Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [to-vb] [pron] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tactic used by the Commission for passing the Single European Act was to present it to the member states as if it were the only thing on offer : either take this or leave the Community . |
| 2 | His aim was to reconvert them to a Unitarian Christianity devoid of superstition . |
| 3 | Employing one of those supremely disingenuous somersaults of logic that only long training in double-speak and the official brand of British arrogance can confer , Mr Howard told a Westminster audience of backbenchers that ‘ If the Commission were to take us to the European Court I can think of few things more calculated to bring the Commission into disrepute ’ |
| 4 | A Norwegian freedom fighter who knew the area was to take her to the nearby village , after which she was on her own . |
| 5 | His first thought was to do something to the Volkswagen Passat . |
| 6 | There was the Cambridge Rapist in his mask with references to ‘ A Hard Day 's Night ’ — the idea was to link it to the death of The Beatles ' manager , Brian Epstein , during a supposed bout of homosexual S&M . |
| 7 | To be seriously concerned with this field was to expose oneself to the possibility of ridicule when it turned out that one had been deceived by a clever confidence trickster ; at best it led to controversy , to results which were suggestive rather than conclusive , and away from those straightforward and answerable questions which since Galileo 's time had been the essence of scientific research . |