partial , corrupt and unqualified jurors ( a reference to the Rye House Plot trials of 1683 ) , the clause condemning excessive fines ( a reference to the crippling fines levied on Whig dissidents during the Tory Reaction ) , and the clause condemning " Grants and promises made of fines and forfeitures before any Conviction and Judgment of the same against the persons upon whom the same were to be levied " ( a reference to James 's dealings with the Monmouth rebels ) .
13 France , he said , must insist on exact compliance with consultation provisions and ‘ if the Vietnamese were to be allowed from the start to negotiate and sign international treaties without full prior consultation and approval the foundation and future of the French Union would be in peril . ’
14 It was announced on June 26 that three of the four were to be charged with the murder on May 27 of two Australians from London , Nick Spanos and Stephen Melrose , who had been shot dead in Roermond in the Netherlands , where they had stopped for a meal , by two gunmen who drove off towards Belgium with a third man .
15 Hence the old , the young , the sick and the mad were to be separated , and within each group those of better behaviour were to be rewarded with better diets or more ‘ comforts ’ .
16 As you might guess , we searched the area where the guinea had come from very carefully but , alas , no more were to be found .
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