Example sentences of "was [verb] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The LEA refused to concede , even when the parents made application for judicial review ; but when the application to the court was amended to focus on the legality of the LEA 's admissions procedures and their operation , the authority finally backed down and found places for the children at two schools where non-white pupils were firmly in the minority ( Overthorpe and Thornhill ) . |
| 2 | All this was intended to demonstrate to the king of France that these officials were not the king-duke 's accredited representatives , but merely the delegates of his seneschal . |
| 3 | If that sentiment was intended to sound like the deathbed conversion of Scrooge , I am not sure that it was entirely convincing . |
| 4 | The union treaty was intended to serve as the basis for a new Soviet constitution ; it also set out the structure of government of the new union , including a directly elected Supreme Soviet in which all national areas would be represented . |
| 5 | If that last sally was intended to go below the belt , it failed ; the ‘ better men than you ’ line was worked out long ago . |
| 6 | The main question to ask about any material is : does it do the job it was intended to do with the audience it was made for ? |
| 7 | The force , to be known as the European Corps , was intended to operate under the umbrella of the Western European Union ( WEU ) and would be open to other WEU members . |
| 8 | Apart from authority , it seems to me plain enough that s. 2 was intended to apply to the agreement which created the option and not to the notice by which it was exercised . |
| 9 | Frelimo already had some experience of developing schools in the liberated zones before independence , when education was intended to contribute to the liberation struggle , to change people 's consciousness and attitudes and to promote production and combat . |
| 10 | With a mile to run the King 's colt Anmer was struggling to stay with the pace and started to drop back , and as the runners came down the hill Aboyeur was three lengths to the good , with Craganour , Day Comet , Shogun and Louvois best of the rest . |
| 11 | Appeals must be made to the centre where the student was enrolled to study for the programme ; each centre will deal with the case in accordance with its appeals procedure . |
| 12 | Mr Renton , whose company has been suspended by the Financial Intermediaries and Managers Brokers Regulatory Association , was remanded to appear in the court on Monday |
| 13 | Sentence was delayed on the mother , Celia Palmer , aged l8 , who was remanded to stay in the hostel where she has been living during the trial while social and probation reports are prepared . |
| 14 | In 1966 , as the doyen of Indian civil servants , he was recalled to preside over the report of a commission on the future of the Indian Foreign Service . |
| 15 | The Union of October ( Octobrists ) , a loose political alliance led by landed nobility and a few prominent industrialists , was formed to work with the Tsar on the basis of the Manifesto . |
| 16 | More enthusiastic was the Union of 17 October ( Octobrists ) , a loose political alliance led by landed nobility and a few prominent industrialists , which was formed to work with the Tsar on the basis of the Manifesto . |
| 17 | For instance , before the war , it was reported that he was heard to say over the telephone , in reply to an invitation from a leading London hostess , ‘ I should especially like to come , as I have not been to Hampstead since 1916 ’ . |
| 18 | From that decision , leave was given to appeal to the House of Lords . |
| 19 | Food was placed to sizzle on the barbecue , and was turned with the help of long utensils , and as she worked beside Silas , moving rapidly to turn first one piece and then another , Lucy became conscious of a feeling of quiet satisfaction . |
| 20 | By 1937 this was helping to bring into the orbit of Left politics an increasing number of younger , better educated middle-class activists , who found themselves confronting a leadership which still belonged to the 1920s intellectually and was socially based on the older industrial areas and occupations . |
| 21 | He was esteemed to excel in the art of mining , and at his own expense built the beautiful church which was completed in the amazingly short space of seven months . |
| 22 | After working in private practice as an Assistant Solicitor in central London , Chris was attracted to work in the field of policing and criminal law , first as a Research Officer with the London Borough of Camden , then as a Legal Assistant with the Greater London Council . |
| 23 | The security of an estimated 40,000 US jobs was reported to depend on the contract , which was opposed by Israel . |
| 24 | Its very length was designed to put off the rank and file member from reading it . |
| 25 | The high loading capacity of the existing warehouse floors meant that little structural alteration was required , and the new steel-framed structure , which is simply and elegantly expressed , was designed to rest on the party walls . |
| 26 | The system was not obnoxious to the perpetuity rule , because each settlement and resettlement was designed to comply with the rule , and the perpetuity period began afresh from the time of each resettlement . |
| 27 | He also stated that the landing was designed to assist with the restoration of services to Bougainville . |
| 28 | The procedure was designed to compensate for the fact that the electoral register is not a very complete list of individuals ; it therefore depended on whether the adults resident had changed since the register was compiled . |
| 29 | The level of futures price was included to control for the possibility that , as the futures price rises , its variance also rises . |
| 30 | Within two years the choir was booked to sing at the Queen 's Hall in London , and a royal command performance soon followed at Balmoral . |