Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [to-vb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our conference , which Delamothe said was attended by ‘ political activists and pensioners , ’ was intended to open up the debate to the public and to inform people using the service . |
| 2 | Meanwhile the return of a Labour Government in 1974 had once again brought into question the status of Direct Grant schools , and it was announced in Parliament on 11th March that it was intended to phase out the system over a period of seven years , commencing in September 1976 . |
| 3 | A recent Spectator piece by John Simpson provided a snapshot of the Brute at Tory HQ on election night : ‘ Anderson was heard to describe how the BBC would now be dismembered — as though he were a 17thcentury judge sentencing a regicide . ’ |
| 4 | And we , we , the permission was given to take away the garage . |
| 5 | Two hours later the order was given to cut down the masts . |
| 6 | " After some discussion it was arranged to carry on the Winter Meetings fortnightly as last year . |
| 7 | At the start of intubation and at extubation a marker button on the Holter monitor was pressed to show accurately the beginning and end of the gastroscopy . |
| 8 | The nurse was sacked to keep down the bills and the incoming maternity nurse was not interested in an unattractive fifteen-year-old . |
| 9 | Then in chronological order came the following : Hemel Hempstead ( 1947 ) replacing Redbourn as proposed in the Abercrombie plan , was designed to fill in the area between Harpenden , St Albans and Remel Hempstead itself ; Harlow ( 1947 ) , 23 miles north-east of London , expanded a small settlement of 4,500 people ; Crawley ( 1947 ) , a town of 9,500 population , lay astride the Brighton Road , 30 miles south of London ; Hatfield and Welwyn Garden City ( both 1948 ) lay very close to each other 18–20 miles north of London ( Welwyn was already a sizable town of 18,500 inhabitants ) ; Basildon ( 1949 ) met rather different objectives , planned not only to accommodate overspill but to tidy up an untidy area of shack development between London and Southend ; Bracknell ( 1949 ) replaced Abercrombie 's proposal for White Waltham , three miles south-west of Maidenhead , west of London . |
| 10 | This study was designed to investigate further the relationship between inflammation and fluid transport in the small intestine of the rat . |
| 11 | Commentators suggested that the shipment was designed to shore up the confidence of the international community in the face of India 's precarious foreign exchange position . |
| 12 | As The Beatles rose inexorably , so did Smith and by the time ‘ his mates ’ were splitting up in 1970 , he was approached to take over the editorship of NME . |
| 13 | £6 was considered to represent approximately the rate for one hour 's teaching . |
| 14 | Bileka was considered to have neither the stature nor the political charisma to head a transitional government . |
| 15 | Indonesia , which was expected to take over the chair of the movement from Yugoslavia in September 1992 , was elected by the Larnaca meeting as de facto chair with immediate effect . |
| 16 | As the eldest son of a wealthy sake and soy-sauce producer in conservative Nagoya , he was expected to take over the family business — and perhaps become the 15th generation of Morita Mayors in the local community . |
| 17 | Each generation of legionnaires was expected to carry forward the traditions and ethics of the Legion , handing them down from one man to the next . |
| 18 | In places water was applied to thin out the crayon into a wash , or used thickly to highlight areas with bright specks of colour . |
| 19 | It was at a meeting in February 1880 of Emma 's co-workers and tenants in south London that it was decided to take over the Victoria Theatre ( familiarly known as the Old Vic ) in the Waterloo Road , a hitherto dirty and drunken home for melodrama , and turn it into a coffee music hall for purified and teetotal entertainment . |
| 20 | The increase was even felt to be too great : in 1964 , when British groups reached 212 , it was decided to slow down the growth in the UK — not to ‘ act upon the ephemeral enthusiasms of an odd individual ’ , but to go for quality . |
| 21 | To minimise any impact on the hotel operation during the modernisation of the lifts , it was decided to carry out the work on a lift by lift basis , with each lift being modernised within a 16 week period . |
| 22 | Two other modifications to the description resulted which were entered into LIFESPAN , and it was decided to carry out the quality approval . |
| 23 | It was decided to set up the PMIS as part of an " on-line " system ( directly connected to the computer ) using a computer terminal for input and output . |
| 24 | A unanimous March 1990 decision to return the headquarters of the League from Tunis to Cairo [ see p. 37334 ] led , however , to a serious dispute in September when it was decided to speed up the transfer , which was largely completed by the end of October [ see p. 37726 ] . |
| 25 | It was decided to bring about the dissolution of the greater part of this library , and the library was offered for sale by Messrs Sotheby at one of the provincial salerooms they then owned , Sotheby 's Taunton . |
| 26 | In order to help accommodate the costs of the Navy 's new carrier , CVA 01 , and Polaris , and the RAF 's TSR 2 , such projects as the Army 's Blue Water artillery missile were cancelled in August 1962 ; and , despite the pressure on Army manpower , it was decided to run down the Gurkhas from 14,600 to 10,000 rather than cut any more British battalions — a decision that had to be reversed nine months later to meet the needs of the Borneo campaign . |
| 27 | Nonetheless , it was decided to make up the numbers with category B and C refugees . |
| 28 | An effort was made to clean up the water supplies , thereby helping to reduce the transmission of water-borne agents of disease : between 1972 and 1990 , almost 1 million handpump tubewells were installed in Bangladesh . |
| 29 | No attempt was made to return either the interior or exterior stonework to its original condition . |
| 30 | An effort was made to set up the stud in a more favoured , not to say more conventional , site in the foothills of the Nilgiris . |