Example sentences of "was [to-vb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim of this short exploratory project was to gather empirical evidence of scanning practices in the UK . |
| 2 | A decision which was to affect future events in Burma was now concluded in New Delhi . |
| 3 | The Monday evening they phone me up and said that I was to attend another meeting on Tuesday which I believe were the twenty second to which they said , We 've thought about it and we 've decided not to continue your employment . |
| 4 | The Prime Minister 's last political move was to include ten Africans in his Cabinet . |
| 5 | An important first step was to include these hospitals in the budgets of the regional health authorities , so that their claims had to be considered alongside everyone else 's . |
| 6 | The new policy was to conserve indigenous gas for higher added value uses — e.g. not in power stations — and hold a large reserve of gas as an insurance policy against some undefined future energy crisis . |
| 7 | He watched them rushing through Calais on their way to pay court to Napoleon ( Sonnet : ‘ Is it a reed that 's shaken by the wind ’ ) , and decided , since he regarded the French leader as a despot and a menace to free institutions , that the only course open was to support that party in England which wanted to continue the war , namely the Tories . |
| 8 | Everything 's rosy down at the telecottage Paddy Ashdown 's mission was to see hi-tech Orkney in action , Tom Morton explains |
| 9 | With the advent of ‘ Laura Ashley ’ , this sleepy village was to see more changes in a decade than it had in centuries . |
| 10 | But what he did was to go outside broadcasting for two out of his three senior editorial jobs , the first main appointments . |
| 11 | His first priority was to restore national unity by closing the breach between France and France-in-Algeria and rallying the nation around the person of General de Gaulle . |
| 12 | All that remained was to issue specific orders for action to Kirov in Russia and Phil Andersen in Turkey . |
| 13 | Not until dark , since his intention was to search that patch of ground thoroughly . |
| 14 | If the difference is real , however , it could be that one of the effects of the project involvement was to alert other service-providers to any need for institutional care at an earlier stage than would occur for those in the control sample . |
| 15 | It was to drive another nail into the coffin , into the public service 's coffin , to go alongside compulsory competitive tendering , erosion of working conditions and compulsory redundancies just to satisfy their own political dogma not caring about the citizens of this country , whose quality of life depends on them the services provided by the public sector . |
| 16 | Their intention was to treat each case on its merits rather than reproduce the traditional left-right divide in British politics . |
| 17 | The immediate effect was to swing conservative support behind Nicholas 's regime . |
| 18 | The first move was to galvanise scientific opinion by a series of regional and national debates on science policy . |
| 19 | The objective was to curb recent influxes of foreign capital and to bring the escudo closer into line with the major EC currencies . |
| 20 | The next sizeable raid occurred on 5 March , and on this occasion 7/JG 26 was to enjoy some reinforcement for the first of two occasions . |
| 21 | For example , it was found that the most effective way of comparing aircraft was to compare two aircraft at a time ( C.H. Gibbs-Smith , 1942 , Aircraft Recognition , 1(2) ) . |
| 22 | The balance of power was shifting back to favour the landlord , and it was to remain that way for a long time . |
| 23 | The stated aim was to relate penal methods to the purposes which they were required to serve : |
| 24 | The next step was to relate this model to what was then happening in practice , ie before the Act took effect . |
| 25 | The object , Nietzsche explained , was to find appropriate terms for his insight into the " weighty problem " of tragedy 's origin and goal . |
| 26 | The Home Office said aS far as young offenders were concerned … the aim was to find constructive altermnatives to custody … |
| 27 | Geschwind 's express intention was to find physiological correlates of linguistic capacities , in order to bring language within the scope of scientific materialism . |
| 28 | But however welcome , such generosity did not help solve the central problem which was to find suitable homes for the children . |
| 29 | This expectation was to find documented expression in the Magna Carta of 1215 , by which the King recognized it as a right of his subjects " to have the Common Council of the Kingdom " for the assessment of extraordinary aids — that is , taxation . |
| 30 | Later I was to find this sort of coincidence recurring . |