Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The largely ceremonial meetings which began in Madrid on Oct. 30 were expected to last three days and were intended merely to initiate a wider negotiating process . |
| 2 | A number of prominent politicians failed to win election at constituency level but nevertheless entered parliament on their party 's national lists ( where " scrap votes " , i.e. those cast for unsuccessful constituency candidates or county lists , were added together to form a national total ) . |
| 3 | Loans were felt only to provide a short-term solution while grants were inadequate or not available to those in need . |
| 4 | The GIs had moved out years earlier , and Latinos and a few Asian former warriors from Vietnam and Cambodia had taken their place in houses that were built cheaply to last a short time . |
| 5 | The proceeds were used primarily to repay a portion of a medium term loan falling due in 1993 , prior to maturity , and to lengthen the debt profile . |
| 6 | In public he continued to argue that Nato 's conventional forces were needed essentially to handle a small incident — the most likely kind of military crisis in his view . |
| 7 | We were invited here to bring a Moral Re-Armament play , ‘ The Forgotten Factor ’ , and take it round the land . |
| 8 | At the Metropolitan , disparate objects were brought together to create a period setting . |
| 9 | As archbishop , his only quotations from Lanfranc 's collection of Canon Law seem to have been taken at second hand from a treatise of his friend Gilbert Crispin ; then too , as on the earlier occasion , his quotations were introduced only to reinforce a conclusion which he had already reached . |
| 10 | However the conference had felt it advisable to avoid this and the Labour Party and the TUC were asked instead to formulate a policy which would rally the whole working-class movement against Fascism and Capitalism . |
| 11 | Patristic Christology is subtle , for the fathers were trying rightly to express a complex issue . |
| 12 | Soon after I left them , they were working overtime to fulfil a big order , when there was a breakdown . |
| 13 | Be that as it may , the real question at issue is whether the provision was intended simply to provide a remedy in respect of proprietary rights that either entitled the proprietor to have some entry made on the register or entitled the proprietor to have some entry removed from the register or whether the provision should be construed as creating a new cause of action entitling the court to make rectification orders as it might in its discretion think fit in favour of persons who would not under substantive law , apart from paragraph ( b ) , have any proprietary rights which they could assert against the registered proprietor or chargee . |
| 14 | After exposure , the plate was developed conventionally to form a negative , then reversed by an additional bath of potassium permanganate and sulphuric acid to form a positive . |
| 15 | After exposure , the plate was developed conventionally to form a negative , then reversed by an additional bath of potassium permanganate and sulphuric acid to form a positive . |
| 16 | In one case the doctor 's name appeared in a promotional brochure as medical adviser to a company marketing an electrical device that was claimed successfully to treat a range of conditions including migraine , arthritis , insomnia , and depression . |
| 17 | Political activity here would undermine the credibility of a claimant only if it was designed merely to enhance a claim or to construct one that did not exist . |
| 18 | At the following SERA Annual Conference the idea was carried forward to establish a network with a publication ( called Observations ) as the vehicle for communication . |
| 19 | The speech was well received by the delegates and a motion was carried unanimously to send a fact-finding team to Zimbala in six months ' time to monitor the situation with a view to readmitting the country to the United Nations . |
| 20 | That was prepared merely to give a general picture of the Business in order to help potential Purchasers decide whether or not they wished to enter into more detailed negotiations to acquire the Business . |
| 21 | Perhaps it was felt also to have a wider , more general meaning . |
| 22 | He was a polite man , invariably correct and pleasant with Mrs Collins , so this was done deliberately to elicit a response . |
| 23 | I was looking forward to talk a bit about er , what they 're doing er , in the way of seminars and so on this year and how we can tie in with it , and how we 're going to erm , actually take over the forum plan for Eurofile . |
| 24 | He 's a man who erm is qualified in the field of computer sciences and if your Lordship will hear has worked throughout his life in the fields of computers , banking and er in March of nineteen eighty five he left employment with a company known as Data Logic Limited where he had been employed as a banking consultant and decided at that stage er on a change of career erm and he was looking principally to acquire a wine bar , restaurant , country house hotel , something of that nature and er you will hear that after some early disappointments in the earlier part of nineteen eighty five when deals that er were on the horizon for premises in Oxfordshire and then in Chichester erm in early September the plaintiffs er saw and liked the wine bar in and offered the price of , the asking price of seventy five thousand pounds with stock er which was accepted . |
| 25 | It was decided instead to select a few films from each of a number of categories ( i.e. types of driving situation ) and thus ensure that within each category there was enough similarity to create sufficient potential distractors for each target . |
| 26 | If the prior mortgage was made expressly to secure a current account or other further advances , and further advances are made by the prior mortgagee , he can hold the land as security for both the original loan and the further advances , unless he had notice of a subsequent mortgage — registration ( except in certain special cases ) is not equivalent to notice . |
| 27 | Several other chairmen wanted a concerted public admission that they too had inadvertently breached the regulations ( and it was indeed difficult to avoid technical breaches of the detailed regulations ) , but the choice was made rather to maintain a prudential low profile . |
| 28 | This small grant under the ESRC/HSFR Research Exchange scheme for social scientists was used both to complete a comparative research programme on unemployment and social security and to begin planning a broader project examining the links between ideologies and policies associated with work , labour market participation and economic performance and strategies of welfare . |
| 29 | In the popular tongue it was used only to indicate a point in time . |
| 30 | ‘ A decision was needed today to avoid a legal vacuum when quotas expire at the end of the month , ’ an EC spokesman said . |