Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [to-vb] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Analysts suggested that Celli 's announcement was intended to counter the May 11 claim by opposition deputies and AD dissidents that they had collected more than 100 signatures from congressmen in favour of reducing the current term of President Carlos Andres Pérez and that of the legislature by one year ( to four years ) , and also in favour of the use of the referendum as a permanent formula to guarantee the public 's participation in political affairs . |
| 2 | The DUP view was that the ban was intended to placate the Dublin government . |
| 3 | Although LCC is used by other libraries , in order to understand the format of the scheme it is necessary to recognize that it was intended to fit the LC collections and services as closely as possible , without reference to outside needs and influences . |
| 4 | The opposition also alleged that the PRI had used the Pronasol programme to retain the allegiance of disaffected voters in areas where it was unpopular , and that increased Pronasol spending was intended to boost the PRI 's popularity by the time of the 1991 mid-term congressional elections . |
| 5 | The export ban , imposed at the end of 1992 , was intended to penalize the Khmer Rouge , which controls part of the trade , for failing to honour the ceasefire which forms part of the UN-brokered Cambodian peace settlement . |
| 6 | In April 1977 general government expenditure was redefined to bring the UK into line with OECD accounting methods , and resulted in an apparent overnight reduction of some 6% in measured public expenditure . |
| 7 | He invited me to go and see the Church in Africa and fortunately I accepted his invitation before he was recalled to become the APF director . |
| 8 | Composed of the M-19 , the Christian Democrats and an organization named United Colombia , the alliance was formed to contest the March 11 congressional and municipal elections , but solely for seats in the capital Bogotá and the surrounding province of Cundinamarca . |
| 9 | In that year Chapter I , dealing with Service of Process , was revised to become the Hague Service Convention of 1965 . |
| 10 | The technology that won the Gulf war was developed to defeat the Warsaw Pact . |
| 11 | Youthful Roy Jenkins was recommended to fight the Hillhead election for the SDP and a judge proved that youth was not necessarily an advantage by deciding that a 17-year-old girl , a victim of rape , was guilty of contributory negligence by thumbing a lift at night . |
| 12 | The powerplant was n't missed by the public because an electric motor was installed to turn the Kittyhawk 's propeller . |
| 13 | Prior to announcing his candidacy Bush had on Feb. 6 unveiled a health care package which was designed to overhaul the US health system and to win back the initiative on what was widely perceived to be an important electoral issue . |
| 14 | The CAP was designed to help the EC 's 14 million farmers : instead , it promotes inefficient farmers at the expense of the efficient UK farmer , destroys the international market to the detriment of the Third World and cheats EC taxpayers . |
| 15 | Thus while there was no intent to ‘ pick a fight ’ with the NUM , there was also no doubt that one would eventually come , because the trade union legislation passed and planned by the Conservative governments of the 1980s was designed to reduce the NUM 's power very substantially . |
| 16 | At the 1989 Annual Conference in Bournemouth it was resolved to support the RAF Benevolent Fund 's 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain Appeal , and Branches were asked to provide support at local level for what became known as the ‘ Reach for the Sky ’ Appeal . |
| 17 | It was resolved to deposit the Damascus Declaration with the Arab League as an official document . |
| 18 | A sell-out 40,000 crowd was expected to welcome the Wigan ace for tomorrow 's home game against Balmain . |
| 19 | No precise numbers were given , but this was expected to bring the US presence to some 400,000 when deployment was completed in January 1991 . |
| 20 | It was decided to cancel the Manchester landing and fly direct to Prestwick . |
| 21 | After these discussions it was decided to drop the Wolf e Tone Societies tag , and an ad hoc body was formed which organised a seminar on civil rights on 25 November 1966 in Belfast . |
| 22 | At a meeting of the State Council on Oct. 11 , it was decided to abolish the USSR KGB ( Committee for State Security ) , and to form , on its basis , units concerned with border defence , intelligence and counterintelligence . |
| 23 | Once it was decided to launch the Bond the Product Development team set to work in determining the financial aspects of the plan — how it would actually work , etc . |
| 24 | Why such an effort was made to disguise the B–25 when reports would indicate there was at least one B–25 at Hickam during the actual attack is unknown . |
| 25 | From the flamboyant tone in which the speculators discussed the prospects for Denwood , a stranger within its precincts might have come to the conclusion that he was standing upon ground which was destined to become the Winnipeg of the Middle West . |
| 26 | With some apparent reluctance , in the 1970s , the SDA was persuaded to co-ordinate the Glasgow Eastern Area Renewal project ( GEAR ) . |
| 27 | By the end of the month he had re-established some contact with the main Front ; however , plans to reinforce the 2nd Shock were abruptly abandoned when Stalin was persuaded to disband the Volkhov Front entirely and place its troops under control of the Leningrad Front . |
| 28 | Analyses such as the Montreal que study which concentrates on specifying syntactic constraints on variation ( cf. 7.4.2 ) will benefit greatly both from a parser and a concordance program — and in fact such a program was used to analyse the Montreal corpus . |
| 29 | Stone excavated from the tunnel was used to build the G.W.R. locomotive workshops at Swindon ( q.v . ) . |
| 30 | If there is no uncertainty , the fair price of a financial futures contract can be determined very simply using the cost-of-carry ( or the cash-and-carry ) model ( the same model that was used to find the CTD bond ) . |