Example sentences of "[adj] was [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effect of this was to relieve the debtor of all liability for their debts . |
| 2 | This was to tip the balance of power decisively against Northumberland . |
| 3 | This was to tip the balance of power decisively against Northumberland . |
| 4 | The purpose of this was to compare the experience of and attitude to the police of Blacks , Asians and Whites living in roughly the same conditions . |
| 5 | This was to see the Sadler 's Wells Royal Ballet dance Les Sylphides , and The Two Pigeons , at a performance commemorating the life and work of the late Sir Frederick Ashton , who gave us so many wonderful productions . |
| 6 | To appreciate this was to see the problem as ultimately a problem of living , and as uniquely relevant to a recently unified and politically ascendant Germany . |
| 7 | In a similar fashion it was becoming common for quite trivial legal disputes to go to the papal Curia on appeal : this was to transform the very nature of papal jurisdiction and authority , and is a striking example of the cosmopolitan links and assumptions of twelfth-century culture . |
| 8 | The result of this was to plant the seed of Mosley 's destruction . |
| 9 | This was to mark the tenth anniversary of Roman 's company , with publicity to reflect the wide international market he appeared to operate in . |
| 10 | This was to open the Jackie Stewart Shooting School at Gleneagles , which is most efficiently run by Mr Justin Jones son of Mr Alan Jones , who with his brother Noel Jones , run the North Wales Shooting School at Sealand , that was started by their father . |
| 11 | The purpose of this was to allow the stone to disimpact or for the acute complication to resolve . |
| 12 | This was to segment the budget into a EAGGF ( Guarantee Section ) part and other areas of expenditure . |
| 13 | Cheapness , comfort , and convenience seemed to be the most obvious explanations of the mass response but this was to ignore the films themselves . |
| 14 | This was to draw the ‘ poor ’ and ‘ middle ’ peasants away from the private trade of the ‘ rich ’ and to turn them eventually towards an alliance ( smychka ) with urban inhabitants . |
| 15 | The consequence of this was to intensify the party 's contempt for parliamentary democracy and spur it towards overt Fascism . |
| 16 | This was to celebrate the fiftieth birthday of the Marquess of Tavistock , who nearly two years ago was desperately ill , following a mammoth stroke . |
| 17 | This was to ease the burden of the local inhabitants who before this had to rely on getting their water supply from wells , pumps and catchment tanks . |
| 18 | Elinor 's answer to this was to slam the study door . |
| 19 | This was to promote the cause of anti-Tory tactical voting , and to bring it home to Paddy Ashdown and Neil Kinnock that they needed each other . |
| 20 | This was to misconceive the ways in which the theories of natural science can ever link with theory about human action and behaviour . |
| 21 | This was to provide the occasion on the Vietnamese side for terminating the Fontainebleau exercise . |
| 22 | This was to involve the construction of a new Entrance Lock out at the main fairway into the Western Harbour and the fitting of large capacity pumping machinery to enable the total water area within the enclosed system to be maintained at an almost constant level . |
| 23 | He possessed two editions of the Gardeners Dictionary and in his own Garden Kalendar ( 1751–1771 ) recorded ‘ sow 'd radishes with the stocks as Miller directs ’ ( this was to divert the attention of a destructive fly ) . |
| 24 | One way of doing this was to tie the ankles together and to pinion the arms against the side of the corpse with the waist-band of the shroud . |
| 25 | The effect of this was to make the personnel of the Court of Napoleon III somewhat heterogeneous , for many of the Orléanist nobility were prepared to use the Tuileries , consoling themselves with the thought that the Emperor 's half-brother , the Duke de Morny , was held still to be faithful to Orléanist principles . |
| 26 | By 1362 , however , hostilities had ceased and the French king was a prisoner of the English ; papal taxation on this occasion was certainly destined for Edward 's coffers , but this was to meet the ransom of John II : the English clergy were thus taxed by the pope to enrich the English king and spare the French taxpayers ! |
| 27 | One of Hollywood 's major strategies in the face of all this was to recreate the hits of the past in larger-than-life packs and Burton was useful for that . |
| 28 | This was to assist the layers of the king 's soul to break free and find their proper places , so as not to encumber his final space-flight . |
| 29 | This was to accompany the first showing in Europe of the musical Narnia , which played in All Hallows by the Tower . |
| 30 | Many analysts agreed that the primary purpose of this was to place the FMLN on the same footing as the Army and that the primary purpose of the offensive was not to secure military objectives but to place pressure on the government and the Army to negotiate seriously in future peace talks . |