Example sentences of "it was [to-vb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | It was to form the ideal location for Mike Cavanagh 's motoring collection , started in 1959 during a protracted stay in South Africa . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Dangerous as it was to betray the smallest complicity before Goreng and his goons , we both started to laugh . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Evolutionism provided a parallel source of materialist concepts , but needed to be turned into a laboratory-based subject if it was to fit the new model . |
| 11 | It was to become the major centre of learning in the Islamic world , and to provide a source of authority for successive rulers of Egypt . |
| 12 | The treaty established a Consultative Committee whose task it was to advise the High Authority on all aspects of its work . |
| 13 | With slave labour they were cheaper to build than it was to provide the necessary lead or bronze piping for alternative means . |
| 14 | When Isabel at last returned to an awareness of her surroundings it was to feel the gentle touch of Guy 's mouth , moving over her throat in a series of feather-light kisses . |
| 15 | For the Elizabethan magus John Dee ( 1527–1608 ) , it was as imperative to study the specific characteristics of everything in nature as it was to understand the controlling influence of the stars . |