Example sentences of "[verb] was [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between Sutton and Wallington , the route now proposed was to avoid the centre of Carshalton , by following new roads to the south , some of which were not yet constructed ; although this routing was opposed by some frontagers in Sutton , the company was assured the co-operation of the Carshalton Park Estate Company , who were developing the area at the time . |
| 2 | The last thing in the world she might have expected was to hear the Captain laugh . |
| 3 | Second , that having worked hard in the acting profession all my life , the last thing I would enjoy was working the clock round every summer when I could be sunbathing and swimming in Bala Lake . |
| 4 | The major task involved was to re-design the transmissions to fit the small space alongside the engine . |
| 5 | The secret we used was to make the correct article immediately follow after one with four legs or corners . |
| 6 | In focusing on that sphere of life which provides the greatest potential for the expression of individual autonomy , urban sociology is uniquely equipped to chart a path out of the ‘ iron cage ’ which Weber believed was encompassing the whole of modern society . |
| 7 | If the pressure was on McSharry from the accountants concerned about ever increasing costs , it was also coming from the environmentalists who were objecting to taxpayers funding intensive farming which they believed was damaging the environment . |
| 8 | Finally , the question tells us that A's object was to save the leader ; it does not tell us whether his object was also to save himself . |
| 9 | Yet , for all the massive support on either side of him , all the elder Falkenhayn could achieve was to push the line up on to the north crest of the Mort Homme . |
| 10 | In one of the most recent textbooks ( Goudie , 1981b ) the approach adopted was to review the impact of man on environment and processes generally but in this section the purpose is much narrower : to indicate some of the research investigations pursued by physical geographers and to refer to the attitudes which this engendered . |
| 11 | Mr McCreary told the tribunal : ‘ As she was leaving my office , she said : ‘ I suppose what I should have done was take the time off sick anyway . |
| 12 | What she should have done was obey the voice that told her to pass right along the car . |
| 13 | All I had done was tell the truth . |
| 14 | Being wise after the event , I realise now that what I should have done was to ask the jury to retire so that a formula could have been discussed and agreed upon , which would have disposed of the matter satisfactorily . |
| 15 | The judgement on whether the consequences were acceptable was clearly left to the negotiators : all that had been done was to remove the uncertainty as to what the consequences would be given a set of grade boundaries , not to state whether any set of consequences was acceptable . |
| 16 | One thing they could of done was put the same colour belt on the erm , oh ribbon on the hat |
| 17 | The main thing he got done was to defeat the General Strike . |
| 18 | The most that Aurangzeb could expect was to make the local rulers obedient to his authority , or else to replace them with deputies of his own who would be reasonably faithful vassals . |
| 19 | Hung was taught the style by a Shaolin monk named Gee Seen . |
| 20 | Well , she was going to need a lot of help , that was for sure , and if someone took the trouble to put an advert in the tube , the least you could do was memorise the number . |
| 21 | For various reasons they were unable to attend this meeting , and so all the arresting officers could do was to take the names of those who were present . |
| 22 | All I could do was repeat the injections , but was it going to make the slightest difference ? |
| 23 | All they could do was arrange the particles in families , as in botany . |
| 24 | The last service Miller could do was to write the script of The Misfits for her . |
| 25 | But all he could do was describe the look of the equipment on the gun deck . |
| 26 | All that he could do was criticize the assembly 's work from the outside . |
| 27 | What the MacMahon Act did do was to make the British programme slower and more expensive ; and from the wider standpoint of the Western Alliance , it led to unnecessary duplication of effort . |
| 28 | What the treaty did not do was to make the two kingdoms of France and England one ; they were to remain separate , each with its own legal and administrative identity . |
| 29 | Robert Boyle once said that one of the reasons why he had chosen not to be ordained was to preempt the criticism that his pious remarks about nature merely reflected a vested interest . |
| 30 | ‘ Part of the purpose of going was to remind the people in the Vatican how much we value and treasure ecumenical relationships in Great Britain . |