Example sentences of "was [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dawley ( 1963 ) , later expanded and renamed Telford , situated between Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury , was to accommodate pressure from the West Midlands , but it also served the purpose of tidying up the old mining and industrial area of Oakengates and Wellington . |
| 2 | The object was to monitor change in the services provided in Nottinghamshire and to evaluate the work of the CMHTs . |
| 3 | The incentive for Preston to win was to go top of the table … enough said in the second half Ellis ran away with it to make it three-nil … |
| 4 | As for the pope , his prime concern was to promote peace in the realm , an aim which he judged best served by siding with the king . |
| 5 | During its early history the bill of lading was an appendage of the charter party and of the contract of ocean carriage The function of the bill of lading was to acknowledge receipt of the cargo delivered by the shipper to the shipowner , charterer , or master of the vessel and to summarize the principal terms of the contract of ocean freight . |
| 6 | He knew that he 'd been close , but then somehow it had all slipped away from him ; when Alina had n't come out and the three of them had finally gone into the building , it was to find incomprehension from the woman who lived alone and an empty flat where she said she 'd gone for help . |
| 7 | The role of the police marksmen was to provide cover for the EOD team and insert them in any situation where they were needed . |
| 8 | The purpose of the study was to provide information concerning the perceptions and beliefs of the local people with regard to diarrhoea and its treatment . |
| 9 | The crucial issue still to be determined was whether the primary purpose of the marriage was to obtain admission to the UK . |
| 10 | He was fighting in difficult territory and was to come bottom of the poll , beaten by Labour as well as by the Liberals who won the seat . |
| 11 | Customer Smythe was to accept liability for the Queen 's Royalty of one-fifteenth part ; to pay the company a one-ninth part of the production ; and a money rent of £433 : 6s. 6d. , providing thereby funds to be distributed as a dividend . |
| 12 | The first step therefore was to grant representation to the colonies — though the word was avoided — in the Cortes . |
| 13 | She put up her hand but whether it was to catch hold of the reins or to protect herself I do not know . |
| 14 | The aim of the PLANIT Club was to pull knowledge about the process planning , project planning and job-shop scheduling . |
| 15 | The result was to create disaffection in the ranks and lead to accusations of police brutality from Amnesty International among others and to Garvey 's sacking . |
| 16 | Alan 's trip to America 16 years ago was to receive treatment at the Institute of Human Potential in Philadelphia . |
| 17 | A spokesman for the health authority said the family was owed a sincere apology , and Virginia Bottomley ( without reference to the case ) said she was pleased that Rhys was to receive treatment at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Sick Children and hoped it would be successful . |
| 18 | The first stage was to detect ambiguity in a message — that is , to be aware that the information currently available did not allow an unequivocal choice . |
| 19 | In what was widely interpreted as a bid for electoral advantage — securing Florida 's 25 electoral college votes was seen as essential if Bush was to win re-election to the White House — the President also announced that the government would provide 100 per cent federal reimbursement to local authorities for recovery operations , rather than the 75 per cent customary in such cases . |
| 20 | For them , the task was to win power at the centre and then to distribute wealth more fairly . |
| 21 | Much the same distinction was to assume importance in the Galileo affair , for when Niccolo Riccardi wrote to the Florentine inquisitor about the license for Galileo 's Dialogue , he indicated that the pope , Urban VIII , would only allow ‘ mathematical considerations of the Copernican positions . ’ |
| 22 | The ‘ solution ’ was to delegate power to a broadcasting authority to run the service along the lines decreed by Parliament . |
| 23 | Their original function was to finance trade between the UK and their country of origin , to borrow funds in London for use by their governments and later to find profitable outlets for their home countries ' surpluses . |
| 24 | The legislative intention was to give rise to a charge whenever there was a change in the proportion of the settled property in which any participator was deemed to be entitled , whether the change had arisen on death , or on termination of the interest , or on a disposition or deemed disposition . |
| 25 | The intention behind the reforms was made clear in the famous words : ‘ [ the conception of the juvenile ] as primarily a little wage-earner , was to give way to the conception of him ‘ as primarily the workman and citizen in training ’ . |
| 26 | Later Miss Francis of Maidstone was to give evidence to the jury . |
| 27 | However , it is obviously as much a waste of funds to give money to privatisation of the coal industry as it was to give money for the poll tax . |
| 28 | His latest coup was to give permission for the coronation of the kabaka ( king ) of Buganda , the ancient kingdom that lies within Uganda , to go ahead this July . |
| 29 | He had no interest in the architecture of what was then merely a rather dull manor house , but kept on improving the estate , which was to give pleasure to the Welch family until the Second World War . |
| 30 | The chase which followed was captured on a takeway restuarant 's security video , this was to form part of the prosecution evidence . |