Example sentences of "was to find the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best thing Tina Turner 's management ever did was to find the songs for her Private Dancer album . |
| 2 | He had no money in his bank account , and when he gazed about at the huge drawing-room , smaller inner drawing-room and large bedroom , he had no idea how he was to find the money to buy the barest essentials — a few chairs , a table , a bed . |
| 3 | Richard , Agnes 's younger son , was to find the Justice of the Forests south of Trent twelve ‘ free and law-worthy men ’ who would guarantee that he would well and faithfully keep the said bailiwick on Agnes 's behalf : the Forest Justice was then to admit him to the custody in Agnes 's place . |
| 4 | Her problem was to find the reason for her wanderings — was she botanist , naturalist , ethnologist , geologist , or , as Dea Birkett decides , a woman who had to make an impression ? |
| 5 | This meant that each small boy was accompanied to church by an older boy whose job it was to find the hymns and generally ensure good behaviour . |
| 6 | When at length they reached the expected doorway it was to find the door open . |
| 7 | In practice the solution was to find the right placement for the children , rather than try to help the parents , child or care staff to adjust to each other . |
| 8 | When Charlotte had finished , emphasizing how vital it was to find the document the kidnappers wanted , Natasha poured them both more tea before she made any remark . |
| 9 | The avowed programme of Montjoie was to find the link between various arts and to investigate their common tendencies , and Canudo invented the term ‘ cérébrisme ’ to describe this attitude : ‘ Montjoie is the mouthpiece of Cerebrist art , for Cerebrism , according to its own definition , embraces and explains the entire artistic evolution of our age during the past forty years , and in the widest sense , being an aesthetic that is indissolubly cerebral and sensual — against all sentimentality in art and life . ’ |
| 10 | As it transpired though , he was to find the lease of the le Fleming mines unavailable . |
| 11 | When I reached my office , cross and flustered , it was to find the office girls clustered round Mavis 's desk and Geoff Tulloch in the middle of them . |
| 12 | The first step in processing the typesetting tape was to find the mapping between the typesetting codes and the special characters . |
| 13 | Bridget knew how important it was to find the author of the letter . |
| 14 | Even even , okay , even if we the the reason that we need the output rate was to find the length of this bar . |
| 15 | Conversely , brokers could not act as jobbers ( and thus had ‘ single ’ capacity ) and their role was to find the best price from the jobbers for their customers . |