Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This first Report was read by Professor Brian Griffiths , whose duty as Prime Minister 's adviser was to present it to Mrs Thatcher with his comments . |
| 2 | And they were both agreed that the thing to do with the club was to use it for their private purposes . |
| 3 | Curiously , if the cider was sour , the practice was to sweeten it by shaking it with some lead shot before storing it in barrels held together by lead bands . |
| 4 | His initial intention was to publish something on Epicurus merely as an appendix to the Exercises . |
| 5 | The government 's obvious intention was to identify me as the main source of all the criticism and speculation running counter to the official line on Flight 103 and then to destroy me . |
| 6 | The intention was to reduce it to that rate which would constrain aggregate demand to grow at a rate which could be met by increases in real output . |
| 7 | These were old aims but the intention was to pursue them with greater vigour and effectiveness . |
| 8 | The Left in British politics had never had , nor needed to have , any single clear view about the structure of secondary education : the imperative was to provide it for all , and to provide it free . |
| 9 | There was even a time , John said later , when his one ambition was to devote himself to horses , but his father was not especially enthusiastic about that idea . |
| 10 | There were lots of young people working there whose main ambition was to get me into a good home . |
| 11 | ‘ The whole stupid , f—ing happy idea of putting the song on the album was to say something about struggle , ’ adds Fruitbat . |
| 12 | The result of this slight deformity was to leave him with a rather nasal drawl . |
| 13 | The only way he knew to heal the pain of his humiliation was to punish her for the crime of leaving him . |
| 14 | The alternative was to give it to them in 50 crates . ’ |
| 15 | The belief was that to ritually and voluntarily — and I stress the word ‘ voluntarily ’ — shed one 's own blood was to recommend oneself to and establish a link with the Creator of the Universe , and this is precisely what happened with circumcision . |
| 16 | Originally , the plan was to return them to their last known home , on Pitchfork Ranch near the little town of Meeteetsee , Wyoming . |
| 17 | ‘ The master plan was to put everyone at his ease . ’ |
| 18 | He knew well enough that convincing politicians was a tough job , so his plan was to present them with an informed and insistent electorate of the future . |
| 19 | I think my plan was to make her like me less . |
| 20 | He says the origninal plan was to raise it to 12p . |
| 21 | The tactic used by the Commission for passing the Single European Act was to present it to the member states as if it were the only thing on offer : either take this or leave the Community . |
| 22 | However : What Mr Taylor [ for the council ] said … was … that the common assumption which lay behind the agreement was that the council was the owner of the … land and that Mr Tillson had no interest in either parcel of land beyond the tenancy which the council was to grant him by the transaction . |
| 23 | As for the name , Sam wanted her to be called the Martha and Harry the Bridget , and the only way they could resolve the question was to name her after their favourite place of refreshment , instead . |
| 24 | He decided that the only way to avoid spending the rest of his life in the workhouse was to exhibit himself as a freak , and so he offered himself to Sam Torr , who ran a music-hall , the Gaiety Palace of Varieties . |
| 25 | Ironically , my immediate reaction to the outbreak of war was to fling myself in my imagination into the Royal Ascot of all demos , Vietnam . |
| 26 | She also reveals how the actor who tried to make the world a better place was to rescue her from the brink again . |
| 27 | ‘ My first reaction was to get someone from the British Transport Police , but the door of their office was locked . |
| 28 | His job was to talk them through any roadblocks . |
| 29 | My sister 's job was to meet her at the bus stop with the wheel basket so she did n't have to carry it up the road . |
| 30 | Kaptan was to apply himself to something useful . |