Example sentences of "were [adv] [adj] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were dead lucky to get to bed without a belting on a Sunday . ’ |
| 2 | Where the two control groups ( C and U ) were sufficiently similar to appear to be drawn from one parent population , these data were pooled and compared with the test group ( L ) using ANOVA with contrast . |
| 3 | They were so keen to get to grips with the enemy that they disregarded much of the training in stealth and guile . |
| 4 | ‘ You should have told us you were so eager to go to the town . ’ |
| 5 | Nor would there be any point in living in such a village unless one were largely prepared to conform to its public mores since otherwise one could not be within the community in any real sense . |
| 6 | ( 5 ) In respect of any orders for payment of standard basis costs by the plaintiffs to the defendants that have already been made it is , as we understand it , common ground that the court was not thereby purporting to deprive the defendants of any costs which they were contractually entitled to add to their security . |
| 7 | Authority were more likely to listen to them than to the DoH . ’ |
| 8 | I said that asymmetric arms races were more likely to lead to interesting progressive improvements than symmetric ones , and we can now see why this is , using human weapons to illustrate the point . |
| 9 | Although kin might be an important source of practical help once the marriage had actually ended , people who were undergoing marital difficulties were more likely to turn to someone they considered an ‘ outsider ’ for emotional support or guidance . |
| 10 | Louis , count of Flanders , was pro-French ; his subjects , however , dominated by the great cloth-weaving towns of Bruges , Ghent , and Ypres were more likely to turn to England , the source of the wool upon which their industry and wealth depended . |
| 11 | Similarly , he felt that part-time tutors were more likely to respond to advice from a professional tutor than from someone not involved on the teaching side . |
| 12 | We suspect that temporary worker users were more likely to respond to such a survey and that its findings might be an over-estimate [ see Chapter 1 ] . |
| 13 | Showmen knew that middle-class critics had to be bought off and that topicality could sell films to certain audiences but they also appreciated that audiences were more likely to go to the movies for spectacle , for adventure , for comedy , for sex , to see particular stars , and to be entertained in the widest sense . |
| 14 | Their children were more likely to refer to rules . |
| 15 | The training officer group were more likely to refer to joint or group decisions , none of them specifically mentioned the need for central approval , few mentioned relevancy to post as being essential ( or if they did it was within a wider framework of reference than relevance to post alone ) , and they were more likely to specify that the needs of the service and the needs of the individual were both taken into account . |
| 16 | At the same time I thought how few people , apart from Eliot , could have sat and telephoned from that desk : meanwhile , reflecting that it were more proper to appear to be contemplating the exterior than to be glancing at Eliot 's papers scattered in front of me . |
| 17 | The British hoped that the Turks would restore order and break the nationalist movement ; the French were more ready to come to terms with its leaders . |
| 18 | It had been recognized that Liberals had been more adept at handling the press because they were more ready to stoop to newspaper practices , as Sandars had reported in 1909 : |
| 19 | Clergy who remained untouched by the ‘ enthusiasm ’ of the Evangelicals were more inclined to adhere to the authoritative opinion of another Irish Bishop , Jeremy Taylor , the seventeenth century Bishop of Down , who had written : |
| 20 | Eddie Gilfoyle allegedly said that mum-to-be Paula was leaving him but his workmates were still able to speak to her at home and see her in the area . |
| 21 | Such virtues were also likely to appeal to many people of working age , especially if employment could be found in the growing service industries that had themselves decentralized . |
| 22 | Her most valuable contributions , however , were probably those relating to the Mediterranean region ; they included Geographical Aspects of Balkan Problems ( 1915 ) and Southern Europe ( 1932 ) , her last major publication . |
| 23 | The result will also give a huge lift to Alex Ferguson 's Manchester United team who were originally due to travel to Norwich today but went there instead on Tuesday and pulled off a significant victory . |
| 24 | Party members were now obliged to subscribe to at least one party newspaper . |
| 25 | As they were mainly couples who had been married for a number of years and were now able to move to a larger , more expensive home , their children ranged in age between seven and nineteen years . |
| 26 | In May , Harvey wrote to say that he and his wife were now fit to return to duty . |
| 27 | The daughters of Charles the Cheesemonger were still very much around , however , and as the offspring of a man in trade and one who , despite his early death , had enjoyed quite a full working life , they were fairly well-breeched compared to the daughters of their Uncle John . |
| 28 | Those two screamed — but they were well able to walk to the refectory afterwards , and eat . |
| 29 | As the cinema of froth , of romantic never-never-lands where poor girls fell in love with handsome officers , was now seen to have failed , filmmakers were increasingly willing to listen to Grierson 's expostulation : ‘ The damned thing has no roots , and what is the use of saying otherwise . ’ |
| 30 | She was living with her boyfriend as she had for the last eight years and the hospital team were quite happy to talk to him about the proposed care plan for her . |