Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If investment in public education was a necessary political and humanitarian response to the problems of poverty and underprivilege , if it was an appropriate means of fostering and maintaining religious adherence , and if it was calculated to equip young people with the skills demanded by a changing industrial society , then a strategy had to be found for ensuring that value was obtained for the funds invested . |
| 2 | Since mid-July there had been mounting press speculation of imminent military action by the US and its Western allies , following a US warning on July 16 that it was determined to enforce Iraqi compliance with UN Gulf war resolutions . |
| 3 | The depth of the crisis emerged in late October when the US side hinted that it was poised to levy punitive tariffs on of EC goods worth US$1,000 million in retaliation for EC intransigence over oilseed subsidies . |
| 4 | Instead , it was decided to use remotely-controlled test vehicles . |
| 5 | At the outset , it was decided to use direct observation of how clients spent their time as the principal measure of effectiveness . |
| 6 | After discussions with the transplant coordinator , coroner , and radiologist it was decided to perform arch arteriography . |
| 7 | type cars , it was decided to fit top covers to these cars . |
| 8 | ‘ I would be surprised if it was decided to bring Old Vic back to tackle a mile and a quarter , even though it would be a nice idea , ’ he said . |
| 9 | After the time taken to reconstruct the Jubilee cars in the Department 's own workshop , at the expense of routine body overhauls , it was decided to seek commercial manufacturer to build the new trams . |
| 10 | In 1989 , it was decided to change peptic ulcer drugs containing cimetidine , ranitidine or sucralfate in general use from prescription drugs to over the counter distribution . |
| 11 | It was decided to provide soft drinks and wine for those who did not want whisky and therefore two types of tickets , at different prices , would be on sale , £5 for whisky drinkers and £2 for the others . |
| 12 | To introduce daylight into each of the new upper-storey bedrooms , instead of puncturing the patterned brickwork of the gables , it was decided to construct large dormer windows matching the style of the existing windows of the lower storey . |
| 13 | It was decided to produce future versions in a form suitable for 32-bit processors and relatively fast disk access . |
| 14 | It was planned to achieve total freedom of movement for capital by the end of 1992 , with remaining exchange controls to be lifted one year earlier than anticipated . |
| 15 | The public-sector borrowing requirement ( PSBR ) was forecast to decline in 1991 to 13 per cent of GDP and to reach 3 per cent by 1993 ( a target which some observers dismissed as optimistic ) , and it was hoped to reduce year-on-year consumer price inflation to 7 per cent by the end of the same year . |
| 16 | On Jan. 29 the Iranian government denied claims made in the UK press that it was seeking to recruit nuclear scientists from the former Soviet Union . |
| 17 | ‘ It was built to prevent Fascist agents from the West entering the G.D.R . |
| 18 | It was intended to give legal sanction to regulations introduced in November 1990 , under which a doctor intending to perform euthanasia was obliged to consult a second doctor and to inform the coroner after the patient 's death . |
| 19 | The other site was at Elstow in Bedfordshire , where it was intended to bury low-level waste in twenty-metre deep trenches , and then cover it in concrete . |
| 20 | It was purchased to combat blue-green algae and it has worked perfectly . |
| 21 | It was used to print religious texts in Cyrillic characters and was able to function even during the period of Turkish overlordship after 1499 , when Cetinje was incorporated into the sandžak of Skadar . |
| 22 | It was used to try ecclesiastical matters and to settle disputed wills and land settlements . |
| 23 | Sofia 's International Peace Foundation , named after Mr Zhivkov 's late daughter , is being investigated following allegations by a central committee member that it was used to send convertible currency abroad for the family 's use . |
| 24 | Consequently , although the team did not wish to limit their investigations to one category only , it was agreed to examine financial matters first , and then review priorities for subsequent study . |
| 25 | It was agreed to harmonize fiscal incentives for investors and to aim at the creation of a monetary union by 1995 . |
| 26 | At the same time it was agreed to limit total output to 22,491,000 bpd , a modest increase on the previous ceiling of 22,086,000 bpd . |
| 27 | It was designed to use preferential interest rates to encourage investment in manufacturing , tourism , mining and agriculture . |
| 28 | It was designed to play conventional records , so its existence is not apparent from record collections today . |
| 29 | ‘ On the sleeve of the first record it was meant to say just Therapy , but I started the logo too far over to the left — and we only had enough money for one sheet of Letraset — I could n't start again , so I just added a question mark to make it fit . |
| 30 | She had her eyes on the figure striding across the hall towards the telephone table , and the look on her face caused him to close his own eyes for a moment , for he knew how she had taken what Martin had said : although it had been voiced lightly it was meant to have serious intent , and in her own mind his marrying would mean once again that she would have notice to quit . |