Example sentences of "was [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The objective was to acquire software which would stimulate interest in every subject . |
| 2 | UNIP secretary-general Alexander Grey Zulu added his voice to the official rejection of multiparty politics , when he said in Kitwe on May 21 that those advocating the reintroduction of multiparty politics " should not beat about the bush as to their real motive , which was to acquire power " . |
| 3 | My first step was to gather information on how I spent my time on school-related activities and attempt to create some form of time-analysis schedule . |
| 4 | The ideal of the time was to arrange nature in such a way as not to make it look rearranged . |
| 5 | Dawley ( 1963 ) , later expanded and renamed Telford , situated between Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury , was to accommodate pressure from the West Midlands , but it also served the purpose of tidying up the old mining and industrial area of Oakengates and Wellington . |
| 6 | But since the ECSC had been created , the faltering Fourth French Republic had collapsed in 1958 , and France was then governed by President de Gaulle , determined to raise the status of France as a state and nation : it was a foretaste of the French attitude that was to affect integration in the next decade . |
| 7 | The object was to monitor change in the services provided in Nottinghamshire and to evaluate the work of the CMHTs . |
| 8 | During the last years of the century some of the school boards even became involved in secondary education , producing a confused pattern of educational growth that was to prompt government action at the beginning of the twentieth century . |
| 9 | She was tall and thin and extremely pale , with a very sad smile , and the only reason she crossed the moat to the village was to attend Mass . |
| 10 | Salt-burning at Droitwich was confined to the six months Midsummer — Christmas — to keep up the price , Leland was told , though he himself thought the real motive was to conserve wood , since the exhaustion of supplies nearby obliged the salters to buy it from as far away as Worcester , Bromsgrove , Alvechurch and Alcester . |
| 11 | The principal technique was to transmit radar pulses vertically downwards and measure the time lapsed before the echo was received . |
| 12 | It was not until the next to last day of the visit that she finally formulated to herself her secret desire , which was to see Montmartre at night . |
| 13 | That was the first time I was to see pain and suffering at close quarters . ’ |
| 14 | I was to see Loch of Strathbeg . |
| 15 | The incentive for Preston to win was to go top of the table … enough said in the second half Ellis ran away with it to make it three-nil … |
| 16 | They only thing they could do was to go walk up to walk up a road to and contact the Evie bus but it did n't come down along for years and years . |
| 17 | Her only defence was to pretend offence and cross her arms . |
| 18 | The aim of the new Director-General was to promote sport as well as Christianity . |
| 19 | American official policy was to promote self-government in south Korea as a prelude to unification but de la Mare observed that the long delay in accomplishing unification made this unlikely . |
| 20 | Its aim was to promote peace and international understanding through education . |
| 21 | As for the pope , his prime concern was to promote peace in the realm , an aim which he judged best served by siding with the king . |
| 22 | She has made much of statements made by Neville , and has quoted him as saying that ‘ the weapons of revolution are obscenity , blasphemy and drugs ’ and as further saying during the OZ trial that the whole point of pornography was to promote promiscuity . |
| 23 | At the lower levels their aim was to promote aid from less unfortunate households to the poor and the starving . |
| 24 | Some £50 million of Exchequer monies were allocated to the fund for use to assist organisations whose purpose was to promote appreciation and enjoyment of the countryside . |
| 25 | Most importantly , its key objective was to promote openness and trust at the top level , a refreshing contract to the dog-eat-dog approach being bred into far too many managers in this sado-masochistic age . |
| 26 | The first priority was to restore order and she made it plain that she backed the police unequivocally in doing so . |
| 27 | And it was to restore order , as much as anything , that a nominally Vietnamese administration provided at least the façade of an ‘ independent ’ Vietnamese government . |
| 28 | The JNA 's role , they said , was to restore order against the Croatian armed forces and irregular Moslem militia . |
| 29 | A second priority was to restore order , especially in Algeria . |
| 30 | After the battering the team had taken in Australia , he realized that the first job was to restore morale , and he did manage to instil some of his own determination into his players . |