Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we shall see in a later chapter , much of the same reasoning was to recur towards the end of the 1980s in the search for ways of implementing punishment in the community . |
| 2 | On July 23 the Foreign Ministry confirmed the terms it considered acceptable for an " allied multinational force " to be based in south-eastern Turkey : the force was to come under the joint command of Turkish and US commanders ; its ground element would be based at the US/NATO airfield at Incirlik and its air element at Silopi , with some facilities available at Batman in south-east Turkey ; any intervention against Iraq would need Turkish government approval ; and initial Turkish permission for the presence of the force would expire on Sept. 30 . |
| 3 | The DUP 's first reaction to the murder was to suggest to the OUP that a joint candidate , acceptable to both parties , be found . |
| 4 | Its complement was to rise from the initial 3,000 to 4,200 ( ie full peacetime strength ) one year later . |
| 5 | The aim of the research was to prepare for the development of a full proposal on ‘ The Management of Technical Uncertainty ’ . |
| 6 | It was indeed the attacks in Cartwright 's books which Hooker was to take as the starting point for his defence of the Church . |
| 7 | The next phase of the study was to look at the quality of these ponds in terms of the numbers of species of animals and plants they support , the water chemistry and the surrounding land use of each pond or loch . |
| 8 | The intention was to introduce by the end of 1993 a system , TAURUS , complementing TALISMAN , whereby , once a bargain in fully-paid listed securities was struck , the buyer would become , and the seller , in respect of the shares sold , would cease to be , a member and shareholder . |
| 9 | Their only recourse was to crowd into the slum areas around . |
| 10 | But my real ambition was to appear at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre , which I did eventually . ’ |
| 11 | When 26-year-old Tim Haller , from Horncastle , Lincs , bought a double-decker bus in 1988 , his great ambition was to travel around the world in it . |
| 12 | All my brothers rode in point-to-points and Dermot rode his own horse in the National Hunt Cup at Cheltenham : his ambition was to ride in the Grand National . |
| 13 | Barbara insisted that in keeping with the period the only light was to come from the candles , which flickered romantically from the walls and the three Bohemian crystal chandeliers on the ceiling . |
| 14 | The key was to act at the moment when conditions were most conducive to the course upon which de Gaulle had decided . |
| 15 | By the time morning came he was convinced he had been wide awake the whole night , though by that time he had remembered with the utmost clarity that the whole performance had taken place not in a television studio at all but in an enormous public lavatory , with Sir William and Lady Paice among the large crowd around the coffee table , and that his final humiliation was to discover at the end of the programme that he had been sitting on one of the lavatory seats throughout , with his trousers down around his ankles . |
| 16 | The purpose of the judicial review was to dispose of the district judge 's order so as to permit the substitution by the reviewing court of a different order , still directed to the way in which the matter should proceed . |
| 17 | The main concern of their administration was to profit from the monopoly over cinnamon , the principal export commodity . |
| 18 | The latter managed to sense the way the wind was to blow during the Eighties by anticipating the various forms of emerging Neo-Expressionism . |
| 19 | Carlie was to stay at the foster home ‘ until the home situation stabilises ’ . |
| 20 | His dream was to build on the site a building by the Modernist architect Mies van der Rohe , which would also create a New York-style plaza , to be known as Mansion House Square . |
| 21 | One of the biggest challenges to this new-look management was to cope with the ‘ tribalism ’ of the service ; the tendency of professional groups to cherish their historic rights to govern their own affairs . |
| 22 | What we pressed him to do in Committee was to include in the Bill power to set up a funding council . |
| 23 | Eventually the Committee was to wither on the vine ; its last reference resulting in the Committee 's Eighteenth Report on Conspiracy to Defraud in 1986 . |
| 24 | The plan was to return to the same group of airfields , on the assumption that the garrisons would hardly expect them back quite so soon . |
| 25 | The second part of the plan was to turn to the Tories ' own strong issues for the last 10 days : defence , foreign policy , law and order and — hard though it is in a recession — the economy . |
| 26 | The rest of their food was in the forest , their plan was to feed on the forest as they went . |
| 27 | The plan was to fly to the Cook islands , and spend at least three months alone on a desert island . |
| 28 | To advance further into the wood was to trample on the colour blue . |
| 29 | His first public act was to preach in the biggest white church in this segregated city . |
| 30 | The household 's final act was to arrange for the immediate disposal of the viscera which , like the body , were almost certainly placed in a lead box within a velvet-upholstered outer case . |