Example sentences of "[adv] they were [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said and I do n't think that they were meant to be perhaps they were meant to be in order of importance . |
| 2 | So they were to walk to the House the longest way , along the fringe of St James 's Park . |
| 3 | Nevertheless they were held to be in contempt but , the strike having collapsed , no penalty was imposed . |
| 4 | He had white hair and looked very nice , and soon they were waving to him every morning . |
| 5 | A mini-moke waited for them , and soon they were driving to the beach house through acres of Thai beachland and greenery . |
| 6 | Tonight they were going to the theatre . |
| 7 | Initially they were applied to facilities working on the development of new medicinal products but fairly quickly they were applied to safety development work for most environmentally important chemicals . |
| 8 | Traditionally they were applied to judicial decisions taken by inferior courts and tribunals . |
| 9 | Strictly they were attached to the governor 's staff as equerries or grooms , but as with singulares their duties may have taken them outside his immediate entourage . |
| 10 | Three weeks later they were sentenced to ten years ' imprisonment . |
| 11 | 1981 , Richard Helier and an associate were convicted in a federal court in Madison , Wisconsin , of numerous counts of diverting institutional funds ; later they were sentenced to three years in prison . |
| 12 | She and her two companions worked half the night in trying to come up with an answer , but as Dino 's car was working perfectly they were forced to the conclusion that the problem did not lie in their department , even though this was fiercely disputed by the rest of the Carlisle Flint team . |
| 13 | The Sikhs , ignoring him , had been digging steadily for hours ; now they were beginning to shovel up wet earth . |
| 14 | Now they were heard to ‘ twitter with execration ’ at the news that the Nazi SA had seized a number of Jews in the town of Worms , thrown them into a pigsty and beaten them . |
| 15 | The hunters had forfeited their title to the past , and now they were bringing to its remains less care than their wives and mothers took with rinsing , smoothing , and conserving for re-use scraps of brown paper or lengths of string . |
| 16 | Now they were assumed to be — well , gay , but not in the sense he acknowledged . |
| 17 | Now they were going to be given a chance to put their money where their mouths were . |
| 18 | However , hags could assume many appearances ; often they were thought to be of enormous proportions , such as the giantess Grendel of Scandinavian legend , or the Blue Hag of the Highlands in Scotland , whose grey-blue cape was the swirling mist of the glens . |
| 19 | The weather remained piercingly cold , so that whenever men or beasts had need to venture outdoors they were chilled to the bone . |
| 20 | Today they were going to replaster the house : not just the floor , which they did regularly when it became cracked and dusty , or on special occasions , such as when the house had been polluted by childbirth or death . |
| 21 | Today they were going to replaster the whole house : floors , ceilings , walls — inside and out . |
| 22 | Indonesia has large industries , recently developed in the country , and are exporting large quantities to saw mills , whereas a few years ago they were exporting to lots , they are now exporting saw wood and ply wood . |
| 23 | Undoubtedly the Coronations were the most handsome cars ever operated at Blackpool , unfortunately they were constructed to a pre-War concept , which by this time had become outmoded . |
| 24 | Sometimes they were reduced to shirt-like softness ; often replaced by a long coat . |
| 25 | Then they were sent to the camp at Drancy , and from there they were put on trains and sent to Auschwitz to be gassed . |
| 26 | They were hailed in the media as breakthroughs — and then they were shown to be wrong either by their own authors or by others . |
| 27 | and then they were bussed to an Acton crossroads where erm a rather bemused erm billeting , Chief Billeting Officer then had to decide where the buses had got to go |
| 28 | I did their first demos with them , and took the opportunity of telling them a few facts of life , saying that while it was nice to play guitar , if at the end of the line they were all broke then they were going to be very unhappy musicians who had missed their chance to be big , and so they had better take care of certain realities and do it right away . |
| 29 | Now , when I came back from Stop Hill the other night , must have been , oh must have been Thursday , cos Paul erm , was going out with Alec and then they were going to Alec for dinner and when I came back one of the erm wooden staves was off here , had been prized off . |
| 30 | He reached for her , and then they were falling to the bed in a tangle of limbs and caresses and fevered kisses . |