Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] to create " in BNC.
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| 1 | Armstrong , meanwhile , was doggedly struggling to create some sort of classification system , a Domesday Book in miniature , for the Cabinet committees . |
| 2 | Nupa , the New Party youth movement , was rapidly enlarged to create a viable defence force which later became the basis of the elite I Squad , and Harold Nicolson suggested a uniform of grey flannel trousers and shirts . |
| 3 | Having set up the functioning New Business teams and created the essential facilities for servicing in the first few months , much further development was still needed to create procedures to service business once on the books . |
| 4 | KHAI Eng is from Malaysia and an architect by profession but loved cooking and was often asked to create dinner parties for her clients . |
| 5 | The narrow defile which had once been bridged by the Romans was now dammed to create a vast reservoir upstream . |
| 6 | After several years of sheer hard work and dedicated self-sacrifice , which involved giving up her fine mansion and living in cheap lodgings , she finally turned the bankrupt enterprise around and by 1904 was able to sell her shares in Dillwyn & Co. at a very substantial profit to the German industrial giant , Metallgesellschaft of Frankfurt , which was then striving to create an international monopoly of zinc manufacture . |