Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were checked to determine that the part of speech assigned in the corpus was one of the possible tags for the word in the Text710 lexicon . |
| 2 | From the very few interviews we conducted we were given to understand that the birth parents would not have opposed adoption if the links could be maintained ( Lambert et al . , |
| 3 | We were given to understand that the A.S.R. boats did not put out on the express orders of the A.O.C. that they would be too vulnerable to air attack . |
| 4 | Recall was aided by use of a pictorial daily health diary , on which mothers were taught to record that the child was healthy or to mark the occurrence of diarrhoea , cough , or any other illness . |
| 5 | Export earnings were expected to rise when the Maloma coal mine development began to produce high quality anthracite . |
| 6 | Of these , 102 episodes fitted the criteria described in the methods section , which were designed to ensure that the effects of swallowing or straining did not influence assessment of the effect of reflux on UOS pressures . |
| 7 | And they were shattered to discover that the ir much-publicised ‘ Run With The Ball ’ scheme , devised last year to recompense players for the increased commitment required at international level , has made a loss because of advertising and expenses . |
| 8 | Heavy industry not toys or low quality textiles , was targeted as the driving force for development , and a vast array of incentives and restraints were applied to ensure that the strategy was implemented . |
| 9 | ‘ We were seeking to find if the river always spilled at the same points , and the answer was yes . |
| 10 | Steps were taken to ensure that the nodes were not perturbed more than once , but no checks were made to determine whether the perturbation process caused sliver polygons to be created . |
| 11 | Walker also found that none of the 11 pronouns resolved correctly by the original BFP but not by Hobbs were made to fail when the alteration was made . |
| 12 | Various experiments were performed to verify that the imaging technique would give consistent results and to understand better the various parameter values ( illumination , exposure , the structure of the subjects to be measured ) affecting the measurement . |
| 13 | The Prospectus was re-written , the contents reviewed and re-organised and professional designers and photographers were commissioned to ensure that the appearance was attractive and coherent . |
| 14 | The adults were told to arrive when the children were having lunch . |
| 15 | Intestinal transit times were measured to see whether the effect of sulphate upon methanogenesis might be the result of faster bowel transit , because the laxative properties of sodium sulphate are recognised . |
| 16 | I remember saying this was a bit leisurely , was n't it , but there was some apparently reasonable explanation , like no one gave any notice that they were going to die and the partnership could be a bit pushed to produce the cash if it was the wrong time of year . |
| 17 | Somebody erm said they were going to , and it was n't me so it was one of you three , said they were going to check if the ball was having a speaker this year . |
| 18 | ‘ I do not myself feel justified in attaching much weight to the tenuous evidence upon which we were invited to find that the plaintiffs made their payments because of apprehensions induced by words or conduct of state officials that vehicles would or might be seized and detained under section 47 . |
| 19 | Normalising factors were employed to ensure that the probabilities always added up to 1 . |
| 20 | The success of the Dutch in the West Indian sugar trade in the 1640s showed that this natural monopoly of the colonies ' trade would not last any longer , so English shipbuilders were gratified to find that the Navigation Act would limit the colonial trade to English ships . |
| 21 | Bottlang was invaluable for this piece of navigation , particularly as we were starting to feel that the TPC map left something to be desired . |
| 22 | British industrialists , unlike many others , were found to think that the demand for environment-friendly goods has peaked and are anticipating a drop in the near future . |
| 23 | The charges , linked by two rings of cordtex , were set to fire and the squad ran for cover clear of the building . |
| 24 | Acts , life improved & inspectors were appointed to ensure that the laws were adhered to . |
| 25 | In subsequent correspondence Technical Division were asked to confirm that the timing of the provision of the benefit to the non-resident or non-domiciled beneficiary was irrelevant , ie that it did not matter whether the income in question was paid to him in the year of assessment in which it arose or in a subsequent year , but Technical Division refused to confirm that this was the case on the grounds that the actual circumstances of particular cases tended to vary so widely that they felt unable to answer the question without more details . |
| 26 | Well we were led to believe that the concessions given to company cars would go , or would go in part in the White Paper , and we were led to believe that they would er make a decision that would say that the gas-guzzling , the higher expenditure cars would be penalized in terms of vehicle excise licence , road tax , compared to the small ones , and yet they 've gone back even from that . |
| 27 | Steps were taken to ensure that the nodes were not perturbed more than once , but no checks were made to determine whether the perturbation process caused sliver polygons to be created . |
| 28 | In a controversial aspect of the data collection , the subjects were allowed to think that the tape recorder had been switched off after the formal interviews , and were encouraged to talk informally by a young white member of the research team , who dissociated himself from the preceding interviews and " spent the duration of the recording sitting on the floor " ( Edwards 1986 : 74 ) . |
| 29 | In the end , after allowing those proposals to go forward without us , we were forced to join after the terms had been fixed . |
| 30 | The logic of this defied Irish women who were forced to deduce that the spectacle of women wielding pints must offend male sensibilities at a very deep level , especially those who equated pint-downing by women with lesbian leisure . |