Example sentences of "was [to-vb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does it really matter that those were early days , when the joke on campus was that the only way to kill anyone with a laser was to hit them over the head with it ? |
| 2 | It was as embarrassing to see a friend under the influence of adrenalin when one had not lost one 's own temper as it was to see him under the influence of alcohol when one was sober . |
| 3 | To flash a badge was to risk someone in the crowd remembering his face and in the future , on another job , he could fingered as the stoolie he truly was . |
| 4 | And when at last she fell asleep it was to find herself in the château , running endlessly through a labyrinth of rooms , searching for something that was always just beyond her reach . |
| 5 | My sister 's job was to meet her at the bus stop with the wheel basket so she did n't have to carry it up the road . |
| 6 | However : What Mr Taylor [ for the council ] said … was … that the common assumption which lay behind the agreement was that the council was the owner of the … land and that Mr Tillson had no interest in either parcel of land beyond the tenancy which the council was to grant him by the transaction . |
| 7 | It was her firm belief that the quickest way to achieve mental health was to absorb oneself in the problems of others and , in this particular centre , it seemed to have worked . |
| 8 | To cling to a Polish identity was to exclude oneself from the German monopoly on higher education and from all but menial employment in industry ; given the rapid depopulation of the countryside it was also to insist on the right to become and remain part of a backward , ignorant , illiterate , inward-looking agrarian people , stuck in a rural backwater with no access to the outside world , with scant interest from that world and little hope of progress . |
| 9 | In his room at the hotel , he would find a gun and it was emphasised that , after the shooting , he was to replace it in the room as arrangements had been made to dispose of it . |
| 10 | One of his compulsive gambits was to challenge everyone at the first meeting . |
| 11 | Sheila Hancock agrees that a great deal of the Williams intellectual showing off was to rid himself of the ‘ Carry On ’ persona . |
| 12 | As a result , England now had its own foothold upon France 's northern coast through which trade and armies might enter ; or , as the emperor-elect , Sigismund , was to express it in the next century , a second eye to match the other , Dover , in guarding the straits . |
| 13 | No , the best he could do was to fortify himself with the Nielson family , and wait a century or two . |
| 14 | The government 's obvious intention was to identify me as the main source of all the criticism and speculation running counter to the official line on Flight 103 and then to destroy me . |
| 15 | I have to pay 80p for one piece of Vallis , Cabomba etc at any of the fish centres in this part of the world and £1.50 each if I was to buy them in the little pots . |
| 16 | The only way to banish the bogeyman was to look him in the eye without flinching . |
| 17 | The way to Lavondyss was a short climb away , and all she needed was to resign herself to the journey , to abandon Scathach . |
| 18 | One of the worst things that could happen to a pupil was to leave something in the dining room by mistake after dinner . |
| 19 | The predominant response to Mannheim 's proposals for the sociology of knowledge in the English-speaking world was to incorporate it into the programme of ‘ scientific ’ , functionalist sociology . |
| 20 | His first thought was to do something to the Volkswagen Passat . |
| 21 | Because i in , in theory presumably they s they should n't have been abusing their position , they should n't be gaining more because the whole point was to do it for the masses particularly , I mean if you were a Party cadre erm you should n't be getting more out of it than anybody else . |
| 22 | The average thermal efficiency of French steam power stations , which had been well below that in Britain initially , was to overtake it in the later 1950s , as the more advanced French sets were commissioned ; and France caught up with American levels of thermal efficiency , while Britain remained behind . |
| 23 | However , to knock down old buildings was to put himself beyond the pale — not before time perhaps , but hardly for the right reason . |
| 24 | The aim was to put them on the spot — or at least to impress the Inspector with your knowledge and concern . |
| 25 | They were in costumes that , in spite of their crumpled shabbiness , recalled the garb of Count Arnheim in the opera of ‘ The Bohemian Girl ’ , and looked like fugitive kings and emperors beside the thick-set railway porter , in capacious velveteens , whose duty it was to put them on the right track towards the ‘ free land ’ . |
| 26 | My first thought was to put them in the dustbin . |
| 27 | Tony found that the best thing to do was to put her in the buggy and push her round the town , or take her to the park . |
| 28 | As the novelist E. M. Forster was to put it in the Indian summer of the bourgeoisie : ‘ In came the dividends , up went the lofty thoughts . ’ |
| 29 | To be seriously concerned with this field was to expose oneself to the possibility of ridicule when it turned out that one had been deceived by a clever confidence trickster ; at best it led to controversy , to results which were suggestive rather than conclusive , and away from those straightforward and answerable questions which since Galileo 's time had been the essence of scientific research . |
| 30 | She was to keep it for the next three and a half years . |