Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Military units were to stage a show depicting victories over counter-revolutionaries for the benefit of invited workers . |
| 2 | These organizations were to initiate a renewal scheme for one of the most deprived areas in Britain . |
| 3 | The RF Defence and Foreign Ministries were to negotiate the status of troops on Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) states ' territories not forming part of those states ' armed forces or of the CIS strategic forces . |
| 4 | These Mirror 's pictures were to rock the world |
| 5 | Sir Raymond Firth 's study of the conversion to Christianity in this century of the Tikopians , with their gods , their ancestor cults , and their propitiatory sacrifices , has shown how interested these Pacific islanders were to discuss a kind of theology of god-power . |
| 6 | At four in the morning , in a lonely field at Lot 's Farm near Twyford , the brothers were to realise the enormity of their good fortune . |
| 7 | Of course , one of the effects of these repeated cautions was to link the idea of ‘ accident ’ and ‘ water ’ in |
| 8 | Like all royal children his chief function in his parents ' eyes was to undertake the role of a pawn in the diplomatic game . |
| 9 | The original idea behind Compacts was to redress the balance , to provide access to quality jobs for the people who lived next door . |
| 10 | Schantz 's solution to the problem of the check in his grand pianos was to fix a rail on the raised sides of the keyframe just in front of the hammers . |
| 11 | One of his first trips was to see the Amnesty group in Austria which had first campaigned for his long-awaited freedom . |
| 12 | The course was organised by Wynne Norris with some financial help from Manchester Education Committee , but the only way to afford visits from the London Trainers was to raise the fare themselves . |
| 13 | In his view the only way of preventing the disputes was to make the office less attractive , and the best means of doing that was to lower the salary . |
| 14 | Thus the words supposedly uttered by a despairing king , just before he turned his face to the wall to die , are an immediate symbol of the reaction of very many of those on whom Mary Queen of Scots was to make an impact , in her lifetime and thereafter . |
| 15 | Rick 's method of dealing with these conflicting images was to hold an evening parents ' workshop in which he outlined the rationale and aims of the new mathematics curriculum for the intake year . |
| 16 | Poor Law administrators were to encourage the co-operation of Boards of Guardians with charities operating on COS principles . |
| 17 | But his two immediate concerns were to find a room and a job . |
| 18 | At first Wolff 's duties were to manage the yard and provide engineering skills ; but later , through his links with the Jewish community in Britain and Hamburg , he was to bring a large amount of business to the yard . |
| 19 | The chancellor 's duties were to oversee the issue of all curial correspondence . |
| 20 | The most solemn of his duties were to keep the peace , to spread Christianity and to declare the law . |
| 21 | The subdeacon 's duties were to prepare the bread and wine and the vessels for the mass and to chant the Epistle . |
| 22 | In many instances , the first reaction of parents was to take the user along to see the family doctor . |
| 23 | The main objective of the trails was to assist the human in communication with the machine by removing the need to memorize backward and forward references , unsuccessful routes through the data-base , search terms used and the search and navigation strategy . |
| 24 | Yet the frustration which this ‘ betrayal ’ caused among coal miners was to dominate the industry for many years to come . |
| 25 | An alternative strategy for the government in these circumstances was to place the burden of financing social provision upon local government . |
| 26 | One of the expected effects of seat belts was to reduce the number of serious and fatal accidents . |
| 27 | Because it was a Peculiar , the priory church had four wardens — one of their duties was to enforce the wearing of woolly hats on Sundays : failure to comply brought a fine of fourpence . |
| 28 | One of Swinton 's first duties was to oversee the presentation of the new British White Paper on civil aviation , Cmd. 6561 , which was circulated to Cabinet that month . |
| 29 | One of the Mamur Zapt 's duties was to read the press before publication and excise any passage he considered inflammatory . |
| 30 | Bishops and barons were to have the right to take one or two deer when passing through the royal forest . |