Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] to determine [Wh det] " in BNC.

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1 From this starting point , a series of models were developed to determine what changes in practices would encourage Colleges to move towards a state of equilibrium in the new circumstances .
2 When this indicated a probability of less than 0.05 for the null hypothesis Student-Newman-Keuls analyses were performed to determine which values differed significantly .
3 Logistic regression models were used to determine which variables significantly and independently could predict bacterial pneumonia and to adjust for potential confounders .
4 David Redden , the senior vice president at Sotheby 's who arranged the loan said that Sotheby 's approached the society with the idea of giving ‘ them the breathing space they so desperately needed while they were trying to determine what they were going to do next for themselves … with the hope that other institutions will join in ’ .
5 Making concessions to Lenin 's Indian and ‘ Asia-First ’ opponent , M N Roy , the Commission had , throughout the theses , replaced ‘ bourgeois-democratic ’ by ‘ revolutionary ’ and the result was , as one may see in the sixth thesis , that the revolutionary-liberation movement in backward countries or among backward nationalities was invited to determine what forms this alliance should take .
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