Example sentences of "[Wh det] were [adj] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are no plans to resurrect the services which were due to be hauled by former BR Standard 2-6-4 tank 80080 from Crewe to Llandudno . |
| 2 | The Gulf War may have been responsible for the postponement of the finals of the Head/Isrotel/Tennis World tournament , which were due to be staged at the end of 1990 , for one year , but it certainly did n't dampen the enjoyment of the 12 regional winners who eventually took off for Eliat at the end of November 1991 . |
| 3 | However , his reputation had been seriously damaged during the past year by a scandal involving his younger brother Juan Guerra González [ see p. 37263 ] , whose conduct had been the subject of a judicial investigation , the results of which were due to be made public in the near future . |
| 4 | Vranco was one of 30 major firms which were due to be privatized under a programme financed by the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 5 | The booms , which were due to be removed yesterday absorbed the oil spillage and stopped it from flowing downstream . |
| 6 | Robert correctly answered the 10 questions , the answers to which were all to be found in the BNFL publication ‘ Our Environment ’ , and a cheque for £150 is on its way to him . |
| 7 | I used to believe it was possible to make forecasts — market forecasts in particular — which were likely to be accurate . |
| 8 | The course planned to use some experimental learning and group work exercises , both of which were likely to be new concepts to the participants . |
| 9 | But when Dr Dee ( a scientist too aware of his Welsh descent to want to use the word ‘ English ’ ) wrote about the British Empire in the 1570s he was discussing the prospect of possessions beyond the seas , which were likely to be linked to England by the bond of allegiance to the sovereign more than by anything else . |
| 10 | If he held his own with other boys in the struggle for power he could hardly help behaving in ways which were unlikely to be lovable — a fact which assumed a definite importance when the only hope of affection came from those same boys . |
| 11 | The loft covered an area the size of the house , with unused and shadowy places under the eaves which were unlikely to be investigated — particularly by Nigel , who , sadly , even if he came out of hospital would nevermore be able to climb the ladder . |
| 12 | This resulted in variations between courses and problems of comparability , criteria and standards which were unlikely to be resolved without some such national machinery as was suggested in Haycocks II . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Pets , in other words , should be captive-bred , but you might allow animals which were wild to be brought into a captive-breeding scheme for pet ownership . |
| 15 | The charter explicitly promised the privatisation of British Rail , detailed plans for which were supposed to be set out in a white paper . |
| 16 | Third , he exercised jurisdiction over the pagenses ( the " men of the pagus " or county ) : replicating the assemblies of the realm at local level were the county assemblies which were supposed to be held three times every year , and met either in the civitates or elsewhere in the county . |
| 17 | The confusion arose between the subsequent press briefings given by the hon. and learned Member for Grantham ( Mr. Hogg ) , the Minister of State , Foreign and Commonwealth Office , and the Prime Minister 's statements about what were likely to be the maximum number of warheads on the Trident programme . |
| 18 | In the first of what were likely to be several criminal prosecutions resulting from the collapse of the Lincoln , Keating was convicted of misleading small investors over the sale of junk bonds — high-risk , high-yield securities — in American Continental Corp. , of which the Lincoln was a subsidiary . |
| 19 | For one thing , as Jardine points out , while on the one hand the shift of wealth to the mercantile classes was leading to the break-up of the dress code , and enabling the socially mobile to appropriate , for purposes of inclusion , what were supposed to be signs of their exclusion , it was also the case that those who had ‘ arrived ’ socially often wanted to enforce the code against those who had not . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'd dearly like to know what were supposed to be achieving , that 's all , ’ Lambert bitched . |