Example sentences of "[noun sg] was create a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second recommendation was to create a general management function throughout the service to focus responsibility and give leadership and direction . |
| 2 | When employees ' share schemes first came to be introduced here , the normal practice was to create a special class of shares with restricted rights regarding , in particular , votes and transferability ; only in relation to share option schemes , designed as incentive to top management , were ordinary voting equity shares on offer . |
| 3 | This occurred in Egypt and Asia , for instance , and the intention was to create a closed currency system whereby everyone entering the kingdom had to change their foreign coin into local coin and did not take the local coinage out of the country . |
| 4 | Their intention was to create a narrative experience for the pilgrim or initiand , an experience full of unsettling incident and surprise . |
| 5 | A response was that member States would be unlikely to give organisations such far-reaching powers and to empower them to implement such an agreement , unless the intention was to create a supra-national organisation . |
| 6 | Soviet observers interpreted the proclamation of the Nixon Doctrine as confirmation that the long-term American ambition was to create a larger military grouping embracing the entire region , and to employ ASEAN as a substitute military alliance . |
| 7 | ( S. ) 417 that it was wrong in principle to impose a consecutive community service order on an offender already subject to an order if the effect was to create a combination of orders whose total length exceeded 240 hours . |
| 8 | His dream was to create a population bent to his will . |
| 9 | This was not just a problem for women in printing : it was one by all women who were drawn into industrial trades just as mechanization was creating a new division of labour . |
| 10 | With memories of the inept and unstable parliamentary experiment under Weimar still fresh , the imperative after the war was to create a stable system . |
| 11 | The SDP 's aim was to create a real third force in British politics and their hope was to take votes from both parties . |
| 12 | The aim was to create a non-biased set of figures that would paint an international picture of the scale of air pollution . |
| 13 | Mr Freedman said that the aim was to create a platform to propel the company into the future and promote services such as planning and consulting rather than just accounting , to help clients boost their profits . |
| 14 | The basic aim was to create a customs union , with free and equal competition among the Six and a ‘ common external tariff ’ against the rest of the world . |
| 15 | The ultimate aim was to create a Central Intelligence Unit to correlate all information received from Customs and Police sources in both the UK and at international level . |
| 16 | Its aim was to create a community in which assistance could be given to Russia , Poland and the three former Soviet Baltic states to transform themselves into free-market societies . |
| 17 | The aim was to create a stable coalition which would represent the majority of the people of Israel , he said . |
| 18 | One demand made during the Pilgrimage of Grace in 1536 was that entry fines should not exceed the value of two years ' rent , so it is likely that by this time , when a rising population was creating a shortage of land , some landlords were seeking more . |
| 19 | She criticized Greece 's proposed membership of the West European Union ( WEU ) and said that the European Community was creating a " two-speed Europe " which would " further marginalize " Greece . |
| 20 | The industrial revolution was creating a new moneyed class , much of it in the North and Midlands . |
| 21 | Haughey told the conference that Fianna Fáil 's aim over the next decade was to create a new , enlightened , open , Irish society . |
| 22 | Gerry Crawley , a NALGO finance spokesman , said the council was prepared to sit out the strike , but that stance was creating a nightmare scenario for the tax which would take years to clear up . |
| 23 | One effect of this strategy was to create a large number of internal refugees — some reports estimating that some 150,000 Cambodians were displaced during 1990 , either by being forcibly moved in to the interior by SOC troops , or by fleeing from Khmer Rouge attack . |
| 24 | It is perhaps dubious to argue that a prayer or worship becomes more efficacious if more people join in , but there is no doubt that man was created a social animal and ritual that is shared is ritual that becomes more meaningful . |
| 25 | Supporting the leadership , Garfield Davies , general secretary of the shop workers ' union Usdaw , said delegates should not forget the objective was to create a nuclear-free world , not just a nuclear-free Britain . |
| 26 | V. P. Singh announced on Aug. 24 that the government was creating a National Security Council , which he would head , to deal with internal and external security problems . |
| 27 | For Jensen and Binot [ 1988 ] , that application was to create a knowledge source for syntactic disambiguation . |
| 28 | Instead the Japanese drug industry has been shaped by national health policy , whose primary goal was to create a stable supply of up-to-date drugs . |
| 29 | Their goal was to create a building that would remain functional after an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.3 , as big as anything that has ever hit California . |
| 30 | The net result of this activity was to create a national grain market , with trade no longer centred on a few major points of collection , transit , and marketing . |