Example sentences of "was also [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 On December 7th too , when the matter was raised at a meeting of the President and principals , the operation was presented by McFarlane as essentially prospective , something that had not happened yet ; but the purpose of the meeting was also to justify policy after the fact .
2 If the combined effect of these rather complex changes in the distribution of social labour between sectors and strata was to reduce the size of the ‘ traditional ’ industrial working class , it was also to render the ‘ traditional ’ British conception of the middle class more problematic .
3 Finally , the question tells us that A's object was to save the leader ; it does not tell us whether his object was also to save himself .
4 She did not admit to herself that to leave it was also to decide the issue in advance .
5 IBM Corp was scheduled to make an ‘ operational announcement ’ on its Adstar storage business in San Jose just after we closed on Friday , but we have to assume that it was not anything sufficiently dramatic that it would move the share price , otherwise the company would have had to announce it on the New York Stock Exchange before the market opened to prevent a false market operating in the shares ; the announcement was to be made by vice-chairman Jack Kuehler , and was also to include some personnel news ; IBM has been studying ways to separate Adstar from the rest of the company , Dow Jones & Co notes , and earlier this year , it hired Morgan Stanley & Co and the Boston Consulting Group to recommend ways to speed up the process , which could involve outside investors or a new class of IBM share — and those advisors were scheduled to be done with the preliminary work by now ; a first step would likely be the creation of Adstar as a wholly-owned subsidiary — it has kept separate books since last year ; but the IBM spokesman said some observers might be surprised by the announcement , which was to be concerned with Adstar 's ‘ operations as an IBM business unit and its future direction . ’
6 If it enabled the latter the crucial theoretical move of being able to reject the classical empiricist conception of knowledge , it was also to put him in the position of even castigating as ‘ historicist ’ any attempts to account for theoretical discourse in terms of its historical conditions of production — perhaps one of the major ways in which he differed from Canguilhem and Foucault .
7 It was also to incorporate the sabra or prickly pear , the cactus which is a symbol of Israel , to provide hope for the future not only for Jews but also for all the persecuted people of the world .
8 Another temporary need fitted in to this plan , for Robert Slater , the Anglican chaplain at the university , was also to go on leave , and I was to keep services going in the little wooden Anglican church on the university side of the lake , as well as the other two quite heavy responsibilities .
9 The schoolmistress was ‘ quite inefficient ’ and was also to go , but the porter was to be admonished only .
10 A bill to oblige developers to include a proportion of low-income housing in any application to build office blocks or housing complexes was also to go before the National Assembly in April .
11 Bush arrived on Dec. 31 , flying to Mogadishu from the USS Tripoli to address troops at the start of a 48-hour visit in which he was also to go to Baidoa .
12 A major prop for the Thatcher government in the 1980s was a strong reaction against central government , the world of the quangos and over-mighty metropolitan authorities — although , ironically , that administration was also to take centralization still further , especially in its crusade against local government and the vested interests of the professions .
13 This study was also to take account of the principle — enshrined in the OAU charter — of non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries .
14 This study was also to take account of the principle — enshrined in the OAU charter — of non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries .
15 The Hugh Bell School dosed on 1948 , and the deaf classes were transferred to Homewood in Orchard Road , in enlarged premises ready to receive pupils from the Stockton School for the Deaf which was also to close .
16 Iran was also to co-operate on oil exploration and refining with Turkmenistan , whose offshore oil extraction in the Caspian sea was suffering disruption because of shortages of hitherto centrally supplied materials .
17 The town Soviet was also to hold discussions with representatives from the factories and the women 's section .
18 Robert Pemberton , used by Gloucester to seize Woodville land , had been one of Edward IV 's ushers of the chamber ( a post he was also to hold under Richard III ) and had been appointed by the queen as parker and warrener of Higham Ferrers ( Northants ) in 1468 .
19 Robert Pemberton , used by Gloucester to seize Woodville land , had been one of Edward IV 's ushers of the chamber ( a post he was also to hold under Richard III ) and had been appointed by the queen as parker and warrener of Higham Ferrers ( Northants ) in 1468 .
20 He was also to enjoy all issues of the shrievalty , the demesne lands of the castle of Carlisle and the city 's fee farm .
21 He was also to enjoy all issues of the shrievalty , the demesne lands of the castle of Carlisle and the city 's fee farm .
22 But to understand Maurice Abberley was also to fear and to loathe him .
23 Their overall fuel policy role was also to give them influence over more central aspects of BEA decision making on the choice of fuel for power stations , particularly when oil and nuclear power began to look like attractive options to add to the industry 's coal-fired base .
24 Onusal was also to monitor any future ceasefire in the 11-year civil war .
25 Israel was admitted as a member of the UN Economic and Social Council in late July ; it was also to join ECOSOC 's European arm , the Economic Commission for Europe .
26 While the intention was also to speed up procedures , the initial introduction caused some practical difficulties .
27 That sharpness of personal antagonism was also to draw the rope a little tighter round the throat of the sneering presence that filled the air in millions of English homes .
28 To support Wilfrid was also to engage in a protracted dispute which must have been a long-term embarrassment both to the Northumbrian king and the archbishop of Canterbury .
29 To cling to a Polish identity was to exclude oneself from the German monopoly on higher education and from all but menial employment in industry ; given the rapid depopulation of the countryside it was also to insist on the right to become and remain part of a backward , ignorant , illiterate , inward-looking agrarian people , stuck in a rural backwater with no access to the outside world , with scant interest from that world and little hope of progress .
30 But the nineteenth century was also to see more radical questioning of this assumption about the proper approach to the matter . )
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