Example sentences of "was [to-vb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The household 's final act was to arrange for the immediate disposal of the viscera which , like the body , were almost certainly placed in a lead box within a velvet-upholstered outer case . |
| 2 | Evidently an ex-LNER man was drafted into the Motive Power Department at Glasgow and his answer to a Pacific shortage at Polmadie was to arrange for the transfer of the engines we had noted , plus 60159 Bonnie Dundee , which appeared shortly after the sightings reported above . |
| 3 | In 1910 she returned to London and began her work in biochemistry , which was to continue for the rest of her life . |
| 4 | But , all along , our main aim was to plan for the future . |
| 5 | The only way to change the Court was to wait for the justices ( of whom there were nine ) either to die or retire , and appoint replacements who would support the New Deal . |
| 6 | His only choice at present was to wait for the right moment to play his hand . |
| 7 | Payment of the annuity was continued by the king 's successor , Richard II , whose favour he was to enjoy for the rest of his life . |
| 8 | Messiaen began composing at the age of seven , entering the Paris Conservatoire four years later where he was to remain for the next 11 years , winning four premiers prix including that for composition in 1930 . |
| 9 | Such was my father 's introduction to Abyssinia where , except for three periods of leave , he was to remain for the next ten years . |
| 10 | Philip of France had sent a force of Brabançons to help his brother-in-law , the opening shot in a campaign which he was to wage for the next thirty years . |
| 11 | This was to compensate for the lack of imported fruit and vegetables . |
| 12 | Some graves have been found showing that bowls of food were buried with the body — this was to provide for the journey to the Underworld , which many people believed was made by a dead person 's spirit . |
| 13 | The role of government , they believed , was to provide for the unhelpable residuum . |
| 14 | The DPP responded by calling off plans to surround the building where the National Assembly was to meet for the election . |
| 15 | It was n't only the bride , but the bride 's family she was to meet for the first time . |
| 16 | When Professor Tidy sat down , worse was to come for the defendants , as a plethora of witnesses placed every permutation of the four in or about the vicinity at various times that evening . |
| 17 | In presenting English culture as a transcendental essence inhering within an " organic " national language and a humanistic literary tradition , the goal was to establish for the study of English at the universities a status equivalent to Oxford 's Literae Humaniores . |
| 18 | When the IWC was established in 1946 , its purpose was to work for the resuscitation of an industry that was declining because stocks had been over-exploited during the previous decades , rather than to conserve existing whale stocks . |
| 19 | Its immediate economic aim was to work for the reduction and eventual elimination of tariffs on most industrial goods among its members . |
| 20 | It was to work for the complete organisation of all ship , dock and river workers in order to raise their wages and improve their working conditions . |
| 21 | The immediate task entrusted by Franco to Lequerica was to secure for the Spanish regime the approval of the western democracies without , as yet , severing its links with Nazi Germany . |
| 22 | When it reappeared in December , Index had taken over the printing — and Gutenberg 's technology was to rule for the next 12 years . |
| 23 | First reaction was to reach for the hotline to Swissair but no , the airport was definitely shut and we were indefinitely on hold . |
| 24 | The final act of this Keele was to ballot for the sessions for Keele 1994 . |
| 25 | The government of Toshiki Kaifu was undermined from the beginning of September by the announcement on Sept. 6 that Kiichi Miyazawa , a former Finance Minister , was to challenge for the leadership of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) , and thus for the premiership , in party elections due on Oct. 27 . |
| 26 | Kylie was to audition for the role of a tomboy mechanic called Charlene Mitchell , in a new soap called Neighbours . |
| 27 | That job was to last for the following eleven years . |
| 28 | By around 1700 grave-clothes changed , probably as a result of the influence of the soft-goods trade in ready-made items , and adopted a form which was to last for the next seventy-five years . |
| 29 | The Rally of the Guinean People , the Guinean Party of Progress and the Union for the New Republic announced on Oct. 8 the formation of an opposition alliance , the Front for Struggle and for Government ; the main aim of the front was to press for the postponement of legislative elections scheduled for November , in order that a national conference could be held beforehand . |
| 30 | The patriotic and religious duty of every Jew was to fight for the reinstatement of this birthright , this covenant — the reinstatement of a rightful ruler presiding over the Kingdom of Israel . |