Example sentences of "was to give the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The obvious solution was to give the board commercial freedom and control of its own destiny in the private sector . |
| 2 | Betty Friedan , who was to give the whole phenomenon of fulfilment-through-motherhood a name — The Feminine Mystique — also made a revealing admission when she came to look back on those unliberated years in a later book ( It Changed My Life ) : |
| 3 | One of Egan 's last gestures before Ford took over Jaguar at the end of 1989 was to give the go-ahead for a limited production of 350 XJ220s . |
| 4 | His first task was to give the new group a strategic thrust . |
| 5 | The first and most important step , therefore , was to give the orders to ensure a lessening of tension in the neck area so that the normal functioning of the Primary Control could be restored . |
| 6 | The unforeseen effect was to give the kicker more time to kick , so it achieved the opposite ’ . |
| 7 | On the eve of their presentation to the Women 's International Professional Council , a group of British tennis writers , plus two from France , were summoned to hear Gerry Smith suggest that all they really wanted to do was to give the women players the same sort of voice in the game as the men ; that they had no intention of tearing the women 's game apart and that if they had been able to carry on negotiations quietly and in confidence , there would have been no problems . |
| 8 | What the proposed Bill actually did , in fact , was to give the representatives of the law far greater scope for intervention in the conduct of homosexuals than in the case of other sexual activities . |
| 9 | Amanieu VII 's marriage to Rose de Bourg brought with it important landed possessions around Bourg and Blaye ; his daughter Mathe married Renaud de Pons , lord of Bergerac , in 1314 , and was to give the Albret a significant foothold on the borders of Périgord ; while Amanieu 's son , Bérard I ( d. 1346 ) who was lord of Vayres and Vertheuil in the Entre-deux-Mers , acquired the castles and lordships of Langoiran and Podensac for his cadet son Amanieu through the latter 's marriage to Mabille d'Escossan in 1345 . |
| 10 | Cooper 's method was to give the three groups an inventory of questions dealing with obsessional traits and symptoms ; his results showed that the mean symptom score of the houseproud women fell between those of the normal women and the group of obsessional patients . |
| 11 | But it was the longbow , with its range of up to 200 metres , its power of penetration which was to compel the development of more effective plate armour in the first half of the fourteenth century , its rate of fire which was easily twice that of the crossbow , and which , held vertically , ( earlier bows and crossbows were held horizontally ) could be aimed more accurately along the line of the bow , which was to give the archer , above all those serving in English armies , so important a role to play in every form of war at this time . |
| 12 | The Allies kept certain reserved powers ( including control of foreign policy ) under an Occupation Statute but their practice was to give the new German government as much independence as possible . |
| 13 | It was rivalry that tamed a continent , harnessing the resources of harsh environments and creating an economy that before long was to give the United States the industrial leadership of the world . |
| 14 | All these points might suggest that , when Gen Robertson sent his signal to Eighth Army on 14 May , at least part of his intention was to give the authorization required for the handing back to Tito of the 200,000 Croats . |
| 15 | the whole purpose of our exercise was to give the staff a better feeling of security . |
| 16 | But that apart , the main aim of the term was to give the students confidence that they could plan and teach a lesson at any point in the five year course . |
| 17 | The second route was to give the library user direct access to those machine-readable bibliographic records from which card and computer output microform ( COM ) catalogues had been produced for more than a decade through shared centralized cataloguing . |
| 18 | Kadi Samawna ( Seyh Bedreddin ) and specifies four men who , he says , led the criticism of Molla Fenari : Molla Burhan al-Din Haydar Herewi ( Burhaneddin Haydar Herevi ) , the mufti in Edirne " , who was to give the fetva sanctioning Seyh Bedreddin 's execution ; Molla Yegan ; Kutb al-Din Izniki-zade Baha " al-Din " Umar Celebi ( Bahaeddin Omer ) ; and the vezir Hajji " Iwad Pasha ( Haci Ivaz Pasa ) . |
| 19 | Opposition critics claimed , however , that the real reason for the delay was to give the government time to build up its grassroots organization . |
| 20 | The aim was to give the writers the advance information they always sought and to gain interest from cinemas . |
| 21 | ‘ You talked that night about the people she was to give the money to , ’ said Mahmoud . |
| 22 | For , according to the terms of her contract with Vasey 's , with the exception of a clause giving them the right to instant dismissal should she ever be guilty of industrial misconduct , either party was to give the other three months ' notice . |
| 23 | Doug Alker , RNID 's director of quality and research , who will be speaking at the event , said its aim was to give the deaf and hard of hearing better access to banks , shops , offices and local councils . |