Example sentences of "[adj] was [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effect of this was to relieve the debtor of all liability for their debts . |
| 2 | This was to tip the balance of power decisively against Northumberland . |
| 3 | This was to tip the balance of power decisively against Northumberland . |
| 4 | When this was discovered the respondent was arrested on 19 October 1990 . |
| 5 | This was made the payoff in the Sunday Correspondent 's interview with the PM , though it has since emerged that the sequence of the conversation was altered . |
| 6 | The chip Shop is going to extend into the vacant shop next door and this was given the go ahead for a trial period of one year . |
| 7 | The Chip Shop is going to extend into the vacant shop next door and this was given the go ahead for a trial period of one year . |
| 8 | The purpose of this was to compare the experience of and attitude to the police of Blacks , Asians and Whites living in roughly the same conditions . |
| 9 | To appreciate this was to see the problem as ultimately a problem of living , and as uniquely relevant to a recently unified and politically ascendant Germany . |
| 10 | This was to see the Sadler 's Wells Royal Ballet dance Les Sylphides , and The Two Pigeons , at a performance commemorating the life and work of the late Sir Frederick Ashton , who gave us so many wonderful productions . |
| 11 | On the other was the abbey of St Martial and the castle of the Viscount ; this was called the citadel , the castrum . |
| 12 | The second session began in March and finished at the end of July , and this was called the Summer Term , though in fact it was still extremely cold and wintry when term began . |
| 13 | On the Von Neumann computer this was called the arithmetic register ( AR ) ; but it is more commonly referred to as the multiplier-quotient ( MQ ) or quotient ( Q ) register . |
| 14 | The result of this was to plant the seed of Mosley 's destruction . |
| 15 | This was to open the Jackie Stewart Shooting School at Gleneagles , which is most efficiently run by Mr Justin Jones son of Mr Alan Jones , who with his brother Noel Jones , run the North Wales Shooting School at Sealand , that was started by their father . |
| 16 | The Stop Hinkley Expansion group complained to the Inspector , arguing that this was jumping the gun and a waste of public money , despite the CEGB claim that if it did n't order these parts in advance , at its own risk , it would never keep to its construction timetable . |
| 17 | The purpose of this was to allow the stone to disimpact or for the acute complication to resolve . |
| 18 | This was to segment the budget into a EAGGF ( Guarantee Section ) part and other areas of expenditure . |
| 19 | On top of this was scrawled the man 's name ‘ John Irvine ’ and a list of victuals and wine bought from his own pocket at a tavern called the Sea Barque near the Town Wall in Leicester . |
| 20 | Cheapness , comfort , and convenience seemed to be the most obvious explanations of the mass response but this was to ignore the films themselves . |
| 21 | The consequence of this was to intensify the party 's contempt for parliamentary democracy and spur it towards overt Fascism . |
| 22 | It may have been an attempt to clear the wood of all the trees , but before this was achieved the attempt was abandoned . |
| 23 | This was to ease the burden of the local inhabitants who before this had to rely on getting their water supply from wells , pumps and catchment tanks . |
| 24 | Elinor 's answer to this was to slam the study door . |
| 25 | This was to promote the cause of anti-Tory tactical voting , and to bring it home to Paddy Ashdown and Neil Kinnock that they needed each other . |
| 26 | This was to misconceive the ways in which the theories of natural science can ever link with theory about human action and behaviour . |
| 27 | In Prince Charles 's circle this was considered the norm . |
| 28 | This was to provide the occasion on the Vietnamese side for terminating the Fontainebleau exercise . |
| 29 | This was to involve the construction of a new Entrance Lock out at the main fairway into the Western Harbour and the fitting of large capacity pumping machinery to enable the total water area within the enclosed system to be maintained at an almost constant level . |
| 30 | To this was added the promise to privatise British Coal if the Conservatives were re-elected for a fourth term . |