Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is significant , and ironic , that their twentieth-century successors were to define them as an ‘ intellectual aristocracy ’ . |
| 2 | His partner had suddenly remembered her brothers were to meet her at the door and take her home ( an old trick , this ) . |
| 3 | The government 's obvious intention was to identify me as the main source of all the criticism and speculation running counter to the official line on Flight 103 and then to destroy me . |
| 4 | There were lots of young people working there whose main ambition was to get me into a good home . |
| 5 | The result of this slight deformity was to leave him with a rather nasal drawl . |
| 6 | The only way he knew to heal the pain of his humiliation was to punish her for the crime of leaving him . |
| 7 | He knew well enough that convincing politicians was a tough job , so his plan was to present them with an informed and insistent electorate of the future . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | However : What Mr Taylor [ for the council ] said … was … that the common assumption which lay behind the agreement was that the council was the owner of the … land and that Mr Tillson had no interest in either parcel of land beyond the tenancy which the council was to grant him by the transaction . |
| 10 | She also reveals how the actor who tried to make the world a better place was to rescue her from the brink again . |
| 11 | My sister 's job was to meet her at the bus stop with the wheel basket so she did n't have to carry it up the road . |
| 12 | Because i in , in theory presumably they s they should n't have been abusing their position , they should n't be gaining more because the whole point was to do it for the masses particularly , I mean if you were a Party cadre erm you should n't be getting more out of it than anybody else . |
| 13 | The aim was to put them on the spot — or at least to impress the Inspector with your knowledge and concern . |
| 14 | His aim was to reconvert them to a Unitarian Christianity devoid of superstition . |
| 15 | It would n't be the first time that a man had lovingly supported a woman through crisis only to discover that when she was strong again his own need was to confine her in a dependent role . |
| 16 | His special gift was to get us on the move , send us out to the butcher to buy that good piece of veal , into the kitchen to discover how delicate is the combination of veal , carrots , little onions , a scrap of bacon , seasonings and butter all so slowly and carefully amalgamated — and all done with butter and water alone . |
| 17 | The effect of all such variations was to make it in the interests of publishers not to specialize in one type of paper but , as they did increasingly over the post-war decades , to spread their interests across morning , evening and weekly papers — and , in a few cases , Sundays . |
| 18 | The only way to banish the bogeyman was to look him in the eye without flinching . |
| 19 | 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 ’ |
| 20 | It would be sad if ill-health were to deprive him of the chance to become the first democratically-elected president of South Africa . |
| 21 | As chance would have it we were going camping with another family whose father was to accompany me for a day 's climbing on Pillar . |
| 22 | At the time of Cats , for example , there were lots of offers to turn that into a film , but his instinct was to keep it as a musical play and hold off the film offers . |
| 23 | A Norwegian freedom fighter who knew the area was to take her to the nearby village , after which she was on her own . |
| 24 | In fact they exchanged hints for Orwell 's own essay on Wodehouse ( 1945 ) ; and years after Orwell 's death , Waugh was to praise him in a broadcast for having generously helped to save Wodehouse from the undeserved public disgrace of prosecution as a war-time Nazi collaborator . |
| 25 | When , in the summer of 1983 , she went to England for a few weeks , she took a French companion whose role was to instruct her during every spare moment . |
| 26 | Thus the effect of the nineteenth-century sales was to turn them from a class of privileged municipal tenants into outright owners of the surplus land of the community . |
| 27 | Then , scientists were to puncture them in the leg with a large hypodermic to extract a sample of muscle tissue . |
| 28 | My first thought was to put them in the dustbin . |
| 29 | Later we were to have several talks , but when I first arrived sick and ill and my GP went through the diagnosis , his greatest concern was to get me into the hands of a good specialist which he did with the utmost speed . |
| 30 | And perhaps Labour 's greatest ever mistake was to saddle it with the label ‘ poll tax ’ , thereby fixing in the public mind the link between voting and taxation . |