Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The day they were due to set off for France , Shanti had a swathe of her black curly hair bleached and dyed crimson . |
| 2 | Her parents were due to go away on holiday at the start of the following week . |
| 3 | We were due to go out at 2000 hours . |
| 4 | he , he were due to go back in the army and he overstayed |
| 5 | Existing UN food supplies were due to run out by the start of 1991 . |
| 6 | I 'm watching Chris and Dave fool around at a disc presentation ceremony , a routine they 're well versed in by now , and talking kilt tartans to Matt Cameron from Soundgarden , who were due to play here with Guns N' Roses the following night but the gig 's been cancelled . |
| 7 | Tony took the overdose on Sunday night , at around the time when his father , his father 's girl friend and her son were due to come back from the pub . |
| 8 | He added that negotiations were due to start shortly with advertisers who have annual agreements with the station . |
| 9 | As he wrote to Eulalia , abbess of Shaftesbury : ‘ I am so harassed in the archbishopric that if it were possible to do so without guilt , I would rather die than continue in it ’ . |
| 10 | These latter worked on route 7 to Uxbridge and a few weeks before that route was to be converted to trolleybus operation , they were each fitted out with plough carriers and the necessary switch gear for conduit operation , so that they could make their own way under power to whichever depôt they were sent . |
| 11 | There were girls who were prepared to put up with fat . |
| 12 | Evidence suggests that working class wives were prepared to put up with occasional drinking bouts by their husbands and the physical abuse that sometimes accompanied them rather than lose the economic support normally provided . |
| 13 | The demonstrators were prepared to lie down in front of trucks carrying concrete for the foundations of the mast , at Cairn Papple , near Bathgate , in West Lothian . |
| 14 | Or should we limit ourselves only to those who were prepared to engage actively on behalf of the cause ? |
| 15 | Some of the industry recognized that change was due and with various degrees of enthusiasm were prepared to go along with such proposals . |
| 16 | But while the Europeans were prepared to go along with an ultimatum to the Serbs that threatened bombing if there were more belligerency , they would not countenance lifting the arms embargo , which they believe would do more harm than good . |
| 17 | After a frantic day of arm twisting by Government whips it became clear that potential rebels were prepared to back away from a rebellion in the hope of wringing more concessions from the Government before the Finance Bill , which gives legislative authority to the Budget , comes back to the Commons toward the end of next month . |
| 18 | But there was a limit beyond which the furtherance of working-class interests conflicted with the national interest ; few were prepared to advance there in the first two years of the war . |
| 19 | There were none the less in the later eighteenth century a number of rulers and ministers in Europe who were prepared to break radically with the past , to override vested interests and disregard deep-rooted traditions in the interests of the States they ruled . |
| 20 | The West Germans were prepared to pay handsomely for the right to emigrate of hundreds of thousands of German-speaking Romanian citizens whose ancestors had lived in the country for centuries . |
| 21 | And whatever the scholars of the sixteenth , seventeenth , and eighteenth centuries may have said or thought in private , there were very few who were prepared to come out into the open and publish opinions directly at variance with Holy Writ . |
| 22 | He genuinely like women , and he liked people who were prepared to stand up for themselves . |
| 23 | These were people who knew how the business worked , understood local markets — and were prepared to stand up for what they knew and believed . |
| 24 | This was a surprising development ; Derry had a relatively weak Labour movement and had too small a population to create a sizeable pool of individuals who were prepared to stand out against the political and social attitudes of the majority . |
| 25 | About half of the emigrants and all of the heavy cargo went by sea and by then numerous clippers were prepared to beat regularly from New York to San Francisco in a hundred days . |
| 26 | Of course we were very disappointed because we were geared for it , and we were prepared to play even to two or three people in the audience . |
| 27 | The British did not help themselves by continuing to try to make more precise and explicit in the relationship what — at best — certain American policy-makers were prepared to concede only in private . |
| 28 | All the same , the ground pigeons were careful to keep well under cover . |
| 29 | He called for more street patrols after a 38pc increase in crime was reported , saying women and the elderly were afraid to go out after dark as well as some other men . |
| 30 | And then some at Jailside Parkses and in the , during the winter months we used to , we had a spot to meet about half a dozen of us from the various factories , because we were afraid to walk home through and that way er because men used to wait in Lane . |