Example sentences of "was [to-vb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her sole purpose in being here was to kill some time . |
| 2 | The next sizeable raid occurred on 5 March , and on this occasion 7/JG 26 was to enjoy some reinforcement for the first of two occasions . |
| 3 | I was pressed with an argument that the assignees were not customers of B.C.C.I. The purpose of the Act was to provide some protection for persons who had chosen to become customers of the bank and who were accepted by the bank as customers . |
| 4 | One of the reasons for watching a raid on Germany was to provide some balance , as the pupils had all listened to accounts of raids on this country . |
| 5 | All that the King could do was to provide some sort of legal foundation of government for Englishmen going to unsettled and thinly populated areas , which he did by linking the legitimacy of their governments to the legitimacy of his government . |
| 6 | Her mission was to request some drawings from him for the opening show of her London gallery , Guggenheim Jeune . |
| 7 | The money dispensers in the capital could only be approached through their acolyte , whose job it was to demand some offerings and make the right moves to ensure success . |
| 8 | Initially their aim was to set some rules and , as far as possible , stick to them . |
| 9 | The data suggests that the direct effect of the crash was to wipe some 10% off the sterling value of wealth in the last quarter ( this does not include indirect effects on assets other than equities ) . |
| 10 | And there is no one single picture of English history which is absolutely right , in other words there are different interpretations of almost everything that matters in history , but what I wanted to try to do in that social history was to give some account of England 's past which was meaningful to people living in the late erm twentieth century . |
| 11 | The first was to give some form , and to formalise , our collaboration , and our involvement with existing industrial colleagues . |
| 12 | Fernandez , as he was to do some years later , provided a link to Dave 's caddying days with one Severiano Ballesteros . |
| 13 | The other possibility for this particular birthday was to press some flowers used at the birthday party or some of the flowers received as gifts . |
| 14 | The purpose of this section was to shed some light on the explicit training of specialist language teachers . |
| 15 | The emperor 's death in its turn alienated his supporters , most notably the Gallo-Roman Aegidius , who began an independent career in Soissons , in the north of Gaul , which was to hold some significance for the early history of the Franks . |
| 16 | The first thing she would have to do was to raise some capital so that she could rescue something from the dregs of her father 's business . |
| 17 | On top was the Queen with Princess Anne in a pushchair and Paul McCartney as Dad , and here was one I had near the beginning about being in a space-ship — Brian and me were weightless and floating around , and what we had to do was to get some stability by getting hold of this firework , a sort of Catherine wheel that was going round and round and showering sparks in our faces , so we closed our eyes and a fire-fanged beast roared flames at us and burned a hole in the space-ship and I fell , still with my eyes tight shut , out into the bottomless black void . |
| 18 | Li Yuan watched the Marshal while he talked , barely referring to the folder in his lap , unless it was to take some diagram from it and hand it to Tolonen . |
| 19 | It was to take some time before a distinct and overall Sussex people could be forged by the strength of the rulers . |
| 20 | We knew it never got submerged by the tide and our idea was to take some photographs of a full moon rising over Widemouth . |
| 21 | And one of the things we set out to do was to bring some stability to the industry because everyone was trying to carve prices up . |
| 22 | Some nativist elements in the host community were critical of what they saw as an assault on local culture by alien Jewish values and it was this ethnocentric attitude to change , when allied to the existence of genuine social grievances , which was to make some parts of the East End a fertile reception area for racial populist and anti-immigrant movements right through from the British Brothers League in 1900 , the BUF from 1936 to 1940 , the League of Ex-Servicemen and the Union Movement in the 1940s , to the National Front in the 1970s . |
| 23 | The intention was to gain some insight into ‘ the whole curriculum at operational level ’ . |
| 24 | The final task was to construct some sort of cover to prevent the fish from jumping out . |
| 25 | One of the things that those of us who were involved in local government campaigns were trying to do was to achieve some measure of redistribution in favour of all those lesbians and gays who do not belong to the charmed circles of The Swimming Pool Library — people who have no private income ; people who depend on their jobs and would welcome job security ; people who want council tenancies free of harassment , with friends and lovers of their choice ; people who want to meet others at venues which have disabled access , which are not commercially exploitative and which are run for the benefit of the community ; people who want to display affection or consensual desire publicly without fear of violence or arrest ; people who want to bring up children without intimidation from the courts or social workers ; people who have survived the indoctrination of the education system but do not want to see the next generation of lesbians and gays subjected to the same process ; people who wanted themselves and their lifestyles to be treated with respect by the health services . |
| 26 | He became a liveryman of the Poulterers ' Company in 1767 , and in the same year was admitted into the Honourable Artillery Company , in which he was to achieve some eminence . |
| 27 | Though he was to achieve some distinction as a watercolour artist , exhibiting at several galleries , he was to become better known through his voluntary work for the Royal Association for the Deaf and Dumb ( R.A.D.D. ) for which he was honorary secretary for many years . |