Example sentences of "was to set [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the single most important decision was to set up a Wirral-wide counselling service for drug users . |
| 2 | The second proposal was to set up a long-term residential therapeutic centre which eventually involved inviting Phoenix House , an established and reputable charity , to set up in Wirral . |
| 3 | [ The Secretary of State 's immediate response to the report was to set up a new working party on English in the national curriculum , chaired by Professor Brian Cox , one of the members of the Kingman Committee . ] |
| 4 | From the beginning , the aim was to set up a prestigious institution , able to house the big exhibitions which have often passed Germany by . |
| 5 | His idea was to set up a self-contained base inland from the coastal plain from which they could raid on an almost nightly basis . |
| 6 | The second — obviously , now I see it — was to set up a complementary unit to deal with long-term aims . |
| 7 | The Minister 's response was to set up a coordinating committee of the nationalised fuel industry chairmen . |
| 8 | His task was to set up a dummy gems firm in Bombay . |
| 9 | One of the first steps taken was to set up the European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme ( EMEP ) to measure emissions and deposition of sulphur and nitrogen oxides in Europe . |
| 10 | The main consequence of these discussions was to set up an International Commission of Chemical Nomenclature to continue the work started at the conference . |
| 11 | One of the first things Tolkien did after his return to Oxford in 1925 was to set up an Icelandic reading group such as he had enjoyed during his last job , as Professor of English at Leeds . |
| 12 | Our first step was to set up an independent trust to repair the building . |
| 13 | It was decided that Wordsworth should write the first book or canto of the tale , Coleridge the second , ‘ and which ever had done first , was to set about the third ’ . |