Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A glance to the left gives glimpses of the spacious Georgian squares and terraces of the eighteenth century , when the North Loch and surrounding swamps were drained to allow construction of the New Town . |
| 2 | After 10 minutes of infusion , the manometric catheter was removed , two sips of tap water were given to clear acid from the oesophagus , and 22 hours of pH monitoring were started . |
| 3 | The cylinders were intended to give control over the elastic characteristics of the haulage system . |
| 4 | Competition The proposals included a number of reforms which were intended to stimulate competition in the financial system and also to remove some of the discriminatory aspects of the previous methods of regulation : |
| 5 | Some of the other changes were intended to take account of a number of anomalies that our experience had brought to light over the years since 1969 . |
| 6 | He expressed the opinion that the first defendant would be in breach of its duty to the plaintiffs ‘ if it were to agree to pay remuneration to the receiver which was plainly excessive . ’ |
| 7 | More than 17,000 troops from France , Germany , Italy , the Netherlands , the UK and the USA were expected to take part in the operation . |
| 8 | As a result legislative elections were expected to take place before the end of January 1993 and presidential elections before mid-February . |
| 9 | With the Constitution approved , presidential elections were expected to take place by the end of October and legislative elections were scheduled for the end of December . |
| 10 | Helen Glackin of Sports Ability , one of the main organisers together , said up to 90 people were expected to make use of the new facilities . |
| 11 | After the war , reactors like the Windscale ‘ piles ’ — scene of the 1957 accident described in Chapter One — were designed to produce material for the first British nuclear bombs , and no expense was spared in developing the necessary technology . |
| 12 | Mass rallies commemorating Azerbaijanis killed in Baku in January were permitted to take place by the military authorities controlling the city . |
| 13 | After they 'd finished their lunch Valerie Stevens took her husband off across the field to where a little knot of donkeys were assembling to take part in the donkey derby , an important annual event at the OBEX Family Day . |
| 14 | The first tier was to be based largely on existing counties ; the major changes were destined to take place in the second tier , the district level . |
| 15 | The head of the United Nations Environment Programme ( UNEP ) , Mostafa Tolba , claimed in early September that a Swiss and an Italian company were seeking to take advantage of the civil war in Somalia by dumping toxic waste in that country . |
| 16 | The General Workers ' Union ( UGT ) and the Workers ' Commissions ( CCOO ) were seeking to put pressure on the government to negotiate a plan for regional reindustrialization in order to compensate for 40,000 projected job losses . |
| 17 | At Cardiff , Newport and Swansea the docks were built to export coal from the valleys and metal sheets from the tinplate and zinc works . |
| 18 | During the Thirties new attempts were made to re-launch rugby in the Soviet Union . |
| 19 | Sometimes local arrangements were made to share representation between the two parties . |
| 20 | It looked as though it had been woven like the baskets which were used to collect tea from the old plantations . |
| 21 | HIV-1 RNA ( 1–415 ) template ( ∼0.2 µg ) and an oligonucleotide ( 1–2 ng ) complementary to either the region 76–90 or the 179–196 PBS of the template RNA were used to prepare cDNA in the absence or presence of NCp7 in a final volume of 15 µl basically as described previously ( 13 ) . |
| 22 | Bosnia and Serbia possessed rich forest resources , which were used to provide charcoal for the metal workers ' furnaces as well as timber for the construction of houses . |
| 23 | Evans thought the clay pipes at Knossos were used to bring water into the palace from outside . |
| 24 | Two basic fieldwork strategies were used to obtain entry to the neighbourhoods . |
| 25 | The individuals concerned , including particularly Harold Wilson and Roy Jenkins , were persuaded to take part in the belief that it was to be a serious piece of film-making . |
| 26 | Vinoba Bhave who was a disciple of Gandhi and started the Bhoodan movement ( by which rich Indians were persuaded to donate land to the poor ) wrote of Bhavana in this episode : |
| 27 | The governor of the Central Bank of Iran , Muhammad Hossein Adeli , visited Turkmenistan on March 4-5 , and steps were agreed to improve trade between the two countries , including the establishment of a joint Tehran-Ashkhabad chamber of commerce . |
| 28 | As early as 1914 , arrangements for building new sick wards , that is , a workhouse infirmary , had been progressing , and in October , some sheds which had been used for wood chopping and storage were demolished to make way for the building of the new sick pavilions . |
| 29 | The company was forced to close its Redcar and Stockton shops and the Middlesbrough branches were demolished to make way for the Cleveland Centre . |
| 30 | ‘ And I had a call-out because there was the possibility that some people were going to use sonar in an attempt to find them . ’ |