Example sentences of "was [to-vb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | One of the fields had been ploughed and our job was to weed out the wiry roots and tufts of grass that the wooden ploughshare had failed to dislodge so that the field could be smoothed out ready for flooding . |
| 32 | Then she heard Christ speaking to her , saying that she would have victory over all her enemies , and that she was to give up the hair-cloth that she wore and her continual saying of the Rosary , but must stop eating meat . |
| 33 | He took the precaution , however , of carrying a typewriter and books among his luggage so that he could prepare for an address at the University of Leeds which he was to give in the following year . |
| 34 | The main thrust of the document , however , was to point out the lessons drawn by the leadership from the failure of the 1956–62 campaign : |
| 35 | Our job was to point out the commercial success of British Coal as a modern company able to compete . ’ |
| 36 | If he was acquainted with Smith 's work he would naturally have assumed that the French Academy knew it too , and that the point of the competition was to fill in the details of Smith 's proof . |
| 37 | All that remained now was to fill in the time until she could ring her mother . |
| 38 | It consists of the bass-parts for each choir , placed one above the other , with bar-lines but no text or figures to indicate how he was to fill out the bass , only an occasional flat or sharp above the notes ; when in the Masses a movement begins in a higher part only , this is shown in the organ part ; but when the higher voices sing without the bass , the organ part is marked ‘ tacet ’ or ‘ non est hic ’ . |
| 39 | ’ Any audible signal probably took the form of one stroke per bar : Rousseau and Meude-Monpas agreed that French practice , in whatever context , was to tap out the down-beat only ; the Italians always tapped out the first two beats , if there were three or four beats per bar . |
| 40 | It was to draw up the Constitution of 1812 , the ‘ sacred codex ’ which defined Spanish liberalism as a political creed . |
| 41 | General Giap realised that his best course was to knock out the French before American aid increased decisively . |
| 42 | To move a character from set A to set B you needed to write in a short bridging scene , the effect of which was to stretch out the script with padding , which was not always the best thing for the story . |
| 43 | It was to keep down the population of pathogenic microorganisms in hospital that ‘ damp dusting ’ of all laying surfaces used to be considered a nursing activity . |
| 44 | Another favourite pastime was to chat up the girls from Directory Enquiries while they were getting phone numbers . |
| 45 | The second reason for the dispatch of Dzerzhinsky to Siberia was to clear up the situation after the Civil War , and to deal with Siberian peasant revolts . |
| 46 | We might note the irony at this point : the purpose of experimentation was to clear up the confusions , contradictions , and conflicting advice of common sense . |
| 47 | One of my duties was to send in the weekly result and a brief report for the Bideford Gazette . |
| 48 | The overall effect was to speed up the disintegration of the larger estates , but to leave the smallholdings virtually untouched but constantly threatened . |
| 49 | Reich thought that a third possibility was to live out the genital impulses with a partner , and that this was the healthiest outcome , for then people functioned well in work and social life as well as being physically healthier . |
| 50 | The women who joined such communities were sometimes married and their aim was to live out the ideals of an apostolic life within the restrictions of their local community . |
| 51 | The result was to force up the price both of renting and of buying land . |
| 52 | Celia 's immediate reaction was to turn down the offer . |
| 53 | That was the end of his second month 's loan after scoring twice in six games ; later he was to turn down the chance of a permanent move . |
| 54 | Someone was to hold up the traffic , another to get the guards , but first someone was sent down the side lane towards St Vincent 's Hospital to alert casualty and summon help . |
| 55 | All you had to do was to hold up the negotiations until I got desperate and then bully me into authorizing the Japanese deal on the pretext of raising money to pay for my release ! |
| 56 | Their job was to hold back the Chinese , and they did . |
| 57 | Gould probably never imagined that his meeting with Darwin would be one of the most significant events in scientific history ; that what he was to uncover in Darwin 's bag of birds was to spark off the theory of evolution . |
| 58 | The task was to break up the old bureaucratic machine and construct a new one , but one which would ‘ enable us gradually to reduce all officialdom to naught ’ ( p. 42 ) . |
| 59 | In the flush of enthusiasm , if not youthful , at least inexperienced , I set myself in 1960 two major objectives : one was the development of extramural services — ‘ community care ’ was the jargon — which would reduce the incidence of hospital care and counteract the institutionalism of long-stay hospitals ; and the other , not unconnected , was to break down the huge mental hospitals inherited from the nineteenth century . |
| 60 | The philosophy of the assembly line was to break down the work into simple elements that required no special training . |