Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [to-vb] the [noun prp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The DUP view was that the ban was intended to placate the Dublin government . |
| 2 | The export ban , imposed at the end of 1992 , was intended to penalize the Khmer Rouge , which controls part of the trade , for failing to honour the ceasefire which forms part of the UN-brokered Cambodian peace settlement . |
| 3 | He invited me to go and see the Church in Africa and fortunately I accepted his invitation before he was recalled to become the APF director . |
| 4 | In that year Chapter I , dealing with Service of Process , was revised to become the Hague Service Convention of 1965 . |
| 5 | The technology that won the Gulf war was developed to defeat the Warsaw Pact . |
| 6 | Youthful Roy Jenkins was recommended to fight the Hillhead election for the SDP and a judge proved that youth was not necessarily an advantage by deciding that a 17-year-old girl , a victim of rape , was guilty of contributory negligence by thumbing a lift at night . |
| 7 | Prior to announcing his candidacy Bush had on Feb. 6 unveiled a health care package which was designed to overhaul the US health system and to win back the initiative on what was widely perceived to be an important electoral issue . |
| 8 | It was resolved to deposit the Damascus Declaration with the Arab League as an official document . |
| 9 | A sell-out 40,000 crowd was expected to welcome the Wigan ace for tomorrow 's home game against Balmain . |
| 10 | No precise numbers were given , but this was expected to bring the US presence to some 400,000 when deployment was completed in January 1991 . |
| 11 | It was decided to cancel the Manchester landing and fly direct to Prestwick . |
| 12 | By the end of the month he had re-established some contact with the main Front ; however , plans to reinforce the 2nd Shock were abruptly abandoned when Stalin was persuaded to disband the Volkhov Front entirely and place its troops under control of the Leningrad Front . |
| 13 | Analyses such as the Montreal que study which concentrates on specifying syntactic constraints on variation ( cf. 7.4.2 ) will benefit greatly both from a parser and a concordance program — and in fact such a program was used to analyse the Montreal corpus . |
| 14 | Stone excavated from the tunnel was used to build the G.W.R. locomotive workshops at Swindon ( q.v . ) . |
| 15 | If there is no uncertainty , the fair price of a financial futures contract can be determined very simply using the cost-of-carry ( or the cash-and-carry ) model ( the same model that was used to find the CTD bond ) . |
| 16 | However , to reflect a reduced level of activity it was agreed to reduce the PR budget by 20 per cent . |
| 17 | January saw the inauguration of the Bournemouth-Weymouth electrification and three months later £16.4million was promised to convert the Portsmouth-Southampton route . |
| 18 | In 1897 he was commissioned to design the Whitechapel Art Gallery and the Horniman Museum in south London , both of which were completed in 1901 . |
| 19 | In 1962 he was invited to join the Ferrari team and two years later he was world champion when he pipped Graham Hill by one point . |
| 20 | Whittaker got the recognition he deserved when he was invited to accompany the England team to Canada in 1931 . |
| 21 | Jean Revers , who had dramatically improved sales figures at Shrewsbury , was invited to run the Bath shop , a beautiful old narrow , timbered building on three floors with a small flat on top which the Ashleys were converting , tempted by the possibility of staying there themselves . |
| 22 | He was scheduled to conduct the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra in Sunday 's concert at the Orpheum Theatre . |
| 23 | A few days after the action that was taken by my right hon. Friend , a magic wand was waved and somehow money was found to improve the Southend line . |
| 24 | A further patient was found to have the Zollinger-Ellison syndrome . |
| 25 | Like all young Germans she was compelled to join the Hitler Youth organisation . |
| 26 | It was hoped to reassure the Warsaw Pact about European security , to develop a strong German role in central Europe and eventually to break down barriers with East Germany . |
| 27 | Only $1,800 million was authorized to keep the Northrop Corporation 's production lines open and to allow possible purchase of one more B-2 following completion of the 15 aircraft already funded ( only three of these having already been delivered ) . |
| 28 | But in 1945 he was allowed to join the US Army — as a civil censor . |
| 29 | Last year the decision was taken to leave the Dean Centre as part of an ongoing rationalisation of Regional premises , aimed at making savings and offering an improved service to clients . |
| 30 | Herbert Matthews , who was close to the Cuban revolutionaries from the late Sierra Maestra days , wrote that ‘ I made up my mind early in the revolution on the basis of many talks with all the top Cuban leaders that their greatest preoccupation was the conviction that the United States was determined to overthrow the Castro regime ’ ( Matthews : 1969 , p. 171 ) . |