Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | And it would be nice if you were to provide her with a little brother or sister . ’ |
2 | There was no sense in expecting any help from the boy , the only thing to be done was to exclude him as an irresponsible minor from the consideration of his own fate . |
3 | In those circumstances the only option open to a government , determined to return Rover to the private sector , was to sell it to a British company which was not involved in the car industry . |
4 | The plan , agreed in 1989 , was to replace it with a purpose-built dental hospital and postgraduate institute . |
5 | His aim was to reconvert them to a Unitarian Christianity devoid of superstition . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | There were lots of young people working there whose main ambition was to get me into a good home . |
10 | Hence , the ‘ Bow-Wave Phenomenon ’ turned into the ‘ Barrack Square Syndrome ’ , in which the only way to mop up money was to spend it on a few quickly and easily let contracts , like refurbishing barrack squares and military roads ! |