Example sentences of "was to determine the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Designed for the latitude of a particular place , its most important use was to determine the precise time of day or night from an observation of the altitude of the sun or one of the stars mapped on the rete , but of course by modern standards the result was not very accurate . |
| 2 | Another objective of this investigation was to determine the extent to which collocations taken from one domain could aid the recognition of text taken from another . |
| 3 | By the time of the Japanese coup on 9 March 1945 the US had already become an important actor in the play that was to determine the future of Vietnam . |
| 4 | Nobody could doubt that the applications made by the applicant to the district judge were applications in a criminal cause , for their purpose was to determine the way in which the prosecution should proceed . |
| 5 | In future the advice of the Lord Chief Justice and the trial judge was to be obtained immediately after sentence , whether the life sentence was mandatory or discretionary , but in the latter case the judicial view of the tariff was to determine the date of the first review by the Parole Board machinery . |
| 6 | Between 1981 and 1988 , over 1,000 people took part in a Body Age Study in which a principal objective was to determine the degree of difference between people 's chronological and biological ages . |
| 7 | The aim was to determine the condition of bindings and assess the effectiveness of past preservation policy , to measure the demand for present and future binding-related conservation work , and to identify areas from which material in need of remedial treatment should be taken . |
| 8 | The aim of the present study was to determine the concentrations of tissue type plasminogen activator and urokinase type plasminogen activator in carcinomas along the upper part of the gastrointestinal tract using endoscopical biopsies . |
| 9 | The aim of this study was to determine the frequency and characteristics of non-deglutitive motor activity inthe normal human oesophagus and to study the relation of this oesophageal motor activity to motility patterns elsewhere in the gastrointestinal tract . |
| 10 | The purpose of this study was to determine the cost-effectiveness of oesophageal manometry in our laboratory . |
| 11 | The vendor 's and the purchaser 's accountants were then to review the sales figure and try to agree it with each other : and , if they disagreed , which they did , a third accountant was to determine the figure . |