Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The intention was to hand over to a new social democratic party and a younger generation of leaders less tainted with the communist past . |
| 2 | The war was all but over , although bitter fighting was to rumble on in the islands for many decades . |
| 3 | The only other alternative was to go back to the cottage , as well he 'd known . |
| 4 | But the siege was to drag on into the summer of 1098 before the fortress finally capitulated and Rodrigo was able to enter in triumph and order Mass to be sung in one of the main squares . |
| 5 | As a youngster in the 1950s my greatest delight was to run on to the pitch at Murrayfield after the full-time whistle , pat my heroes on the back and not wash my hands for a week , much to the disgust of my mother . |
| 6 | The plan was to go down to the south coast and camp . |
| 7 | Lisa 's instant reaction was to back out of the door again . |
| 8 | Charlie 's only reaction was to stare out of the window because he was n't quite sure what else to do . |
| 9 | His favourite relaxation was to toddle down to the quay and join the Royal Navy patrol boat for a day out . |
| 10 | His job was to go out into the bush to take samples and he found it the most unspoilt area on Earth he has ever been to , areas the size of Wales in which no white man has ever set foot . |
| 11 | Coleman 's job was to get out on the streets and talk to people , to come back with a feel for what the bombing had achieved . |
| 12 | Her first move was to go round to the various teachers who taught the senior class and borrow from them a number of text-books , books on algebra , geometry , French , English Literature and the like . |
| 13 | Mr. Gow : While recognising the undoubted right of all members of the General Synod to deeply held views for or against the policies of the present Government , would it be helpful if my right Hon. Friend were to point out to the General Synod that its reputation would be enhanced if its members , when in Synod , devoted more time to matters spiritual than to matter political ? |
| 14 | The government 's response to mounting criticism was to crack down on the principal advocates of reform . |
| 15 | The Fiction was his last attempt at personal writing in 1914 before he decided , by whatever hidden processes , that the best solution to his apparent obsession with introspection and self-analysis was to cross over into the world of poetry , with its quite different but equally stringent laws and regulations . |
| 16 | In terms of short-term economic measures , the main thrust of government policy was to drain off from the economy excess money which was fuelling inflation , contributing to constant shortages and frustrating efforts at economic control . |
| 17 | The way in which that topic was to explode on to the stage in the twentieth century is anticipated in the frontal attack launched on Hegel 's system by the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard . |
| 18 | Three weeks later , on the day I became Prime Minister , my first impulse was to sit down in the study which had been Harold 's and write him a letter of appreciation and grateful thanks . |
| 19 | His first priority was to climb on to the rim of the sink and peer through the upper left-hand corner of the kitchen window . |
| 20 | ‘ One piece of advice was to think back on the big innings I have played and think about the positive parts of those innings — picking out the pieces I really enjoyed . |
| 21 | For example , a basalt flow which is moving over a dry , sandy surface is quite well-behaved and peaceful , but if the same flow were to advance on to an area of wet , boggy ground , or on to a snow-field , the water trapped beneath the lava may be heated up and turned into high-pressure steam . |
| 22 | A MOTHER has condemned thieves who stole the wheels off the family car just before her cancer victim daughter was to set off for a hospital check up . |
| 23 | But uncle was to creep down in the night and abuse the little girl he was giving shelter to . |
| 24 | As he saw it , the job of the Church was to get on with the task of proclaiming the gospel and ministering the sacraments . |
| 25 | His brief was to come up with a recipe for a high-growth food with cost ( within reason ) no object . |
| 26 | Our mission was to take back from the Boche those few miles of battered ground that we 'd bought with half a million lives in those Battles of the Somme , two years before . |
| 27 | Her great ability was to get through to the outcasts of society — the drunks , the crazed , the depressed . |
| 28 | WAC 's most elaborate ruse to date was to turn up at the Republican convention in Houston and install batch after batch of 20-by-60-foot high feminist slogans ( designed by Anderson , Kruger et al ) which greeted Bush 's nearest and dearest as they exited from the convention . |
| 29 | So the problem was to come up with the right kind of songs which would still act as vehicles for the guitar — because , basically , the song itself is the most important thing . |
| 30 | IF an election could be held to decide which animal was to reign over of the Kingdoms of the East there would be three leading candidates . |