Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the passing of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 , the 1982 Act was amended to allow the Audit Commission to become responsible for the appointment of auditors to health service bodies . |
| 2 | This order was amended to request the fitting of 525hp Rolls-Royce F.XIIA engines , superseded later by F.XIIMs . |
| 3 | A month later the decision was appealed against and in March 1984 , the appeal was allowed although the registrar 's order was amended to make the granting of the letters temporary . |
| 4 | Lord Wilson 's account in 1985 of the decay of what was intended to mark a sea-change in the process and outcome of economic policy-making at the highest level is best read slowly and without comment — except , perhaps , to note that , in reforming terms , an almost ideal apprenticeship for a Prime Minister is no guarantee that he will deliver the goods : |
| 5 | A visit to Tokyo by Delors on May 22-25 — his first since 1986 [ see p. 35385 ] — was intended to mark the start of a new political partnership between Japan and the EC . |
| 6 | In addition , the mass picketing outside Grunwick 's works was intended to publicize the dispute rather than cause violent obstruction , as with Arthur Scargill 's massed legions at the Saltley coke depot in 1972 . |
| 7 | Probably the putsch of 30 September 1965 was intended to pre-empt the power struggle which must ensue when the president died . |
| 8 | Although this was done in an ad hoc and somewhat piecemeal fashion , it was intended to mirror the direction taken by the workshop itself . |
| 9 | It was intended to include the need for a code of guidance to give practical help to both schools and the five area boards , he said . |
| 10 | The move was intended to bolster the strength of the deutschmark and to stem inflation ( running at an annualized rate of above 4 per cent , and in the Bundesbank 's view likely to become higher as a result of possible high wage settlements in the current round of pay talks and the government 's expansionary fiscal policy following unification ) . |
| 11 | The sentence , however , was intended to reflect the attempt to kill so many people . |
| 12 | It was intended to represent the concept of a tram in 2937 , but its unfortunate shape resembled more closely a cottage-loaf , by which it became known to the crews . |
| 13 | A loan of US$2,500 million from the Inter-American Development Bank ( IDB ) for the period 1990-1993 was intended to support the government 's October decision to lift controls on imports , ending the country 's traditional policy of protectionism . |
| 14 | The IMF agreement was intended to support the restructuring process which was being pursued with the application of the austerity measures , a wage freeze and currency reform announced in December 1989 [ see p. 37194 ] . |
| 15 | The probable origin of the trust in the commendatio made it important to continue to distinguish clearly between cases where it was intended to confer a benefit and cases where the intention was merely to ask the favour of safe-keeping . |
| 16 | Justice Minister Istvan Balsai declared that the legislation was intended to allow the government to proceed with the political , moral and legal compensation of those sentenced as part of the " unlawful acts of the past regime " . |
| 17 | Since it was intended to examine the ability of the normal book-provision system to cope with varying levels of demand by noting the relationship , if any , between the number of requests submitted in any one period and the average time for straightforward deliveries of ‘ ordinary ’ books from the Main Building within that period , requests for early or rare items , most of which are not supplied through the normal book-fetching channels , were excluded . |
| 18 | This reform was intended to give the service a clearer management direction . |
| 19 | It was intended to complement the evaluation of SEGLAB documented in ( Bard et al 1987 ) . |
| 20 | To this list we can now add Taurus — a system which was intended to automate the transfer of ownership of company shares in a way analogous to the transfer of money in the banking system and which collapsed spectacularly in March after countless delays and problems . |
| 21 | Perhaps his most powerful hypothesis was intended to explain the fact that many British mountains had plants identical to those found in the Arctic regions of Scandinavia . |
| 22 | The unanimous decision was intended to signal the Council 's willingness to establish closer relations with those East European countries embarking on political reforms . |
| 23 | Underwood 's new book , Flying Wing ( Stanley Paul £1499 ) , was intended to signal the end of a glittering career that brought him 55 England caps and a record 35 tries . |
| 24 | The devising of the four central characters for Doctor Who was intended to embody the essence of the above observations . |
| 25 | This was intended to eliminate a source of discrimination against national capital and would tax capital movement encouraged by differences between domestic and foreign interest rates . |
| 26 | " But is it really likely , sir , that the call was intended to delay the finding of the body and to give the killer time to replace the keys ? admittedly Mrs. Bidwell could be expected to be first in the Biology Department this morning when she put out the clean coats . |
| 27 | The study was intended to evaluate the extent to which the graduated tests are compatible with the Cockcroft recommendations and how effective they are in generating curriculum change without the use of the SMP G materials . |
| 28 | The Department was intended to promote the study of industrial design for textiles , pottery , etc. , and Cole campaigned against over-elaborate and inappropriate representational decoration on such things . |
| 29 | This ‘ paper gold ’ was intended to take the heat off the dollar by increasing what was in effect the gold content of reserves . |
| 30 | Singing was intended to enhance the bond between us , for by reciting verses and lines about the Legion , past and present , we were reinforcing our beliefs in the traditions we stood for . |