Example sentences of "was [to-vb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | BETWEEN 1945 , WHEN the war ended , and 1956 when the first Reichmann son , Edward , appeared in Canada , Samuel engaged in a programme of frenzied European activity , the purpose of which was to gather together the early Reichmann millions . |
| 2 | To ‘ love the motherland ’ was to embrace wholeheartedly the doctrines of the leadership , even if they were slightly contradictory . |
| 3 | In particular , it was to carry forward the engineering and financial planning of a barrage between Penarth head and Queen Alexandra dock . |
| 4 | His first task was to drive forward the strong but uncertain movement towards comprehensive schools . |
| 5 | His luck — and he would have a lot of luck ( which he acknowledged generously and constantly ) — was to meet here the first of many teachers who set him on his way . |
| 6 | Haworth 's basic method was to modify chemically the unreacted hydroxyl groups in a disaccharide and then hydrolyse it and identify the reaction products . |
| 7 | The effect of this explosion of trade between the advanced countries was to increase sharply the proportion of imported manufactured goods consumed inside these countries . |
| 8 | Thus , the aim of this study was to evaluate retrospectively the characteristics and outcome of 56 cases of primary gastric lymphoma that have been morphologically reclassified according to recent knowledge of the MALT derived lymphomas . |
| 9 | And then someone has a conversation with someone else and then someone else has a conversation with someone else and if a man was to walk right the way through the police station he has about five or six conversations , and by the time he gets to the other end of the police station he 's forgotten the first conversation . |
| 10 | The general aim was to tear away the wrappings in which orthodox Christianity had enshrouded Jesus and to allow his real face again to be seen . |
| 11 | But it was with the coming of sound , in 1929 , that Colman 's Hollywood career really came into its own : the producer Sam Goldwyn was the first to realize the magic of that infinitely poetic , English voice , and put him under a long-term contract which was to last virtually the whole of the rest of his life . |
| 12 | The Plant Commission on electoral reform did not stimulate an internal debate in the party , because its real function was to do precisely the opposite . |
| 13 | A specific task of non-executives on the board was to audit thoroughly the impact of major investment decisions after an appropriate period . |
| 14 | Picton-Howell 's main mission in life was to record faithfully the minutes of the many meetings she attended . |
| 15 | The task of these boards and councils was to draw together the planning and administration of the area , to produce comprehensive studies setting out regional priorities and to link the efforts of central government and local authorities . |
| 16 | First he was to endorse publicly the NoS Equal Opportunities approach , and second he was to agree to allow negotiations with the unions to ‘ run their course ’ quietly . |
| 17 | The long-term effect was to damage severely the profitability of the county 's coastal trade , to raise the levels of taxation and to cause a lengthy period of economic decline . |
| 18 | On returning to England he served as a staff captain in the War Office and then as an assistant secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence , an appointment which was to alter completely the course of his career . |
| 19 | He had arrived in the sort of clothes one often sees continental gentlemen wearing on their holidays , and indeed , throughout his stay , he was to maintain diligently the appearance of having come to Darlington Hall entirely for pleasure and friendship . |
| 20 | The object was to pack together the secrets of the trade — WOBs , NIBs , blobs , bullets , underscores and overscores , starbursts , barkers , screamers , gobbit-boxes , straps , rag-outs , bastard measures and cross-heads . |
| 21 | As the Carolingian Empire was declining , north and central Italy saw the rise of the city states , a progression that was to have perhaps the most profound influence on the history of Europe . |
| 22 | By then the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign had grown , but by just how much was to take even the organizers of that day 's protest to the United States Embassy by surprise . |
| 23 | I was told my job was to collect together the contents of the ‘ out-house ’ and assemble them on the patio . |
| 24 | The purpose of these options was to examine visually the relationship between the subject and the image . |
| 25 | The next move was to bring forward the draft of the new constitution : the first that the Secretary of State knew of this was when he read a report in The Times ( 20 May ) headed ‘ A Republic of Burma ’ . |
| 26 | Now all she wanted was to wash away the tension . |
| 27 | In essence , their procedure was to follow simultaneously the numbers of individuals with various traits ( white eyes , short wings , bent bristles , etc. ) in successive generations , and the structure and behaviour of the chromosomes . |
| 28 | It was the Grunwick dispute which was to show conclusively the effectiveness of ACAS , hailed till then as ‘ a concession to the workers ’ . |
| 29 | Elfed , a sober and upright man who was to become unfairly the sounding board for Richard 's first rebellions . |
| 30 | These were to prove precious learning experiences for the young Blantyre girl who was to go on to produce such wonderfully vibrant work , often featuring floral themes , who was to become only the third full female member of the Royal Scottish Academy . |