Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [vb pp] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not surprisingly , they believed they had only made a stab at it , From the start Wave and HHCL were determined to build the campaign around an organisation with a sound commercial and practical justification for funding such advertising ; someone with a vested interest in curbing consumer greed . |
| 2 | Sendei and Rodomonte were forced to navigate the tiny passages for themselves , and had narrowly avoided falling into open pits at least twice . |
| 3 | Brentwood enjoyed a hard-fought home win over third-placed Batchwood , St Albans , whilst the Welwyn leaders collected eight points effortlessly , as their opponents Harpenden were forced to concede the tie . |
| 4 | A Management Committee consisting of ERA , GDC , our contract architects , and TSA was established to run the project and this part of the project highlighted that ‘ genuine partnerships ’ are possible when the determination to succeed is there . |
| 5 | Komlanvi Kloutse was appointed Minister of the newly created Trade and Transport Ministry while Ayissah Agbetra was appointed to head the new Public Health Ministry . |
| 6 | Tavernier was determined to avoid the convention of co-productions in which a polyglot cast all speak dubbed American . |
| 7 | In the May congressional elections [ see p. 38908 ] the PUR had won 12 seats and the Conservative Party ( PCE ) of Vice-President-elect Alberto Dahik had won six , but Durán was expected to negotiate the support of at least two more parties . |
| 8 | Thus Stonehenge was presumed to postdate the tholoi of Mycenae , and the time taken for agriculture to spread to Britain was thought to be so great that the inception of the Neolithic was placed at about 2500 BC . |
| 9 | In the end Meredith was forced to accept the threepence thrust into his palm . |
| 10 | Ceauşescu was determined to boost the population from around twenty million to thirty by the end of the century . |
| 11 | This proposal for foreign guarantees against external interference in Afghanistan was intended to strengthen the current regime in that state by sealing off the contesting forces in Afghanistan from Western and Pakistani ‘ assistance ’ while legitimising the continuation of Soviet ‘ assistance ’ . |
| 12 | Grudgingly but fairly quickly Richard was induced to hand the castle over to his father . |
| 13 | Indonesia was elected to chair the NAM for the period from 1992 to 1995 , and it was announced on Sept. 22 that the Indonesian capital Jakarta would host the 10th summit of the movement 's heads of state in 1992 , Nicaragua having withdrawn its application at the last moment . |
| 14 | The more the United States was seen to take the lead — especially at the UN — the better the prospect , so Eisenhower correctly calculated , of preventing yet more harshly worded motions in that forum . |
| 15 | Herbert Matthews , who was close to the Cuban revolutionaries from the late Sierra Maestra days , wrote that ‘ I made up my mind early in the revolution on the basis of many talks with all the top Cuban leaders that their greatest preoccupation was the conviction that the United States was determined to overthrow the Castro regime ’ ( Matthews : 1969 , p. 171 ) . |
| 16 | NHG was advised to withdraw the advertising . |
| 17 | Mr. S. was instructed to transact the sale as normal and accordingly began to enter the sale on the computer . |
| 18 | Mr. S. was instructed to transact the sale in the normal way and accordingly he began to enter the sale on the computer . |
| 19 | The position of Bob John was stabilized at left-back , Billy Blyth was recalled to form the ‘ three Bs ’ halfback line with Baker and Butler , and Dr Jimmy Paterson , the amateur outside-right , was persuaded to make a comeback . |
| 20 | Like Sacre Coeur in Paris , Notre Dame , Fourviere was built to commemorate the end of the Franco-Prussian war — a conflict in which France was conclusively defeated . |
| 21 | The Pumping Station at this village on the River Witham near Tattershall was built to drain the surrounding land because shrinkage of the peat ( see Holme Fen ) has left the surface level lower than the rivers . |
| 22 | Cwmbran were left to rue the goals they conceded in their 3-2 win at home two weeks ago . |
| 23 | David Murray , the club 's multi-millionaire chairman , yesterday disclosed the figure , which is almost twice the amount England were promised to win the European Championship in Sweden last summer . |
| 24 | In times of civil disturbance they were also called upon to help in maintaining the king 's peace , as when in June 1234 the foresters of fee of all the royal forests of England were commanded to aid the sheriffs in arresting the malefactors who were roaming over the countryside as a result of the disturbances created by the Earl Marshal and his adherents . |
| 25 | For the first time China and Russia were invited to attend the meeting . |
| 26 | Mozart radically altered the structure of the opera while he was writing it : in a letter to his father he explained how he reconstructed the part of Osmin , the Pasha 's Moorish servant ( a negligible role in the original libretto ) in order to show off the magnificent bass voice of the singer , Karl Ludwig Fischer , and how the part of Constanze was developed to accommodate the ‘ flexible throat ’ of the brilliant Italian coloratura soprano Caterina Cavalieri . |
| 27 | On 28 April Alexander was instructed to seize the whole of Venezia Giulia , except for Zadar in the south . |
| 28 | A year later , as Worrell was still at university , Alexander was appointed to take the team to India and Pakistan , winning the first series but losing the second . |
| 29 | Alexander was hired to investigate the validity of complaints of discrimination and favouritism dating from 1987 against the office of acquisition management within the NIH director 's office . |
| 30 | Eva was left to handle the chairmanship . |