Example sentences of "it was [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm and certainly I think I think in going to neighbourhood panels it was it was to serve a democratic process of tenants being able to panels local to their that area and I think in that sense erm it has been successful and certainly , I think as far as we were concerned er , it avoids the perhaps intimidating nature of , of tenants appearing in a large centre of the various panel which er I think was er , certainly one of the members wishes when we started on a neighbourhood basis but , yes it was our intention and , I would think that it 's quite reasonable to ask us to bring the report to the next meeting er with a better explanation of how the council works so far . |
| 2 | The office was linked to , but separate from , that of Chief Huntsman ( Grand Veneur ) , whose staff consisted of Captains and Lieutenants resplendent in green and gold , whose duty it was to organize the Imperial hunts , particularly — during the autumn season — those which were held at Compiègne . |
| 3 | Later on during the same meeting I was attached to another working group whose task it was to revise the standard format of what was then called the ‘ Summary of the Report ’ . |
| 4 | And in fact that showed no relief to the A sixty one at all in that it was quicker for traffic to actually pass er through on the A sixty one going to the to the traffic model and the all the assumptions built into it , er than it was to use a southern bypass er out to the inner northern route and then back to the A sixty one south of Killinghall . |
| 5 | In both cases the shock had to be overwhelming and painful in the extreme if it was to generate the civilizing consequences of respect for , and maintenance of , the great taboos of civilization . |
| 6 | The first of these was the landowning class , the nobility and gentry ; the leaders of the community , whose duty it was to set a good example to the rest , to be ‘ the helpers and releuers of poore tenantes , and also be the maynteynors and supporters of all poore folkes ’ . |
| 7 | Once changes have been made it is just as important to observe the modified unit in action as it was to conduct the initial trials . |
| 8 | Observers noted that the coalition might need the support of the New Democracy party , whose policies Bildt totally dismissed , if it was to control an effective majority . |
| 9 | Last time it was to see the new designs at the boutique . |
| 10 | When I looked up at last , it was to see the near cliffs bright with the afternoon sun , and the sea creaming calmly against the storm beach in the gentlest of high tides . |
| 11 | It was as difficult to record the casual speech of Zuwaya as it was to take an unposed photograph . |
| 12 | On Nov. 17 the UPP announced that it was to receive a major defector from the DLP on the following day . |
| 13 | It was to block the normal processes of assimilation . |
| 14 | Within the Russian republic the Communists for Democracy movement , led by Rutskoi and formed at the March-April 1991 Russian Congress of People 's Deputies [ for which see pp. 38130-31 ] , announced on July 10 that it was to form a political party . |
| 15 | It was to form the ideal location for Mike Cavanagh 's motoring collection , started in 1959 during a protracted stay in South Africa . |
| 16 | His approximate area of operation then became known to Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock , whose responsibility it was to guard the southern tip of South America . |
| 17 | When , weary , Alexander Ramsay sought his couch , it was to leave an animated company still at it , Will Douglas now as involved as any , indeed automatically assuming the leadership . |
| 18 | The process of demystifying the monarchy , necessary if it was to survive the second half of the twentieth century , turned it instead into a grand soap-opera , in which some minor members of the family seemed only too happy to play a demeaning part , one of the more absurd examples occurring when several of the Queen 's children took part in the television party-game show It 's A Knockout ! |
| 19 | On Sept. 8 , 1989 , the HSWP announced that it was to establish a 50-km zone of security- and confidence-building along the frontiers with Austria and Yugoslavia . |
| 20 | They could be viewed as the organ within the living organism whose task it was to supply the basic necessity of capital without any need to accord them a fuller role within the enterprise . |
| 21 | After its final reconstruction , it was to bear the main road and railway out of Portmadoc , named in honour of its founder , who , with sublime inconsistency , passionately espoused the fashionable ideals of picturesque landscape . |
| 22 | When it cleared sufficiently to see , it was to reveal a dire sight . |
| 23 | On a more general level it is possible to say that since painting is in any case an art of illusion , in so far as it conveys sensations of volume and depth on a two-dimensional surface , it was easier for the Cubists to break with traditional conventions , to push the ‘ illusion ’ one step further , and to invent a new pictorial language , than it was to find a new way of dealing with the solid , tangible forms themselves . |
| 24 | I have been a keen metal detectorist for some years now and shortly after I started detecting I became aware of how difficult it was to find a good pair of gloves which would keep the hands warm and dry , but still allow a reasonable amount of dexterity for detector operation . |
| 25 | When I awoke , it was to find a neat pile of signed bar bills on a desk next to the window , amid a rather satisfying scene of destruction . |
| 26 | Dangerous as it was to betray the smallest complicity before Goreng and his goons , we both started to laugh . |
| 27 | It was to satisfy a roving disposition and an idle curiosity rather than any deep ideal that Rudolf Rassendyll , man-about-town , decided on impulse while travelling in France to visit Strelsau for the coronation of Rudolf the Fifth . |
| 28 | It was to discuss the new storage and filing systems to be used for the archive of de Chavigny designs , which had been replanned from scratch at Edouard de Chavigny 's insistence , and which would become fully operational that week , when the archive was finally moved to its new headquarters . |
| 29 | One had a fairly strong feeling that part of their motivation was negative , in that it was to exclude the American participation , rather than positive — to build up the company . |
| 30 | Our third example concerns Newton 's contemporary , Edmond Halley ( c. 1656–1743 ) , whose efforts to investigate the earth 's history independently of Scriptural authority show how difficult it was to achieve a full separation even by the end of the seventeenth century . |