Example sentences of "was to bring the " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Makepeace 's aim then was to bring the courses a step further with the potential for product manufacture on site . |
| 2 | Some earlier teams collecting wild cocoa had lost 50 per cent or more of their material by attempting to send it directly to distant breeding centres ; our intention was to bring the collections back to a local base for propagation and planting . |
| 3 | The stated goal of West Germany 's early new right thinkers was to bring the German right ‘ out from the shadow of Auschwitz ’ , to distance the movement from the damning stigma of its Nazi past . |
| 4 | The next stage , of course , was to bring the birds in . |
| 5 | Petain , a general considerate of his men , was promoted to command of the Army Group and two lesser generals assumed immediate responsibility — Nivelle , who was to bring the French Army to the point of mutiny in the following year , and Mangin , dubbed ‘ the heroic defender of Verdun ’ by some , ‘ the butcher ’ by others . |
| 6 | The other thing it did , since the one-time imperialists were in NATO and their opponents were not , was to bring the cold war into Africa . |
| 7 | The aim clearly was to bring the masses into accord with the perceived notions of naturalness and stability that the bourgeoisie adhered to , and to which the lower middle classes aspired . |
| 8 | One consequence of the Persian presence in Cyrenaica was to bring the Egyptian oasis of Siwah , with its oracle of Ammon , into closer touch with Cyrene ; Zeus Ammon , as Pindar calls him , features on the reverse of Cyrenaean coins issued after 480 . |
| 9 | The first task of the regional committees was to bring the existing voluntary schemes within the scope of the statutory Scheme and to establish new local schemes so as to secure coverage of ‘ busy ’ courts . |
| 10 | She kept telling her father that there was no future for an independent shipping company , there 'd be no one to run it after he 'd gone , and that the modern thing was to bring the company into a big group . |
| 11 | But the idea of course was to bring the electrical , mechanical and the technicians to redesign the little bits that were |
| 12 | Aware of the constant potential threat from gangs of gunmen , their mission was to bring the food into the country and make sure it got through to the people most deserving of it . |