Example sentences of "was [verb] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Scotland , Livingstone ( 1962 ) , 15 miles west of Edinburgh , but basically for Glasgow overspill , was intended to create a new focus of industrial activity in the East Central belt . |
| 2 | The French Revolution was intended to remedy the natural order , but it changed very little . |
| 3 | He had been earmarked for senior management and his posting to the US was intended to serve a double purpose . |
| 4 | Provost John Cunningham admitted that Main had not possessed a commission as watchman and was indeed an extraordinary officer employed only when there was work for him to perform , but there seems little reason to doubt that Main 's removal was intended to serve the political interest of the Haldanes , for his removal was not an isolated case , and , moreover , when the Hamilton salt works resumed operations the excise supervisors did not in fact restore Main to his old post , but appointed an individual named Curinan to the vacancy . |
| 5 | The brilliant pebbles concept was intended to replace the original SDI proposal of 300 larger orbiting stations , housing about 10 interceptors each and using a complex system of lasers and mirrors . |
| 6 | Government officials denied that it was intended to re-open the direct negotiations with ETA leaders which had been suspended , after talks in Algiers , in April 1989 [ see pp. 36597 ; 36627-28 ] . |
| 7 | New uses are emerging for that space and new governmental and administrative forms and processes are being created which facilitate its reordering in a way which is analogous to the use of enclosure to expel a surplus peasantry , of the New Poor Law in England to dispose of a surplus of rural proletarians , of clearance to reorder the Highlands of Scotland for capitalist sheep farming , and of the Poor Law , eviction and the failure to relieve famine which was intended to transform the congested districts of Ireland from peasant to large-scale landlord-led capitalist farming . |
| 8 | It is suggested that this was intended to represent a Roman cavalry standard-bearer , as the insignia is not unlike an imago , similar to that held by Flavinus of the Ala Petriana , found near Corbridge and now in Hexham Abbey . |
| 9 | A standard vessel in the later Greek period was the peniekonier , the fifty-oar ship , thought by Bury ( 1951 ) to have come into use in the eighth century BC , and it may be that the seal showing a vessel with thirty oars was intended to represent the Minoan forerunner of this Greek type of warship . |
| 10 | In the analysis of linguistic variation , therefore , we were looking for fine details of variation-variation that shows internal patterning within the speech community , but which may have no social meaning for outsiders — and in the first application for funding it was specified that the research was intended to extend the quantitative methodology to a type of community that had not been studied in this way before . |
| 11 | A new role was then established , that of coordinator , which bypassed the head and was intended to carry the new vision of good practice directly from Merrion House ( the Education Department 's offices ) to the classroom . |
| 12 | The Act introduced a new development plan system as successor to that based on planning schemes : obligatory but more flexible , the plan was intended to outline a basic framework of future land use against which development proposals might be considered . |
| 13 | Women active within the labour movement , particularly members of the Fabian Women 's Group , were concerned that women 's economic dependence had a detrimental effect on the status of the wife and mother and proposed the state endowment of motherhood , which was intended to give the married woman a degree of economic independence without undermining her role as a wife and mother . |
| 14 | THE IRA bomb that killed two people in the City of London on Friday night was intended to drive the general election result off the front pages and put the Northern Ireland issue firmly back on the national political agenda . |
| 15 | As well as raising money for the National Trust for the Homeless , the event was intended to promote a National Sleepout next month . |
| 16 | The series was intended to take a fresh look at controversial issues in the Christian faith . |
| 17 | This uncertain response stemmed from initial Soviet concern that the ASEAN scheme would tend to counteract or displace Brezhnev 's recent appeal for establishing a collective security regime in Asia ; the Southeast Asian countries suspected the Soviet plan was intended to draw the Asian countries into a defence system with the USSR directed primarily at China . |
| 18 | Our shooting permits , after what had been eleven months of filming , were due to expire that evening and , though shot at the very end , the sequence on Anak Krakatoa was intended to introduce the very beginning of our whole ten years of adventure films . |
| 19 | This model was intended to enhance the practical skills and productivity of predominantly rural populations . |
| 20 | It was intended to provide a comprehensive view of public expenditure planning and control . |
| 21 | It was intended to provide a large number of alternative words and expressions for subjects , so that advice workers could look for information under terms which were familiar to them and still find the right information . |
| 22 | Essentially , Gloucester was intended to provide a royal presence in Wales which could give weight and a focus to the activities of the king 's servants and supporters there . |
| 23 | Essentially , Gloucester was intended to provide a royal presence in Wales which could give weight and a focus to the activities of the king 's servants and supporters there . |
| 24 | The bill was intended to provide the legal basis for a new constitution , the framework of which was finally agreed by leaders of the main political groupings in March 1991 [ see p. 38107 ] . |
| 25 | Since the study was intended to provide an objective description of the films in order to understand memory performance it was clearly desirable to have as small a component of memory in the description task as possible . |
| 26 | Since Croydon Corporation 's tramway system was leased to the B.E.T. , the fact that the Penge services and the Mitcham/Sutton services would be separated by about two miles of Corporation owned track was thought to be of little consequence and it was intended to work the whole system as one with lengthy through services , under the ‘ Croydon & District Tramways ’ fleet name . |
| 27 | It was intended to play a major part in the Japanese defence of the Homeland should the Allied invasion occur . |
| 28 | Although Reg 20 obviously contemplated primarily an actual employer and employee , it was clear that , having regard to the statutory scheme as a whole , Reg 20 was intended to have a general application . |
| 29 | This proposal for foreign guarantees against external interference in Afghanistan was intended to strengthen the current regime in that state by sealing off the contesting forces in Afghanistan from Western and Pakistani ‘ assistance ’ while legitimising the continuation of Soviet ‘ assistance ’ . |
| 30 | The Mertonian project was intended to distinguish the social processes that generated scientific knowledge from those that distributed information with bias and distortion . |