Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The earliest visitors 23,000 a day-were advised to eschew the winding staircase of 1792 steps ( corresponding to the year of the Proclamation of the Republic ) . |
| 2 | Various strategies , individual and collective , were developed to combat the organizational pressure . |
| 3 | These methods were developed to aid the physical mapping of the fission yeast S.pombe ( 1 , 10 ) but are applicable to other hybridisation data . |
| 4 | As a result monstrous tower blocks , not fit for human souls , were erected to replace the neat streets of individual terraced houses , vast impersonal motorways supplanted the agreeably irregular network of real roads , and as part of the dehumanization process , the Great railway stations , the local cinemas , and the corner shops , the familiar landmarks of a lifetime , were swept away . |
| 5 | Rousseau 's judgements and highly insulting remarks about the Opéra 's instrumentalists were calculated to discredit the whole establishment : the ‘ woodchopper ’ was just the most prominent symbol of authoritarian decadence . |
| 6 | Two landmarks ( L+ , L- ) were arranged to predict the spatial location of hidden food nearby that was either accessible ( F+ ) or inaccessible ( F- ) . |
| 7 | More thorough stock control completed the changed Southern scene as virtually all EMU units were renumbered to allow the first two digits to match their fleet status . |
| 8 | Where I come from , we were taught to prefer the best of everything . |
| 9 | Guilds were formed to supplement the slender resources of benefices by financing additional services and so forth ; any friendly-society function was likely to be subsidiary , only a minority providing financial assistance for needy members . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Later on , in the episode ‘ The Ambush ’ both Inlay and the extermination effect were blended to show the devastating result of a Dalek blaster on full power . |
| 12 | Walls were painted to echo the close studding of the timber-framed structure , although in the form of columns with different-patterned capitals in silhouette . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Both measures were intended to curb the 1991 budget deficit after initial projections had put it at Rbs250,000 million . |
| 15 | The conditions set out by Samuel were intended to distance the National Government from the Lloyd George coalition which had cast its shadow across the politics of the 1920s . |
| 16 | These capacity charges were intended to cover the annual cost of the interest payments ( at the social rate of discount ) on the money used to build the plant . |
| 17 | The cash limits were intended to reduce the social cost of distortionary taxes elsewhere , to impose ‘ financial discipline ’ in the hope of attaining a performance that was closer to that which was cost-minimizing for any output , and to increase the bargaining power of management in wage negotiations . |
| 18 | Two sections ( four aircraft ) of 807 Squadron were scrambled to join the four Fulmars of 808 Squadron on patrol , these latter aircraft intercepting sixteen S.79s of 38° Gruppo from Sardinia , but as Lt. Tillard led the attack they were themselves ‘ bounced ’ by a dozen escorting CR 42s of the 3° Gruppo C.T . |
| 19 | They were expected to attend the urban celebrations of the great festivals and took part in the pageantry and the festivities . |
| 20 | They were expected to support the M-19 coalition . |
| 21 | But why would someone who recognised that they were expected to derive the contextual implication that B did n't do the reading go on to produce the utterance in [ 15c ] ? |
| 22 | Compression of the ice and diffusion of the chemical species were expected to obliterate the annual signal beyond this period . |
| 23 | So far , another two hundred and thirty had been taken to the nearest hospital , although few were expected to survive the next twenty-four hours . |
| 24 | There was no doubt that they were expected to admire the former and scorn the latter ; anyone misguided enough to get the preference the wrong way round , would be regarded as at best naïve and misguided , and at worst corrupted in sensibility . |
| 25 | The issues of weapons shipments , attempts to achieve a ceasefire in El Salvador , and the stalled demobilisation of the contras were expected to dominate the two-day summit , which Mr Arias described at the weekend as critical to the future of the peace process . |
| 26 | The issues of weapons shipments , attempts to achieve a ceasefire in El Salvador , and the stalled demobilisation of the contras were expected to dominate the two-day summit , which Mr Arias described at the weekend as critical to the future of the peace process . |
| 27 | They were expected to recognize the national competitive importance of research and institutional efficiency , as formalized by the introduction of new postgraduate degrees ( especially the Ph.D. ) , and by the standardization of their administrative , faculty , and departmental structures . |
| 28 | How many , I wondered , who visited the show would realise just how much blood , sweat , and tears were shed to get the two aircraft on the ramp . |
| 29 | If I were to try to explain the little I understood about alchemy it would run through my fingers like water . |
| 30 | if the Convention were deemed to supplant the Federal Rules as the governing law on discovery from a litigant , in this case it would entirely deprive plaintiffs of a major tool of discovery against [ the defendant ] . |