Example sentences of "was [to-vb] for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The household 's final act was to arrange for the immediate disposal of the viscera which , like the body , were almost certainly placed in a lead box within a velvet-upholstered outer case . |
| 2 | His only choice at present was to wait for the right moment to play his hand . |
| 3 | The role of government , they believed , was to provide for the unhelpable residuum . |
| 4 | It was to work for the complete organisation of all ship , dock and river workers in order to raise their wages and improve their working conditions . |
| 5 | The immediate task entrusted by Franco to Lequerica was to secure for the Spanish regime the approval of the western democracies without , as yet , severing its links with Nazi Germany . |
| 6 | Worse was to follow for the great mare , for after winning a match at Punchestown against Buck House ( who the day before her Gold Cup victory had won the two-mile Queen Mother Champion Chase at Cheltenham ) and running second in the Prix la Barka at Auteuil , she returned to the French course in June to attempt a repeat victory in the Grand Course de Haies . |
| 7 | His one hope was to head for the small area of streets and alleys he had explored around the bar-restaurant before going inside ( ‘ … reconnoitre the Subject 's area … ’ ) . |
| 8 | Its purpose was to prepare for the coming struggle between good order under a monarchy , and the revolutionary socialism of the sort to which republics often sink-until , that is , conditions deteriorate to the point where people are ready to revolt against the system and return to the rule of an even more powerful dictator . |
| 9 | The PFA refused to specify who was to blame for the red tape , though here have been differences in the past with nearby RAF Lyneham over airspace . |
| 10 | And who was to blame for the high interest rates ? |