Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [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 | We were due to go out at 2000 hours . |
| 3 | he , he were due to go back in the army and he overstayed |
| 4 | Existing UN food supplies were due to run out by the start of 1991 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There were girls who were prepared to put up with fat . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Some of the industry recognized that change was due and with various degrees of enthusiasm were prepared to go along with such proposals . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He genuinely like women , and he liked people who were prepared to stand up for themselves . |
| 14 | These were people who knew how the business worked , understood local markets — and were prepared to stand up for what they knew and believed . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I asked another teacher , ‘ Well , what do you think ? ’ she said ‘ You were wrong to shout back at her full stop ! |
| 18 | And I think it was , we were willing to go back to work and carry on discussions , albeit without earning any bonus because we were working to rule at the time , but it was what happened in er the quarry that really started the strike , when he laid the workforce off because they were helping us , or joining us in sympathetic action , you know there was a lockout up there , so I think that speeded up things considerably . |
| 19 | The largest companies told Mr Chiles they were willing to go along with his programme in the belief that they could compete . |
| 20 | From there on , the cherry and whites took complete control and were 10 points up in the first 14 minutes . |
| 21 | We were relieved to stop off at the Hotel de la Cachette in Arc 1600 for a delicious buffet lunch . |
| 22 | Liverpool were content to hang on to their lead but manager Graeme Souness conceded : ‘ I said after Wednesday 's defeat by Spurs that we would play worse and win , and that was the case today . |
| 23 | Calero said he had never heard of it , except to read about it : ‘ Was that the one we were supposed to blow up on the high seas ? ’ |
| 24 | We were supposed to take off for Malta about 12 hours after leaving Gibraltar but , because of bad weather and ( I think ) intelligence reports about enemy activity around Sardinia and Sicily , we retraced our course and eventually took off about 36 hours from Gibraltar . |
| 25 | The Indians were supposed to look on at what was happening as if these two white men in skirts were barmy . |
| 26 | It was one of those uncomfortable collisions with discontent about housing and the quality of food which Ceauşescu 's aides were supposed to keep out of his itinerary . |
| 27 | They were supposed to come back to the offices and do a three hour training |
| 28 | They sold it Christmas Eve day it was gon na go through the twenty third , Christmas , the day before Christmas erm it was gone and they were supposed to fly over to Spain and they were gon na , gone , exchange a contract to sell it and then she phoned me back and she said I 've got some good news for you , we 've decided not to sell , it 's so beautiful up there and it 's called Los |
| 29 | They declared that they would never again go willingly to war without clear political aims ; that when they did go to war for such aims , they would do so with overwhelming force ; and that they would discover , in advance , how they were supposed to get out of a job once they had started it . |
| 30 | They were accustomed to drop in on him between ten and eleven in the evening , when he could be an agreeable companion ; and he , who had spent so little of his life with women , surprised his colleagues by making friends with the celebrated actress Dorothy Tutin . |