Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] was [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I once saw a woman whose job it was to make small bar magnets from steel blanks about two inches long . |
| 2 | The money dispensers in the capital could only be approached through their acolyte , whose job it was to demand some offerings and make the right moves to ensure success . |
| 3 | Maximilian was to marry twice , and by his second wife he was to have ten children . |
| 4 | He played that aspect of himself which could well have been in a war — after all he had trained long enough for it — and the result was the sort of performance he was to deliver several times in his film career and none the worse for that : professional , convincing . |
| 5 | In this instance it was to create another car access route to the Murrayfield Stadium for the visit of Billy Graham , the crowd gathering evangelist . |
| 6 | Under the bishop 's plan he and I were to change places , and while I was on furlough he was to keep both jobs going , and I would do the same on my return . |
| 7 | It was a promise he was to keep many times . |
| 8 | But this time it was to shove fifty U S dollars into my hand . |
| 9 | On Aug. 13 the Soviet Union responded coolly to Saddam 's " peace initiative " of the previous day , and on Aug. 17 Shevardnadze said in Moscow after talks with West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher that the Security Council could soon assume a military role which could bring a rapid resolution of the crisis ; the Security Council Military Staff Committee , he said , was the body whose task it was to co-ordinate military measures . |