Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government 's obvious intention was to identify me as the main source of all the criticism and speculation running counter to the official line on Flight 103 and then to destroy me . |
| 2 | There were lots of young people working there whose main ambition was to get me into a good home . |
| 3 | The result of this slight deformity was to leave him with a rather nasal drawl . |
| 4 | The only way he knew to heal the pain of his humiliation was to punish her for the crime of leaving him . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The tactic used by the Commission for passing the Single European Act was to present it to the member states as if it were the only thing on offer : either take this or leave the Community . |
| 7 | However : What Mr Taylor [ for the council ] said … was … that the common assumption which lay behind the agreement was that the council was the owner of the … land and that Mr Tillson had no interest in either parcel of land beyond the tenancy which the council was to grant him by the transaction . |
| 8 | She also reveals how the actor who tried to make the world a better place was to rescue her from the brink again . |
| 9 | My sister 's job was to meet her at the bus stop with the wheel basket so she did n't have to carry it up the road . |
| 10 | Because i in , in theory presumably they s they should n't have been abusing their position , they should n't be gaining more because the whole point was to do it for the masses particularly , I mean if you were a Party cadre erm you should n't be getting more out of it than anybody else . |
| 11 | The aim was to put them on the spot — or at least to impress the Inspector with your knowledge and concern . |
| 12 | His aim was to reconvert them to a Unitarian Christianity devoid of superstition . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | His special gift was to get us on the move , send us out to the butcher to buy that good piece of veal , into the kitchen to discover how delicate is the combination of veal , carrots , little onions , a scrap of bacon , seasonings and butter all so slowly and carefully amalgamated — and all done with butter and water alone . |
| 15 | The only way to banish the bogeyman was to look him in the eye without flinching . |
| 16 | Employing one of those supremely disingenuous somersaults of logic that only long training in double-speak and the official brand of British arrogance can confer , Mr Howard told a Westminster audience of backbenchers that ‘ If the Commission were to take us to the European Court I can think of few things more calculated to bring the Commission into disrepute ’ |
| 17 | It would be sad if ill-health were to deprive him of the chance to become the first democratically-elected president of South Africa . |
| 18 | As chance would have it we were going camping with another family whose father was to accompany me for a day 's climbing on Pillar . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A Norwegian freedom fighter who knew the area was to take her to the nearby village , after which she was on her own . |
| 21 | When , in the summer of 1983 , she went to England for a few weeks , she took a French companion whose role was to instruct her during every spare moment . |
| 22 | My first thought was to put them in the dustbin . |
| 23 | Later we were to have several talks , but when I first arrived sick and ill and my GP went through the diagnosis , his greatest concern was to get me into the hands of a good specialist which he did with the utmost speed . |
| 24 | And perhaps Labour 's greatest ever mistake was to saddle it with the label ‘ poll tax ’ , thereby fixing in the public mind the link between voting and taxation . |
| 25 | Does it really matter that those were early days , when the joke on campus was that the only way to kill anyone with a laser was to hit them over the head with it ? |
| 26 | One of the worst proposals put forward for the church was to turn it into a hamburger joint , run by the restaurant chain , Garfunkels : hardly a use compatible with the dignity of a historic church . |
| 27 | The predominant response to Mannheim 's proposals for the sociology of knowledge in the English-speaking world was to incorporate it into the programme of ‘ scientific ’ , functionalist sociology . |
| 28 | One of the first tasks for reclaiming the garden was to surround it with a leylandii hedge . |
| 29 | She had stayed at Thomas a while and now this officer was to put her on a stage for home . |
| 30 | There was the Cambridge Rapist in his mask with references to ‘ A Hard Day 's Night ’ — the idea was to link it to the death of The Beatles ' manager , Brian Epstein , during a supposed bout of homosexual S&M . |