Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] to give " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Charles II 's reign progressed , they were gradually to give up their earlier hopes of remodelling the established church into a closer conformity to European Protestantism , and to lend their support instead to the nonconformist struggle for the right to worship outside its boundaries . |
| 2 | WHEN THE London Sydney classic car rally began at Chelsea Harbour , London , two lucky P&O Containers Australia staff were there to give the drivers a rousing send off . |
| 3 | He would also have known that Palmerston , having let it be known that he had asked Scott to submit a new design , was very unlikely to change his mind , and it was perhaps to give the appearance of some purpose to the delegation that he and Tite made their request for another competition . |
| 4 | She was soon to give up her own acting career — which she never took seriously — to — spoil him ? |
| 5 | Even though opinion polls might show that ‘ Butskellite ’ or ‘ Labourish ’ attitudes prevailed among the people on such issues as health , housing , education , and pensions , the main thrust of the election was clearly to give backing to the anti-socialist , anti-planning revolt which had gathered momentum since 1979 . |
| 6 | Similarly , although Rank turned down Sydney Box 's first independent feature , 29 Acacia Avenue ( 1945 ) , on the grounds that the innocuous story about an aborted premarital romp was ‘ immoral ’ , and offered him £40,000 to put the film on the shelf , he was later to give Box the job of running Gainsborough 's production programme . |
| 7 | Berg was also an agent of the Office of Strategic Services , which was later to give birth to the CIA . |
| 8 | Great though improvements in European agriculture had been and were to be , it was industry which gave Europe world leadership , as it was later to give it to the United States . |
| 9 | It was a Militant councillor who found her alternative accommodation where she was later to give birth to her daughter , Claire . |
| 10 | Their overall fuel policy role was also to give them influence over more central aspects of BEA decision making on the choice of fuel for power stations , particularly when oil and nuclear power began to look like attractive options to add to the industry 's coal-fired base . |
| 11 | This was seen as a very significant move , given India 's longstanding insistence that Kashmir was an exclusively bilateral issue , but subsequent statements by the Ministry of External Affairs emphasised that purpose of the meeting was purely to give information and that India was not asking for international mediation . |
| 12 | I suppose this was originally to give a sterile wife a period of grace — she could tell her husband she was pregnant but owing to the machinations of some female rival , the child was ‘ asleep ’ . ’ |
| 13 | As it was your generous gift of the physic Garden to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries that encouraged the supporting of that Garden for the improvement of Botany and so consequently was the Occasion of my being employed in a service so agreeable to my natural inclinations , so the favourable opinion you have had of my abilities , when you was pleased to recommend me to that worshipful Company , with the several instances I have since had of your generous inclinations to encourage the Art and me , will ever lay me under the greatest obligations to endeavour to answer that character you was please to give of me and herein humbly hoping to approve myself what I most desire to be thought of … |
| 14 | Our brief was simply to give our clients a good day out with lots of climbing . |
| 15 | The hon. Gentleman has been here sufficiently long to know that yesterday 's decision by the House was simply to give leave to bring in a Bill . |
| 16 | But Roy explained : ‘ This was simply to give Hunter a chance to get match fit . |
| 17 | I was there to give some talks on motivation and slimming and had a stand displaying my books . |
| 18 | He and I have been friends for many years , so it may have helped that I was there to give him some confidence in the project . |
| 19 | Were were would you suggest that they have a lot of unresolved feelings about that , or maybe they had emotional scars because no-one was there to give them the kind of hope that might be available now ? |
| 20 | Though Fox was never to give a distinguished lecture , his friends were triumphant . |
| 21 | He was never to give Wales away . |