Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The earliest visitors 23,000 a day-were advised to eschew the winding staircase of 1792 steps ( corresponding to the year of the Proclamation of the Republic ) . |
| 2 | Various strategies , individual and collective , were developed to combat the organizational pressure . |
| 3 | These methods were developed to aid the physical mapping of the fission yeast S.pombe ( 1 , 10 ) but are applicable to other hybridisation data . |
| 4 | Rousseau 's judgements and highly insulting remarks about the Opéra 's instrumentalists were calculated to discredit the whole establishment : the ‘ woodchopper ’ was just the most prominent symbol of authoritarian decadence . |
| 5 | Two landmarks ( L+ , L- ) were arranged to predict the spatial location of hidden food nearby that was either accessible ( F+ ) or inaccessible ( F- ) . |
| 6 | Later on , in the episode ‘ The Ambush ’ both Inlay and the extermination effect were blended to show the devastating result of a Dalek blaster on full power . |
| 7 | Walls were painted to echo the close studding of the timber-framed structure , although in the form of columns with different-patterned capitals in silhouette . |
| 8 | Both measures were intended to curb the 1991 budget deficit after initial projections had put it at Rbs250,000 million . |
| 9 | The conditions set out by Samuel were intended to distance the National Government from the Lloyd George coalition which had cast its shadow across the politics of the 1920s . |
| 10 | These capacity charges were intended to cover the annual cost of the interest payments ( at the social rate of discount ) on the money used to build the plant . |
| 11 | The cash limits were intended to reduce the social cost of distortionary taxes elsewhere , to impose ‘ financial discipline ’ in the hope of attaining a performance that was closer to that which was cost-minimizing for any output , and to increase the bargaining power of management in wage negotiations . |
| 12 | Coins were minted bearing the famous inscription Roma aeterna — ‘ Rome , the eternal city ’ . |
| 13 | They were expected to support the M-19 coalition . |
| 14 | But why would someone who recognised that they were expected to derive the contextual implication that B did n't do the reading go on to produce the utterance in [ 15c ] ? |
| 15 | Compression of the ice and diffusion of the chemical species were expected to obliterate the annual signal beyond this period . |
| 16 | The issues of weapons shipments , attempts to achieve a ceasefire in El Salvador , and the stalled demobilisation of the contras were expected to dominate the two-day summit , which Mr Arias described at the weekend as critical to the future of the peace process . |
| 17 | The issues of weapons shipments , attempts to achieve a ceasefire in El Salvador , and the stalled demobilisation of the contras were expected to dominate the two-day summit , which Mr Arias described at the weekend as critical to the future of the peace process . |
| 18 | The measures were designed to combat the economic crisis , rising inflation and industrial unrest , but failed to win the backing of the Green Ecology Party and the Communist Left Party ( VpK ) , on whose support the Social Democrats depended in parliament . |
| 19 | He shouted angrily , and a three- man team hastened to attach the sets of magnoclamps which were designed to drain the static charge . |
| 20 | SCOTVEC National Certificate Modules were introduced in 1984 and were designed to replace the prevailing system of ONCs ( Ordinary National Certificates ) and ONDs ( Ordinary National Diplomas ) which were based on subjects grouped together to give courses in a particular area . |
| 21 | The flagship reform , the poll tax , and the related flotilla of changes affecting privatization and contracting-out , education , housing and social services , as well as specific ‘ inner-city initiatives ’ , were designed to change the political structure and quite precisely to replace local democracy by the ‘ market ’ . |
| 22 | Under the Local Government Act , 1871 the two departments were amalgamated to form the new Local Government Board . |
| 23 | In 1908 they were amalgamated to form The 4th Battalion ( TF ) . |
| 24 | The farmer 's wife was the choice of over half but where possible others were included to do the heavy work . |
| 25 | First of all , a few small tetras were added to help the maturing process ( these were later removed ) . |
| 26 | Two interlocking cycles were recommended to cover the seven year primary course : |
| 27 | We were sentenced to hang the next morning at the gallows of Montfaucon . |
| 28 | Failure to conform to directives of priests and bishops were seen to break the very fabric of communion and to allow sin to enter in . |
| 29 | There is a complex layout of these basement halls which were built to support the upper storey state apartments . |
| 30 | Three MXY6 canard gliders were built to test the tail-first concept of the Shinden . |