Example sentences of "was [to-vb] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I did n't want was to work for a large organisation . |
| 2 | His method was to look for a regular solution of the field equations in region IV , and then to obtain the global solution simply by requiring that the metric coefficients be continuous across the boundaries . |
| 3 | The Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry on Jan. 9 announced that the Czechoslovak side was to press for a complete withdrawal before the end of 1990 of the estimated 75,000 Soviet troops stationed in the country since the entry of Warsaw Pact forces in 1968 . |
| 4 | The alternative option , promoted by an intriguing coalition of US Labour Advisors and the Japan Communist Party was to press for a basic minimum wage across all industries with additional earnings to be related to productivity not age . |
| 5 | A report in the Financial Times of April 23 suggested that while the tour was designed specifically to bolster Arab support for Libya in its confrontation with the UN [ see p. 38883 ] , its broader purpose was to press for a united Arab front in future dealings with the West , including the ongoing Middle East peace talks . |
| 6 | This sister , Elisabeth , was to count for a good deal in Nietzsche 's later life , favourably and otherwise : she eventually became the custodian of all his surviving works during the long period of incapacity that preceded his death and continued in that influential role , which she executed in a highly questionable way , for thirty-five years afterwards . |
| 7 | She thought afterwards , and was to think for a long time , that it was Sophie and Teodor who saved her . |