Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The representatives of Turkey , Iran , Egypt , Pakistan and Senegal were designated to negotiate with the UN Security Council over the predicament of the Moslem population of Bosnia-Hercegovina . |
| 2 | An impressive range of intellectuals were persuaded to write for the UDC . |
| 3 | The Rex/Olympia doubling soon finished but before they could relax to a comparatively simple regime of five shows a day , they were told to double at the Paramount . |
| 4 | Throughout the spring , talk of invasion was on everyone 's lips ; those who could help to fund the new military force did so , while others , providing they were householders or ‘ such other Persons as shall be recommended by two Householders ’ , were invited to enlist at the George Inn , ‘ … where such persons as are willing to join the Frome Selwood Volunteers , either cavalry or infantry , are requested to attend and sign their names ’ . |
| 5 | Because of the constraints of space , the number of guests had to be severely limited but during the afternoon more visitors were invited to look around the Lodge and see for themselves this latest jewel in the Association 's welfare crown . |
| 6 | The " confrontation lines " were understood to refer to the Jordan Valley and the Golan Heights . |
| 7 | The favour was reciprocated when Dire Straits were re-formed to play at the Nelson Mandela birthday concert at Wembley Stadium , where Clapton helped out on guitar . |
| 8 | In the evening Rostov , Yuan and Alexei were summoned to eat with the Khan and his officers . |
| 9 | IN ANOTHER spectacular climbdown by East Germany , more than 6,000 East Germans , who had filled the West German embassy in Prague beyond bursting point , were allowed to leave for the West last night . |
| 10 | The ‘ B Specials ’ ( a part-time force of largely Protestant volunteers ) were retained to work alongside the RUC whenever necessary . |
| 11 | Union members were encouraged to go to the Thursday meeting . |
| 12 | Unemployed workers were encouraged to look on the NUWM as a " trade union of the unemployed " acting as far as possible as their representative . |
| 13 | In two hours they ferried 22 people to high ground and to safety , and at 0900 they were released to return to the Portrush lifeboat which was still lying in Ballycastle Bay . |
| 14 | The Estonian parliament , influenced by these concerns , adopted a constitutional amendment on 16 November providing for the right of veto over all legislation that was intended to apply to the USSR as a whole . |
| 15 | The line to the Zambezi in Central Africa was diverted to run through the Wankie coalfields , while one of the largest projects in the inter-war years in Africa was designed to tap the coal of the Tete province of Mozambique . |
| 16 | A pilot who was taught to fly by the RAF has spent much of the past eighteen months in his garden shed making his own aeroplane . |
| 17 | On this occasion , his uncle , the peppery old Nabob , was bidden to dine at the Cecil Hotel , in order that it might be proved to him that a respectable curry could be had outside the portals of the East India Club . |
| 18 | If the EEC did wish to go beyond the 1962 agreement on agriculture , the arrangements of which were in any case due to expire in 1965 , if financing was permitted to come from the EEC 's own resources , and if the latter were to be levied on imports , then it was sensible for the EEC budget to come under the control of the European Parliament . |
| 19 | He was picked to run in the London Schools at Crystal Palace but withdrew , so I had my first opportunity to run outside the immediate neighbourhood of school and borough , in a new environment on an international track . |
| 20 | A reply was then received from Mr Quarry but the proposed ground rent of £15 a year was considered too high and another effort was made to get from the Baroness von Steiglitz some ground at the corner of what is now Carrickblacker Avenue and in the same field where the existing Tabernacle stood . |
| 21 | Watson was instructed to negotiate with the Sunday Telegraph . |
| 22 | When Clifford Smyth was persuaded to resign from the DUP , he also felt obliged to leave the Free Presbyterian Church , not because the leadership of the Church suggested it , but because he felt a tension between himself and other congregation members who had previously been political colleagues . |
| 23 | Parry leader Major D'Aubuisson , termed a " pathological killer " by US Ambassador Robert White , headed the intelligence division of the National Guard before he was told to resign after the October 1979 coup . |
| 24 | The only opportunity for a large increase in revenue was thought to lie in the Gatwick Express non-stop service introduced in May , featuring air-conditioned stock on the half-hour journey from Victoria to Gatwick every fifteen minutes ( and powered on a push-pull basis by Class 73 electro-diesels ) . |
| 25 | He was thought to come from the Newcastle area . |
| 26 | Our links with the Women 's League of Health and Beauty were further strengthened on 21 April when Jean Parmiter was invited to teach at the East Midlands Associated Members ' Annual Reunion , held in Groby , Leicestershire . |
| 27 | The most prolonged hunger strike organized by COPPES was timed to coincide with the Popes visit to El Salvador , in February 198 ] . |
| 28 | In Burt 's day an army of 50 men was employed to look after the Durlston estate , but after a century it had become neglected : overgrown with foliage , fallen walls and rusty wartime installations . |
| 29 | A SHAKESPEARE play which was scheduled to open at the Liverpool Empire on Monday has been cancelled . |
| 30 | A service by flying boat was scheduled to commence on the July 1950 between Southampton and Leith but the service was postponed indefinitely due to lack of support . |