Example sentences of "[was/were] determine [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Betty Irving , deputy head of Musselburgh Burgh Primary School , said : ‘ When we were there , it was a wonderful week and we were determined to do the same for them . |
| 2 | Tory Anglicans believed they had nothing to fear from a popish successor whilst those in control of the mechanisms of local government were determined to enforce the laws designed to protect the Church . |
| 3 | Sequences of 16S ribosomal genes of the M. uniraptor and Trichogramma symbionts were determined using the following procedure . |
| 4 | Magnetic coordinates of both the radar range gates and the satellite position were determined using the IGRF ( International Geomagnetic Reference Field ) model of the Earth 's magnetic field . |
| 5 | Creatinine concentrations in urine were determined using the modified Jaffé reaction ( Roche diagnostics ) on a COBAS BIO centrifugal fast analyser in the UK , and using a bench spectrophotometer in the Gambia . |
| 6 | For three years Nicholas conducted a capable but hopeless defence against the King and members of his Council , who were determined to destroy the Company . |
| 7 | ‘ But if those criminals were determined to kill the boy , and it seems with hindsight that they were , they could have done it any time , before or after receiving the diamonds , in the cellar , on the road or on some lonely Yorkshire moorland . |
| 8 | From the opening of the Convention a number of MPs were determined to restrict the Crown 's revenue as a way of keeping the monarchy more dependent upon Parliament , and the fact that the revenue eventually settled on the Crown in 1690 was deliberately kept well short of anticipated peace-time expenditure has led one historian to conclude that the financial settlement " created a new type of monarchy " . |
| 9 | The Transvaal fighting indicated to many that Inkatha and its leader , Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi , were determined to destabilize the burgeoning relationship between government and the ANC . |
| 10 | One thing is very clear , the limited eighteenth-century political contest between Court and Country — between the ins and outs to government within Parliament — was transcended by a more fundamental division within society between those who wished to change the political and social order and those who were determined to defend the status quo , the eighteenth-century Constitution , and the established basis of representation . |
| 11 | You were determined to represent the younger British artists ? |
| 12 | At this point the whole incident could , perhaps , have been kept from public view , but plainly the Russians had no intention of abiding by normal protocol and were determined to alert the British press . |
| 13 | The Germans , however , were determined to resist the Allied advance northwards , and after early rapid progress the American and Commonwealth forces ran into increasingly fierce fighting , particularly around the mountain fortress of Monte Cassino and the Allied bridgehead at Anzio . |
| 14 | They were determined to turn the workers ' essentially economic goals into political goals . |
| 15 | It seemed as if the conservative group were determined to drive the president towards a coup d'état , from which they could benefit — for he was a guarantee of order and stability — but from participation in which they could be legally , if not morally , absolved . |
| 16 | The British , however , were determined to make the most of any argument or " agreement " to protect their " independent " deterrent , especially as Macmillan — quite apart from any strategic calculation — insisted that his own political position and that of his government would be put at risk if Britain were deprived of this great-power symbol . |
| 17 | Both Wilson and Callaghan were determined to keep the fissiparous Labour party together . |
| 18 | And , above all , Americans were determined to keep the Middle East free from Communist domination . |
| 19 | Mrs Thatcher 's governments were determined to cut the unions down in size and , for all the incremental nature of the legislation , prepared the ground in advance . |
| 20 | In fact , James II fell only because of the opposition he met from the Tory-Anglican interest , and although most Tory Anglicans were determined to prevent the Revolution from running the full course that it did , the eventual constitutional settlement was in much greater concordance with their principles than historians have usually recognised . |
| 21 | Police say they were determined to prevent the rave … |
| 22 | Although the client suggested a Victorian-style treatment , similar to a recent conversion a few doors away , the architects were determined to convert the building in a sympathetic but thoroughly modern way , on the limited budget which was available . |
| 23 | In approaching the legislature , the Reagan forces were determined to avoid the mistakes of Jimmy Carter ; the new administration would have a clear sense of direction and a well-defined order of priorities . |
| 24 | Hain ( 1986:131 ) is convinced that : ‘ The police , publicly urged on by the Prime Minister and Home Secretary , were determined to break the strike by preventing the mass picketing . ’ |
| 25 | They hoped to retain the use of two key air bases in Iraq without — in the process — offering too many hostages to the radical Iraqi nationalists who were determined to break the British connection . |
| 26 | The pope , the chapter at York , and ( more reluctantly ) the archbishop of York , were determined to defeat the Canterbury claim to which Anselm was committed . |
| 27 | They were determined to change the world . |
| 28 | They were determined to confront the English Heritage inspector , but it soon became clear he 'd given them the slip . |
| 29 | The combined effect of the purges and the anti-Nonconformist propaganda was to put power in the localities into the hands of people who were determined to protect the Church and State from both popery and fanaticism through a strict adherence to the rule of law . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , the evidence showed that the defendants were determined to bring the contractual relationship to an end if they could , regardless of whether it was done in breach or not . |