Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [to-vb] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if it were possible to model accurately the supply and demand responses to changes in taxes and transfer or benefit provisions of all kinds , it would remain a GNP or market calculation . |
| 2 | If a given investment project within the domain of operation of capitalist enterprises were considered desirable as part of an investment plan ( to satisfy a definite ‘ social need ’ , to gain export revenue , to develop a ‘ growth industry ’ , to preserve employment ) and yet the capitalist enterprises concerned were unwilling to invest then the investment planning authorities would have two broad options : either nationalise the enterprises and force them to invest on criteria other than those of profitability , or ‘ distort ’ the market to render the project sufficiently profitable to appeal to the enterprises . |
| 3 | With the aid of the LFS we were able to examine further the extent to which members of the temporary labour force in the hotel and catering industry were working on that basis because they had been unable to find permanent jobs , and to what extent they were doing so because they did not want permanent jobs . |
| 4 | The DHAC had softened up the Unionists by publicising the housing situation in Derry and causing embarrassment for the Stormont government , but it was the Nationalists , as elected representatives , who were able to press home the advantage and force the concessions . |
| 5 | So important was this and so adept the participants that the farmers-general and the Van Necks were able to persuade both the French and British governments to permit the continued shipment of British tobacco to France during the wars of 1744–8 and 1756–63 . |
| 6 | What now became clear was that Cadwallon was prepared to tolerate neither the family of Eadwine nor that of Aethelfrith as rulers of the northern Angles . |
| 7 | Because of the scale of the disaster , it was agreed that it was impossible to recreate so the decision was taken to concentrate on the rescue of a particular individual , Martin Baptie . |
| 8 | From more than a few feet it was impossible to tell even the sex of the figure . |
| 9 | Any move of this kind towards the " summit diplomacy " of our own day was likely to undermine somewhat the position formerly enjoyed by the heads of great diplomatic missions . |
| 10 | In particular the central committee had been deprived of its ultimate power to dismiss the general secretary or the full politburo ( since the majority of politburo members sat ex-officio ) , while the composition of the politburo was likely to reduce drastically the frequency of its meetings . |
| 11 | Hence it was not surprising that Britain declined the invitation to join the proposed coal and steel structure , ostensibly because it was unwilling to accept beforehand the principle of a new and binding supranational authority . |
| 12 | it was just that her imagination , so strong and enticing , was apt to sweep away the barrier between itself and reality . |
| 13 | Each subject was able to adjust both the height and the angle of a toilet seat by remote control . |
| 14 | It was difficult to redirect rapidly the thinking of the Department of Industry , which had traditionally been interested in regional , not urban , policy . |
| 15 | Legal tenancy in common gave rise to great difficulties in the tracing of titles to land , because it was necessary to investigate separately the title of each tenant . |