Example sentences of "it [was/were] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Clive Lawton , head of educational services , said there was still a long way to go , and he warned against being carried away with a good idea if it were to impoverish the rest of the scheme . |
| 2 | Any attempt to unite them would , therefore , have to be carefully planned if it were to win the acquiescence of the parties involved . |
| 3 | When he next spoke it was to ask the forgiveness of anyone present whom he had unwittingly wronged during his ministry in Krishnapur . |
| 4 | It was interesting to note how difficult it was to ask the questions as well as answer them . |
| 5 | In the colonial courts payments were not made to the judge , but to witnesses , court officials and lawyers whose task it was to manipulate the evidence placed before the judge in order to produce an outcome favourable to the client . |
| 6 | He would have understood , too , the presence at Norman and Angevin courts of clerks whose function it was to extol the deeds of their princes . |
| 7 | It was to inaugurate the movement of the freedmen from the private and irresponsible authority of master or steward to proper restraint under judicial power . |
| 8 | Although at first sight the Bull-Leaping Fresco found in the cellars of the Labyrinth 's East Wing seems in its present reconstruction to show , on the left , a bull-leaper waiting to be hoisted into the air , the figure is in fact a bull-grappler and represents a group of two , three or four grapplers whose job it was to pad the horns , keep the bull 's head low and the rest of its body still during the leap . |
| 9 | The first time it was to stop the defence counsel from questioning her about her sexual history , the second time it was to stop Anderson referring to the victim by her last name , as if talking about a defendent . |
| 10 | Dickens knew at first hand from his own childhood what it was to live the life of the poor . |
| 11 | On Nov. 25 the new coalition government announced that it was to close the prison in the north-western town of Eskisehir where human rights groups had alleged that torture of political prisoners took place . |
| 12 | ‘ What 's so funny ? ’ said Lucifer 's daughter ( whose job it was to foot the ladder ) . |
| 13 | It was to examine the structure , organization , training and regulation of the legal profession and to recommend those changes that would be desirable in the interests of justice . |
| 14 | It was to examine the amendments and the additional provisions that were required in the Committee 's report which , the House will recall , was published in June of last year . |
| 15 | He 's not from our way but John Reynolds of Swindon is … and he 's the man who 's job it was to string the champion 's rackets … here 's Erika Barnes to serve |
| 16 | In his view , it was the Resident , and the Resident alone , whose task it was to guide the emir along the path of material progress — if such indeed were deemed to be desired . |
| 17 | We erm we had a letter through but it was to test the boilers , because . |
| 18 | His mission , in so far as it was to reconcile the Nationalists and Communists , was a failure and indeed could hardly have been expected to be otherwise . |
| 19 | It was to magnify the buildings and their symbolism . |
| 20 | He said there was a person , famous throughout the land , whose job it was to visit the halls where films were being shown and to describe the films to the local people . |
| 21 | It was to join the Brownies |
| 22 | They made friends with the families who stayed and who bought milk and eggs from them , and they said more than once how good it was to see the lights on across the river again . |
| 23 | It was to take the information from the patients ' records , their age , diagnosis , treatment etc . |
| 24 | It was to enable the government to acquire land sold during the depression to pay off debts . |
| 25 | And what was the action of the majority party then , over and it was to receive the report . |
| 26 | Settled down with a cup of tea Robert explained how easy it was to roam the databases of Britain collecting details of people 's private lives . |
| 27 | This plan argued that the renewal of the area should be based on the twin policies of the construction of social housing and industrial development , and it was to form the basis , in the late 1970s , of the Partnership established between the Labour government and the local authorities concerned ( see Chapter 3 ) . |
| 28 | Alex could not help thinking how much easier and less complicated it was to enjoy the company of women , how much less fraught with the possibility of misunderstanding . |
| 29 | When we used the barrel of the gun , it was to facilitate the end which was the ballot box . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ It was to guard the plumbing , ’ said the foreman , crushing the Coke tin with his hand and throwing it into a corner . |