Example sentences of "[Wh det] they were [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some political activists concluded from this that what was needed was to ‘ empower the poor ’ , encourage their civic and political participation as a way to redress the balance , give them the strength to organize in such a way as to make effective claims on society , to receive those citizen 's rights to which they were said to be entitled . |
| 2 | Although I believe that hysteria , as classically defined , can provide only a part of the answer to the problem of anorexia nervosa , it is a starting-point and , in the light of Szasz 's observation that ‘ hysterical conversion is best regarded as a process of translation , ’ I propose to translate the history of my own symptoms back into the language in which they were intended to be expressed . |
| 3 | It was positively dangerous because it involved the Jews in a game in which they were bound to be discredited . |
| 4 | Perhaps they felt pity and affection for the animals moving through a world by which they were doomed to be destroyed . |
| 5 | When made with the addition of stock they Jose all character and cease to be what they were intended to be . |
| 6 | She never did tell people what they were going to be doing . |
| 7 | The format worked well because the interviewees were never told in advance what they were going to be asked . |