Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [to-vb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did Benjamin carry secret orders from his uncle that Selkirk and Ruthven were to die for the common good ? |
| 2 | The household 's final act was to arrange for the immediate disposal of the viscera which , like the body , were almost certainly placed in a lead box within a velvet-upholstered outer case . |
| 3 | We were told that even if inward migration was to stop for the next ten years , 45,000 new houses would still be needed to cater for the predicted natural growth of 49,000 people , plus the trend towards smaller households . |
| 4 | That job was to last for the following eleven years . |
| 5 | And after Haley came Presley , Little Richard , and Fats Domino , laying a freeway through popular culture that outraged left and right alike , and down which successive generations of youth were to drive for the next three decades . |
| 6 | Its purpose was to prepare for the coming struggle between good order under a monarchy , and the revolutionary socialism of the sort to which republics often sink-until , that is , conditions deteriorate to the point where people are ready to revolt against the system and return to the rule of an even more powerful dictator . |
| 7 | His one hope was to head for the small area of streets and alleys he had explored around the bar-restaurant before going inside ( ‘ … reconnoitre the Subject 's area … ’ ) . |
| 8 | The attraction between the conjectured planet and Uranus was to account for the latter 's departure from its initially predicted orbit . |
| 9 | His only choice at present was to wait for the right moment to play his hand . |
| 10 | The immediate task entrusted by Franco to Lequerica was to secure for the Spanish regime the approval of the western democracies without , as yet , severing its links with Nazi Germany . |
| 11 | When it reappeared in December , Index had taken over the printing — and Gutenberg 's technology was to rule for the next 12 years . |
| 12 | My first real task was to prepare for the next meeting of the Accidents Investigation Division of ICAO in Montreal . |