Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] to create " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kitchen and breakfast room were joined to create a spacious 22ft by 15ft area . |
| 2 | Broadly speaking the EC Commission 's original 300-plus measures were designed to create , in respect of economic activity across frontiers , a situation which would approximate , in terms of its freedom and lack of distortion and discrimination , to the situation which exists when goods , services and factors are supplied within a state . |
| 3 | They were designed to create disorder and to impede the smooth transfer of power . |
| 4 | However , officials in Moscow and sections of the national media claimed that the attack on the border was inspired by " extremists " associated with the Azerbaijan Popular Front who were seeking to create a separate state through the union of Soviet and Iranian Azerbaijan . |
| 5 | It was ‘ freeze-dried ’ and sections of hair were separated to create this style . |
| 6 | It is likely that attempts were made to create similar kingdoms on the western frontier along the Severn Valley , but these were frustrated by Caratacus , who had established himself as the head of the anti-Roman forces in the region now known as Wales . |
| 7 | From the seventeenth century onwards , attempts were made to create artificial pools with trapping systems , but it was not until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that ideas became at all sophisticated . |
| 8 | It was accepted that models were used to create all of the decoration required in the day moulds , so that variation could occur in making the model , mould , casting or in any final cleaning . |
| 9 | It is also interesting to notice that although it was the back bed needles which were used to create this pattern , the design actually shows on the front . |
| 10 | They also did the fibreglass forms which were used to create the P–40 mock-ups . |
| 11 | But he expressed concern about the development of programmes like Michael Winner 's True Crime and Crime Story in which real crimes were used to create drama-documentaries . |
| 12 | The tensions were bound to create difficulties , which came to the fore as national problems of economic management became clearer , even if they were not simply the consequence of those problems ( Rhodes , 1985 ) . |
| 13 | In the early 1960s , however , changes within Northern Ireland were beginning to create a degree of common interest between Unionists and Nationalists in Derry , and they were brought closer together in resistance to the industrial and commercial decline of the city . |
| 14 | Groups such as APRA , which were aiming to create a broad alliance across class boundaries , were obliged to resort to very general slogans , typified by their rallying cry of ‘ Against Yankee imperialism , for the unity of the peoples of Latin America , for the realisation of social justice ’ , in order to avoid alienating any of their potential supporters . |
| 15 | This was clearly shown in Case 28/84 Commission v. Germany , where the animal foodstuffs directives , which , as mentioned in the previous paragraph , had been held not to preclude health inspections under national law , were found to create a comprehensive system with regard to the composition and preparation of animal foodstuffs , so that Germany could not lay down its own rules on minimum and maximum levels of certain ingredients . |
| 16 | Throughout the 1970s the leitmotif of Community activity had been that of ‘ harmonisation ’ ; national frontiers and barriers to trade would subside as detailed legislation on subjects as varied as car parts , pasta , animal fodder and professional training , were enacted to create common Community standards leading to a united economic market . |
| 17 | In general , the measures were to attempt to create an environment for cycling which was safe , direct , comfortable and in which cyclists felt that they were being encouraged and provided for . |
| 18 | To overcome this the ministries themselves were forced to create functional interest groups , such as farmers organizations , development associations and educational groups to channel political demands into the appropriate ministries . |
| 19 | Sequences from two overlapping Drosophila cDNAs were combined to create a composite sequence of 2384 bases . |
| 20 | The image of Moses enveloped in the cloud of unknowing seemed to express the kind of spirituality they were trying to create . |
| 21 | I , I er , you would not expect me to continue with the euphoria which you were trying to create earlier , and er , I have to say that I suppose that you would n't er , be proposing any different budget to this would you , in the circumstances that you 've got . |
| 22 | And if you cast your minds way back to Tuesday you will remember that what I said was that the Americans were trying to create a system of limited government er and yet one which er protected the liberties of individuals not all individuals , not black individuals especially but of individuals , this was the rhetoric of the time and the main device that they invented to do this was something called the separation of powers and they argued that , where political power is concentrated , the potential for abuse is greater so that where executive and legislative powers are held in the same hands , as they are in our system of government , the , there is more prospect of government encroaching upon the rights of individuals . |
| 23 | They were hoping to create a little election history in Belfast , where brothers have never been elected to the city council at the same time . |
| 24 | In particular BR were advised to create a new senior post at headquarters with special responsibility for London and the South East . |
| 25 | Adoption was intended to create new family relationships not change those which already existed and joint custody was introduced as an alternative and to give some legal recognition to step-parents . |
| 26 | Marshall aid was intended to create European stability by 1952 , making further aid unnecessary . |
| 27 | In Scotland , Livingstone ( 1962 ) , 15 miles west of Edinburgh , but basically for Glasgow overspill , was intended to create a new focus of industrial activity in the East Central belt . |
| 28 | They are cases in which a promise was made which was intended to create legal relations and which , to the knowledge of the person making the promise , was going to be acted on by the person to whom it was made , and which was in fact so acted on . |
| 29 | Under the decree , which was intended to create the mechanisms of a free market to replace the administratively determined distribution system of the old Soviet economic system , local governments were ordered to organize facilities for wholesale markets in cities . |
| 30 | The delegates denied that the meeting was intended to create structures supplanting the CIS , but President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan , one of the strongest proponents of the CIS , said after the meeting that his confidence in the stability of the CIS had decreased because of Ukraine 's attitude at the last CIS summit [ see p. 38825 ] and the course of the Russian Congress of People 's Deputies [ for which see p. 38875 ] . |