Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [verb] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many women from AMPES decided to go to the combat zones , or were forced to leave the country . |
| 2 | Apart from marches , CND fuelled their anti-cruise campaigns with demonstrations around the bases that were scheduled to take the new missiles . |
| 3 | Incidentally , I knocked down the girders that were to go to develop a new pit which would come from Monktonhall into those reserves . |
| 4 | And this was not the only occasion on which he protested , in the 1920s and 1930s , at having the precepts that were formulated to meet the special conditions of 1914 taken as absolute and binding for all poetic situations at all times . |
| 5 | Key variables that were considered to affect the rate of desertification were soil status , vulnerability of land to desertification , and human and animal population pressures . |
| 6 | Previous studies have recorded in normal volunteers and in patients with PSS the number of swallows at specific intervals that were needed to clear a given amount of acid placed in the oesophagus . |
| 7 | ASHLEY BICKERTON 'S painted construction Le Art 1987 is a brash , beautifully executed compilation of the logos of the art materials that were used to make the work . |
| 8 | Companies House has bowed to pressure from MPs and the business community and agreed to send ex gratia payments to companies that were forced to pay a late filing penalty after their accounts for the period to 30 September 1991 were delivered to Companies House on 31 July 1992 . |
| 9 | This proved impractical as the PAN contained far more data than were required to update the PMIS . |
| 10 | Firstly , Plan for Action assumed that it would be necessary to start with about 11% more career registrars than were needed to fill the expected consultant posts , whereas JPAC routinely accepts advice from specialty staffing representatives to calculate up to 50% more posts ( for example , in general medicine and obstetrics and gynaecology ) . |
| 11 | Last July Aileen Penn and her family set off on a sponsored marathon round of golf that was destined to criss-cross the country and take them on a 1,000 mile bicycle ride . |
| 12 | Her hair , glowing like a brazier through the early-morning mist , her high boots and her cream-coloured quilted jacket with its exaggerated shoulders , had drawn his gaze as he sat impatiently in a line of cars while the pickets argued with the driver of an articulated wagon that was trying to enter the University . |
| 13 | The milk sprayed into the bucket in a few short spurts and Piladu pushed the animal forward , let two heavily pregnant ewes push past him and reached out to grasp the wool of a lamb that was trying to jump the rail where the Captain and the Brigadier were leaning . |
| 14 | Almost Siberia is a glasnost spin-off piece : a genre that was bound to have a vogue . |
| 15 | Rubbing away a thin film of ice , he peered through a small frame of snow — and saw Tom Hanks entering the farmyard , plodding doggedly behind a horse that was struggling to pull an improvised wooden snow-plough ! |
| 16 | They 've turned it from a Council that was determined to tackle the social deprivation in this city , was determined to tackle the disadvantaged , such as racial disadvantaged , by supporting the C T C , which gives a unique opportunity to Asian children in this city for education . |
| 17 | Not only was this the only way , according to d'Argenlieu , to stop a Vietminh that was determined to oust the French but , in effect , it would be the only way to hold the French Union together . |
| 18 | This is an excellent book about the defeat of the Iraqi army that was sent to capture the RAF base at Habbaniya in 1941 . |
| 19 | That explanation depends on the presence of molecular oxygen in the gas cloud that was condensing to form the Sun , something the San Diego chemists think was likely , although they can not be certain . |
| 20 | One fact that was used to support the idea of a recent origin was the recognition that the human race is obviously evolving in culture and technology . |
| 21 | They come from the space between the planets and are believed to be the remnants of matter that was used to form the Solar System . |
| 22 | This was the theory that was used to derive the forward yield curve in ( 5.33 ) and ( 5.34 ) above : or where rs T is the spot yield on a T-year bond and is the implied one-year rate t years ahead . |
| 23 | This is the van that was used to ram a police car . |
| 24 | To avoid any presumptions about the structure of the DNA , we replaced the bent DNA in the actual complex with the phosphate backbone for B-form DNA that was used to model the CAP/DNA complex . |
| 25 | The body of Alan Chalky White was found in lake fifty six at the Cotswold Water Park in 1989 … the same lake , it 's claimed that was used to hide the drugs.Tim Hurst reports from Winchester Crown Court . |
| 26 | Application processing is a simple check that the data received from the response matches exactly the data that was used to construct the original offer . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | The team that was meant to rebuild the economy has downed tools and walked off the site . |
| 29 | Leaving aside the political implications , the circumstance that the money was paid under the sentence of a court , albeit one that was held to have no jurisdiction , gives the case a flavour of duress , so that it is not a significant authority in Woolwich 's favour . |
| 30 | One consideration that was coming to influence the more perceptive minds was a realisation of the immensity of the populated globe . |