Example sentences of "was [verb] [to-vb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evidently that power was intended to act as a restraint on undue leniency by the Secretary of State . |
| 2 | This was intended to run for a term of 15 years , yielding a Royalty of one-twelfth during the first two years , and a tenth part thereafter , " … sufficiently washed cleansed and made merchanteable … |
| 3 | This action level was set at 400 Bq m&sup-3 , and was calculated to correspond to a lifetime risk of 2 per cent from dying of lung cancer . |
| 4 | Eye-witnesses observed the Cherokee descend on final approach to a height of thirty feet before the engine power was heard to increase as a go-around was initiated . |
| 5 | My view was limited to sight of a wall , a tower over it , and a small patch of sky . |
| 6 | Years ago in Manchester , my husband was taught to meditate by a Yiddishe guru in Didsbury . |
| 7 | As far as I could tell from a quick skim through , every meal was designed to act as an aphrodisiac . |
| 8 | This study was designed to look at an array of possible influences on diabetic control in a group of diabetic patients in the community in order to identify which factors influenced glycaemic control and to quantify the relative contribution of each . |
| 9 | When oleic acid was added to deoxycholate as an emulsion , the release of PYY and enteroglucagon was similar to that seen with the bile salt alone . |
| 10 | An overlap of the two otherwise distinct systems was allowed , in that a Grade I at CSE was permitted to count as an O level pass in that subject . |
| 11 | Unemployment stood at 9.8 per cent , industrial output was down and a 1990 hard-currency trade surplus of nearly US$4,000 million was expected to turn into a $1,000 million deficit in 1991 . |
| 12 | Thus , in Gregory 's Histories the Council of Mâcon in 585 was expected to deal with a quarrel between bishops Bertram of Bordeaux and Palladius of Saintes , and it did deal with the theology of a certain unnamed bishop who thought that the word homo in the Bible did not apply to women . |
| 13 | The Antipodean visitor was VH–AQJ/A17–26 , which had been especially crated over to the UK for the event and was expected to spend about a month or so in the country before returning home . |
| 14 | The package also proposed reducing the escalating cost of health care — which was expected to rise by an average of 12-13 per cent per annum for the next five years — by increasing the efficiency of the government 's Medicare and Medicaid health programmes , reforming the laws covering medical malpractice in order to give increased protection to doctors , and encouraging employers to pool their buying power into " health insurance networks " . |
| 15 | Dunvegan had a well ; the water , Johnson found upon enquiry , was not brackish but hard ; Rorie More 's drinking-horn held two quarts of liquor , ‘ which the heir of Macleod was expected to swallow at a draught … before he was permitted to bear arms , or could claim a seat among the men ’ . |
| 16 | This was expected to provide for a President and National Assembly , to be elected for a five-year term under a multiparty system , with the President eligible for re-election once only . |
| 17 | They looked at the low asset base and in the end it was decided to go for a trade sale . ’ |
| 18 | Eat natural foods : The human body was made to cope with a diet of nuts , cereals , meat and raw vegetables , not a mixture of cakes , pastries and potato crisps . |
| 19 | I was made to feel like a woman . |
| 20 | It dates from 1861 and was built to look like a church as , by that time , Portuguese law permitted Protestant churches to look like places of worship . |
| 21 | When the war began the civil service was expanded to cope with a multitude of new tasks . |
| 22 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 23 | Some time later , I was persuaded to try for a spot in the formidable writer 's Waterloo that is the NME Subs ' Room . |
| 24 | Unlike my father who was told to sit on a bean bag my cardiologist said , " Exercise , build up your strength , " and so I started jogging and disliked it intensely and stopped jogging . |
| 25 | Another day he was sent from Washington to a Chinese vegetable stand on the Lower West Side in Manhattan , where he was told to ask for a person with the code name ‘ Mooey ’ ; Mooey went behind the counter , rolled up his trouser-leg and pulled out a wad of hundred-dollar bills , which Owen thought ‘ I had better count anyways . ’ |
| 26 | The Board of Directors was reconstituted to consist of a chairman and five other members appointed by the Secretary of State for the Environment , a General Manager of the Authority , and two members being full time officers of the Authority . |
| 27 | The rest of the money was used to pay for a dinner at the Crescent Hotel . |
| 28 | Iraqi Turkoman groups meeting in Istanbul on Nov. 9 called for a " unitary Iraqi state " but indicated that " if , in a free referendum to be held in Iraq under the supervision of neighbouring countries , including Turkey " , it was agreed to opt for a solution " based on ethnic structure " , Iraqi Turkomans would " exercise their right of self-determination within this structure " . |
| 29 | As a result of what was reportedly a wide-ranging discussion , it was agreed to establish as a prelude to discussion of the Union Treaty two bilateral commissions to negotiate on the most contentious issues in USSR-Russian Federation relations , namely the delineation of state powers , ownership of state property , and the rights to dispose of natural resources . |
| 30 | The Royal Fine Art Commission , while regretting the loss of the long facade by Kirkland , felt that a tall building was needed to act as a gateway from the M8 . |