Example sentences of "was [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This victory was to delight the masses just as it brought little pleasure to the newly energized forces of the political left , but , just as significantly , it was now also an occasional delight to a growing audience drawn from amongst critics , intellectuals , and the more respectable classes generally . |
| 2 | The French Navy passed the problem to the DGSE who at first suggested that the simplest course of action was to tow the Rainbow Warrior out to the test area . |
| 3 | It was not until the Basque iron deposits were exploited by foreign capital , instead of by the archaic techniques of the Basque miners , that Spain was to acquire a substitute for wool . |
| 4 | There the Revenue argued that , at the time the tax payers subscribed their shares , Newco did not exist for the purpose of carrying on a trade ; its only identifiable purpose was to acquire a business . |
| 5 | He often said that he never really wanted to be a dancer , and his only purpose was to acquire the knowledge of dancing necessary to become a choreographer . |
| 6 | He was already determined to be a poet — between 1787 and 1789 he had composed An Evening Walk — and part of the aim of his 1790 long vacation walking-tour was to gather the material which was to form the basis of Descriptive Sketches . |
| 7 | Byrne 's intention was to gather the group together firstly for the burial of Hector , who was their scapegoat , and then five years later for the funeral of Phil 's mother . |
| 8 | A master in each cathedral was to instruct the clerks , presumably also in the law ( Lateran Council can . |
| 9 | One of the objectives that the County Council has actually set when it declared the when it approved the outer route was to instruct the County Surveyor to seek ways and means of trying to increase the relief to Harrogate and Knaresborough er with an outer northern relief road . |
| 10 | I was observing how difficult it was to arrange a day on the crags with a mountaineering celebrity when the weather is warm and very wet . |
| 11 | The first act of the leaders of what were now rival armies , at Perth and Stirling , was to arrange a truce , on May 29 ; almost as quickly , Mary of Guise broke its terms , by having the Mass restored in Perth . |
| 12 | Our best plan was to kill the pirates one by one until the rest ran off or sailed away in the ship . |
| 13 | All that remained after that was to continue the treatment until the lesions calcified . |
| 14 | Restoration of political harmony was essential , however , if Edward was to continue the war in France , and in re-establishing good relations between the king and the nobility the Earl of Derby seems to have played an important role . |
| 15 | The technical group was to continue the study of legal aspects of the disputed region and to report back . |
| 16 | It was to extend beyond controlling central government 's direct spending and was to embrace the capital spending of nationalised industries and local authority spending too . |
| 17 | While some cooperation and coordination in a specific sector might be possible , as long as the hope was to embrace the whole of Western Europe in its ambit , any scheme could only be minimalist . |
| 18 | So my first act on Indian soil was to telex a friend at Weatherbys , the British racing bureaucrats , to get them to explain the facts of life to the Bombay Turf Club . |
| 19 | On 22 December 1986 the Council of Ministers adopted four Regulations , the effect of which was to implement the application of the competition rules of the Treaty of Rome to the maritime transport sector . |
| 20 | The lack of progress was attributed partly to a delay of two weeks in setting up the joint working commissions whose task was to implement the Accord under UN auspices . |
| 21 | The whole idea of the Mulberry Harbour was to enclose a basin of calm water with service quays and equipment connected by pontoons to a suitable beachhead . |
| 22 | What de Pomiane did by explaining the cause , was to banish the fear of failure . |
| 23 | While Monty presided over drafting sessions designed to present the most cogent arguments against the government 's consultative document , and to eradicate the violence of language frequently suggested by some of the medical men , my principal role was to sound the government , and especially Barbara Castle , about the possibilities of a compromise solution . |
| 24 | One of our first thoughts was to accommodate the sows outdoors , so for comparative purposes he has made the assumption that new purpose-built accommodation for 220 sows would be likely to cost £400 a sow . |
| 25 | The police on the other hand argued that their task was to uphold the law , to keep the peace , and to facilitate the entry of non-striking miners into workplaces ; mass picketing was obstructive and intimidating , both of which could give rise to arrest and charge for criminal offences . |
| 26 | She was to uphold the family tradition . |
| 27 | I was given a list of 12 absolutes that if the promoter could not provide , I was to cancel the gig on the spot . |
| 28 | The only way we could get up to the nest was to borrow a ladder from a neighbouring farmer and climb up . |
| 29 | One of the first major changes to tram services , was to affect the Croydon area . |
| 30 | In 1769 Thomas Pickering , a tin-plate manufacturer in Southwark , patented a method of raising patterns in sheet iron which was to affect the production of coffin furniture . |