Example sentences of "was [to-vb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unaware , Randall was saying urgently : ‘ What would you say if I was to arrange things myself ? |
| 2 | Her most urgent task was to arrange interviews with all the students to whom she was tutor . |
| 3 | Its purpose then was to monitor changes in the environment worldwide , and engender popular environmental practices . |
| 4 | The plan was to monitor communications of American organisations and individuals who in the eyes of the NSA wanted to foment civil disturbance or otherwise undermine the security of the United States . |
| 5 | The Mass offered was to include prayers for the ‘ happy state and safety ’ of their Majesties Philip and Mary , of George and John Dakyn and other benefactors of John Dakyn and the hospital during their lives , and for the repose of their souls after death . |
| 6 | He was planning his own paper , the Wall Street Journal , which was to include posters by various artists , including Pink Floyd 's Nick Mason and a story by Terry Jones , later of Monty Python 's Flying Circus . |
| 7 | The emphasis was on action and results rather than the collection of pages of analysis — the report produced by the scrutiny team was to include recommendations for the minister to act on . |
| 8 | On Oct. 10 it was announced that the central committee of the ruling party , the Rassemblement du peuple togolais ( RPT ) , had approved a proposal for the drafting of a new constitution by a special commission which was to include representatives of " all socio-professional groups " ; the draft would be put to a referendum in late 1991 . |
| 9 | He was not a man to be taunted into action ; his function was to eject troublemakers . |
| 10 | His job was to interview pilots on return from their missions . |
| 11 | It was to see houses on expensive sites rise constantly higher , the consequent birth of the ‘ lift ’ or ‘ elevator ’ , and in the 1880s the construction of the first ‘ skyscrapers ’ in the United States . |
| 12 | A later generation was to see Cistercians sent out as missionaries , especially among the heretics of the Languedoc ; and the wandering preacher — a very familiar figure in the twelfth century — became in the thirteenth a Franciscan or a Dominican friar . |
| 13 | The beginning of the fifteenth century , however , was to see changes in attitudes and practices . |
| 14 | Not so much the opposition — what shook me up was to see children being used in the front line by protestors . |
| 15 | Incidentally , how nice it was to see Parks keeping wicket for Hampshire . |
| 16 | The government was to issue vouchers to every citizen to enable them to buy shares in factories and enterprises . |
| 17 | The first step was to issue employees in all the Cromadex territories with a basic introduction pack , The Cromadex Primer , plus companion video . |
| 18 | The first step they took was to estimate figures for national income after the war , so that the scale of spending necessary to raise employment could be estimated . |
| 19 | Its purpose was to perform acts of sabotage and to organise raids far behind the enemy lines , and ( later , in Europe ) to sustain local guerrilla groups , and send back to Britain intelligence regarding any situation with which S.A.S. troops themselves were incapable of dealing in the small numbers in which they operated . |
| 20 | The course adopted , said Lord Hailsham , was to channel invitations for participation in journalism , appearances on the media , and other public engagements through the Lord Chancellor 's office . |
| 21 | Supported by a small ‘ efficiency unit ’ — composed of both civil servants and outside consultants — and originally established as part of the Prime Minister 's Office , Rayner 's job was to stimulate improvements in administrative efficiency within Whitehall . |
| 22 | One of the first tasks of the Habsburgs was to induce settlers to occupy the empty lands . |
| 23 | A variation was to drive cattle on to cultivated land , and then have damages assessed at the full value of the animals . |
| 24 | The 1959 Obscene Publications Act emerged from a simplistic notion that sexual material could be divided into two classes , " literature " and " pornography " , and the function of the new statutory definition of obscenity was to enable juries and magistrates to make the distinction between them . |
| 25 | The aim of this grander scheme was to enable policy-makers to combine stability in real exchange rates with steady , non-inflationary growth . |
| 26 | The specific purpose of that Act , as of the Act of 1935 before it , was to enable claims for contribution to be made as between parties who had no claim to contribution under the general law . |
| 27 | The whole point of the Independents exhibition was to enable artists to satisfy their need to exhibit without having to submit their work to a hanging committee . |
| 28 | The broad effect of the Act was to enable societies to offer the extended range of services they had been lobbying for . |
| 29 | It takes a bit of an effort to get to the punchline in IBM Corp 's alliance with Blockbuster Entertainment Corp to enable record stores to create compact disks on the spot at the request of the customer ( CI No 2,166 ) , because the deal is actually between IBM 's Fireworks Partners unit , which is buying a stake in Blockbuster 's NewLeaf Entertainment Corp subsidiary and creating a new company , Fairway Technology Associates , both in Deerfield Beach , Florida ; the latter has been formed to further the development of multimedia technologies and to operate the multimedia distribution system , which will consist of digital content databases , interfaces to broadband telecommunications networks , audio and video servers and content production and display devices — and we were all wrong in suggesting that the point of the system was to enable retailers to eliminate the problem of needing to stock thousands of slow-moving titles — the partners say the aim is ‘ to create a more enticing retail experience ’ . |
| 30 | Perhaps the real reason for the temporary arrangements at Stretford Bridge was to enable trains to be run between there and Bishop 's Castle before agreement to work over the joint line had been reached . |