Example sentences of "task was [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maat wore a single ostrich feather in the centre of her forehead ; one of her tasks was to weigh the souls of dead men for OSIRIS , and she would use this feather to test and redress any imbalance in the Scales of Truth . |
| 2 | One of our early tasks was to confront the report of the Serpell Committee in May 1982 , and accordingly we gave evidence at the All Wales Conference held in Cardiff in that year . |
| 3 | One of Jane Clifford 's first tasks was to prepare the uninhabited rooms at Rhydoldog for a major feature in the ‘ Living ’ section of Vogue . |
| 4 | Smith 's first task was to improve the ground 's facilities . |
| 5 | In March 1941 as principal scientific officer he joined P. M. S. ( later Baron ) Blackett [ q.v. ] in the operational research section at Coastal Command , where his task was to improve the methods of finding and sinking U-boats . |
| 6 | Their task was to persuade the Roman leaders to behave in a way which would not alienate the majority of their subjects and consequently would not imperil the position of those upper-class provincials who had identified their interests with Roman rule . |
| 7 | C.C. 's task was to remember the dividing contour between the red and green section on each trial , deciding whether it matched a probe line presented after each display ( for example , in Fig. 2 the probe matches for the upper panel but not the lower panel ) . |
| 8 | Its task was to duplicate the peace process with the April 19 Movement ( Movimiento 19 de Abril — M-19 — for whose March 1990 demobilization see p. 37311 ) in order to disband and reintegrate guerrilla groups into civilian life . |
| 9 | Meanwhile the actual direction of the party under Mr Callaghan , aided by Mr Foot , was in the hands of those who believed that its main task was to represent the interests of trade unions . |
| 10 | The task was to repeat the words " double , double , double " over and over again , and it was used on the assumption that , while vocalising , judgements about words would not be made on the basis of their phonological codes . |
| 11 | Its principal task was to lay the foundations for the governmental structures of post-war Spain , so that , when the end of the war should finally come , the political transition from the Republican to the Francoist state could be effected without any hiatus . |
| 12 | The Land Commission 's first task was to assess the availability of , and demand for , land for house-building , particularly in the areas of greatest pressure . |
| 13 | The report 's task was to assess the effects on 825,000 people living in the nearby area . |
| 14 | My task was to assess the validity of the information taken over the phone and the only way I could do that was to contact someone who knew the Lawrence situation . |
| 15 | But since it was his habit to ease his mind of the burden of one job before taking on another , his first task was to finish the prose book . |
| 16 | Throughout 1952 his major task was to finish the play which he had already begun . |
| 17 | The police on the other hand argued that their task was to uphold the law , to keep the peace , and to facilitate the entry of non-striking miners into workplaces ; mass picketing was obstructive and intimidating , both of which could give rise to arrest and charge for criminal offences . |
| 18 | His first task was to give the new group a strategic thrust . |
| 19 | The first legate to enter the scene was Cardinal Peter of Capua whose task was to transform the peace between Philip Augustus and Richard I in late 1198 . |
| 20 | The children 's task was to choose the picture-strip which ‘ goes with the sentence ’ . |
| 21 | Then the child heard a sentence fragment of the form B because … ( e.g. , The cup falls because … ) and presented with two single pictures of A and C. The child 's task was to choose the appropriate picture and complete the sentence . |
| 22 | As in Emerson 's study , the child 's task was to choose the picture-strip which matched the sentence . |
| 23 | Lyalin said his personal task was to destroy the early-warning radar station at Fylingdales while other agents would flood the London underground system . |
| 24 | Okay , the task was to ignore the right hand bracket and to sort cards based on the left hand bracket In fact you 'd sort them into two piles , not four . |
| 25 | When he arrived his first task was to light the one and only office fire . |
| 26 | The Guandong Army 's task was to guard the leased Liaodong Peninsula and Japanese interests in Manchuria , including the South Manchurian Railway and lands controlled by the Japanese adjacent to it . |
| 27 | Their task was to impregnate the woman so she would eventually produce children who could serve Satan . |
| 28 | The first task was to halt the rapid North Korean advance , then the Un commander-in-chief , General MacArthur , launched a counter-attack , allied with a brilliant flanking movement made possible by an amphibious assault on Inchon . |
| 29 | Mr Newmarch 's next task was to tackle the 10,000 salesforce . |
| 30 | The lack of progress was attributed partly to a delay of two weeks in setting up the joint working commissions whose task was to implement the Accord under UN auspices . |