Example sentences of "was [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that was in my mind was to abort this mission . |
| 2 | The aim of this short exploratory project was to gather empirical evidence of scanning practices in the UK . |
| 3 | Her sole purpose in being here was to kill some time . |
| 4 | HERCULES ' second task was to kill this monster . |
| 5 | The London Transport Executive ( L.T.E. ) was to implement these policies . |
| 6 | The ‘ new pathway ’ was to emphasise basic concepts rather than facts , topics were to be integrated , and clinical contact was to be introduced early . |
| 7 | The Turkish government was to uphold religious liberty and equality ; the recognition of the governments of Serbia and Bulgaria was made conditional upon their doing the same . |
| 8 | A decision which was to affect future events in Burma was now concluded in New Delhi . |
| 9 | The influence of the war was to affect social classes , groups and individuals in Britain in a variety of ways and many came to support fascism for disparate political , economic and social reasons . |
| 10 | One of the things we had been told was to carry any valuables we had around with us so that they could n't go astray . |
| 11 | But she still did not realize how unnecessary it was to attend such events , and she continued to go to all the scheduled treats . |
| 12 | The Monday evening they phone me up and said that I was to attend another meeting on Tuesday which I believe were the twenty second to which they said , We 've thought about it and we 've decided not to continue your employment . |
| 13 | The membership was to include appropriate volunteers who had knowledge of ‘ education and of other conditions affecting young persons ’ , and who were in a position to advise the exchanges . |
| 14 | The current story was about the innocent yet ignorant mistake the Scottish Chamber Orchestra had made in promoting their presentation of Stravinsky 's ‘ The Soldier 's Tale ’ which was to include professional dancers and actors and local schoolchildren who had been invited to participate . |
| 15 | The Prime Minister 's last political move was to include ten Africans in his Cabinet . |
| 16 | It was to include public administration training courses and bursaries for black South Africans likely to become senior officials in the new political system . |
| 17 | An important first step was to include these hospitals in the budgets of the regional health authorities , so that their claims had to be considered alongside everyone else 's . |
| 18 | The new policy was to conserve indigenous gas for higher added value uses — e.g. not in power stations — and hold a large reserve of gas as an insurance policy against some undefined future energy crisis . |
| 19 | He watched them rushing through Calais on their way to pay court to Napoleon ( Sonnet : ‘ Is it a reed that 's shaken by the wind ’ ) , and decided , since he regarded the French leader as a despot and a menace to free institutions , that the only course open was to support that party in England which wanted to continue the war , namely the Tories . |
| 20 | Everything 's rosy down at the telecottage Paddy Ashdown 's mission was to see hi-tech Orkney in action , Tom Morton explains |
| 21 | Later I was to see this body investigating a syllabus elsewhere . |
| 22 | With the advent of ‘ Laura Ashley ’ , this sleepy village was to see more changes in a decade than it had in centuries . |
| 23 | But what he did was to go outside broadcasting for two out of his three senior editorial jobs , the first main appointments . |
| 24 | Each year there is an annual debate between the Treasury and the different government departments on the size of their budgets , but the aim of this meeting was to go one stage further . |
| 25 | I stopped working because I decided that the only way to make it was to go full time . |
| 26 | Their trick this time was to pretend that Parliament was really only a legislature and not also in consequence the effective controller of executive government . |
| 27 | As earthbound concrete replaced shimmering glass , so crude functionalism was to supplant soaring aspiration . |
| 28 | Though single pieces were restrained , the cumulative effect of a group exhibition was to reorganize spatial perception radically . |
| 29 | Although originally the aim was to promote Chartered Manager status , this aim is now being pursued independently by the British Institute of Management , with the approval of CMEAD . |
| 30 | His first priority was to restore national unity by closing the breach between France and France-in-Algeria and rallying the nation around the person of General de Gaulle . |