Example sentences of "was [to-vb] the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that remained after that was to continue the treatment until the lesions calcified . |
| 2 | On June 16 the Legislative Yuan approved a bill to abolish the " thought police " system , a mechanism which had involved the maintenance of special units in government offices whose function was to monitor the discipline and behaviour of civil servants , and to examine their loyalty to the ruling Kuomintang . |
| 3 | His gentle , conservative aim was to support the singers and make the story clear . |
| 4 | To appreciate this was to see the problem as ultimately a problem of living , and as uniquely relevant to a recently unified and politically ascendant Germany . |
| 5 | Is that what it is– ’ Or if I was to see the doctor and my girlfriend happened to be seeing the doctor as well , this was just an excuse , according to them , for us to be together . |
| 6 | Tàpies ' main aim was to promote the study and understanding of modern art and culture ; to create a museum in the form of a working research centre with a pluralist approach and activities of international scope , not a passive repository or shrine to the artist ( like the Dalí Museum in Figueres ) . |
| 7 | There he was to search the Scriptures and the writings of the early Fathers and write a book which would be distributed to the universities and would enable them to give their advice as to whether the Pope had authority to enable a man to marry his deceased brother 's wife . |
| 8 | Its basic objective was to stimulate the regularity and safety of international air transport . |
| 9 | Direct UN activity in Korea began with the establishment of UNTCOK under the terms of the resolution proposed by the United States in October 1947 : UNTCOK was to observe the holding and conduct of elections throughout Korea and to advise in the establishment of a unified , independent Korea . |
| 10 | This meant that each small boy was accompanied to church by an older boy whose job it was to find the hymns and generally ensure good behaviour . |
| 11 | Robert Boyle once said that one of the reasons why he had chosen not to be ordained was to preempt the criticism that his pious remarks about nature merely reflected a vested interest . |
| 12 | The facts of observation might , or might not , fit into an acknowledged scheme of the universe , but the important thing , in Galileo 's opinion , was to accept the facts and build the theory to fit them . |
| 13 | Africanus ' answer ( no doubt , as often , he was following Julian ) was to construe the trust as being charged on the heir : he was being requested to abandon his claim against the debtor and cede it to the third-party beneficiary . |
| 14 | The defendant had been employed by the company as its compliance officer ; his duty it was to supervise the procedures and practices of the plaintiff so as to secure fulfilment of the regulatory requirements imposed by FIMBRA . |
| 15 | We decided that the best thing to do was to hide the bicycles and the panniers separately — which was sensible — and then take refuge with the prisoners beyond the embankment until the storm was over — which was not . |
| 16 | The next stage ( 1925 ) was to increase the pension but make it conditional on having paid certain contributions , which were compulsory below a given income . |
| 17 | What she could have done without when she went into her office was to answer the phone and hear Jimmy Webb ring in to ask if she could do without him as he 'd got an upset stomach . |
| 18 | My job was to answer the telephone and welcome the patients , who were mainly wealthy Greeks and Arabs who came to have check-ups and electrocardiograms . |
| 19 | The effect was to create the idea that either the wall did not exist or , if it did , it was of no possible significance . |
| 20 | His purpose in doing so was to create the illusion that major political decisions were not taken by one man , but in a collegiate way , by the representatives of the people . |
| 21 | It was the commune that was to own the land and to be responsible for all peasant obligations , including the payment of redemption dues . |
| 22 | Melanie realised , now , that she had never needed an invitation to listen to his dancing music ; all she had to do was to open the door and walk in . |
| 23 | Most ministers tended to face similar tasks : their primary work was to lead the church or , if a Methodist , to work in his assigned circuit and to supervise the ‘ stations ’ with their local preachers . |
| 24 | As property prices in London were moving upwards , Eva 's shrewd plan was to decorate the flat as we had the last house , sell at a profit , and move on . |
| 25 | It was to magnify the buildings and their symbolism . |
| 26 | The reason for writing a purpose-built routine was to simplify the output when the dedicated instrument was constructed . |
| 27 | The aim of the present study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of polymeric enteral nutrition , as compared with steroid treatment , in achieving and maintaining clinical remission in patients with active Crohn 's disease . |
| 28 | A secondary purpose of the study was to explore the possibility that the act of describing a film or specifically describing potential risks in a situation will alter drivers ’ subsequent assessments of risk . |
| 29 | Three years later Francis Cleyn , the man who was to design the Hero and Leander tapestries , was chosen as designer and chief weaver to the Mortlake factory . |
| 30 | Where the defendant 's duty was to guard the plaintiff or his property from a third party , then the third party act will not relieve the defendant from the consequences of his negligence . |