Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] to examine the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some tests were carried out to examine the accuracy of definition of the field of view of the radiometer . |
| 2 | Defects in the mortar holding bricks in the outside walls of the ten year-old sports centre were discovered in 1990 after consultants were brought in to examine the building . |
| 3 | Univariate analysis was undertaken initially to examine the effect of a number of individual patient characteristics ( age , sex , body mass index , smoking , alcohol consumption , hiatus hernia , grade of oesophagitis , and presence or absence of Barrett 's oesophagus ) on the indices of oesophageal function ( oesophageal transit times , lower oesophageal sphincter pressure , oesophageal body amplitudes , durations of contraction , velocity of propagation , and acid clearance times ) . |
| 4 | A Home Office patholgist , Professor Bernard Knight , was called in to examine the body where it was found , in a section of the barn where the roof had collapsed . |
| 5 | A commission headed by the newly appointed First Deputy Prosecutor General was set up to examine the incident . |
| 6 | The committee was set up to examine the principles that should govern GCE A level syllabuses and their assessment . |
| 7 | The Lindop Inquiry was set up to examine the maintenance of standards in the polytechnics and colleges sector of UK higher education . |
| 8 | So far as can be judged , the water supply was so poor that by September 1908 a Consulting Engineer was brought in to examine the problem although nothing further is recorded on the subject . |
| 9 | Builders were called in to make the building safe before a Home Office Pathologist was allowed inside to examine the body . |
| 10 | Builders were called in to make the building safe before a Home Office Pathologist was allowed inside to examine the body . |