Example sentences of "was [verb] [to-vb] [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Later the bill was amended to provide that the Secretary of State would be prohibited from prescribing periods of time or proportions of school timetables to be allocated to programmes of study : see now ERA 1988 , section 4(3) . ) |
| 2 | Under a constitutional amendment approved on Nov. 6 , Article 11 ( regarding the succession on the death or incapacitation of the President ) was amended to provide that the Speaker of the National Assembly would succeed to the presidency until the end of the current presidential mandate . |
| 3 | We wish to return to the scheme which was operated and was intended to operate until the Home Secretary made his statement on 2 July . |
| 4 | The gathering was intended to show that the government , besieged by a rebellion started by the most elite units of its own armed forces , could still rely on ‘ people power ’ for support . |
| 5 | This method of assignment was intended to ensure that the groups contained schools from each of the participating authorities and were not widely different in terms of the social background of pupils , school size , and environment . |
| 6 | Jennie was heard to remark that the will was a cruel one ; by this she meant that not only were family recriminations made public but that when outlining a request for a company to be formed , her husband certainly showed his doubts about her competence . |
| 7 | The beautiful lady then blushed , a warm and rosy colour in her white cheeks , and was heard to murmur that the spell was as the spell was , that a kiss received after the successful disintegration of the glass casket , was a promise , as kisses are , whether received voluntarily or involuntarily . |
| 8 | The call was given to launch and the Mitchells , one by one , moved forward on the ‘ deck ’ , opened the throttles , held the aircraft on the brakes and were flagged-off by ‘ flyco ’ . |
| 9 | In Battalion Headquarters , the Welfare Officer was busy co-ordinating holidays for the children of soldiers Who have been killed by terrorists , when a call was received to say that the grave of a terrorist victim had been vandalised . |
| 10 | Reading on in the book of Acts , I was fascinated to see that the experience of Cornelius and his household in Acts 10 was different . |
| 11 | He was fascinated to discover that the Galapagos animals bore a general resemblance to those he had seen on the mainland , but differed from them in detail . |
| 12 | Glashow , for example , was reported to say that the Nobel committee took a ‘ bit of a chance ’ because ‘ nobody has yet built a machine that is capable to check ’ the new particles predicted ( international Herald Tribune , 16 October , 1979 ) . |
| 13 | Our research was designed to ensure that the field-worker was also around a great deal and was stubborn in exploiting the naturally occurring situations of privacy , where natural conversation is inevitable because it is interactionally difficult to abstain from it , such as in the back of vehicles , in the sanger while on guard duty , relaxing in many of the recreational rooms , or off duty . |
| 14 | Pollitt argues that the model of medical audit promulgated by the leaders of the profession was designed to ensure that the process was " a nonthreatening activity carried out only by doctors and rigorously protected from the public gaze " ( Pollitt 1992 : 4 ) . |
| 15 | The scope of our work was designed to ensure that the information on deliveries was obtained in accordance with the stated methodology and sampling programme set out on page … and that the results were correctly calculated and presented . |
| 16 | The Long constructs contain the Ead gene , in addition to 23 kb of 5' Ea sequence and 4.5 kb of 3' Ea sequence ( Figure 1c ) and was designed to show whether the presence of the upstream regions containing DH groups III-V were of functional importance to position-independent , copy-dependent expression of the Ea transgene . |
| 17 | A great deal depends on what the computer was programmed to ask and the criteria for writing the programme might not prove acceptable to all Old Testament scholars . |
| 18 | The report , whose conclusions were due to be made public after the expiry of 21 days within which interested parties were required to submit their comments , was expected to confirm that the crash resulted from pilot error involving the inadvertent shutting down of the wrong engine . |
| 19 | In the second case , the number of consonants recalled was expected to decrease as the delay increased . |
| 20 | It was expected to ascertain whether the Uttar Pradesh government had violated two court orders by granting permission to Hindu militants in July to start work on the construction of a Hindu temple [ see p. 39008 ] . |
| 21 | The price however , was expected to rise as the quality of product became known , and the vessels " doe continue longer & when they become worne or broken are changed with farr less wast which untill now of late was never knowne nor looked into . " |
| 22 | The Führer 's claim that his work had been sabotaged for years , and that the German war machine could run at full stretch now that the last plot had been foiled , was seen to demonstrate that the people had long been lied to in earlier statements that time was on Germany 's side and war production increasing . |
| 23 | Fluid was said to persist until the ear was reported otoscopically dry or there was persistence of A , C1 , or C2 tympanometric peaks on consecutive visits for a period in excess of 12 months . |
| 24 | Tests were carried out but it was decided to operate before the results of the tests were known . |
| 25 | It was intended , she supposed , to represent the struggle between good and evil over knowledge ; she was heartened to observe that the effect was , in fact , faintly comic . |
| 26 | When the case came before the House of Lords a reference to the European Court was made to determine whether the facts disclosed discrimination under Article 119 of the Treaty of Rome . |
| 27 | Every attempt was made to ensure that the trial was double blind . |
| 28 | English law has tended to confine narrowly the situations in which a mistake is held to negative the consent apparently given by the woman : only where the victim was made to believe that the man was her husband , or that the act to which she was being asked to consent was not sexual intercourse , is the mistake sufficiently fundamental to convert the apparently consensual sex into rape . |
| 29 | In this analysis the aspect ratio was shown to increase as the material drew . |
| 30 | An approaching Ilyushin passenger-jet was told to overshoot as the tower lined Duncan up on the runway . |