Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Section 1 , Protection From Eviction Act 1977 , was amended to enable more prosecutions and at the same time introduced a new criminal offence . |
| 2 | Adoption was intended to create new family relationships not change those which already existed and joint custody was introduced as an alternative and to give some legal recognition to step-parents . |
| 3 | Marshall aid was intended to create European stability by 1952 , making further aid unnecessary . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | THE Social Fund — which was intended to target social security on the poorest — has failed , according to a report published today . |
| 6 | The definition had been left somewhat vague in the legislation , though it was intended to embrace all matters relevant . |
| 7 | But the cynical depravity of this outrage — placing a bomb that would inevitably cause massive damage to a national health service hospital and was intended to kill medical staff when it exploded and which , only by great good fortune , did not cause many more deaths and injuries — must surely mark one of the lowest points in the IRA 's inglorious history . |
| 8 | The reform was intended to affect all farms and estates of more than 180 hectares ( 450 acres ) but in Pomerania — the Polish Corridor — the soil was so poor that the lower limit was set at 400 hectares ( 1,000 acres ) . |
| 9 | This widely publicised policy was intended to relieve public concern over the rise in violent crimes against persons and property committed by juveniles . |
| 10 | OSI was established as a direct rival to IBM 's systems network architecture ( SNA ( which was intended to allow all IBM machines to talk to each other , while locking out non-SNA equipment . |
| 11 | The grand alliance favoured a new set of standards called open systems interconnection ( OSI ) , which was intended to allow all types of computer in the world to talk to each other within any kind of network . |
| 12 | It was intended to give legal sanction to regulations introduced in November 1990 , under which a doctor intending to perform euthanasia was obliged to consult a second doctor and to inform the coroner after the patient 's death . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The government cash was intended to put new life into Birmingham 's crime-ridden slums . |
| 15 | If the choice of site was intended to reinforce fraternal solidarity , it failed : Lothar 's palace at Thionville was too close for comfort , and his brothers still mistrusted him so much that they demanded hostages from him to guarantee the security of their own negotiators . |
| 16 | m pond , believed to be the largest operating solar collector in the world , was intended to provide hot water for a nearby hotel . |
| 17 | The scheme was intended to provide financial help to unemployed workers in depressed areas who were prepared to move to other areas . |
| 18 | Therefore , any form of report which by virtue of the qualifications of the reporter was intended to provide some comfort to readers of accounts would be regarded as a quasi audit report . |
| 19 | Speaking on television on May 15 President François Mitterrand declared that her appointment , as France 's first woman Prime Minister , was intended to provide fresh élan ( " vigour " ) as France approached the introduction of the single European market from Jan. 1 , 1993 . |
| 20 | The campaign was intended to change certain attitudes about AIDS and HIV , but mainly simply to raise awareness . |
| 21 | The other site was at Elstow in Bedfordshire , where it was intended to bury low-level waste in twenty-metre deep trenches , and then cover it in concrete . |
| 22 | This would have been , not because of the doctrine of estoppel ( which would have required either a deliberate misleading or negligence by her ) , but because of her signature on a document which , as was apparent on the face , was intended to have legal effect and which she had authorised the trader to complete . |
| 23 | This was intended to help elderly people no longer fully capable , but still with sufficient understanding to create the power . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This took the form of a central set of routines which looked after all the I/O functions , graphics and peripherals and was intended to remove any need for users to add extra items . |
| 26 | No state station was intended to operate short wave ( SW ) , but in those states where existing radio stations already used it , they were allowed to continue doing so . |
| 27 | The approach he adopted was intended to produce practical changes as soon as possible . |
| 28 | Support is given to the view that Robertson 's order was intended to cover these Croats by a further signal sent from AFHQ on the following day , 15 May . |
| 29 | The Act was intended to bring English law into line with the Convention and to implement the Phillimore Committee proposals . |
| 30 | The change in the price of maize was intended to encourage increased maize production at a time of shortage when the country had to import large supplies from Rhodesia : a politically humiliating thing to have to do . |