Example sentences of "was [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The convention 's eighth protocol , which was opened for signature in March 1985 and was intended to speed up procedures before the Commission of Human Rights and the Court of Human Rights ( see p. 33881 ) , came into force on Jan. 1 , 1990 . |
| 2 | It may be that the Breton expedition was intended to keep up pressure on the French to make the sort of concessions the English would feel able to accept , but it is equally possible that the confused direction of English policy reflected conflicting influences at court . |
| 3 | A general system of multilateral trade and payments became more tenable in the 1950s when the European Payments Union was formed to take over payment settlements between European countries ( including their colonies and dependencies ) . |
| 4 | In 1967 , the British Bliss Classification Association ( BCA ) was formed to take over responsibility for BC ; work began on its revision in 1969 under the editorial direction of Jack Mills . |
| 5 | After the race , the track was redesigned to slow down traffic at the corners . |
| 6 | Now that Jack Kuehler has persuaded Louis Gerstner to let him go in August — we should have pointed out in yesterday 's issue that he reached retirement age last year and only stayed on because he was pressed to stick around awhiles longer by John Akers , returnee and vice-chairman Paul Rizzo gets additional powers , at least temporarily : four parts of IBM that had reported to Kuehler — its semiconductor , software , AS/400 and personal systems operations — will report to Rizzo . |
| 7 | This monumental image was designed to stir up emotions of awe and respect , but could scarcely evoke feelings of warmth and affection . |
| 8 | A Navy sailing master was permitted to take over command only for the duration of the brief period when it was necessary for the Simonova to be manoeuvred to allow technical officers to service the weapons and telemetry mounted on the platforms . |
| 9 | erm Banbury School decided to or the Governors of Banbury School decided to seek opting out status on the grounds that the Local Education Authority was seeking to carry out changes to the offer presently available in Banbury for post-sixteen education . |
| 10 | When she was dressing to go out Sally was invariably unable to find the belt she wanted , one shoe had gone missing or one stocking developed a ladder . |
| 11 | He decided to go home and pick it up , and in fact he was seen going up St Giles ' on his bicycle towards North Oxford . |
| 12 | During the 1930s and throughout the Second World War the site had been an isolated airfield and it was here , immediately following the end of the war and a clamp-down on the interchange of information with the USA , that it was decided to set up Britain 's civil atomic energy programme . |
| 13 | Although the sums remitted back from the US were much lower than expected , and continuing high taxation rates caused a drain on domestic box office receipts , no attempt was made to rein in film budgets . |
| 14 | Soon after Manfred and Gloria had gone , when I was hurrying to make up time , a second German couple jumped out of another Land Rover . |
| 15 | Tear gas was used to break up demonstrations by 300 striking bus drivers and students in Managua on July 21 . |
| 16 | For example , in 1987 , a Public Accounts Committee report ( 1986–7c , paras 20 , 44 ) claimed that ‘ a major effort ’ was needed to speed up implementation of the FMI . |
| 17 | These two operations went together , for additional capital was needed to buy up competitors , and iron and wire suppliers . |
| 18 | The firm still had tens of thousands lodged in provincial banks , but every penny was needed to pay out wages between then and the next large foreseeable piece of income . |
| 19 | In the Wessex Dairies case , it was found that on the last day of his employment as a milkman the defendant , whilst on his round , informed customers that he would soon cease to be employed by the plaintiffs , that he was going to set up business on his own and could supply them with milk . |
| 20 | Eubank looked as though he was going to finish off Thornton in the ninth round — and should have done so in the tenth . |
| 21 | Well she was going to go up Kingswood to see Lynn . |
| 22 | They feared that the KMT was going to sell out Taiwan in secret talks with its old mainland compatriots . |
| 23 | I 've got it all on this tape Malcolm X , Kerry 's saying Malcolm X is brilliant , he was a black man , he was a nigger and Truno was going shut up Truno 's black too and she was going shut up ! |
| 24 | ‘ My mother has mentioned you a lot in her letters , ’ she said at last , deciding that honesty was the only policy , if she was going to smooth over accusations made in the heat of the moment . |
| 25 | I was going to put down roots , achieve something , give meaning to my existence . |
| 26 | The villages were patrolled by company uniformed ‘ policemen ’ whose ‘ duties were primarily concerned with the maintenance of the appearance of the village , keeping the lawns tidy and litter off the streets , for example ’ ( Waller , 1983 , p. 98 ) , but Waller 's respondents also reported company ‘ policemen ’ who watched over children 's play , recorded untidy properties ( ‘ It seems clear that the threat of dismissal was thought to hang over men who did not keep their gardens tidy in several villages ’ — p. 100 ) , and ensured that dogs were not kept as pets ( thus preventing the men from engaging in the popular contemporary sport among miners of training and racing greyhounds and whippets ) . |
| 27 | Quayle was commissioned to serve up Shakespeare in Stratford : Burton was discovered to complement Quayle . |
| 28 | As a medical student at Newcastle University in the 1950s Neubauer was inspired to take up psychiatry by Prof Martin Roth . |
| 29 | The coming world shortage was bound to put up prices , he said . |
| 30 | In 1818 he was employed to carry out repairs on the parish church in Halifax , West Yorkshire , and the following year he settled in Leeds , from where he developed a substantial practice in the Yorkshire area , particularly as a designer of churches . |