Example sentences of "it was [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As George Male points out : ‘ It was done to foil any over-confidence we may have had for the next game , for he knew the opposition would go all out against us after our big win . |
| 2 | Such a story would have been heavily damaging to the electoral prospects of the Labour Party as it was pledged to end such speculation . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was selected to produce three train sets , each of nine coaches , that were to run in a train known as the ‘ Coronation Scot ’ . |
| 5 | At the same time it was announced Leckpatick chief executive Malcolm Woods had resigned to take up a new position as managing director of John Kelly , Belfast . |
| 6 | It was decided to delay one day so we had one extra day in camp which I needed to get better organised and acclimatized . |
| 7 | So many letters of protest were received from listeners that it was decided to retain one transmission to Europe , at 1230 UTC each day on 9855kHz in the 31 m band . |
| 8 | To emphasise fully the drama of this grand space , rather than remove the raised hay-loft occupying the south end of the building , it was decided to retain this area as a dining gallery overlooking the living room , with a private sitting room at the same level lying behind a new partition . |
| 9 | Instead , it was decided to use remotely-controlled test vehicles . |
| 10 | At the outset , it was decided to use direct observation of how clients spent their time as the principal measure of effectiveness . |
| 11 | To gain insight into the process of parents and staff working together it was decided to conduct some action research first in two nursery settings . |
| 12 | After discussions with the transplant coordinator , coroner , and radiologist it was decided to perform arch arteriography . |
| 13 | The errors possibly arising from voltage variations are however clearly much less than variations arising for other , explained and unexplained reasons and it was decided to abandon this idea . |
| 14 | Annabel had talked so much to her parents about the beautiful girl with the long golden hair , and how she had openly stood up to Sister Mary , that it was decided to invite this child to have tea with the family . |
| 15 | This , too , was so frequently overrun that by AD 143 it was decided to attempt another defence further north , across the narrower neck of land between Forth and Clyde . |
| 16 | Hence it was decided to remove this ceiling and its supporting joists and to resite it at a higher level . |
| 17 | : It was decided to investigate each parameter in succession , i.e. to investigate one , find the optimum , set this as the default , and then turn to the next parameter . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Although it impressed both Cicero ( 106–43 BC ) and Virgil ( 70–19 BC ; ) , the Epicureanism on which it was based made little impression on the Romans , except for its hedonistic aspect . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | At a meeting of EC Environment Ministers in Brussels on March 18 , 1991 , it was agreed to set tougher emission levels for carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides emitted by heavy diesel lorries and buses . |
| 28 | At the end of the evening it was agreed to hold another meeting ! |
| 29 | On Tuesday 8 October there was a meeting in the City Hotel of fifteen of the left activists , and it was agreed to call another demonstration on Saturday , 12 October , over the same route . |
| 30 | 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 . |