Example sentences of "was [to-vb] [noun prp] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | De Gaulle 's diplomatic objective was to restore France to the circle of great powers to which she had historically belonged . |
| 2 | The full story is given by Diodorus : the Spartans ' hope was to establish Thebes as a counterweight ( antipalon , xi.81.3 ) to Athens . |
| 3 | The objective of the operation was to arrest Mr with the proviso that it was to be done with the safety of the public to be paramount and that the safety of the police officers and Mr was also to be considered . |
| 4 | He had already invited his new young friend to travel to Stowey a few weeks later , and when they parted after six miles , Hazlitt was possessed by a single thought : ‘ I was to visit Coleridge in the spring . ’ |
| 5 | The only thing he could n't persuade Edith to do was to visit Boulogne for the day . |
| 6 | Or perhaps he had a premonition of the huge effort that lay ahead if he was to extricate France from a crisis in Algeria that had reached the verge of insolubility . |
| 7 | The idea was to leave FRCN with the responsibility for national and international broadcasting : the Nigerian government would speak with one voice to its people and to the outside world . |
| 8 | In the morning they decided Oliver was to lure Tim to the flat with offers of breakfast and a shower . |
| 9 | Their objective was to lure Beatty to the scene so that they might trap and destroy some small portion of the British Fleet before retiring to sanctuary in their harbours on the German mainland . |
| 10 | The aim of the present study was to assess DGR with the sodium selective electrode in normal subjects , in patients with benign gastric ulcers , and in patients with persistent pain after gastric surgery . |
| 11 | His mother clung to him and wanted to tell him all about her mother 's death as well as telling him how happy she was to welcome Helen into the family . |
| 12 | One of the first things Reagan did upon becoming president was to name Iran as an enemy of America and to ensure that no trade of any kind went on between the two countries , either directly or indirectly , imposing draconian penalties for anyone caught doing so . |
| 13 | The current thinking was to turn ACE into an employer training scheme , but if those involved — both managers and employers — did not push training , ACE would fail in training . |
| 14 | The answer was to present Franco as the guarantor of the peace and stability which enabled Spain to flourish economically and individuals to enjoy an improved standard of living . |
| 15 | The obvious thing to do was to ring Sophia at the vicarage . |
| 16 | In the event , the most important repercussion of the appointment was to deprive Kent of the championship , for it proved such a traumatic time for Cowdrey that his team lost their way for a few weeks , and missed the title by just one agonizing point . |
| 17 | ( Suleiman the Magnificent was to take Baghdad in the course of the 1530s . ) |
| 18 | One has been convinced for some time that the idea was to take Weir in the guise of a No 6 . |