Example sentences of "their [noun sg] was [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did not achieve this , but their future was closely to parallel that of the cotton hand-loom weavers in moving through boom to desperation . |
| 2 | The aim of their intervention was then to reduce this figure gradually . |
| 3 | Their aim was then to reduce both frequency and duration . |
| 4 | The officers of the Hei-Ho were all Japanese ; their role was mainly to operate as labour battalions . |
| 5 | It was as if their covenant was both to keep the problem alive and yet to ensure they did nothing about it . |
| 6 | It may be alleged that such Unionist arguments were specious , that their concern was solely to exploit a winning issue at any cost to the nation , but this would be to misunderstand the Unionists themselves . |
| 7 | Their approach was just to stick out the records , but more thought went into later releases and we had a structure where the label was treated with more importance . |
| 8 | Their testimony was purely to establish that the substance they had seized was marijuana . |
| 9 | The purpose of these ports was to spread out American naval forces so that a sneak attack could not cripple the fleet , although others suggested that their intent was actually to spread the pork as widely as possible . |