Example sentences of "was [to-vb] out [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim of the proposal was to carry out a visit of one month to France under the ESRC/CNTLS Exchange scheme for social scientists in order to pursue collaborative work on Time , the family and leisure |
| 2 | The purpose of Study 2 was to carry out a laboratory task which allowed measurement of feelings of risk and a controlled test of memory for driving situations . |
| 3 | BT 's response was to carry out an area trial , promising to keep me advised on progress . |
| 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 | Mr Ashwell said : ‘ The strategy was to wait out the recession , working short-time as necessary , in order to avoid major closures or redundancies . |
| 8 | The new Elizabethan age was to drive out the age of austerity . |
| 9 | It 's the sort of fruitless post-mortem that bridge-players do but the point of the incident is that it showed the extent to which Hunt 's temper could affect his judgement , for in motor racing , as Nigel Mansell was to find out a decade later , to lose one 's cool harms only oneself . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | Doddy 's first job was to find out the extent of the Guinness brand 's availability . |
| 12 | Our next major step was to sort out a name . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Another lesson Computercraft learned was to sort out the politics before getting started . |
| 15 | That report had two main objectives one was to establish a clear policy for G M B health and safety the second was to set out a training programme to establish the G M B's role in health and safety . |
| 16 | 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 ! ’ |
| 17 | One was to downgrade a proposed new peer to a knighthood ; another was to leave out a name completely . |
| 18 | It consists of the bass-parts for each choir , placed one above the other , with bar-lines but no text or figures to indicate how he was to fill out the bass , only an occasional flat or sharp above the notes ; when in the Masses a movement begins in a higher part only , this is shown in the organ part ; but when the higher voices sing without the bass , the organ part is marked ‘ tacet ’ or ‘ non est hic ’ . |
| 19 | ’ Any audible signal probably took the form of one stroke per bar : Rousseau and Meude-Monpas agreed that French practice , in whatever context , was to tap out the down-beat only ; the Italians always tapped out the first two beats , if there were three or four beats per bar . |
| 20 | The aim of the discussion on full employment policy in his Cabinet committee was to put out a statement before Beveridge , and the politicians were prepared to slide over practical difficulties in implementing the policy — all that was required was a statement of principles . |
| 21 | General Giap realised that his best course was to knock out the French before American aid increased decisively . |
| 22 | To move a character from set A to set B you needed to write in a short bridging scene , the effect of which was to stretch out the script with padding , which was not always the best thing for the story . |
| 23 | A wise precaution was to send out a party equipped with bundles of brushwood to sweep away the tracks leading to the encampment . |
| 24 | DURING the housing boom they used to say that the only contact an architect had with the design of many high-volume , speculative developments was to lay out the site so that the maximum number of little boxes could be squeezed in . |
| 25 | The first thing I did when I came to live in this lovely place , was to take out a subscription for MKM . |
| 26 | It 's always difficult to know how to start a completely new venture , but the way I did it was to take out an ad in Guitar Player magazine , offering to modify any piece of equipment — anything that anyone wanted done . |
| 27 | The most obvious treatment was to cut out the growth . |