Example sentences of "was [verb] [to-vb] [that] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Every attempt was made to ensure that the trial was double blind . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | RNA in situ hybridization was used to demonstrate that the CFTR expression plasmid can be delivered to airway epithelial cells by liposome-mediated transfection in vivo . |
| 20 | A similar approach was used to determine that the location of the new Taq I site in patient B was in the cDNA sequence , as digestion of a 518-bp PCR product ( generated with oligonucleotide primers A5i and A3 ; Fig. 5 a ) with Taq I resulted in the appearance of three Taq I fragments of 107bp , 125bp and 286bp , instead of the expected normal pattern of 107bp and 411bp fragments only ( Fig. 5 b ) . |
| 21 | Primers derived from human β actin were used as internal PCR controls resulted in a 623 bp product ( data not shown ) and was used to ensure that the PCR worked consistently each time and the actin product acted as an additional size marker . |
| 22 | Last year , an order was needed to ensure that the recommendations of the Interim Advisory Committee on School Teachers ' |
| 23 | James Prior said unemployment levels were intolerable and Norman Tebbit said that he was going to prove that the problem was soluble . |
| 24 | In Hills v. Ellis , this was interpreted to mean that the act of the defendant must in some way be ‘ aimed at ’ the police , even if there need be no hostility towards them . |
| 25 | At one time , the discovery of magnetite in an animal 's tissue was thought to indicate that the animal had a magnetic sense . |
| 26 | And she was bound to confess that the Larks had always made her nervous , that she had always dreaded her visits to their crumbling , chaotic , downright shabby ancestral home , with dogs leaping out at one from every chair and all those things they kept on shooting — pheasant , partridge , grouse , poor little scrawny things — hanging up to rot simply everywhere . |
| 27 | Darwin was beginning to realise that the naturalists at the Zoological Society might need more information than he had provided in his notes . |
| 28 | I was beginning to fear that the preamble to the hon. Gentleman 's speech was part of the delaying tactic that he denounces . |
| 29 | Pete was beginning to think that the party had taken on an unpleasant edge . |
| 30 | The court was driven to conclude that the jury would not necessarily have convicted had it been correctly directed . |