Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Folk-song was a special case : here words were said to aspire to the condition of music . |
| 2 | As a crucial feature of their role in cultural reproduction , schools were expected to inculcate in the nation 's children a proper sense of patriotic moral responsibility . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ I believe that positive steps were needed to build for the future , particularly with the wealth of young talent now available . |
| 4 | Earlier this season Golf Monthly readers were invited to enter for the event : 720 fortunate golfers ( three amateurs and one assistant ) were balloted to compete in eight qualifying events around the British Isles . |
| 5 | Instead of maintaining a fixed rate or parity against the dollar , other major currencies were allowed to float in the foreign exchange market . |
| 6 | Fortunately for the players , only accredited golfing journalists were allowed to encroach on the fairways and everyone else was kept firmly behind the ropes and barriers which ran along the perimeter of each hole . |
| 7 | Some 7,000 federal troops together with National Guard units were deployed to assist with the distribution of emergency food and medical care , and to prevent looting and civil disturbances . |
| 8 | This recovery has been made necessary because , as we have seen , the rhetorical and historical use of anthropology got so disastrously mixed up in the work of the founders and produced a false picture of the idyllic classless community which was later termed primitive communism and then got further confused with the type of society the Marxists were trying to construct in the future . |
| 9 | The Simonova 's sensors were geared to respond to the presence in her path of any mass approaching planetary proportions . |
| 10 | Various methods were adopted to get round the problem . |
| 11 | The Earl of Morton ( one of Vial 's earliest patrons in this country ) and 12 other gentlemen were appointed to deal with the calumny aspect . |
| 12 | As an alternative subjects were instructed to wait until the end of a film before giving any description . |
| 13 | The spinal patients were instructed to empty their bowels in their usual manner the night before the test while the normal subjects were encouraged to defecate before the study if they felt the need to do so . |
| 14 | After the application of acetic acid , animals were allowed to recover from the anaesthesia andreceived only water on the day of operation ( day 0 ) . |
| 15 | Interestingly , after September 1987 factory and mines inspectors were forbidden to speak to the press on pain of disciplinary action . |
| 16 | The polytechnics were having to carry into the 1970s a defence and assertion of their particular — though not necessarily homogeneous — values and procedures , and in doing so made necessary a constant reaffirmation of the vocational or service roles that had aroused fierce passions throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as new institutions and new sectors had come into existence in many countries . |
| 17 | It failed however , to make up for the ravages of a year of unremitting economic gloom , no matter how many green shoots the media and some pundits were determined to see in the crowds of shoppers that hit the stores on bank holiday Monday , 28th December . |
| 18 | Hocazade was reconciled with his father , for whom he subsequently gave a great feast ; so great was the press of notables , however , that his brothers were forced to stand among the servants . |
| 19 | The Royal Commission on Assizes and Quarter Sessions was enjoined to inquire into the arrangements for the administration of justice at Assizes and Quarter Sessions , and |
| 20 | The dose equivalence tended to fall with increasing doses of salmeterol indicating that the responses were tending to plateau with the 200 µg dose . |
| 21 | Sharon 's parents were to upset to talk after the hearing , but their solicitor said legal action in relation to Sharon 's death had not been ruled out . |
| 22 | Sometimes long narrow friezes were designed to run along the upper part of a wall . |
| 23 | Energetic visitors were invited to take to the dance floor and strut their stuff , quenching their thirst with a bottle of the new , macho mineral water , Thirsty Camel , afterwards ! |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Twelve medium- to long-term visitors were scheduled to come to the Herbarium , and he would have to look at areas other than the Herbarium to accommodate them . |
| 26 | Just as the civic buildings in Moscow expressed the confident power of the Communist regime , so the new housing blocks were designed to conform to the new ideals of social life . |
| 27 | THREE appeal court judges were asked to rule for the first time yesterday that parents could sue doctors for negligence over the loss of a child though the fatal injuries had been suffered before birth . |
| 28 | IN March this year , the Court of Appeal judges were asked to rule on the case of former public schoolboy Ryan Gormley . |
| 29 | But in more robust days , you would have been more likely to come upon a coven up there , since the summit of La Rhune was one of several places in the Basque lands where witches were held to convene during the very ugly years of persecution early in the seventeenth century — then it was , according to the local inquisitors , that English and Scottish travellers arriving by sea in Bordeaux saw veritable armies of devils making their way towards south-western France . |
| 30 | Companies were invited to invest in the market it is considering a ‘ modest ’ contribution to help bail out those affected . |