Example sentences of "was [verb] [to-vb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The argument tying increased prosperity to increased freedom was intended to demonstrate to individuals , groups and communities whose interests were involved with the slave trade and slavery that they were impolitic in their understanding of their own interests . |
| 2 | All this was intended to demonstrate to the king of France that these officials were not the king-duke 's accredited representatives , but merely the delegates of his seneschal . |
| 3 | If an exchange had a rule that required members to state that every contract was intended to go to physical delivery , notwithstanding the fact that since the rule was made the exchange had introduced a number of cash-settled contracts ; this would almost certainly be subject to some sort of variation . |
| 4 | It was intended to go to Cserka , where 25,000 Muslims are trapped by besieging Serbs . |
| 5 | When the offence of obstructing a constable was first enacted by Parliament , it seems reasonably clear that it was intended to refer to physical obstruction only . |
| 6 | This , in turn , was intended to lead to a comparative discussion of narrative structure through a contrastive analysis of this text with some 'social stories ' told in everyday conversations . |
| 7 | Although this principle was intended to apply to the Nazi-occupied territories of Europe , nationalists throughout the colonial world , particularly in India and Burma , demanded its application to all dependent peoples . |
| 8 | His amendment was that the Code was intended to apply to people under detention ‘ or people for whom detention is becoming , as it were , imminent . ’ |
| 9 | The Estonian parliament , influenced by these concerns , adopted a constitutional amendment on 16 November providing for the right of veto over all legislation that was intended to apply to the USSR as a whole . |
| 10 | At the Third Reading , the UnderSecretary of State for Scotland , Mr Robert Hughes , laid a number of amendments to make it clear that the Bill was intended to apply to children 's hearings . |
| 11 | Apart from authority , it seems to me plain enough that s. 2 was intended to apply to the agreement which created the option and not to the notice by which it was exercised . |
| 12 | However , such an interpretation would emasculate the section : for instance , it seems clear that the section was intended to apply to terms such as those commonly found in holiday contracts allowing a tour operator unilaterally to change accommodation and so on . |
| 13 | Frelimo already had some experience of developing schools in the liberated zones before independence , when education was intended to contribute to the liberation struggle , to change people 's consciousness and attitudes and to promote production and combat . |
| 14 | I was struggling to get to my feet and if my boot caught Bob Jackson then it was an accident . ’ |
| 15 | Muhammad ibn Ali promoted a campaign which used the medium of itinerant missionaries and was calculated to appeal to most of the people who for different reasons were discontented with the Umayyads . |
| 16 | As a percentage of joint gross national product ( GNP ) this represented an increase from the existing ceiling of 1.2 per cent ( although 1992 expenditure was calculated to come to only around 1.14 per cent ) to 1.27 per cent by 1999 . |
| 17 | This action level was set at 400 Bq m&sup-3 , and was calculated to correspond to a lifetime risk of 2 per cent from dying of lung cancer . |
| 18 | One woman back then was heard to say to another old granny , ‘ There 's a lovely funeral round the corner , ducks . |
| 19 | He was heard to say to Winner , ‘ You know , I feel that in this sequence I 'm running a bit too slowly . |
| 20 | From that decision , leave was given to appeal to the House of Lords . |
| 21 | I was recommended to go to this lady who 's Irish and then she 's gone back , , and I 've never , I mean , the examination was quick and painless he said , but just keep an eye on that double on there , erm , there 's a little tiny crack in it |
| 22 | Finlayson and Weir ( 9 ) , ( 10 ) found that in comprehensive education the academically bright pupil was constrained to conform to the anti-intellectual norm in the hostel community , a very different position from that obtaining in the days of Dr. Farquhar Macintosh , now rector of Royal High School , Edinburgh who remembers his hostel days on the mainland from a Hebridean background where the hostels housed an academic elite of Certificate pupils . |
| 23 | was reported to hybridize to a 7 kb transcript from rat brain [ 11 ] . |
| 24 | Suddenly he realised the single glaring inconsistency in any line of argument which was designed to point to revenge or the settlement of a grudge as a motive for the attempt . |
| 25 | How may it speak to us , as it was designed to speak to Torquatus the Roman ? |
| 26 | Thunder singer Danny , at No. 25 with Low Life In High Places , was booked to perform to 50,000 fans at a stadium in Rio De Janeiro . |
| 27 | The strange one was booked to fly to Johannesburg for concerts but when the whole country , practically , took to the streets , he changed his mind . |
| 28 | ‘ From what she told me , Mellor was tipped to go to the top . ’ |
| 29 | Yet she was itching to move to the metropolis and bombarded her parents with subtle and not so subtle requests . |
| 30 | The ocean carrier , therefore , was deemed to warrant to the consignor safe transport and delivery and could avoid liability only if he proved that something in the nature of force majeure had intervened . |