Example sentences of "was [to-vb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The task of the Conservatives was to kill off the Liberals as a credible third alternative and then project the Conservative Party as offering a dynamic alternative to socialism . |
| 2 | To ‘ love the motherland ’ was to embrace wholeheartedly the doctrines of the leadership , even if they were slightly contradictory . |
| 3 | In particular , it was to carry forward the engineering and financial planning of a barrage between Penarth head and Queen Alexandra dock . |
| 4 | True it was that the plaintiff did not undertake to do any work additional to that which he had originally undertaken to do but the terms on which he was to carry out the work were varied and , in my judgment , that variation was supported by consideration which a pragmatic approach to the true relationship between the parties readily demonstrates . |
| 5 | Its most important innovations were the provision of an annual conference of delegates , elected by the membership , and a rule that the executive committee , similarly elected , " was to carry out the business of the BDDA in accordance with the decisions of the delegates " conference " . |
| 6 | De Alwis , Dr Netasinghe , head of the veterinary team , and the park rangers and trackers had another trump card in the person of the man who was to carry out the darting . |
| 7 | They were then made a sign in the store , and if the job came up again , all you did was to go down the store , and it was a one-off exercise , instead of travelling back and forwards to get a particular tool , erm er that was all eliminated . |
| 8 | Mr Ashwell said : ‘ The strategy was to wait out the recession , working short-time as necessary , in order to avoid major closures or redundancies . |
| 9 | In general the effect of the Commission 's inflated purchasing ability was to drive up the price of land in the borders . |
| 10 | The new Elizabethan age was to drive out the age of austerity . |
| 11 | ‘ The idea was to pass on the information from generation to generation , so children traditionally played a very important part , ’ said a spokeswoman for the Open Spaces Society . |
| 12 | I also remember , incidentally , the first letter that I had to erm type , a young chap who was erm shortly called up for service in the Army came in and erm dictated a little letter to me to see how erm , how I got on and erm it was a letter to parents in Halesworth whose daughter had just been er transferred to a grammar school and erm in those days of course the , if the distance was more than three miles the Education Committee er provided a cycle and cape and leggings and erm the object of the letter was to find out the child 's inside leg measurement |
| 13 | Doddy 's first job was to find out the extent of the Guinness brand 's availability . |
| 14 | He said one of their main hopes was to tighten up the law on fire precautions in flats . |
| 15 | The effect of this explosion of trade between the advanced countries was to increase sharply the proportion of imported manufactured goods consumed inside these countries . |
| 16 | The woman had no rights in the matter , for by Jesus 's time all the man had to do was to write out the words ‘ I divorce you ’ and the divorce was effected . |
| 17 | it 's a very sad day for me with my last test flight , I started here in nineteen eighty three and my first job was to clean up the station after the air show |
| 18 | When I yeah when I was commercial manager for er one of the things that I was given the job to do was to sort out the company 's buying . |
| 19 | Another lesson Computercraft learned was to sort out the politics before getting started . |
| 20 | Thus , the aim of this study was to evaluate retrospectively the characteristics and outcome of 56 cases of primary gastric lymphoma that have been morphologically reclassified according to recent knowledge of the MALT derived lymphomas . |
| 21 | The aim of this study was to evaluate how the proliferation index obtained by PCNA ( 19A2 ) correlates with that determined by conventional BrdU immunocytochemistry . |
| 22 | His only answer was to pick up the knife and hand it to me . |
| 23 | Believing that artisans should be well housed , his last initiative was to set up the Society for the Promotion of Industrial Villages in 1884 . |
| 24 | The task was to set up the office , get a system going to deal with the fan mail , gifts and general correspondence , liaise with dress designers and process the requests for patronages as they came in . |
| 25 | When the House of Lords rejected the Budget proposals of the Liberal government in 1909 , the response of that government was to set about the emasculation of the House of Lords . |
| 26 | One of my first jobs in the morning , when I was not at school , was to sweep out the customers ' part of the shop . |
| 27 | And then someone has a conversation with someone else and then someone else has a conversation with someone else and if a man was to walk right the way through the police station he has about five or six conversations , and by the time he gets to the other end of the police station he 's forgotten the first conversation . |
| 28 | My only thought at the time was to wipe out the memory of the ordeal you 'd been made to suffer by the man you thought you loved ! ’ |
| 29 | The general aim was to tear away the wrappings in which orthodox Christianity had enshrouded Jesus and to allow his real face again to be seen . |
| 30 | Then she heard Christ speaking to her , saying that she would have victory over all her enemies , and that she was to give up the hair-cloth that she wore and her continual saying of the Rosary , but must stop eating meat . |