Example sentences of "[coord] [vb infin] [noun] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | An £84m package to build and improve hospitals was agreed by the authority . |
| 2 | An £84m. package to build and improve hospitals was agreed by the authority , and water fluoridation costing £260,000 is to restart to protect people in the region against dental decay . |
| 3 | Until recently , it was considered that this ability to make and use tools was one of the defining characteristics of the human race . |
| 4 | A pool of people who could read and keep ledgers was essential if the world of commerce were to expand . |
| 5 | Literary language was not removed from these public concerns , a belief that texts could communicate and move readers was of course fundamental to the assumption that poetry could teach and delight . |
| 6 | The use of the bottle to store and contain wine was an English custom ; the French at this time generally preferred the use of casks to store , serve and transport their wines . |
| 7 | Instead , the effort to build and manage culture was a serious , constant , iterative , ‘ hands on ’ activity . |
| 8 | It was considered that , under the 1959 Act , an informal meeting of the licensing court prior to the statutory meeting to consider and authorise citations was competent , and there is no reason why such consideration under the 1976 Act should not take place under the provisions of s.15(2) . |
| 9 | Furthermore , thought and deed are not distinguished as sharply by primitives or children as they are by modern adults , and therefore the impact on primitives of the wish to kill and devour father(s) was as great , psychically , as the deed would be to modern people . |