Example sentences of "was [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are cases in which a promise was made which was intended to create legal relations and which , to the knowledge of the person making the promise , was going to be acted on by the person to whom it was made , and which was in fact so acted on . |
| 2 | I very much doubt , though it is unnecessary for me to decide the point , that the use of the plural in paragraph 12 was intended to connote different defendants in several different unconsolidated actions , since there was only one single action in being in the Kalfelis case , and paragraph 13 ( not quoted above ) would seem to envisage a claim by the same plaintiff , unlike the present litigation where there are a very large number of different plaintiff banks in different actions . |
| 3 | The campaign was intended to change certain attitudes about AIDS and HIV , but mainly simply to raise awareness . |
| 4 | The administration 's " empowerment " agenda was intended to help low-income families with home ownership , to encourage parental " choice " in education and to increase the " choice " of poor families in such areas as child care and child health insurance . |
| 5 | The approach he adopted was intended to produce practical changes as soon as possible . |
| 6 | Smith looked to the discipline which he encountered in the Volunteer Force to be put to good use , while the programme of uniform , bands , drill , camps , recreation rooms , and religious instruction was intended to attract young adolescents so that their leisure time might be ‘ organized ’ . |
| 7 | Net absorption of water and electrolytes was calculated using standard formulas . |
| 8 | Ninety five per cent confidence intervals for the relative risk was calculated using exact probabilities . |
| 9 | The victim , Bheki Mlangeni , had been engaged in investigations into the activities of police " death squads " [ see p. 37952 ] and the much-criticized Civil Co-operation Bureau ( CCB ) of the South African Defence Force , which , it had been alleged , was formed to eliminate anti-government activists . |
| 10 | A delegation was formed to visit European capitals to gain support and raise funds . |
| 11 | The operation 's precise aims were not clear , however , and by mid-December disagreement was reported between the US administration and the UN Secretary-General over whether the troops ' role was to include disarming hostile factions and pacifying the country , or merely , as the US administration appeared to hold , securing the flow of aid . |
| 12 | Hoomey , a transparently innocent , completely unmalicious , undersized , earnest child was given to state unpleasant truths out of pure honesty . |
| 13 | Watching the editing of the Brahms Second Symphony I must say I forgot I was watching a film , simply because I was fascinated to hear new colours which the eye was suggesting by the way you were using shots of the violas and the trombones at some of the quietest moments in the work . |
| 14 | This technique was developed to intensify certain colours which could not be produced in deep enough shades in the yarn , and was often used on items from the Arak region of Persia , particularly on Lilihan Sarouks . |
| 15 | The computerised system they are working on , known as Super Cosmos , was developed to spot new stars among thousands of specks on photographic plates exposed through giant telescopes . |
| 16 | The technique was developed to keep rude words off radio phone-ins . |
| 17 | The mechanism of inheritance was cracked using non-behavioural traits , but we can reasonably infer that behaviour is inherited in much the same way as are other , more thoroughly studied properties of organisms . |
| 18 | Windows DDE was designed to enable separate applications to send each other data instantly . |
| 19 | The PKO bill originated from a bill introduced in 1990 which was designed to allow Japanese forces to participate as non-combatants in support of the UN-authorized multinational force assembled to expel Iraqi forces from Kuwait . |
| 20 | The ODA says that the report was designed to evaluate old errors and help prevent new ones , and that it will be published soon . |
| 21 | This initiative was designed to stimulate local authorities to mount full-time programmes which would be funded from central funds — to the extent of £400,000 per project — provided that they met certain centrally determined criteria relating to equal opportunities , progression , the specification of objectives , the balance between general , technical and vocational elements of programmes , planned work experience , and assessment . |
| 22 | I do not believe that the Sale of Goods Act was designed to provoke metaphysical discussions as to the nature of what is delivered in comparison with what is sold . |
| 23 | This special facility , initially set up effective 1962 and enabling the 11 to lend reserves to the IMF , was designed to meet balance-of-payment problems so serious that they could threaten the stability of the entire international monetary system . |
| 24 | The grant was made specifically in the context of a projected campaign against Scotland and was designed to avoid damaging disputes over military authority by setting Gloucester firmly above the other northern peers . |
| 25 | The grant was made specifically in the context of a projected campaign against Scotland and was designed to avoid damaging disputes over military authority by setting Gloucester firmly above the other northern peers . |
| 26 | The proposal was designed to alleviate growing problems of congestion and pollution . |
| 27 | It was designed to play conventional records , so its existence is not apparent from record collections today . |
| 28 | The announcement , hastily brought forward from the middle of the month , was designed to forestall other lenders from following the Yorkshire Building Society , which lifted its rate to 15 per cent at the weekend . |
| 29 | Born and educated in the city , but subsequently crowned with an Oxford MA and a Harvard MBA , Miss Forbes was considered to have exceptional abilities and was expected to go far . |
| 30 | In contrast to the homespun approach of Chiles , Martinez was believed to have amassed some $7,000,000 to spend on his November campaign , and was expected to use negative tactics . |