Example sentences of "was [to-vb] a [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not until the Basque iron deposits were exploited by foreign capital , instead of by the archaic techniques of the Basque miners , that Spain was to acquire a substitute for wool . |
| 2 | The first thing was to find a school for you three — for six months you had had no teaching , except what I could give you , and then kind Miss Budden , the headmistress at Auckland House school , Simla , said she could take you if I could come too and help her nurse about twenty children down with measles in the san. , because Matron was coping with some children with suspected diphtheria in another block . |
| 3 | We knew that if Thomas survived the cancer his only chance of a halfway normal life was to find a cure for A-T . |
| 4 | The aim was to provide a facility for professional women to meet on a regular basis , exchange ideas and experiences and discuss topics of mutual interest . |
| 5 | The main purpose of the conference was to provide a forum for social , community and health workers to explore social , ethical and legal issues emerging from the practice of genital mutilation , which although prohibited in Britain , affects girls resident here whose families take them abroad to be circumcised . |
| 6 | Folkestone was a pocket borough of the Rothschilds , Southend was falling under the control of the Guinness family , Plymouth was learning to love the Astors , and Samuel Roberts was building up the influence in Sheffield that was to provide a seat for his family until 1966 . |
| 7 | The pursuit of their properties was intellectually exciting but something of a gamble if the aim was to discover a drug for a specific purpose . |
| 8 | Ex-Bauhaus director Walter Gropius was to design a Totaltheater for Piscator 's productions . |
| 9 | His first task was to select a site for and to design new locomotive workshops in Kilmarnock to replace existing inadequate facilities in Glasgow . |
| 10 | My usual practice when visiting a patient with an acute febrile illness was to leave a prescription for the appropriate conventional drug ( usually an antibiotic ) , while at the same time administering the most appropriate homoeopathic remedy with the advice to the patient — or the parents , if the patient was a child — to continue to take the homoeopathic remedy but that if there was no improvement in two to four hours then to take the conventional drug . |
| 11 | So , in a case where the seller was to build a yacht for the buyer and they agreed that on payment of the first instalment the vessel and all materials used in its construction should become the absolute property of the buyer , the court held that nevertheless no property passed on payment of the first instalment because at that time the boat 's construction had not commenced and the materials to be used had not yet been identified , McDougall v. Aeromarine of Emsworth Ltd. ( 1958 Q.B. ) . |
| 12 | Martha observed that as England was to have a bastard for a queen , there seemed little harm in having Sir Gregory Roscarrock 's bastard for a husband . |
| 13 | Herbert 's career had demonstrated how valuable it was to have a focus for royal efforts in Wales and the council of the prince of Wales was to serve the same purpose in the 1470s . |
| 14 | Herbert 's career had demonstrated how valuable it was to have a focus for royal efforts in Wales and the council of the prince of Wales was to serve the same purpose in the 1470s . |
| 15 | One of his earliest duties under Municipal control was to formulate a scheme for improved conditions of labour for the men , involving a reduction in working hours , increase of pay and provision of uniforms . |
| 16 | One of the first tasks of the new Chief Engineer , Bernard Browne , was to prepare a specification for a single-deck car and to oversee its building by East Lancashire Coach Builders , using the new technology , tried and proved successful on the Jubilee class of double-deckers . |
| 17 | Terrified , their initial reaction was to make a run for it ; but other considerations crowded in . |
| 18 | For those involved in politics , the press was to become a medium for furthering political debate and education , for defining and defending party political positions , and for formulating political programmes . |
| 19 | One group of ships kept watch on Dunkirk and the Flemish ports ; a second , ready to protect the Thames estuary , lay in the Downs just north of Dover ; a third was at Spithead , covering Portsmouth and watching Le Havre ; a fourth was in the Mediterranean , off Toulon ; and the fifth , and most important , was Admiral Hawke 's squadron , whose close blockade of Brest , from his base at Plymouth , was to become a model for the future . |
| 20 | Thomas Cook himself , whose name was to become a by-word for organised tourism in the next twenty-five years , had begun his career arranging such outings and developed it into big business in 1851 . |
| 21 | While for elementary pupils the object was to instil a feeling for the grandeur of the national language and literature , within the higher sector it was felt to be necessary to fire the pupils ' and students ' imaginations : to provide indirect moral inculcation through pleasurable and even joyous responses to literary values . |