Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But with this , as with council-house building , no real attempt was made to turn back the clock on processes that were ultimately totally to transform the character of Britain 's housing market . |
| 2 | After which an attempt was made to set out the most elementary logical conditions that must be satisfied before anything can qualify as a potential existent . |
| 3 | Leeds ' former England defender was forced to sit out the final ten matches of last season 's title charge with an ankle injury that needed surgery . |
| 4 | This year , a huge worldwide advertising campaign was launched to bring back the lost visitors , to a ‘ new , kinder , more ethnically integrated ’ country . |
| 5 | Memories being short , it may be forgotten that until comparatively recently a spin bowler was allowed to rough up the ball in the dust to help his grip . |
| 6 | The reaction was to try to speed up the reallocation of those remaining at Barham House ( a process which was unintentionally assisted by the activation of the internment laws ) , to provide the best possible reason for closing the place down . |
| 7 | Still a device was invented to cover up the disappearance of an old landmark ; and at the accession of Her present gracious Majesty , she was unlawfully proclaimed by a new title ‘ Head of the Commonwealth ’ , subsequently legalised by the Royal Titles Act 1953 , against which I am proud to recall that I protested in my place in the House of Commons . |
| 8 | But England could do nothing with the advantage because of the ferocity and speed with which the Irish forwards hammered whichever luckless Englishman was left to tidy up the tap . |
| 9 | The decree was intended to wipe out the illegal cash holdings of black-marketeers , and to drain from the economy up to 20 per cent of the money supply , which had become bloated by the printing of new money to cover budget deficits in recent years . |
| 10 | At 6.15 a taxi was dispatched to pick up the old dress — any old dress — to cover my confusion and my body . |
| 11 | In places water was applied to thin out the crayon into a wash , or used thickly to highlight areas with bright specks of colour . |
| 12 | No outlet was provided and , once the leat was full , the water was allowed to overflow down the hillside via sluice gates or boards , raising the temperature of the frosted land to that of the spring water and encouraging the grass to grow early — again to help feed sheep and lambs in the early spring . |
| 13 | Walsh kept him company for 45 minutes for 27 runs , Patterson for an hour for a partnership of 62 until the second new ball was required to finish off the number eleven . |
| 14 | A suitable train was scheduled to pick up the wives of the workmen along side their homes . |
| 15 | The Cabinet was meeting to thrash out the Government 's public spending plans for 1993/94 . |
| 16 | While the work carried out by Touche Ross is now open to criticism , in fairness , that firm was asked to carry out the work within an unreasonably short timescale . |
| 17 | On Sept. 20 the President of the High Committee of State ( HCS ) , Ali Kafi , said in a television broadcast that the government was determined to stamp out the " vicious disease " of terrorism . |
| 18 | After 23 days , the government was threatening to send in the army to clean up the streets . |
| 19 | The murder of Foreign Minister Robert Ouko in February provoked large-scale protests by students claiming that the government was attempting to cover up the circumstances of his death and calling for the resignation of President Moi ; the government responded by banning demonstrations . |
| 20 | They had built up the industry on cheap labour , and their only answer to the challenge of foreign competition was to attempt to cut back the limited improvements in wages and hours which had been secured during and immediately after the war . |
| 21 | Some alterations to the school premises took place in 1883 , when the yard was extended to take up the site of an old lodging house . |
| 22 | More space was needed to keep up the increase in numbers . |
| 23 | Conoco was trying to find out the cause of the leak , before it could decide how to stop it . |
| 24 | The fact that this was the chosen approach of the Evil One in tempting Eve should give us a healthy respect for its subtlety and danger : ‘ Did God say … ? ’ he asked : His innocent-sounding questions about the facts of the case were designed to open up the deeper issue of God 's goodness . |
| 25 | The results of this voyage were published in fifty large volumes between 1880 and 1895 , and represented international collaboration in oceanography and marine biology ; the most eminent authorities in the world were chosen to write up the various results and describe the collections . |
| 26 | An effort was made to set up the stud in a more favoured , not to say more conventional , site in the foothills of the Nilgiris . |
| 27 | An effort was made to clean up the water supplies , thereby helping to reduce the transmission of water-borne agents of disease : between 1972 and 1990 , almost 1 million handpump tubewells were installed in Bangladesh . |
| 28 | Commentators suggested that the shipment was designed to shore up the confidence of the international community in the face of India 's precarious foreign exchange position . |
| 29 | This information was used to gross up the values declared by respondents to give estimates of exports for all exporting companies in Grampian . |
| 30 | Care was taken to stamp out the fire , and as Lucy watched Silas at work she was struck by his meticulous attention to detail . |