Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some instances local authorities have approached housing associations suggesting that the problem might be remedied if an association were to buy the properties and convert them into assured tenancies or into shared ownership . |
| 2 | The aims of the present study were to characterise the antibody response to Giardia in these children and to investigate the significance of antibodies to Giardia heat shock antigen in chronic infection . |
| 3 | The aims of the present study were to characterise the dose response relationship for cholera toxin after intrajejunal administration , to develop a standardised model of intestinal secretion using an intestinal perfusion technique , and to expand our information on the action of cholera toxin on the human jejunum . |
| 4 | The aims of this study were to determine the frequency of the 3849+10 kb CT mutation in Israeli CF patients and to assess the disease severity in patients with this mutation compared with that of patients who have the mutations that are known to cause severe disease . |
| 5 | She must be careful to betray it as little as possible if the interview were to go the way she wanted . |
| 6 | About this time it was announced that pensioners whose means were insufficient to pay their rent were to have the amount made up by social security allowances even if they were living in a private home , so with a light heart I set about making application . |
| 7 | On a much busier occasion the calls before break were to attend the home of a widowed pensioner who thought she had heard an intruder , two road accidents , a near hit-and-run accident , and to move on youths . |
| 8 | As this house was structurally sound the remedy was to do the work one room at a time . ’ |
| 9 | His remedy was to divide the garden with a wicker arch into two sections , to create an illusion of space . |
| 10 | The remedy was to separate the essence of national life ( a language and a culture ) from the organization of economic activity , and embody it in a separate institution . |
| 11 | The objective of this association was to promote the adoption of the instruction of deaf children not through the use of sign language or any method that used it as then prevailed in many countries including the U.S.A. and Britain , but through oral methods to the total exclusion of sign language altogether . |
| 12 | The deal was to finance the power station 's gas and steam turbines which will become operational in early 1993 . |
| 13 | In future the advice of the Lord Chief Justice and the trial judge was to be obtained immediately after sentence , whether the life sentence was mandatory or discretionary , but in the latter case the judicial view of the tariff was to determine the date of the first review by the Parole Board machinery . |
| 14 | Schrödinger 's original reason for putting forward this thought experiment was to demonstrate the folly , as he then believed , of the quantum theory : clearly it was ridiculous to think of a cat being neither dead nor alive — or , as an obvious corollary , both dead and alive at the same time . |
| 15 | The next phase of the experiment was to test the ability of the virus to produce immunity to the hepatitis antigen — something that the antigen on its own is not very good at . |
| 16 | The purpose of the experiment was to train the dog to salivate at the sound of the tuning fork without food being present . |
| 17 | At that time the senior inservice adviser was to convene the meetings ( though this was soon delegated to others and " some sort of rotating role " would be devised to fill the chair . |
| 18 | In 1311 , for example , he demanded one foot soldier from each vill for service in his projected campaign in Scotland , and the vill was to pay the soldier 's wages for seven weeks by means of a special aid levied on each vill by the sheriff . |
| 19 | Confronted with evidence that the performer in question was neither Japanese nor female , and in any event was dressed in pantaloons , Parkinson confessed that he had difficulty observing the performance , and that his object in making the allegation was to revoke the Aquarium 's dancing licence . |
| 20 | The theory developed to account for these findings , Lapse Theory , proposed that the special effect of sleep loss was to increase the number of lapses in attention , possibly through " microsleeps " . |
| 21 | The result was to draw the boundaries of certain knowledge much more narrowly than before . |
| 22 | Its immediate result was to divide the aeroplane up into a large number of badly ventilated and inaccessible compartments . |
| 23 | In a certain sense , the result was to restrict the importance of the islands . |
| 24 | The result was to make the music an even poorer thing than the phenomenon itself , and to nullify the music 's mythopoeic power . |
| 25 | Cloaked with the panoply of democracy , hung about with the flag , the only result was to make the cause look grubbier and smaller . |
| 26 | They agreed that he had a discretion under the statute whether or not to do so but said that he was not justified in refusing if the result was to frustrate the policy of the Act of Parliament . |
| 27 | My reference in the next ensuing paragraph to the general principles of responsibility of the principal for the acts of the agent was to set the context of the consideration that in that particular case the solicitors for the creditors were equally deceived by the dishonest conduct of the son as were his own parents . |
| 28 | Artillery was to prepare the way for the infantry assault ; the cavalry was to provide reconnaissance , occasional shock intervention in the battle if circumstances were favourable , and , it was hoped , effective pursuit of the defeated enemy . |
| 29 | For Eliot , though , this concern with ritual was to have the sanction of the anthropologists ' ‘ collective representation ’ , being generated like a dromenon by a group , a chorus across history . |
| 30 | SCOTVEC Updates 23 and 26 , on the Quality Framework , stated that one of the intentions of the Quality Development Programme was to harmonise the criteria for quality assurance of SCOTVEC awards wherever possible . |