Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] [adv prt] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the Labour Party were to build up an effective electoral machine , its leaders argued such controversial activities would have to be abandoned in the interests of widening popular support . |
| 2 | BT 's response was to carry out an area trial , promising to keep me advised on progress . |
| 3 | The judge was to carry out an agreed investigation into the bombing of a French UTA airliner over Niger in September 1989 in which 170 people died [ see p. 36910 ] . |
| 4 | One of the first things Tolkien did after his return to Oxford in 1925 was to set up an Icelandic reading group such as he had enjoyed during his last job , as Professor of English at Leeds . |
| 5 | Our first step was to set up an independent trust to repair the building . |
| 6 | The main consequence of these discussions was to set up an International Commission of Chemical Nomenclature to continue the work started at the conference . |
| 7 | The only way to get precision was to mark off an area and count every individual plant within it . |
| 8 | The immediate priority was to keep up an unrelenting pressure on the enemy supply lines . |
| 9 | It 's always difficult to know how to start a completely new venture , but the way I did it was to take out an ad in Guitar Player magazine , offering to modify any piece of equipment — anything that anyone wanted done . |
| 10 | The arrival of the Oxford students , though , was to bring about an untimely end to Stamford 's medieval university , for in 1334 Oxford persuaded King Edward III to intervene and close it down : |
| 11 | The main effect of government aid , according to his respondents , was to bring about an earlier move for 25 per cent of the group . |
| 12 | The Second World War was to bring about an intensification of the disillusionment with national and international politics that led Nasser to seek an alternative through the organisation if the Free Officer corps and the carrying out of the successful coup d'etat . |
| 13 | Inevitably , because the new organisation was to range over an extremely wide area of activity , the provisions of the Treaty of Rome were necessarily complex , running to 248 articles supplemented by 4 annexes , 13 protocols , 4 conventions and 9 declarations . |