Example sentences of "task [was/were] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smith 's first task was to improve the ground 's facilities . |
| 2 | In March 1941 as principal scientific officer he joined P. M. S. ( later Baron ) Blackett [ q.v. ] in the operational research section at Coastal Command , where his task was to improve the methods of finding and sinking U-boats . |
| 3 | Its task was to duplicate the peace process with the April 19 Movement ( Movimiento 19 de Abril — M-19 — for whose March 1990 demobilization see p. 37311 ) in order to disband and reintegrate guerrilla groups into civilian life . |
| 4 | Meanwhile the actual direction of the party under Mr Callaghan , aided by Mr Foot , was in the hands of those who believed that its main task was to represent the interests of trade unions . |
| 5 | The task was to repeat the words " double , double , double " over and over again , and it was used on the assumption that , while vocalising , judgements about words would not be made on the basis of their phonological codes . |
| 6 | Its principal task was to lay the foundations for the governmental structures of post-war Spain , so that , when the end of the war should finally come , the political transition from the Republican to the Francoist state could be effected without any hiatus . |
| 7 | The Land Commission 's first task was to assess the availability of , and demand for , land for house-building , particularly in the areas of greatest pressure . |
| 8 | The report 's task was to assess the effects on 825,000 people living in the nearby area . |
| 9 | My task was to assess the validity of the information taken over the phone and the only way I could do that was to contact someone who knew the Lawrence situation . |
| 10 | Throughout 1952 his major task was to finish the play which he had already begun . |
| 11 | But since it was his habit to ease his mind of the burden of one job before taking on another , his first task was to finish the prose book . |
| 12 | The police on the other hand argued that their task was to uphold the law , to keep the peace , and to facilitate the entry of non-striking miners into workplaces ; mass picketing was obstructive and intimidating , both of which could give rise to arrest and charge for criminal offences . |
| 13 | The first legate to enter the scene was Cardinal Peter of Capua whose task was to transform the peace between Philip Augustus and Richard I in late 1198 . |
| 14 | The children 's task was to choose the picture-strip which ‘ goes with the sentence ’ . |
| 15 | As in Emerson 's study , the child 's task was to choose the picture-strip which matched the sentence . |
| 16 | Their task was to impregnate the woman so she would eventually produce children who could serve Satan . |
| 17 | The lack of progress was attributed partly to a delay of two weeks in setting up the joint working commissions whose task was to implement the Accord under UN auspices . |
| 18 | His first task was to remove the iron bar securing the front door . |
| 19 | The dealer 's first task was to get the client to agree to sell his Rolls Royce shares . |
| 20 | Her first task was to get the information to London . |
| 21 | Now with the recent arrival of detachments from his old Group on Malta , he arrived with a directive that his main task was to organise the offensive against the Axis supply shipping plying between Europe and Africa . |
| 22 | As such , his principal task was to secure the concordat , which was signed at the end of August 1953 . |
| 23 | Their first task was to rebuild the wall which divided the front room from the back parlour . |
| 24 | Another task was to identify the nets of a cube , pyramid , cylinder , cuboid , cone and tetrahedron . |
| 25 | For the Aplysia group , the first neurochemical task was to identify the transmitter involved in signalling between the two cells , which turned out to be the ubiquitous substance serotonin ( sometimes called 5-hydroxytryptamine or 5-HT ) . |
| 26 | The first task was to measure the demand from the public . |
| 27 | The army-backed government of provisional President Johan Kraag , installed following the military coup of Dec. 24 , 1990 [ see pp. 37912-13 ] , named a new Council of Ministers in early January whose purported task was to prepare the country for fresh elections . |
| 28 | A third preliminary task was to prepare the ground for the recruitment of support workers . |
| 29 | In October 1961 Macmillan appointed him to the newly invented office of chief secretary to the Treasury , whose unenviable task was to play the role of Scrooge towards popular proposals for public expenditure . |
| 30 | In a public statement early in January , the DUC said that its primary task was to ensure the health of the people of Donegal and that their environment would not suffer from uranium mining and related activities . |