Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Third Periodic Report ( 1987 ) the index was amended to take account of labour force growth . |
| 2 | With the passing of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 , the 1982 Act was amended to allow the Audit Commission to become responsible for the appointment of auditors to health service bodies . |
| 3 | On land reform , 1975 legislation was amended to give only two grounds for compulsory redistribution : abandonment for 18 months ( two years in exceptional circumstances ) and individual holdings above the ( generally high ) 1975 ceilings . |
| 4 | Section 1 , Protection From Eviction Act 1977 , was amended to enable more prosecutions and at the same time introduced a new criminal offence . |
| 5 | Although the original bond rules state that transfers ‘ must have been first approved by the Club Committee ’ this appears never to have happened , although at some stage the rule was amended to apply only to ‘ non-member ’ transferees . |
| 6 | ( Later the bill was amended to provide that the Secretary of State would be prohibited from prescribing periods of time or proportions of school timetables to be allocated to programmes of study : see now ERA 1988 , section 4(3) . ) |
| 7 | Under a constitutional amendment approved on Nov. 6 , Article 11 ( regarding the succession on the death or incapacitation of the President ) was amended to provide that the Speaker of the National Assembly would succeed to the presidency until the end of the current presidential mandate . |
| 8 | This order was amended to request the fitting of 525hp Rolls-Royce F.XIIA engines , superseded later by F.XIIMs . |
| 9 | The LEA refused to concede , even when the parents made application for judicial review ; but when the application to the court was amended to focus on the legality of the LEA 's admissions procedures and their operation , the authority finally backed down and found places for the children at two schools where non-white pupils were firmly in the minority ( Overthorpe and Thornhill ) . |
| 10 | The testimonials were challenged and the mailshot was amended to read that monthly earnings could amount to ‘ £1,000s ’ . |
| 11 | Other delegates supported his view and the motion was amended to read : |
| 12 | Article 7 , which previously had defined the official role of organizations affiliated to the CPSU , was amended to read : " All political parties , social organizations and mass movements , in the exercise of the functions stipulated in their programmes and rules , operate within the framework of the Constitution and Soviet laws . " |
| 13 | The draft was amended to read that his strong leadership ‘ may be ’ rather than ‘ is ’ counter-productive . |
| 14 | A month later the decision was appealed against and in March 1984 , the appeal was allowed although the registrar 's order was amended to make the granting of the letters temporary . |
| 15 | Only when the Bill was amended to make it compulsory for local authorities to provide and maintain facilities for deaf children did the Liberal Government of the day allow the Bill to become law . |
| 16 | Personally , I am much encouraged that in response to pressure the Bill was amended to make it flexible enough to accommodate pupils ' special educational needs . |
| 17 | In 1978 the act was amended to make the earliest mandatory retirement age 70 and to eliminate it entirely for federal employees . |
| 18 | Lord Wilson 's account in 1985 of the decay of what was intended to mark a sea-change in the process and outcome of economic policy-making at the highest level is best read slowly and without comment — except , perhaps , to note that , in reforming terms , an almost ideal apprenticeship for a Prime Minister is no guarantee that he will deliver the goods : |
| 19 | A visit to Tokyo by Delors on May 22-25 — his first since 1986 [ see p. 35385 ] — was intended to mark the start of a new political partnership between Japan and the EC . |
| 20 | Adoption was intended to create new family relationships not change those which already existed and joint custody was introduced as an alternative and to give some legal recognition to step-parents . |
| 21 | Marshall aid was intended to create European stability by 1952 , making further aid unnecessary . |
| 22 | In Scotland , Livingstone ( 1962 ) , 15 miles west of Edinburgh , but basically for Glasgow overspill , was intended to create a new focus of industrial activity in the East Central belt . |
| 23 | They are cases in which a promise was made which was intended to create legal relations and which , to the knowledge of the person making the promise , was going to be acted on by the person to whom it was made , and which was in fact so acted on . |
| 24 | Under the decree , which was intended to create the mechanisms of a free market to replace the administratively determined distribution system of the old Soviet economic system , local governments were ordered to organize facilities for wholesale markets in cities . |
| 25 | The delegates denied that the meeting was intended to create structures supplanting the CIS , but President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan , one of the strongest proponents of the CIS , said after the meeting that his confidence in the stability of the CIS had decreased because of Ukraine 's attitude at the last CIS summit [ see p. 38825 ] and the course of the Russian Congress of People 's Deputies [ for which see p. 38875 ] . |
| 26 | The delegates denied that the meeting was intended to create structures supplanting the CIS , but President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan , one of the strongest proponents of the CIS , said after the meeting that his confidence in the stability of the CIS had decreased because of Ukraine 's attitude at the last CIS summit [ see p. 38825 ] and the course of the Russian Congress of People 's Deputies [ see p. 38875 ] . |
| 27 | Through the above reforms , it was intended to create a more effective Community regional policy to cope with the additional stresses facing some regions as a result of adjustments to the SEM . |
| 28 | In addition , the mass picketing outside Grunwick 's works was intended to publicize the dispute rather than cause violent obstruction , as with Arthur Scargill 's massed legions at the Saltley coke depot in 1972 . |
| 29 | There was no reason to suppose that in proceedings under Order 5 , rule 5 , it was intended to enable a named representative defendant to claim against a member of the represented class without complying with the requirements of the county court rules . |
| 30 | This switch was intended to enable Roshanara to retain her influence by stepping in as the child 's regent . |