Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the sole intention of the Association were to secure civil rights for Ulster Catholics while accepting and loyally supporting the constitution of the Ulster state … why has it admitted to its counsels and membership , as it undoubtedly has , a number of men from an organisation pledged to the destruction of that state ? |
| 2 | The objectives were to obtain some feeling for this environment , and also to compare the readings at various angles of view . |
| 3 | There are undoubtedly people who will still say , ‘ I do n't want my little Johnny to get food poisoning and that 's the end of the story , ’ — although unfortunately , they would be misled if they were to choose irradiated food for that reason . ’ |
| 4 | As the sound of Ben 's car engine died away , she felt suddenly very alone , the feeling heightened by the knowledge that Jenny and Paul , too , were to leave that morning for Gatwick , to fly off to their holiday destination . |
| 5 | His descendants were to have good reason for echoing such sentiments in relation to the behaviour of Henry VIII 's troops in Scotland . |
| 6 | In religious terms , these two exilic and post-exilic developments — i.e. the concentration upon ritual purity and the sharp differentiation in male — female social function — were to have far-reaching consequences for women . |
| 7 | Indeed the changes wrought by the Prussians were to have enormous consequences for the formation of nationalist opinion in the city after the First World War , and it is important to see the extent to which these policies provided the basis of German identity and political purpose in the east , and provoked the very Polish nationalist response they supposedly sought to suppress or prevent . |
| 8 | If we were to present separate maps for unemployment by sex , the map for females would show southern Italy in a worse light , but female unemployment data are particularly prone to non-comparability because of wider differences between countries in the definitions used . |
| 9 | The new policy was to conserve indigenous gas for higher added value uses — e.g. not in power stations — and hold a large reserve of gas as an insurance policy against some undefined future energy crisis . |
| 10 | But what he did was to go outside broadcasting for two out of his three senior editorial jobs , the first main appointments . |
| 11 | All that remained was to issue specific orders for action to Kirov in Russia and Phil Andersen in Turkey . |
| 12 | The next sizeable raid occurred on 5 March , and on this occasion 7/JG 26 was to enjoy some reinforcement for the first of two occasions . |
| 13 | The balance of power was shifting back to favour the landlord , and it was to remain that way for a long time . |
| 14 | The object , Nietzsche explained , was to find appropriate terms for his insight into the " weighty problem " of tragedy 's origin and goal . |
| 15 | But however welcome , such generosity did not help solve the central problem which was to find suitable homes for the children . |
| 16 | Back in London , in February , at Central Hall Westminster , a movement that was to provide fertile soil for his work was launched . |
| 17 | However , the elected members were chosen by an electoral college dominated by the chiefs and the clear intention was to provide political training for the chiefs and the so-called intelligentsia while the Governor retained all power . |
| 18 | I was pressed with an argument that the assignees were not customers of B.C.C.I. The purpose of the Act was to provide some protection for persons who had chosen to become customers of the bank and who were accepted by the bank as customers . |
| 19 | The specific reason for the arrival of 252 Squadron was to provide long-range protection for a fast merchant vessel — the S.S. ‘ Parracombe ’ — on its way from Gibraltar , unescorted , carrying 21 crated Hurricanes and much needed cargo for the island , and also for a convoy of five fast freighters for Alexandria ( ‘ Tiger ’ convoy ) due to pass the island several days hence . |
| 20 | This was to provide handsome dividends for the company , but depression for the copper industry as a whole . |
| 21 | The facility with which Protestants interpreted the Bible for themselves — opening , it seemed , a Pandora 's box of subversive opinions — led to a declaration at the Council of Trent that was to create particular problems for Galileo , seventy years later . |
| 22 | A theory of ducal sovereignty was in effect to be formulated between 1294 and 1300 , which was to set important precedents for other peers and magnates of France to follow . |
| 23 | What she must do , he maintained , was to substitute one image for another . |
| 24 | The assumption grew that his purpose was to announce martial law for Northern Ireland . |
| 25 | My original thought was to submit this article for publication in the Shropshire Star on April Fools ' Day , the joke being that a railway to Clun was in fact planned , though on the 1st of April nobody would believe it ! |
| 26 | The purpose was to give solid ground for disputations , especially with rabbis who would not recognize the canonical authority of books which , though in the Septuagint ( the Bible of the Gentile mission ) , were absent from the Hebrew canon . |
| 27 | Under Thatcher , to say yes to private health and wealth was to give public approval for values most people felt to be indecent . |
| 28 | Part of their mission was to mobilize popular support for Franco , but who was to say that Falangist purists might not mobilize it against him ? |
| 29 | The plan was to use Independent Companies for raids in the Middle East , and a sixth centre , a remote national park , a hundred miles south-east of Melbourne , was set up to train them . |
| 30 | A Dutch delegate described the US plan as an improvement on its earlier position , which was to reject all calls for action until science proved that global warming was a certainty . |