Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French Revolution was intended to remedy the natural order , but it changed very little . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was intended to replace the older DOS operating system with a more sophisticated system that would let people use several programs at once . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ] . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Yoshida 's proposal was intended to achieve the best outcome in the circumstances from both the American and Japanese viewpoints . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | Janet Willcock accused the RUC of ‘ trying to make a sectarian event out of an occasion which was intended to symbolise the non-sectarian nature of the ideals of Connolly ’ . |
| 16 | The constitution of the Vth Republic was intended to overcome the chronic factionalism , irresponsibility and opportunism which characterised the behaviour of deputés under those republics , and which rendered the government inoperable . |
| 17 | In fact it was intended to legitimise the incumbent DRA regime whose genuine political non-alignment was not credible in the West and many Third World states . |
| 18 | Section 20(1) ( iv ) was the model for the definition of theft and ‘ appropriate ’ was intended to bear the same meaning . |
| 19 | The title of Chapter 3 , ‘ The politics of variation ’ , was intended to underscore the central point about sex difference research : that it is always undertaken for political reasons , and has traditionally been used to justify sex discrimination and exclusionary practices , making them seem natural and inevitable . |
| 20 | He remembered his own great grief , and how he had finally emerged from it with a renewed sense of purpose ; for though his epic was intended to address the spiritual crisis of the age , it had also been conceived as a requiem for his lost wife and a celebration of her unwavering faith in his ability . |
| 21 | The area under the breath hydrogen curve was calculated using the trapezoid rule . |
| 22 | To test the first possibility P(A) was calculated using the same procedure as before but this time for individual subjects rather than stimuli . |
| 23 | In January 1939 , a No Conscription League was formed to oppose the National Registration Bill . |
| 24 | As importantly , a coalition of local authorities ( later officially titled the Consortium of Opposing Local Authorities , or COLA ) was formed to share the financial burden and to link the Welsh and English sides of the opposition . |
| 25 | Two days later a new political movement was formed joining the defunct PSU and the Nouvelle Gauche ( a dissident communist movement established at the time of the 1988 presidential elections and led by Pierre Juquin — see p. 35979 for his candidature ) . |
| 26 | In the following years many proposals were made for the construction of a railway between Welshpool and Llanfair Caereinion but it was not until 1898 that a company was formed to build the present line and the then Earl of Powis became its Chairman , an office which he held until the grouping in 1922 . |
| 27 | The abdomen was opened and the stomach was exposed to assess the mucosal blood flow at the ulcer margin , ulcer bed , and adjacent intact mucosa . |
| 28 | Permission was given to fly the national red and white flag and to sing Indonesia Raya . |
| 29 | The present study was undertaken to evaluate the immune response evoked by such a diagnostic cow 's milk challenge . |
| 30 | If dysphagia persisted despite dilatation , barium swallow examination was undertaken to assess the oesophageal lumen . |