Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Political persuasion was required to keep up the political momentum , and given the changing age profile of the electorate — many of whom had not been adults a decade ago — Sir Geoffrey warned : ‘ We 've got to choose the style to match the mood of Britain . ’ |
| 32 | The Cheltenham MP was trying to take up the cudgels on behalf of Gloucestershire County Council , who face being charge capped for wanting to spend ten million pounds above the Government 's limit . |
| 33 | In all the countries across Europe , the most likely individuals handling Virgin material for the licensee in that country were approached to set up the new local Virgin office . |
| 34 | But there are numerous instances which come to my mind of research in which all the problems of analysis were left until the survey had been done and then anything up to , or even over , a year was needed to sort out the tangled mass of answers to vague questions . |
| 35 | Balor was going to let down the drawbridge so that they could ride across it . |
| 36 | The nurse was sacked to keep down the bills and the incoming maternity nurse was not interested in an unattractive fifteen-year-old . |
| 37 | Calcium chloride was used to speed up the hardening of ordinary Portland cement and to allow concreting to continue through cold weather without the threat of damage from frost . |
| 38 | Two hours later the order was given to cut down the masts . |
| 39 | The company was ordered to pay back the money by the EC , which ruled that the benefits constituted illegal State aid . |
| 40 | The idea was to try to bring back the spirit of entrepreneurship that I thought people in these neighbourhoods would be inclined towards if the right environment were established . ’ |
| 41 | Chamberlain 's cabinet was obsessed by the fear that if taxpayers ' money was used to shore up the refugee organisations , other countries , not least Germany , would be encouraged to hand on to Britain yet more of their unwanted citizens . |
| 42 | If the family were going to take on the outside world , they 'd do it in eccentric style , his father had implied . |