Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] to give [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Great though improvements in European agriculture had been and were to be , it was industry which gave Europe world leadership , as it was later to give it to the United States . |
| 2 | Their overall fuel policy role was also to give them influence over more central aspects of BEA decision making on the choice of fuel for power stations , particularly when oil and nuclear power began to look like attractive options to add to the industry 's coal-fired base . |
| 3 | Our brief was simply to give our clients a good day out with lots of climbing . |
| 4 | He and I have been friends for many years , so it may have helped that I was there to give him some confidence in the project . |
| 5 | Were were would you suggest that they have a lot of unresolved feelings about that , or maybe they had emotional scars because no-one was there to give them the kind of hope that might be available now ? |