Example sentences of "was [to-vb] a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the first acts of the coalition was to issue a challenge to the Prime Minister , John Major , to meet them . |
| 2 | Bellow supported Roth 's early work , and Roth 's work was to bear a resemblance to Bellow 's . |
| 3 | But , being a thorough architect , his first instinct was to find an objection to his client 's scheme . |
| 4 | The aim of the party was to provide an alternative to the existing coalition and opposition parties , to establish a " functional and participative democracy " and to convene a constitutional assembly to restructure the republic . |
| 5 | The intention was to provide an incentive to owners to sell their land at a price which took account of the developer 's liability to pay the ( reduced ) charge . |
| 6 | Ven 's answer was to cup a hand to the side of her face , and , with a wealth of sincerity in his look , ‘ I love you , ’ he translated quietly . |
| 7 | But war against the Muslim was his dream ; and in 1075 he devised a remarkable scheme by which he himself was to lead a crusade to the east , to restore Byzantium after the disaster of Manziken and to recover Jerusalem . |
| 8 | It turned out to be a matter of enlightened self-interest for Tonga too , since the first thing Mr Fabian did when his line was restored was to pen a telegram to London demanding immediate aid for the islands . |
| 9 | In the interests of efficient enforcement his practice was to negotiate a solution to a problem privately , and at all costs to be patient . |
| 10 | To enter such houses , to know at first hand such interiors , was to give a face to the masses , mitigating on the one hand the terror of revolution , satisfying on the other the promptings of Christian conscience . |
| 11 | I 've also had a call from , you may remember er , Phil of the er , the was to give a talk to the Bishop 's Stortford club in the form of a speaker evening . |
| 12 | Their purpose was to put a stop to the alliance of the Christian Democrats and the Neo-Fascists being promoted by Luigi Gedda , head of Catholic Action . |
| 13 | Although this led to it being called ‘ the year of confusion ’ , his object was to put an end to confusion . |
| 14 | His first move was to build a causeway to the enchanted isle ( Sri Lanka ) , and then place Ravana 's citadel under siege , ripping up trees and toppling walls in mischievous monkey-fashion . |
| 15 | The new Germany was to bind Prussia in and neutralise her : it was to accord a security to the other states which they would otherwise have lacked . |
| 16 | But anyway , in the end she was fired and her last act was to send a memo to Tony DeFries , the contents of which I would rather not go into . |
| 17 | All Connor did was to add a preservative to this enzyme that gave it a few months ' shelf life . |
| 18 | If anyone else did so , his horses and dogs were to be forfeited to the contributaries , and he was to pay an amercement to the king . |
| 19 | On C … 's instructions , Peter 's next step was to attempt a break-in to DPR 's computer system , i.e. the leadbank . |
| 20 | Marx accepted this general point implicitly though he nowhere discussed it in full [ Krader , 1972:36 ] and it was to offer a framework to much of his later writing . |
| 21 | It was a tale that could be believed , but what he wanted was to have a reason to be somewhere else , not to be here when the shepherd came . |
| 22 | That confusion between terminology and rigour , truth and exactitude , was to prove a weakness to the New Criticism in later years , since it laid on the critic a continuous duty to adopt or devise terms rigorous enough to satisfy himself and others . |
| 23 | On July 23 a UN fact-finding mission was to begin a visit to the region , to assess the logistical difficulties of holding such a referendum before March 1991 , as well as to assess the scale and cost of the necessary supervision . |
| 24 | The Irish government , for its part , had insisted that it must be represented throughout any such talks on the grounds that the objective was to produce an alternative to the Anglo-Irish Agreement , to which it was a co-signatory . |