Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] be [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If a cause were to be rendered of natural appearances in special as what are the motions and influences of the heavenly bodies and of their parts , the reason hereof must either be drawn from the parts of the sciences above mentioned , or no reason at all will be given , but all left to uncertain conjecture . ’ |
| 2 | If a movie were to be made of her American tour , one would see pages fly from calendars , clock hands spin and headlines slapped one on top of the next . |
| 3 | You are obliged by law to inform your local water company in writing at least five working days before making certain alterations or additions to your plumbing system ; there would be stiff penalties if you were to be convicted of a contravention of the water bye-laws . |
| 4 | And his prayer seemed to have been amply answered when the Planetary Guard came for the Valence gang ; though , as is the way with prayers which are answered , there was cause for woe too — for the Valences were to be stripped of their best young fighters . |
| 5 | In the coming witch-hunt thousands of people were to be deprived of their livelihood and reputation but , as we now know , the most serious spies went undetected . |
| 6 | In 1551–2 a statute was carried forbidding the sale of offices ; sellers were to be deprived of their interest and title in the office , purchasers to be disabled from holding it . |
| 7 | Since those vessels were to be deprived of the right to engage in fishing as from 1 April 1989 , the companies in question challenged the compatibility of Part II of the Act of 1988 with Community law by means of an application for judicial review brought before the High Court of Justice of England and Wales , Queen 's Bench Division , on 16 December 1988 . |
| 8 | Sixty years later others were to be accused of making this same oversight . |
| 9 | Alice also said it would be a good thing if all the rubbish remaining in No. 45 were to be disposed of , for it gave such a bad impression . |
| 10 | I realised at the beginning of 1992 that we were not core and that we were to be disposed of — we had a very difficult year . ’ |
| 11 | It was an affliction rather than a gift , and I was to be healed of it two years later by what I believe was the power of Christ . |
| 12 | Then the roof of the grotto glowed two times lighting the water and the company a little , nothing was to be seen of the keeper or his coffin , as though it did not happen . |
| 13 | But from the moment that the electorate realised it was to be stripped of its Deutschemark , a symbol of nationhood , Germans began to wonder how much else had been given away . |
| 14 | and much more was to be heard of the Bethnal Green survey and its implications . |
| 15 | The wheedling tone as well as the now seldom-used paternal appellation told Wexford that a monstrous request was to be made of him . |
| 16 | He felt like a potato in the soil dreaming of the vodka that was to be made of it . |
| 17 | More use was to be made of day centres and community service . |
| 18 | In mid-May Qatar and Iran were reported to have signed six agreements on areas of co-operation including air traffic , customs and the exchange of news ; a study was to be made of the feasibility of Iran supplying Qatar with fresh water through a pipe across the Gulf . |
| 19 | The Court of Justice was to be composed of seven judges , one from each member state plus one other , appointed by the Council of Ministers for renewable six-year terms on the nomination by member governments . |
| 20 | The SNC was to be composed of equal numbers from both the SOC and the NGC . |
| 21 | The SNC was to be composed of equal numbers from both the SOC and the NGC , as already agreed by all parties except the Khmers Rouges in the Tokyo communiqué of June 5 , 1990 [ see pp. 37532-33 ] . |
| 22 | I myself , apparently , was to be thought of as Baby Tuckoo . |
| 23 | In 1970 , the last thing he wanted was to be reminded of Richard and the silly game they used to play . |
| 24 | It had seemed to her at the time that this was all she was to be allowed of Ace , and so it became the most precious thing in her life . |
| 25 | The Commission has shown that it is able to act with relative speed under this procedure and has taken a variety of actions under it , including ordering a party to supply another party , refusing to allow undertakings to acquire further shares in a company in a takeover situation , ordering the cessation of predatory pricing and an order requiring the execution of a detailed supply agreement under which the Commission was to be notified of any price changes by the offending party or any case where it was unable to fulfil orders . |
| 26 | Christopher Gore , the son of a nuclear scientist and himself a brilliant academic , waited patiently to be let in to Bristol Crown Court , where he was to be accused of killing his father and his mother . |