Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [to-vb] the [noun prp] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 At a meeting of the State Council on Oct. 11 , it was decided to abolish the USSR KGB ( Committee for State Security ) , and to form , on its basis , units concerned with border defence , intelligence and counterintelligence .
2 She was thought to haunt the Dane Hills of Leicestershire in England , and to live in a cave she had dug out of the rock with her own hands .
3 Although its text nowhere mentions the Hague Convention , the Evidence ( Proceedings in Other Jurisdictions ) Act 1975 was enacted to enable the United Kingdom to ratify the Convention .
4 On the threshold of going public , The Santa Cruz Operation Inc is now catching flak for paying co-founder Larry Michels a $354,000 golden handshake after he was forced to leave the Santa Cruz , California company in December because of sexual harassment charges .
5 She was allowed to leave the Mount Carmel centre halfway through the siege .
6 By the time that the decision was taken to challenge the United States by the installation of missiles in Cuba ( probably in early July 1962 ) the USSR had been forced to revise its optimistic view .
7 Certainly he was determined to dissociate the United States from any settlement which made concessions to the communists .
8 Ali Rajavi , a first secretary at the Iranian embassy in London , was ordered to leave the United Kingdom by Aug. 25 , as announced on Aug. 14 , in retaliation for the expulsion in July of Geoffrey Brammer , a UK diplomat in Tehran [ see also p. 39027 ] ; on Aug. 15 the Iranian government ordered an Indian national employed as an accountant at the UK embassy in Tehran and two UK citizens to leave the country within one week , accusing them of involvement in " illegal activities " .
9 But Grimbergen lies within the Brussels CTR and , until it closed , commercial jet traffic from Brussels National was required to avoid the Grimbergen ATZ .
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