Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] [adv] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each partner was to bring in £50 per share ; they were to meet once a month at least , with the accounts made up and settled every three months . |
| 2 | Conversely , if a French broker were to set up a branch in London and was subject to those more relaxed French rules , the branch would equally be at a competitive advantage as against UK firms . |
| 3 | They were to bring back a score of fighter aircraft in the same way that Deemy and his colleagues had done earlier that week . |
| 4 | The aim of the proposal was to carry out a visit of one month to France under the ESRC/CNTLS Exchange scheme for social scientists in order to pursue collaborative work on Time , the family and leisure |
| 5 | On this occasion the most difficult decision was to pass on a share of the savings target to the English and Welsh Regions . |
| 6 | A third technique was to sell off a proportion of the whole operation , as it did with British Telecom , British Gas , British Aerospace , and Britoil ; and British Rail was made to sell off its hotels . |
| 7 | The immediate response of the Government was to set up a committee of inquiry under Lord Justice Woolf to examine the events and the underlying causes . |
| 8 | There were also teachers in the sample who were grappling with several complex long-term and short-term schedules and forecasts at a time , and others whose only apparent work plan was to set up a succession of ad hoc activities with little long-term coherence or progression . |
| 9 | David tells about his night-time television viewing being interrupted by a prompting to pray ; then of several trips to New York all with no clear understanding that he was to set up a programme for those involved in drug abuse . |
| 10 | Their starting point was to set up a model in which there were no opportunities for arbitrage by specifying an equality between those investors taking their returns solely in terms of capital gains by selling before the share went ex-dividend , and those who sold after the share went ex-dividend and thus collected their return in capital gains and dividends : where . |
| 11 | The first move was to set up a meet with Jo . |
| 12 | When she reappeared on the stage it was to look over a sea of smiling faces and to listen to the chant now of ‘ Macushla ! |
| 13 | The aim of the discussion on full employment policy in his Cabinet committee was to put out a statement before Beveridge , and the politicians were prepared to slide over practical difficulties in implementing the policy — all that was required was a statement of principles . |
| 14 | The first was to draw up a structure of government which could serve to protect the people from government , from the danger of a tyranny of the majority in the legislature ; but the second aim was to protect the people from themselves . |
| 15 | Once the decision had been taken , no time was wasted in defining the areas of the city to be dealt with and in actually measuring the ground , for Haussmann 's first task was to draw up a plan of Paris measured to an exact scale . |
| 16 | His book entitled The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy avoids a chronological sequence , since his plan of arrangement was to build up a mosaic of characteristic material . |
| 17 | However , his first involvement was to break up a scuffle between Impey and Burrows , which brought Graeme Souness running onto the pitch to complain to the linesman — strange behaviour from a manager who , last month , was given a five-match touchline ban by UEFA . |
| 18 | How hard it was to harm even a copy of him ? ’ |
| 19 | His approach was positivist and rationalist and his general objective was to lay down a theory of social evolution . |
| 20 | The first thing I did when I came to live in this lovely place , was to take out a subscription for MKM . |
| 21 | William Charles was then half-way there ; the next stage was to take along a piece of paper certifying this aforesaid freedom , and present it to the Chamberlain 's Office as part of the procedure for achieving full freedom of the City . |
| 22 | The OSS forerunner of the CIA — held joint meetings with M16 to hammer out a viable response , and Roosevelt was advised to cook up some scheme with his ‘ Former Naval Person ’ friend across the water suggesting that Hitler 's real hope was to bring about a peace in Europe so that he could attack and destroy the US and her interests . |
| 23 | The purpose of that exercise was to bring about a specification for maternity services . |