Example sentences of "[was/were] to create a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would undoubtedly be of great benefit to future scholars working in this field if the College were to create a central repository of classified material on a sector of education of which it is , after all , a not insignificant part . |
| 2 | Part of this settlement was to create a Servian buffer state , and both Sigismund and Murad agreed to recognise Djuradj Branković as the legitimate ruler of an independent Serbia . |
| 3 | This occurred in Egypt and Asia , for instance , and the intention was to create a closed currency system whereby everyone entering the kingdom had to change their foreign coin into local coin and did not take the local coinage out of the country . |
| 4 | A more oblique approach , a project of the elder James Stephen , was to create a central registry of slaves intended not only to provide evidence of the extent to which the anti-slave trade legislation was being evaded , but to illuminate the demographic trends within the slave population and indirectly the conditions and treatment of the bondsmen . |
| 5 | The ultimate aim was to create a Central Intelligence Unit to correlate all information received from Customs and Police sources in both the UK and at international level . |
| 6 | The SDP 's aim was to create a real third force in British politics and their hope was to take votes from both parties . |
| 7 | Instead the Japanese drug industry has been shaped by national health policy , whose primary goal was to create a stable supply of up-to-date drugs . |
| 8 | With memories of the inept and unstable parliamentary experiment under Weimar still fresh , the imperative after the war was to create a stable system . |
| 9 | The aim was to create a stable coalition which would represent the majority of the people of Israel , he said . |
| 10 | The second recommendation was to create a general management function throughout the service to focus responsibility and give leadership and direction . |
| 11 | In the long run it was to create a new ‘ image ’ of itself which was purposely devoid of politics , as well as left-wing politics . |
| 12 | Haughey told the conference that Fianna Fáil 's aim over the next decade was to create a new , enlightened , open , Irish society . |
| 13 | How about his comment about trying to create a classless society , when one of his first acts as Premier was to create a new hereditary baronetcy for Dennis Thatcher . |
| 14 | What Chaplin the showman had done was to create a great screen clown , a clown whose frame of reference was to be emotion rather than politics . |
| 15 | The idea was to create a spatial framework that would carry the sightline of viewers towards a central focus . |
| 16 | The idea behind trying to get together with Imperial was to create a world-size food company with , as it happened , tobacco money to back it up , because the cashflow from tobacco is much more than the tobacco business actually requires to sustain it . |
| 17 | Supporting the leadership , Garfield Davies , general secretary of the shop workers ' union Usdaw , said delegates should not forget the objective was to create a nuclear-free world , not just a nuclear-free Britain . |
| 18 | Their intention when they opened Sutherland House was to create a homely , clean and warm environment . |
| 19 | A response was that member States would be unlikely to give organisations such far-reaching powers and to empower them to implement such an agreement , unless the intention was to create a supra-national organisation . |
| 20 | R/000/23/1142 The primary aim of this project ( which we call Project SUSANNE — ‘ surface and underlying structural analyses of naturalistic English ’ ) was to create a sizeable machine-readable sample of written English annotated with the fullest possible grammatical information and selected semantic information , in order to provide language researchers with a source of information ( including statistical information ) about patterns of usage in authentic English . |
| 21 | Matthias ' aim , apart from regulating the internal affairs of Hungary by subduing the powers of chronically feuding magnates , was to create a Danubian empire strong enough to withstand the Turkish assault . |
| 22 | When employees ' share schemes first came to be introduced here , the normal practice was to create a special class of shares with restricted rights regarding , in particular , votes and transferability ; only in relation to share option schemes , designed as incentive to top management , were ordinary voting equity shares on offer . |
| 23 | The net result of this activity was to create a national grain market , with trade no longer centred on a few major points of collection , transit , and marketing . |
| 24 | The idea was to create a British version of BMW or Audi ; the new 200 is that idea 's realisation . |
| 25 | Their intention was to create a narrative experience for the pilgrim or initiand , an experience full of unsettling incident and surprise . |
| 26 | The aim was to create a non-biased set of figures that would paint an international picture of the scale of air pollution . |
| 27 | One effect of this strategy was to create a large number of internal refugees — some reports estimating that some 150,000 Cambodians were displaced during 1990 , either by being forcibly moved in to the interior by SOC troops , or by fleeing from Khmer Rouge attack . |