Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The LEA refused to concede , even when the parents made application for judicial review ; but when the application to the court was amended to focus on the legality of the LEA 's admissions procedures and their operation , the authority finally backed down and found places for the children at two schools where non-white pupils were firmly in the minority ( Overthorpe and Thornhill ) . |
| 2 | SALT I , the most important of these , placed limits on the further construction of intercontinental nuclear weapon systems by both sides ; it was intended to remain in force for five years or until superseded by a more comprehensive agreement , and it was the first real fruit of negotiations that had been proceeding since the late 1960s . |
| 3 | Evidently that power was intended to act as a restraint on undue leniency by the Secretary of State . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If that sentiment was intended to sound like the deathbed conversion of Scrooge , I am not sure that it was entirely convincing . |
| 7 | After all , club life was intended to serve as a practical course in citizenship . |
| 8 | The union treaty was intended to serve as the basis for a new Soviet constitution ; it also set out the structure of government of the new union , including a directly elected Supreme Soviet in which all national areas would be represented . |
| 9 | The CNU was intended to serve as a transitional " mini-parliament " to govern the country until the holding of a general election on May 20 [ see p. 37191 for background to political crisis which provoked the round-table talks ] . |
| 10 | In the first phase it was intended to release between 3,000,000 and 5,000,000 hectares by spring 1991 . |
| 11 | If that last sally was intended to go below the belt , it failed ; the ‘ better men than you ’ line was worked out long ago . |
| 12 | The series of which this book is a part was intended to go beyond the conventional textbook by introducing its readers to sources and methods . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It was intended to go to Cserka , where 25,000 Muslims are trapped by besieging Serbs . |
| 15 | It is a penalty if it was not a genuine attempt by the parties to pre-estimate the likely damages but was intended to hang in terror over one party to ensure that he carried out the contract . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The main question to ask about any material is : does it do the job it was intended to do with the audience it was made for ? |
| 19 | The intermediary stage was intended to last for three to five years . |
| 20 | Behind the road-builders trundled wagons laden with graded stone to be pounded and pulverised into place to make a road which was intended to last for centuries to come . |
| 21 | On Oct. 5 the Standing Committee of the Supreme People 's Assembly approved North Korea 's first law on foreign investment , in a move which was intended to help in reviving the stagnating economy . |
| 22 | Its accommodation was considerably greater than would ever be needed in normal times , but its nationalistic opulence was intended to come into its own every four years , at the inauguration of successive presidents . |
| 23 | The force , to be known as the European Corps , was intended to operate under the umbrella of the Western European Union ( WEU ) and would be open to other WEU members . |
| 24 | The Enterprise , that shadowy sump of money , weapons and operatives that lay behind both policies , was intended to operate in other places too , in fact to be ‘ pulled off the shelf , as North said Casey said , any time it was needed , with Congress kept well in the dark . |
| 25 | It was quite clear in 1973 that the new advice scheme was intended to bring into solicitors ' offices problems of a kind which had not hitherto surfaced . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |