Example sentences of "was [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been anticipated they would be operating mainly among the trees surrounding the estate , so the object was to go for maximum noise and shock effect while inflicting the least injuries possible . |
| 2 | What he did was to go to Holy Trinity Church and look at the parish records where he found that his parents ' wedding date was also May — the 27th . |
| 3 | Mr Trew believes his crime was to go on local TV to protest about the grim prospects for his hospitals . |
| 4 | One of the main aims during conservation was to restore to original condition of all areas of the aircraft that were visible , including the interior structure underneath access panels , undercarriage bays , stowage areas etc . |
| 5 | Representatives from West Berlin were allowed to attend as ‘ observers ’ but Berlin was to remain under four-power occupation , legally separate from the rest of Germany . |
| 6 | The question of the sort of relations between journalists and politicians which could be considered proper was to remain of great importance in determining the changing role of the press . |
| 7 | It had already been decided that Hayling was to remain as chief executive , and everyone who had been doing a specific job for the company was invited to carry on . |
| 8 | Wanted on corruption charges , he was to remain in Brazilian custody until extradition proceedings were completed . |
| 9 | The position on partial demolition , however , remained uncertain after the House of Lords case , and by degrees various church bodies began to put forward proposals for partial demolition , in some cases leaving no more than a facade or church hall , arguing that , as part of the site was to remain in ecclesiastical use , no permission to demolish was required . |
| 10 | A much more flexible and pro-active strategy was needed , unless Labour was to pass into total oblivion . |
| 11 | From 1917 onwards , however , the educational system became the chosen battle-ground where the child/adolescent Nizan was to struggle for personal identity and stability . |
| 12 | He concluded that Thorp was likely to be the first of British Nuclear Fuel 's ( BNFL ) projects to be closed if the company was to come under financial pressure . |
| 13 | For this reason , and at a time of less genial moods , the Report was to come under severe criticism . |
| 14 | We met our new lecturer Mr H.B. Acton of the London School of Economics who was to lecture in Social Philosophy . |
| 15 | Mr Finnegan was to stand as Tory candidate for Stockton South at the 1983 general election but withdrew when it was disclosed he had been a member of an extreme right-wing party . |
| 16 | However , neither of these procedures recommended themselves to the early survey researchers , such as Bowley ; his procedure was to compromise between administrative convenience and representativeness by using more than one stage of sampling . |
| 17 | It was made available by Harold Wilson , who was to exit in identical fashion in 1970 . |
| 18 | At the outset of a partnership that was to lead to great success , Allison was placed on the front line of the band 's paranoid attitude to outside influence . |
| 19 | The involvement of the West Indies in the war created a profound change in the outlook of its people , that was to lead to growing criticism of the colonial government . |
| 20 | Ungar 's experiments were done before other research — which was to lead in due course to the opening up of a major new branch of neuropharmacology and to the making of some very distinguished scientific reputations — had revealed how important many peptides were in the brain . |
| 21 | It was a classic imperial response in every sense , and it is not surprising that it was to feed into Fascist Italian and German canons of architectural taste . |
| 22 | If the only attributable cause of his father 's demise was his inadequate mastery of bourgeois culture , the most effective way forward for the son was to aim for total acquisition of the cultural identity that his father manifestly lacked . |
| 23 | Significantly , Macleod announced during his speech that the government planned to ensure that Hong Kong 's fiscal reserves would stand at HK$71,600 million by March 1997 ( Hong Kong was to revert to Chinese sovereignty in July 1997 ) . |
| 24 | Ending 20 months of negotiations , the agreement eased the tension between the UK and China over consultation on Hong Kong 's affairs in the period leading up to 1997 when the colony was to revert to Chinese control , and ended the uncertainty over the US$16,200 million airport project , announced in 1989 , whose funding had been threatened by China 's opposition . |
| 25 | Whilst Rick 's aim in changing the curriculum was to focus on mathematical thinking , this was at odds not only with many parents ' perceptions of mathematics , but also those of one member of his department and the headteacher . |
| 26 | And it was to look at basic supermarket products really that are sourced from the Third World , and to try and have a standard that you could say , yes , that 's been traded fairly . |
| 27 | Thus on Captain Cook 's first voyage , Joseph Banks the naturalist took a number of artists , including Sydney Parkinson who was to specialize in natural history subjects . |
| 28 | It was a gap he was to fill with consummate skill . |
| 29 | He had ‘ found himself ’ young and firmly held on to that ; as he was to do with remarkable consistency . |
| 30 | He encouraged controversy with an exhibition at Montepulciano in 1970 entitled ‘ Amore mio ’ , opposing the then unacceptable concept of frivolity to the generally accepted idea that art was to do with austere militancy . |