Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notions of ‘ political ideology ’ , and of an ‘ assumptive world ’ , were developed to account for their behaviour ( see respectively Dearlove , 1973 ; Young and Kramer , 1978 ) . |
| 2 | Two possibilities were developed to deal with man 's new homelessness in the world , his exposure , as Foucault puts it , to the finitude of the event , which attempted to draw all these heterogeneous histories together again : either men sought for some fundamental law through which a new general history could be constituted , or historicity as such was defined in terms of ‘ man ’ — whether as progress , economic laws , or cultural totalities . |
| 3 | Following the discovery of HIV , tests were developed to look for specific HIV antibodies . |
| 4 | In the case of ‘ minor events ’ which were arranged to cope with less complex proposals the programme was similar but scaled down to take only half a day . |
| 5 | Twice-weekly counselling sessions were arranged to deal with her glue sniffing . |
| 6 | By April the single Virgin Rose would be in flower and others were listed to bloom throughout the following five months . |
| 7 | Four alleged militants of the FIS were paraded on television on Oct. 1 and were heard to confess at length to the bomb attack at Algiers airport on Aug. 26 which killed 10 people [ see pp. 39072 ; 39118 ] . |
| 8 | The representatives of Turkey , Iran , Egypt , Pakistan and Senegal were designated to negotiate with the UN Security Council over the predicament of the Moslem population of Bosnia-Hercegovina . |
| 9 | The devil likewise found work for idle hands while the entire staff of Harvard Securities were gathered to gawp at Leslie Grantham , alias " Dirty Den " the pub owner in the TV soap opera Eastenders , who was accepting a large cheque on behalf of the Spastics Society . |
| 10 | Hartley 's philosophy was in fact an early form of the twentieth-century scheme of mental association known as Behaviourism ( Pavlov 's dogs were taught to salivate at the sound of an electric bell ) , and if writing today he would presumably have compared the brain to a computer . |
| 11 | Thus her choice of the quaint word , ‘ sweet ’ is no coincidence ; sweetness is the quality Victorian men were taught to prize in a woman above all others . |
| 12 | ‘ We were taught to go for the jugular , ’ Buckmaster remarked . |
| 13 | It was not until 1965 , however , that the treaties were revised to provide for a single Commission and Council of Ministers . |
| 14 | The Romans left fewer substantial marks on what they called Caledonia than they did on southern Britain , largely because so many of their attempts to establish regional centres collapsed when they were recalled to deal with unrest in southern Britain , or even back to Continental Europe and to Rome itself . |
| 15 | Accordingly , many of the programs in use prior to the introduction of the database were amended to run against the new datafiles . |
| 16 | In March , a judicial inquest into the death of 42 people in Sebokeng township in September 1990 concluded with the presiding judge finding members of the South African Defence Force criminally responsible for the deaths of four people and rejected claims that the concerned were provoked to shoot in self-defence . |
| 17 | Results from Hungary indicated that vaccines were exposed to heat during transport and that facilities for refrigeration were inadequate , and recent British studies have shown that the storage of vaccines is inadequate in general practices and health authority premises . |
| 18 | The presence of 200 nmol/l staurosporine did not alter the time course of the desensitisation that was seen when HGT-1 cells were exposed to histamine at 37°C ( data not shown . |
| 19 | Their faces were painted to look like skulls . |
| 20 | Normally after offering their silent prayers all three children were dismissed to play in the garden and were not recalled until the offertory food was removed from the altar at the end of the ceremony and eaten along with other dishes at a festive family supper . |
| 21 | The thinking behind it , according to the Employment Appeal Tribunal , is to enable you to have a ‘ piece of paper ’ explaining why you were dismissed to show to prospective employers . |
| 22 | The first issue of UPDATE brought readers up to date with the pilot schemes which were validated to commence in 1988 under the new arrangements . |
| 23 | While both officers were intended to act on the Crown 's behalf at Ludlow , the Attorney seems to have had the task of conducting cases in court , the Solicitor of supervising their preparation . |
| 24 | The verderers were intended to act as a check upon the paid Forest officers in the interests of the Crown , but the numerous instances already cited of peculation and extortion on the part of the latter seem to indicate that the verderers were in many instances overawed by the authority and influence of the wardens and foresters of fee . |
| 25 | Some in the North East , such as Washington , were intended to act as regional growth centres . |
| 26 | Even in the periods of local committee or society expansion , although the groups were intended to draw in supporters to the cause , their operation did not provide unambiguous evidence of the politics of popular mobilisation . |
| 27 | They were intended to compete with the vans that circulate the scheme . |
| 28 | And in between were ranged a number of additional hopes and objectives all of which were intended to contribute toward the creation of the ideal citizen . |
| 29 | Furthermore as nationalised industries were intended to operate in the ‘ national interest ’ , it was claimed that this should lead to improved industrial relations , as the strife between labour and capital , associated with capitalist ownership , was reduced . |
| 30 | The regulations originally were intended to come into effect on 11 September 1991 , but the commencement date was brought forward to 31 August . |