Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] to create " in BNC.
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| 1 | And on the occasions they did manage to create openings , they found Goram in outstanding form . |
| 2 | If I had wished to create a hard and more definite edge or accent then I would have had to ensure that everything was dry . |
| 3 | If Melissa had wished to create the character of an elderly Frenchwoman for one of her novels , she would surely have chosen Antoinette Gebrec as her model . |
| 4 | It was reported on July 3 that the RSFSR Supreme Soviet had decided to create an autonomous German raion in the Altai region of Siberia , historically an area of German settlement where 127,000 ethnic Germans were now living . |
| 5 | How many millions had died to create this blotchy , congealed stew ? |
| 6 | The existence of this power resulted , ironically , in the fact that those African newspapers which had campaigned vigorously for the nationalist cause now enjoyed less freedom under the very governments that they had helped to create . |
| 7 | In general respectability was achieved and the consequence of that was that the movies had moved somewhat decisively away from the masses that had helped to create the industry . |
| 8 | After all , it was the wilderness that had helped to create him . |
| 9 | This feature of quantum mechanics proved very distasteful to some of the very men who had helped to create the subject . |
| 10 | At the end of May , , the minister for small companies , called for a greater sense of risk and enterprise in any new market which might succeed the USM and , in emphasising the importance to the country 's economy of smaller-company activity , pointed out that companies with fewer than 20 employees had helped to create 350,000 new jobs between 1989 and 1991 . |
| 11 | NATO had proposed to create a new " rapid reaction force " in Europe , which it wanted to bear the responsibility for the front-line defence of the region , as the USA 's own troop presence in Western Europe was wound down [ see p. 38216 ] . |
| 12 | The newspaper pointed out that , while Nicholas Ridley had created the National Rivers Authority to oversee the state of river water , he had refused to create a similar body to monitor tapwater and bring prosecution of polluters . |
| 13 | She breathed in the cool Japanese atmosphere she had worked to create for him , looked at the slatted chairs , the pale greys , the yellows . |
| 14 | By the beginning of March , as many as 640 oil wells were alight and individual smoke plumes had combined to create a regional plume 1000–2000 km in length , extending frequently to the south-east and periodically to the north-east . |
| 15 | Since the start of the Troubles , a number of loyalist trade unionists had tried to create a province-wide organization of unionist workers and by late 1973 the plans of men such as Billy Kelly , a power workers ' shop steward , Billy Hull , ex-Northern Ireland Labour Party , and Hugh Petrie , a precision engineer from Shorts , were sufficiently advanced for them to propose to the loyalist politicians that the province could be brought to a halt by a strike . |
| 16 | The Shah had built up his armed forces and had begun to create a nationwide secret police , but he had done almost nothing to meet the disparate but urgent demands of his people . |
| 17 | In the mid nineteenth century , Fermin Caballero attempted to divide agricultural Spain into three parts : the Cantabrian regions , where the hard-working race of ‘ gothic ’ small farmers had survived to create a stable peasant economy ; the basins of the Guadiana , the Guadalquivir , and Aragon , where the economic legacy of the Arab conquest was the latifundia ; the centre , where the two races had mingled and left an intermediary , medium-sized farm . |
| 18 | In the weeks she had been here , she had managed to create an area of ordered calm which spoke of high efficiency and brisk management . |
| 19 | The inter-war German democracy was precarious precisely because it was grafted on to a social order that had failed to create the very basic social and political conditions that would allow a democratic system to flourish , but also because while German expansion in the east had been halted , the drive to the east was still seen as a tantalising solution to all of Germany 's problems . |
| 20 | By the Edwardian period it had become inescapably clear that middle-class evangelism had failed to create a working class in its own image ; the great majority of London workers , particularly , were not Christian , provident , chaste or temperate by middle-class standards , while the artisan and skilled worker had developed social and political patterns of their own . |
| 21 | Thus , the traditional champions of a separate nation refused to seek to create and lead it . |