Example sentences of "was [to-vb] a [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This approach was used because one of the main aims of the course was to promote an attitude change , both among participants in relation to clients and among hospital staff in relation to nursing home care In addition to , the course became a means of enabling development of teaching skills among hospital staff . |
| 2 | Its declared aim was to preserve a family name by attaching it perpetually to an estate that passed undivided to a single heir . |
| 3 | The purpose of this get-together was to enable a group photograph to be taken in front of the Society 's latest restoration project , Spitfire PR.XI PL965/G-MKXI . |
| 4 | It was to compare a seaside town with a market town or summat . |
| 5 | She first recognised her call in 1792 at the age of forty-two and at her death in 1814 was still announcing that she was to bear a saviour child , the " Almighty Shiloh " . |
| 6 | It seems likely that his real mission was to find an escape route for the board , so that it could steer clear of the incident and avoid involving the central state in any direct decision over sex education . |
| 7 | The real object of his 15 was to provide a chopping block for the College 15 , who trained incessantly for their annual fixtures with Woolwich and Sandhurst , whom up to then they had never beaten , Lowe 's side never beat the cadets , but at least provided reasonable opposition and enjoyed a form of coaching from Wg Cdr Lowe . |
| 8 | WHEN CCG first started catering for Abbey National in Milton Keynes , the requirement was to provide a counter service lunch to about 700 staff in one office , along with executive and conference dining facilities . |
| 9 | This was to meet a navy habit of sitting ‘ on the deck ’ when not otherwise engaged , the floor often being preferred to seats . |
| 10 | Her purpose was to establish a pilot project which might encourage the government to use its antenatal clinics and infant and maternal welfare clinics , of which there were more than 2,000 , to distribute information on birth control and contraceptives ; the Ministry of Health was by that time offering financial aid to the 400 local authorities who ran such clinics and could have forced them to become centres for birth control . |
| 11 | The project was to be funded for one year with money from the Telethon Trust , which paid for the author 's post , that of development worker , as well as allowing a substantial budget ; the overall aim was to establish a leisure service for disabled people within the Northern Health Region . |
| 12 | The magnitude of the NLD 's victory placed into question the validity of the SLORC 's stricture that the sole purpose of the election was to establish a Constituent Assembly without legislative power , whose task would be to draw up a new constitution before power could be handed over to a " strong " government , generally interpreted as meaning one acceptable to the military . |
| 13 | Vernon 's most valuable innovation , however , was to establish an intelligence service and early warning system using the sloops , cutters and small yachts which regularly plied the Channel , all manned by volunteers . |
| 14 | They have , in my judgment , considered all the significant aspects of the case and they have decided , first of all , that the threshold conditions have been satisfied and , secondly , that the appropriate order in the circumstances of the case was to grant a care order to the local authority . |
| 15 | Non-violent resistance was seen as the answer to international aggression , and the job of the PPU was to train an élite core of resisters . |
| 16 | When , in 1978 , after four years with the company , Al Clark presented himself in Branson 's office to announce that he was leaving for a job with better pay and more responsibility , Branson 's response was to pull a water pistol from his desk and start firing at him , grinning broadly all the while . |
| 17 | Basically what I wanted to do , was to write a love story with the question could one honour the expression of the beloved , the language of the other , in the same way one could honour the expression of one 's own . |
| 18 | Next , going back to that erm , you know , I said that the key business goal there was to create a mailing list . |
| 19 | For Jensen and Binot [ 1988 ] , that application was to create a knowledge source for syntactic disambiguation . |
| 20 | An important part of the arranger 's function was to create a band style ( hence its ‘ image ’ ) and a song atmosphere . |
| 21 | But this in itself must have been a difficult decision for the authorities : to dismiss her was to create a security risk and , as she had proved herself dishonest , to retain her was also a potential threat to Ultra . |
| 22 | ‘ The idea was to create a world class speciality chemical business ’ , Russell recalls , and he believes they were successful in doing that . |
| 23 | The recognized way of doing this was to own a boarding house and take in summer guests . |
| 24 | an arrangement was entered into whereby the widow was to receive an income p.a of $5000 from her assets remaining in the business . |
| 25 | His intention was to open a karate school , but bouts of severe home sickness led him to return to Okinawa . |
| 26 | The first method of tackling the problem was to open a Job Club in Lower Clonard Street . |
| 27 | It 's simply the reason it was done that way was to reflect a County Council decision which had been taken fairly recent times on the route of an outer as opposed to an inner . |
| 28 | The film — screened last May — highlighted how difficult it was to reach a phone box in the middle of a roundabout . |
| 29 | Virgin 's first promotional act on signing the Sex Pistols was to organise a boat trip on the River Thames in the week of the official Jubilee celebrations , to mark the release of ‘ God Save the Queen ’ ; an idea which seemed to meet everybody 's requirements by being both a revolutionary gesture and a wizard prank . |
| 30 | Our idea was to organise a Fashion Theme week , in partnership with the local TEC and Hackney Task Force . |