Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Western style financial institutions , infrastructure and factory-based industry were promoted to provide the requisite economic foundations for international strength . |
| 2 | Furthermore , it is argued by some commentators that , if an attempt were made to trace the redistributive consequences of other types of government policy , e.g. subsidies that are part of industrial policy , then an already very fuzzy picture would become totally confused . |
| 3 | The Senate had approved the bill on Feb. 25 by 59 votes to 39 , eight less that the two-thirds majority which would be required if an attempt were made to override the presidential veto . |
| 4 | The forces of fascist barbarism were threatening to engulf the civilised world . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Brigade was designed to assist the civilian commission to coax people to surrender weapons , possibly in return for money payments . |
| 7 | And the value of the information students find is guaranteed ; experienced teachers of business English were involved closely in researching , devising the format , and writing the dictionary , and a professional adviser was used to check the technical accuracy of all the information on business and finance . |
| 8 | This approach was mirrored in the Law Commission Working Paper No 85 on the Sale and Supply of Goods ( 1983 ) where a recommendation was made to abolish the automatic classification of statutory implied terms as conditions , the buyer in a consumer sale being given the right to reject for any breach of the implied terms unless the consequences and nature of the breach were trivial so that rejection would be unreasonable . |
| 9 | This increased revenue was needed to meet the dramatic costs of assisting the war effort [ see below ] and of financing vastly increased domestic defence spending , including arms purchases from the United States to the value of US$6,750 million , approved in November by the US Congress . |
| 10 | An extensive training programme was designed to put the new techniques into practice . |
| 11 | OUR PROGRAMME WAS DESIGNED TO GET THE BEST FOR BRITAIN , TO BRING BRITAIN 'S ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE , OUR PENSIONS , PROVISION FOR PARENTS AND CHILDREN , ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS AND LEVELS OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING UP TO THE BEST THAT EXISTS IN EUROPE . |
| 12 | In the analysis of linguistic variation , therefore , we were looking for fine details of variation-variation that shows internal patterning within the speech community , but which may have no social meaning for outsiders — and in the first application for funding it was specified that the research was intended to extend the quantitative methodology to a type of community that had not been studied in this way before . |
| 13 | The original research was designed to investigate the subsequent labour-market behaviour of a sample of steelworkers made redundant from the British Steel Corporation , Port Talbot , South Wales , and to relate this behaviour to the type of domestic organisation of their households and the character of their local social networks . |
| 14 | The present study was undertaken to evaluate the immune response evoked by such a diagnostic cow 's milk challenge . |
| 15 | For these reasons , this study was undertaken to investigate the evolutionary origin of the P3A exon and to gain insight into the tissue specificity of expression of each variant . |
| 16 | The study was designed to determine the gastroprotective and ulcer healing efficacy of basic transforming growth factor ( bFGF ) and to assess whether this peptide contributes to the action of sucralfate on the rat stomach . |
| 17 | An attempt was made to stop the bleeding or to prevent further haemorrhage by local injection of polidocanol . |
| 18 | Isagoras invoked the aid of King Cleomenes of Sparta , and an attempt was made to restore the aristocratic oligarchy . |
| 19 | The Waveney continued her search until 1900 , when an attempt was made to winch the two survivors into a helicopter , but this too had to be abandoned because of the extreme conditions . |
| 20 | Here an attempt was made to strengthen the elected communes . |
| 21 | If more than one attempt was required to guess the correct letter then the character is emboldened and the number of attempts shown as a subscript . |
| 22 | And as a result of doing all these things , ad nauseam , one had begun to believe something which now , with the benefit of hindsight , appears utterly incredible : that Labour was going to win the general election . |
| 23 | In England , a military dictatorship was required to protect the existing social order . |
| 24 | One new port appeared when a new cut was made to by-pass the shifted mouth of the Ouse in 1539 : the little village of Meeching emerged as Newhaven . |
| 25 | For the second approach , two things were significant : that a major change in British industry ( the fact that it was experiencing increasing competitive difficuIties ) was in turn being reflected in geographical changes , and that these geographical changes ( for instance , the decentralization in an effort to cut costs ) were themselves one way in which British industry was seeking to combat the growing pressures upon it . |
| 26 | For the first time Nizan was forced to confront the social reality of the process of schooling . |
| 27 | Later the same term was used to denote the geometrical figure that is formed when a smaller square is cut out of a larger square with two of its adjacent sides lying along two adjacent sides of the latter . |
| 28 | In addition , the characteristic heat stability of the hTFIIA protein was used to characterize the stimulating component . |
| 29 | Prominent racing historian Reg Green said urgent action was needed to prevent the National that never was becoming the National without a future . |
| 30 | Prominent racing historian Reg Green said urgent action was needed to prevent the National that never was turning into the National without a future . |