Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] that they [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One particular matter of concern would be the election of directors by particular constituencies ( shareholders on the one hand and employees on the other ) ; if it were intended that they should represent those constituencies , this would conflict with the general principle of company law that all directors should look to the interests of the company as a whole . |
| 2 | At one point , in December 1925 , with a liberal Governor-General in Vietnam , the Vietnamese were told that they could aspire to a fuller and higher life to become one day a nation ; but a few months later it was predicted that , while an independent Vietnam ( in the indeterminate future ) was a possibility , the bonds between it and France would become sufficiently strong so that nothing would ever break them . |
| 3 | On 19 July Roberts and Cross wrote to Dr John Lawrence at SWWA suggesting that the public had been exposed to a more serious hazard than had been admitted : they were told that they could meet Lawrence but he would give them no information . |
| 4 | In July , the higher education institutions were told that they could anticipate up to 10 per cent . |
| 5 | These included offering customers with a repayment mortgage the option of extending the term up to 35 years , while endowment customers were told that they could spread the excess ( the difference between the amount borrowed and their present balance ) over a longer period . |
| 6 | Those involved were told that they should have consulted the senior branch before starting anything like that . |
| 7 | Patients were instructed to administer the enema once daily before retiring to bed and were warned that they may pass dark stools as a result of treatment . |
| 8 | The Societies were assured that they would suffer no state intervention in their traditional business . |
| 9 | Local councils do help to direct communities and that 's what the Sanhedrin were hoping that they could do too , they advised their communities . |
| 10 | The family and friends who joined Teresa and Kenny were advised that they would prefer donations to the sick fund in preference to gifts on their special anniversary . |
| 11 | IN 1916 when evening classes began in Russian it was intended that they should serve the commercial interests of the people of Nottingham . |
| 12 | It was arranged that they would take the horses down to the railway sidings where there was enough light from the warehouses to school in the evenings , and Biddy would come twice during the week and once at the weekend , for two hours each time . |
| 13 | It was arranged that they could hold the ceremony in front of the band stand following which they danced their favourite dance together . |
| 14 | It was arranged that they should get the express train from Hanover in order to open at the Folies-Bergère on the very evening of their arrival . |
| 15 | It was claimed that they would result in significant increases in consumer prices for cars , patrol and electricity . |
| 16 | It was expected that they would interview him later today . |
| 17 | It was not known whether they would be the most advanced protagonists of environmental scanning , but for various reasons it was expected that they would have views about scanning and about the extent to which they wished to undertake formal environmental analysis . |
| 18 | It was argued that they can monopolise resources in an area where they already do have a monopoly ( schools , community halls , etc . ) |
| 19 | The belief that men should be trained for a narrow role in life came to be challenged ; it was argued that they should have some knowledge of the liberal arts , the ‘ finer ’ things in life . |
| 20 | It could be argued that they might help to identify him , but it was felt that they might relate to another crime and that if we started talking about them it might put whoever was responsible on his guard . |
| 21 | It was felt that they might get into all sorts of trouble abroad , so we were , informally , encouraged to marry rather than burn , as it were . |
| 22 | Similar proposals put forward at the end of World War I , to provide financial support via NHI to women after childbirth , were rejected largely because it was felt that they would offer an inducement to married women to work . |
| 23 | Meanwhile on April 25 the National Assembly had unanimously approved a plan for the resettlement of 3,000-4,000 marsh Arabs in new settlements on the periphery of the marshlands , where it was said that they would have improved access to services . |
| 24 | He is one of the select band of teachers ( including Dick and Macqueen ) of whom it was said that they could tell if a horse was lame , merely by listening . |
| 25 | When her father formed the view that the car he and her mother had bought her for her eighteenth birthday was more roadworthy than Cara 's outwardly smart but inwardly not so clever vehicle , it was decided that they would use her regularly serviced Volkswagen Polo for the trip . |
| 26 | So it was agreed that they would re-assemble to confirm their peace compact at Mirebeau and that the rebels would be invited to attend this meeting . |
| 27 | However , this was a point Yussuf stuck on , so in the end it was agreed that they would ask Leila , the wife of the senior bearer . |
| 28 | By November 1948 , it was agreed that they could take over the responsibility for progressing work on the manufacture of plant and on-site construction from the Ministries of Supply and Works , and the following year they did so . |
| 29 | In the early days of the clearinghouses it was anticipated that they would have difficulty in persuading librarians to contribute their material . |
| 30 | The governors of royal colonies , appointed by the king , were expected to maintain a rather dignified and aloof attitude and it was thought that they might find it hard to do this if they had lived in the colony as subordinates or as private citizens in the past . |