Example sentences of "was [to-vb] for [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evidently an ex-LNER man was drafted into the Motive Power Department at Glasgow and his answer to a Pacific shortage at Polmadie was to arrange for the transfer of the engines we had noted , plus 60159 Bonnie Dundee , which appeared shortly after the sightings reported above . |
| 2 | In 1910 she returned to London and began her work in biochemistry , which was to continue for the rest of her life . |
| 3 | The idea was to plan for an increase in Berlin 's population to 1.5 million . |
| 4 | Payment of the annuity was continued by the king 's successor , Richard II , whose favour he was to enjoy for the rest of his life . |
| 5 | This was to compensate for the lack of imported fruit and vegetables . |
| 6 | Work on drafting a Directive specific to the mountain areas of the Community had already begun but one of the British government 's objectives during entry negotiations was to provide for a continuation of the special assistance hill and upland farms had hitherto enjoyed in the UK . |
| 7 | Some graves have been found showing that bowls of food were buried with the body — this was to provide for the journey to the Underworld , which many people believed was made by a dead person 's spirit . |
| 8 | When I saw from the papers that Miss Ella Shields , the original Burlington Bertie from Bow , was to appear for a week at the Pantages Theatre on Hastings Street , I made it a point of seeing the show . |
| 9 | In presenting English culture as a transcendental essence inhering within an " organic " national language and a humanistic literary tradition , the goal was to establish for the study of English at the universities a status equivalent to Oxford 's Literae Humaniores . |
| 10 | When the IWC was established in 1946 , its purpose was to work for the resuscitation of an industry that was declining because stocks had been over-exploited during the previous decades , rather than to conserve existing whale stocks . |
| 11 | First reaction was to reach for the hotline to Swissair but no , the airport was definitely shut and we were indefinitely on hold . |
| 12 | She was to apply for a job in a certain firm , with national importance . |
| 13 | The government of Toshiki Kaifu was undermined from the beginning of September by the announcement on Sept. 6 that Kiichi Miyazawa , a former Finance Minister , was to challenge for the leadership of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) , and thus for the premiership , in party elections due on Oct. 27 . |
| 14 | Thus , for example , the unanimous response of the EEC 's governments and institutions to the Danish referendum in July 1992 was to look for a way to ‘ accommodate ’ the Danish Government , to bring the Danes back on board ’ . |
| 15 | If the Club was to look for a return on its money , as any other investing institution would , the criteria for that return would be two fold ; a boom in the popularity of tennis at grass roots level and/or impressive results at international level . |
| 16 | HWIM 's solution was to look for a number of best-scoring seed words bottom-up and then to predict possible extensions ( words or word classes ) at either end of the seed word . |
| 17 | Kylie was to audition for the role of a tomboy mechanic called Charlene Mitchell , in a new soap called Neighbours . |
| 18 | The Rally of the Guinean People , the Guinean Party of Progress and the Union for the New Republic announced on Oct. 8 the formation of an opposition alliance , the Front for Struggle and for Government ; the main aim of the front was to press for the postponement of legislative elections scheduled for November , in order that a national conference could be held beforehand . |
| 19 | The patriotic and religious duty of every Jew was to fight for the reinstatement of this birthright , this covenant — the reinstatement of a rightful ruler presiding over the Kingdom of Israel . |
| 20 | The first reaction of the leader of the PAC 's negotiating team , Gora Ebrahim , was to call for a suspension of the negotiations , not to withdraw permanently . |
| 21 | So Ann Richards 's first act as governor was to call for the adoption of an emergency ethics law ‘ with some teeth in it . ’ |
| 22 | The solution , as it evolved in practice , was to argue for a sort of grand amalgam , almost a fit of good feeling , in which war would be ended and hostages exchanged and where men would tenderly understand each other . |
| 23 | Poulantzas ' own position was to argue for the development of a Marxist , structuralist account which provides for the state to have only a relative autonomy and never a true autonomy . |
| 24 | If natural selection was to account for the evolution of man 's higher faculties , as Darwin was convinced it could , then those faculties must have a material basis . |
| 25 | The Thatcher administration was still new to the power it was to hold for the rest of the decade and a reader might reasonably expect to find something seminal in the report . |
| 26 | For a long time he stood in front of the town map , gazing at it as though he would memorise its every feature , and when he turned away it was to ask for a cup of coffee . |
| 27 | The aim of the research was to prepare for the development of a full proposal on ‘ The Management of Technical Uncertainty ’ . |
| 28 | The challenge now was to prepare for the transfer of his state and his army back to France . |
| 29 | The task of the bureau was to prepare for the impact on the community of potentially large-scale long-term unemployment . |
| 30 | Edward 's job was to prepare for the arrival of the family . |