Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [vb pp] [to-vb] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the middle of these difficulties I was invited to visit the Chicago headquarters of Binks Manufacturing ( Binks Bullows 's parent company ) to negotiate selling the machine to the US . |
| 2 | Like all young Germans she was compelled to join the Hitler Youth organisation . |
| 3 | She was thought to haunt the Dane Hills of Leicestershire in England , and to live in a cave she had dug out of the rock with her own hands . |
| 4 | She was allowed to leave the Mount Carmel centre halfway through the siege . |
| 5 | It was decided to cancel the Manchester landing and fly direct to Prestwick . |
| 6 | Once it was decided to launch the Bond the Product Development team set to work in determining the financial aspects of the plan — how it would actually work , etc . |
| 7 | After these discussions it was decided to drop the Wolf e Tone Societies tag , and an ad hoc body was formed which organised a seminar on civil rights on 25 November 1966 in Belfast . |
| 8 | At a meeting of the State Council on Oct. 11 , it was decided to abolish the USSR KGB ( Committee for State Security ) , and to form , on its basis , units concerned with border defence , intelligence and counterintelligence . |
| 9 | It was hoped to reassure the Warsaw Pact about European security , to develop a strong German role in central Europe and eventually to break down barriers with East Germany . |
| 10 | Although LCC is used by other libraries , in order to understand the format of the scheme it is necessary to recognize that it was intended to fit the LC collections and services as closely as possible , without reference to outside needs and influences . |
| 11 | However , to reflect a reduced level of activity it was agreed to reduce the PR budget by 20 per cent . |
| 12 | At the 1989 Annual Conference in Bournemouth it was resolved to support the RAF Benevolent Fund 's 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain Appeal , and Branches were asked to provide support at local level for what became known as the ‘ Reach for the Sky ’ Appeal . |
| 13 | It was resolved to deposit the Damascus Declaration with the Arab League as an official document . |
| 14 | In 1962 he was invited to join the Ferrari team and two years later he was world champion when he pipped Graham Hill by one point . |
| 15 | When the young Raphael painted in the style of Leonardo , he was invited to redecorate the Vatican . |
| 16 | Whittaker got the recognition he deserved when he was invited to accompany the England team to Canada in 1931 . |
| 17 | He was scheduled to conduct the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra in Sunday 's concert at the Orpheum Theatre . |
| 18 | Mr Delors told a news conference in Brussels he was determined to apply the Maastricht Treaty on time , including full economic and monetary union . |
| 19 | Certainly he was determined to dissociate the United States from any settlement which made concessions to the communists . |
| 20 | Used to commanding platoons , he was determined to knock the Rutshire teams into shape . |
| 21 | He invited me to go and see the Church in Africa and fortunately I accepted his invitation before he was recalled to become the APF director . |
| 22 | But in 1945 he was allowed to join the US Army — as a civil censor . |
| 23 | In 1897 he was commissioned to design the Whitechapel Art Gallery and the Horniman Museum in south London , both of which were completed in 1901 . |
| 24 | On the threshold of going public , The Santa Cruz Operation Inc is now catching flak for paying co-founder Larry Michels a $354,000 golden handshake after he was forced to leave the Santa Cruz , California company in December because of sexual harassment charges . |
| 25 | Thus it was no surprise that in 1967 he was chosen to become the Faraday Professor of Electrochemistry at the University of Southampton on the English south coast . |