Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The definition had been left somewhat vague in the legislation , though it was intended to embrace all matters relevant . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The campaign was intended to change certain attitudes about AIDS and HIV , but mainly simply to raise awareness . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The approach he adopted was intended to produce practical changes as soon as possible . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | It was argued on behalf of the shareholders that the Directive was intended to protect all investors and that they would be prejudiced if they were not notified in advance of the intended cancellation of Titaghur 's public listing . |
| 13 | Much controversy has attached to the word ‘ servants ’ in this passage , as to whether it cancelled the previous Leveller insistence on full , unqualified adult manhood suffrage and was intended to exclude all wage-earners from the vote , or — more likely — was meant to cover only those living in , and so dependent on their master or mistress for board and lodging . |
| 14 | Net absorption of water and electrolytes was calculated using standard formulas . |
| 15 | Ninety five per cent confidence intervals for the relative risk was calculated using exact probabilities . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In 1904 a loosely structured organization , the Union of Liberation , was formed to unite all sections of the opposition . |
| 18 | In 1903 a loosely structured organization , the Union of Liberation , was formed to unite all sections of opposition and to press for constitutional democracy based on universal , equal , secret and direct franchise . |
| 19 | A delegation was formed to visit European capitals to gain support and raise funds . |
| 20 | A sub-group of the Patterns of Service Committee of SAD was formed to explore these issues further . |
| 21 | A Publicity Committee was formed to attract more members and on New Year 's Eve 1946–47 what appears to be the first such Social at the Club was held and included ‘ modern dancing to a radiogram ’ . |
| 22 | To compete for the award a partnership was formed representing all sectors in the town : Private sector : Teesside and District Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Teesside Tomorrow . |
| 23 | Hoomey , a transparently innocent , completely unmalicious , undersized , earnest child was given to state unpleasant truths out of pure honesty . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It was developed to keep all aspects ‘ under one roof ’ in view of the fact that , outside London , Belfast is second to Manchester as the largest cargo airport in the UK . |
| 28 | The technique was developed to keep rude words off radio phone-ins . |
| 29 | To assist with these tasks each policy and resources committee was recommended to have four sub-committees : finance , land , personnel , and performance review . |
| 30 | 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 . |