Example sentences of "it [was/were] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( The term used was ‘ suspended ’ in order to remind the British Government that it could be resumed if it were to give cause . ) |
| 2 | And if it were to invade Saudi Arabia , it would control 44% of the world 's oil reserves . |
| 3 | Even if it were to acquire Palatine , its North Western tied house stock would only increase to some 330 . |
| 4 | Now that Moscow 's hopes for fruitful negotiation with the United States had been shattered , it was necessary for the Soviet Union to adopt a more aggressive stance if it were to maintain credibility as a rival to Washington . |
| 5 | Assume now that the group can not sell all it can make at the normal price of £120 but division B sees that it could win a large order if it were to offer goods at £80 each . |
| 6 | It was to near Leeds . |
| 7 | It was to celebrate recovery from this illness that he wrote his Hymn to the Supreme Being , on Recovery from a dangerous fit of Illness . |
| 8 | After the concert , Branson explained how difficult it was to sell Oldfield 's music in America ; indeed , the only way Virgin had been able to find an American distributor for his records at all was on the back of a deal made for a new group on the label , XTC — precisely the kind of music Oldfield abhorred . |
| 9 | And it also managed to chip some of the woodwork , curious to think that I was offered as war damage compensation five pounds to re-case the piano , you could n't of had it repolished for five pounds , but thinking was working class people should n't have pianos , I 'm certain that was at the back of , of the gentleman whose job it was to evaluate war damage , he certainly raised his eyebrows every time we told him , what either a piece of furniture or crockery or cutlery which had been destroyed had cost and he was so foolish after er the house had been almost flattened as de demand bills as proof of evidence that your figures were correct |
| 10 | He spent a world record £13m on Gianluigi Lentini last year and some observers say it was to stop others having him , not because Milan needed him . |
| 11 | The first time it was to stop the defence counsel from questioning her about her sexual history , the second time it was to stop Anderson referring to the victim by her last name , as if talking about a defendent . |
| 12 | He also lit the fires ; and ‘ we never knew what it was to clean boots or shoes . |
| 13 | It was to honour Dicke that the Dutch Society for Gastroenterology instituted the Dicke medal to reward pioneering work in hepatogastroenterology and , naturally , the first gold medal was awarded to Dicke himself . |
| 14 | We have only to look back to the debates about language across the curriculum to remember the puerile arguments over whose responsibility it was to teach language skills . |
| 15 | Earlier this week Fryer , while on home leave from prison , went missing , saying it was to draw attention to his case . |
| 16 | When McCaw Cellular Communications announced it was to swap $600m of its junk bonds for stock , the price of the bonds shot up . |
| 17 | And it was to restore order , as much as anything , that a nominally Vietnamese administration provided at least the façade of an ‘ independent ’ Vietnamese government . |
| 18 | How nice it was to reassure Jeanne and John to follow their own judgement and instincts and carry on socialising Moby as much as possible — with a little proper help from Jenny . |
| 19 | HOW nice it was to see Selfridges open on Sunday . |
| 20 | It was to see houses on expensive sites rise constantly higher , the consequent birth of the ‘ lift ’ or ‘ elevator ’ , and in the 1880s the construction of the first ‘ skyscrapers ’ in the United States . |
| 21 | But , delightful though it was to see Wendy Tunnell herself join the quartet and harpsichordist Clifford Benson for Albinoni 's A major Sonata a Cinque , the string pieces worked less well , as though the timbres of such distinguished winds prompted over projection — and the Brindisis , of all musicianly young ensembles , have no need to oversell their wares . |
| 22 | Incidentally , how nice it was to see Parks keeping wicket for Hampshire . |
| 23 | When they came in sight of the house it was to see Ellen Jebeau standing on the terrace , and when Martin drew the horse to a standstill at the foot of the steps she was there to meet them . |
| 24 | When she opened her eyes , it was to see Stephen 's mother standing by the bed . |
| 25 | When Harry smeared away the blood from his face and opened his eyes again it was to see Isambard standing with one foot flattening the whip to the floor , and the bronze lantern of his face blazing with such an intensity of dangerous , silent fury that even Harry , who was no longer threatened , shrank with sympathetic dread . |
| 26 | When he did come into the kitchen , it was to see Annie and the visitor tucking into tea and jam tarts . |
| 27 | After an ignomminious start as ‘ the new Duran Duran ’ , a misinterpretation aided and abeted by a misdirected and consequently misunderstood debut album , ‘ The Party 's Over ’ , it was to take Talk Talk three more albums and three more years to shake that tag off . |
| 28 | This school trip was not an annual event , but a newly-organized affair , to which the school 's attention had been drawn by the tireless Miss Haines ; it was to take place in Clara 's last year , when she was seventeen , a year after her father 's death . |
| 29 | It was to push responsibility downwards so that , for example , day-to-day decisions in hospitals were taken in the hospitals themselves and not forever referred upwards to some ‘ higher authority ’ . |
| 30 | Later , however , he came to realize that it was more accurate for him to say Truth is God than it was to say God is Truth . |