Example sentences of "was [to-vb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Beveridge report was to breathe the same spirit of optimism and confidence that long-standing problems could be tackled . |
| 2 | The intention was to publicise the many victories achieved in his long reign and the generous largesses given when celebrating his good fortune . |
| 3 | Only a few , such as the Royal Bristol Volunteers carried on , and in that instance it was to guard the many Napoleonic prisoners of war in Bristol . |
| 4 | Herbert 's career had demonstrated how valuable it was to have a focus for royal efforts in Wales and the council of the prince of Wales was to serve the same purpose in the 1470s . |
| 5 | Herbert 's career had demonstrated how valuable it was to have a focus for royal efforts in Wales and the council of the prince of Wales was to serve the same purpose in the 1470s . |
| 6 | Since all they were achieving , by these repeated farewells , was to inflict the same wounds over and over . |
| 7 | What however he did seek to do , starting from about nineteen-hundred erm and ten , or nineteen-twelve , was to apply the same methodological procedures which he 'd applied in mathematics , to a range of philosophical problems . |
| 8 | He himself would put the fear of God into the professors of Königsberg and Breslau ; I was to do the same thing in Danzig . |
| 9 | The shoes had been painted with bold unmixed colours and the best way of translating the sense of that to the painting was to do the same . |
| 10 | Not only was the Spirit to universalise the person of Jesus to future believers , he was to do the same to the unbelieving world . |
| 11 | George Duffus , the council 's environmental development officer , said the aim of the open day — the first of its kind in Scotland — was to dispel the many myths and misunderstandings surrounding the crematorium service . |
| 12 | Leeds were given the fish by a benefactor , their task was to remove the many small roach and skimmer bream . |
| 13 | However , it was to be the Elsden 's second import which was to have the most effect on the breed . |
| 14 | She was to have the same dream intermittently for the rest of her life . |
| 15 | T his new economic process , assisted by an increasing effective demand , was to have the same impact on feudal manufacturing structures as it had in agriculture — it destroyed the old order of things . |
| 16 | But if I was to ask the same question throughout industry today the answer would be very different . |
| 17 | While much of the competition charged more for ‘ new skills ’ , for example in distributed computing , MMT 's policy , he said , was to charge the same rates for all types of expertise . |
| 18 | Although , from time to time , some of our colleagues on the shop floor who ran into difficulties you know , er sometimes described you as a tool of management , er which was to say the least you know , er entirely untrue . |
| 19 | as to who was to take the most credit . |
| 20 | The overall effect of coupling the Spanish wagon to the international economic train was to destabilize the former , for its antiquated methods and structures could not readily assimilate and apply efficiently the benefits of the latter . |
| 21 | The four-pocket blouse was to display the same shoulder straps and collar insignia as the 1895 pattern . |
| 22 | They took it for granted that the international world was one of competing powers and that their duty was to make the most of whatever assets were available to them . |
| 23 | Something we were determined to do was to make the most of every day that we had , and that we have continued to do . |