Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [to-vb] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It therefore seems directly consistent with the theory that candidates were forbidden to try to persuade the voters that they had better policies or attitudes than other candidates : a directive which had distinctive consequences for the pattern of the contest . |
| 2 | Petrol bombs were used to try to set the place alight . |
| 3 | Certainly , the Navy was ordered to blockade the Straits of Gibraltar but , otherwise , merely bureaucratic measures were used to try to bring the rebels to heel . |
| 4 | Subjects were asked to attempt to remember the 40 junctions for which they had given ratings . |
| 5 | Each mother/child pair was observed while playing and during sessions in which the mothers were asked to try to get the infant to make a noise . |
| 6 | The authorities recognized the tendencies in the system to favour certain social categories , and steps were taken to try to redress the bias by , for example , laying down quotas for membership of certain groups , like women and young people . |
| 7 | Communicants were allowed to kneel to receive the bread and wine , and the 1552 Black Rubric , which had declared that kneeling in no way implied a real presence , was deleted from the 1559 Prayer Book . |
| 8 | The monkeys were left to try to extract the food for themselves . |
| 9 | Relations with Taiwan were expected to be downgraded to " representative " status , but Taiwan 's state-run Chinese Petroleum Corporation was expected to continue to buy the bulk of its crude oil from Saudi Arabia . |
| 10 | He was expected to continue to pursue the broad objectives of the outgoing government , including regional peace in accordance with President Arias 's 1987 peace plan ( Esquipulas II — see p. 35441-42 ) , to which he had initially been opposed . |
| 11 | A machine like this employing a beam of radiation was used to try to destroy the tumours . |
| 12 | Major was understood to want to prevent the Commonwealth Conference in Harare in October from being dominated once more by the sanctions issue . |
| 13 | With the failure of the Ruddock action , our attention now reverts to the legislation which the Government was compelled to introduce to meet the demands of the European Court of Human Rights in the Malone judgment . |
| 14 | ‘ He investigated every possibility and was determined to try to overcome the illness . |
| 15 | The new British prime minister , Sir Anthony Eden , who had finally managed to take over the reins of power from Churchill only in 1955 , was determined to try to moderate the hostility between Britain and her former wartime ally after the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953 . |
| 16 | Following the trial last year a national campaign was launched to try to change the law . |