Example sentences of "[verb] was [to-vb] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Between Sutton and Wallington , the route now proposed was to avoid the centre of Carshalton , by following new roads to the south , some of which were not yet constructed ; although this routing was opposed by some frontagers in Sutton , the company was assured the co-operation of the Carshalton Park Estate Company , who were developing the area at the time . |
| 2 | The last thing in the world she might have expected was to hear the Captain laugh . |
| 3 | The major task involved was to re-design the transmissions to fit the small space alongside the engine . |
| 4 | The secret we used was to make the correct article immediately follow after one with four legs or corners . |
| 5 | Finally , the question tells us that A's object was to save the leader ; it does not tell us whether his object was also to save himself . |
| 6 | Yet , for all the massive support on either side of him , all the elder Falkenhayn could achieve was to push the line up on to the north crest of the Mort Homme . |
| 7 | In one of the most recent textbooks ( Goudie , 1981b ) the approach adopted was to review the impact of man on environment and processes generally but in this section the purpose is much narrower : to indicate some of the research investigations pursued by physical geographers and to refer to the attitudes which this engendered . |
| 8 | Being wise after the event , I realise now that what I should have done was to ask the jury to retire so that a formula could have been discussed and agreed upon , which would have disposed of the matter satisfactorily . |
| 9 | The judgement on whether the consequences were acceptable was clearly left to the negotiators : all that had been done was to remove the uncertainty as to what the consequences would be given a set of grade boundaries , not to state whether any set of consequences was acceptable . |
| 10 | The main thing he got done was to defeat the General Strike . |
| 11 | The most that Aurangzeb could expect was to make the local rulers obedient to his authority , or else to replace them with deputies of his own who would be reasonably faithful vassals . |
| 12 | For various reasons they were unable to attend this meeting , and so all the arresting officers could do was to take the names of those who were present . |
| 13 | The last service Miller could do was to write the script of The Misfits for her . |
| 14 | What the MacMahon Act did do was to make the British programme slower and more expensive ; and from the wider standpoint of the Western Alliance , it led to unnecessary duplication of effort . |
| 15 | What the treaty did not do was to make the two kingdoms of France and England one ; they were to remain separate , each with its own legal and administrative identity . |
| 16 | Robert Boyle once said that one of the reasons why he had chosen not to be ordained was to preempt the criticism that his pious remarks about nature merely reflected a vested interest . |
| 17 | ‘ Part of the purpose of going was to remind the people in the Vatican how much we value and treasure ecumenical relationships in Great Britain . |
| 18 | But what Roger Cook and his researchers entirely failed to do was to use the interesting current developments within WWF to highlight a crucial debate of which we are all a part — namely the values that should now guide the work we do in our respective movements , and how to make those values germane and relevant to people the world over . |
| 19 | Mr Benjamin Gumpert for the prosecution said the only thing Miss Deeley could think to do was to stop the car driving off — she went to the back of the vehicle . |
| 20 | One thing he always wanted to do was to improve the lot of all sports players , and the Tetley deal , which includes a large element that goes directly to members of the England team , was the last one the company was involved with before he died . |
| 21 | On the eve of their presentation to the Women 's International Professional Council , a group of British tennis writers , plus two from France , were summoned to hear Gerry Smith suggest that all they really wanted to do was to give the women players the same sort of voice in the game as the men ; that they had no intention of tearing the women 's game apart and that if they had been able to carry on negotiations quietly and in confidence , there would have been no problems . |
| 22 | Furthermore , some liberals had pushed their rationalizing of the Christian faith to the extreme point where it was fashionable to argue that ‘ God is dead ’ and that the only truly Christian thing to do was to abandon the churches altogether . |
| 23 | After dropping off my bags , all we had to do was to return the cab . |
| 24 | All he needed to do was to collect the votes of the majority of MAs who had left the University . |
| 25 | I decided that the best thing to do was to leave the porch just in case anyone came along , and to kill the time I needed to kill somewhere else . |
| 26 | Fleury was not sure that his own teeth were very sound either so they decided that the best thing to do was to suck the cakes and perhaps dip them in the tea to soften them . |
| 27 | There were many traditional features in his films and his whole approach to a story was never far removed from the conventions of melodrama , but what Griffith was able to do was to shift the action of any of his films to whatever chapter of history or social setting that his plot or theme required . |
| 28 | But what we decided to do was to replace the entire water main erm with erm a double , a double capacity pipeline . |
| 29 | Erm now in my wisdom I I thought that obviously considering we 're now classed as incident stewards the o the thing to do was to put the certificates up in a prominent place so that everybody who visited the site knew who were the incident stewards were . |
| 30 | All they had to do was to take the bung out of the barrel , top off the level until they were ready to move them . |