Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Undertones were due to re-form for the night but John and Damian O'Neill had to return to Derry following the tragic death of their father . |
| 2 | Rates in Gloucester were due to fall under the Tories . |
| 3 | The Second World War broke out the day before the majority of deaf schools were due to reassemble after the summer holidays . |
| 4 | Three hundred people at R-A-F Brize Norton and the major Oxford hospitals were due to participate in the excercise which would have simulated a runway collision between a V-C Ten and a Tristar . |
| 5 | On Aug. 4 and 5 , in the week before UN staff were due to arrive in the territory to start preparing the January 1992 UN-supervised referendum [ see p. 38169 ] , Moroccan aircraft strafed the oasis of Tfariti in the north-east , near the Mauritanian border , while Polisario Front guerrillas claimed to have shot down a Moroccan aircraft . |
| 6 | Pupils were due to join in a tree-planting project today . |
| 7 | The Chippendales were due to perform at the Leisure Centre two years ago . |
| 8 | initial destinations questionnaires were sent to 171 SERC-funded students : SERC provided details of the names and departments of students holding information engineering awards that were due to come to an end in 1984 ; |
| 9 | Services were due to start on the Bury-Manchester Victoria line at 6am . |
| 10 | Former Chancellor Fred Sinowatz , former Interior Minister Karl Blecha and former Foreign Minister Leopold Gratz were due to appear before the court in this respect . |
| 11 | Negotiations over Chilean membership of the group were due to resume in the second half of 1991 . |
| 12 | The canoeists were due to travel along the coastline from Lyme Regis to Charmouth . |
| 13 | And the Pioneers were right to see in the dispossession by the consumer interest of the rights of the workers in the Manufacturing Society as a fundamental change of Co-operative purpose and as implying the acceptance of a much more limited expectation for it , but wrong not to recognise that that change , that limitation inhered in the idea of a dividend itself : for that , more than anything else , activated the potential conflict of interest created by the differing functions — that of workers making things for sale and that of consumers buying them to use . |
| 14 | Liz was right to vanish , as the boys were right to congregate at the Maid Marian and avoid their grandmothers . |
| 15 | This is a higher output than would be preferred if the only constraint were that shown by the budget line 12 ( i.e. output X* ) . |
| 16 | If ever it were possible to agree upon a scheme of regional government , then there might be a basis for regional representation , but attempts at this have so far failed . |
| 17 | It occurs to me , for example , that given that all we 've heard this afternoon about the fact that a new settlement and again I 'm playing devil 's advocate , that if it were possible to build onto an existing settlement the quality of life of those who lived in the new settlement might in fact be better than if they were , to put it crudely , finding themselves in the middle of a field . |
| 18 | However , these bilateral arrangements were not universal in that the dollar and sterling areas were each characterized by a system of multilateral trade and payments based on the dollar and sterling respectively . |
| 19 | A biting , end-to-end wind did not assist the enjoyment of the night for players or spectators , and goals from both sides were each scored in the dying moments of the halves . |
| 20 | The eight Bridgewater Treatises were each written by an expert who could speak with authority on the evidence of design to be seen in his particular area . |
| 21 | Abu Taleb and Marten Imadi , two Palestinains living in Sweden , were each sentenced by a court in Uppsala to life imprisonment on Dec. 21 , 1989 . |
| 22 | For this promethean task the workers were each paid with a handsome bound volume of Gaelic poetry . |
| 23 | Breathlessness , cough , sputum , abdominal discomfort , and fatigue were each rated on a five point scale ranging from none to very severe , and a summary score was calculated as the average of these five symptoms . |
| 24 | At the end of the Mass we were each presented with a book of prayers and readings — a gift from our Parish . |
| 25 | Mike Shaw and his Supervisor Barbara Finnan were each presented with a £50 cheque by Brian Roberts , Regional Manager , Retailer Services North , Payment Services/Card Services . |
| 26 | The Birthmark and Oral Cancer Appeal for Canniesburn Hospital , the Special Needs Unit at Kirklands Hospital , Bothwell , and Cumbernauld Branch of the Scottish Society for the Mentally Handicapped were each presented with a cheque for £835 . |
| 27 | Drinks and a finger buffet were served and the winners of a quiz , based on the two talks , were each presented with a bottle of champagne and a European Summit Commemorative pound note . |
| 28 | Stockmen , and from Methwold and Winch Farms respectively , were each presented with a Craft Certificate , and , supervisor at Spey Farm was presented with his ATB ‘ S ’ series Supervisory Development Certificate . |
| 29 | There he was , all right — a tiny figure , in perfect colour , standing in front of a group of Watchmen whose faces were each frozen in a terrified rictus . |
| 30 | At the same time two of the nine popularly elected representatives , Akilisi Pohive ( leader of the dissident pro-democracy movement ) and Viliami Fukofuka , were each reported by the Times of Tonga to have returned about 12,000 pa'anga to the Treasury on the grounds that overtime payment for members of the Assembly was immoral and increased the financial burden on the people . |