Example sentences of "[conj] were [vb pp] [to-vb] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This proved impractical as the PAN contained far more data than were required to update the PMIS . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | The comparability of the CVs was confirmed by two consultants who were unaware of the purpose of the research and were asked to rate the CVs after the names had been removed . |
| 9 | For each item , the children either had to complete a sentence , such as Snoopy has cream on his face so … or they were given a description of the clue , such as The clue is that Snoopy has cream on his face , and were asked to tell the Pink Panther about the clue and what they had worked out . |
| 10 | It was said that the County Council ‘ received orders from the Government to do certain things in … education and other matters , and were bound to spend the money ’ . |
| 11 | However , after being refused passage by two ferry companies , they were forced to admit their load was not radioactive and were made to remove the stickers and signs before they could sail . |
| 12 | They listened to an impassioned sermon delivered by the Archbishop of Tyre and were moved to take the cross themselves . |
| 13 | At this point the whole incident could , perhaps , have been kept from public view , but plainly the Russians had no intention of abiding by normal protocol and were determined to alert the British press . |
| 14 | They believed that anything could be obtained by force and were determined to exact the last drop of blood . |
| 15 | These ‘ turned ’ guns ( or drakes ) weighed a third less than conventional iron cannon and were intended to replace the costlier ( but lighter ) bronze guns on ships . |
| 16 | These succeeded the foundation of the NATO alliance in Europe and were intended to constrain the influence of Soviet and Chinese communism . |
| 17 | ‘ We had been escorting a convoy from Halifax to the UK and were ordered to leave the convoy , refuel in Reykjavik and take up patrol of the Denmark Strait , 150 miles west of Iceland . |
| 18 | This ‘ anthropological ’ approach was the root of notions of production , exchange and consumption , which were thought to apply universally and were used to explain the economic arrangements of existing societies . |
| 19 | They were in demand to play fantastic or comic roles such as satyrs or jesters and were used to relieve the solemnity of late eighteenthand ninteenth-century ballets , e.g. the many jesters found in Petipa and Soviet ballets and Puck in Ashton 's The Dream . |
| 20 | some of the pegs can not be clipped and were used to equip the route . |
| 21 | SCOTVEC National Certificate Modules were introduced in 1984 and were designed to replace the prevailing system of ONCs ( Ordinary National Certificates ) and ONDs ( Ordinary National Diplomas ) which were based on subjects grouped together to give courses in a particular area . |
| 22 | The talks addressed trade , transit and security matters and were designed to pave the way for a forthcoming visit by Indian Foreign Minister I. K. Gujral . |
| 23 | However , the most important sources available to later northern writers were the poems attributed to the professional skalds who visited princely courts and were paid to celebrate the achievements of patrons like Cnut , King Olaf Haraldsson of Norway ( St Olaf ) and Earl Eric of Lade . |
| 24 | Newborn mice from transgenic line 6 were examined for HNF-L expression by S1 nuclease protection assay and were shown to express the transgene in brain ( figure 5 ) . |
| 25 | The northern reinforcements were thus not strictly a private army , but were summoned to aid the protector against insurrection , although there may have been contemporary doubts about the validity of the distinction . |
| 26 | The northern reinforcements were thus not strictly a private army , but were summoned to aid the protector against insurrection , although there may have been contemporary doubts about the validity of the distinction . |
| 27 | They carried no arms but were said to obey the most savage orders without showing any emotion . |
| 28 | Additional expenditure on these businesses to the date of their disposal were not reflected in the Group profit and loss account , but were applied to reduce the carrying value . |
| 29 | Lynda Kee-Scott 's clothes had to maintain the traditional English country-girl look , but were required to broaden the appeal . |