Example sentences of "was [adv] [to-vb] [noun sg] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The purpose , he says , ‘ was not to give succour to the victims of harassment , but to polarise the ethnic minorities and the police . ’ |
| 2 | The entry clearance officer ( ECO ) said he was not satisfied that the primary purpose of Mr Hussain 's intended marriage was not to obtain admittance to the UK . |
| 3 | Berg was also an agent of the Office of Strategic Services , which was later to give birth to the CIA . |
| 4 | One method was simply to set fire to a ‘ train' of gunpowder leading to the charge itself , the length of the train corresponding roughly to the time delay before the charge exploded ; a later method involved a kind of fuse of goose quills filled with gunpowder . |
| 5 | Corbett was about to alert Maltote to the truth when he tensed . |
| 6 | The time for repairs , it would seem , was about to give way to the time for offence , if not injury . |