Example sentences of "[was/were] to provide [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The broader objectives were to provide a vehicle that was fun to drive , docile in traffic , quiet and refined and a comfortable four-seater . |
| 2 | The services promised were to provide a room , fuel , clothing , to wash clothing , or to visit if sick . |
| 3 | These were to provide a variety of community placements for up to 900 people languishing as long-stay inpatients . |
| 4 | The original purposes of the RSG system introduced in 1981 -82 were to provide a fairer and more objective method of grant distribution and to eliminate previous incentives to high spending . |
| 5 | Of seminal significance , one quarter of these were to provide a new tenure group for British housing : the local authority council house . |
| 6 | At the same time as this another organisation was being formed , The Peoples Education Movement , ( P.E.M. ) the aims of which , although suitably vague , were to provide a non-partisan platform from which Dr.Williams could continue his lectures and build up his support . |
| 7 | Labour activists were rooted in particular localities and political traditions , and these were to provide the basis for labourist hegemony in the formal political arena of West Ham throughout the interwar period . |
| 8 | In 1944 representatives of every allied government met in Chicago and drew up a convention containing ninety-six articles which were to provide the framework upon which civil aviation could be rebuilt after the end of the Second World War . |
| 9 | Two major Royal Commissions dealing with the issues produced reports in the early war years which were to provide the blueprints for post-war planning . |
| 10 | Local firms were to provide the skills in political manoeuvring , multinationals the technology and the state to supply the institutions and the arena in which to forge a common set of goals to unite the alliance and manage the national economy . |
| 11 | No manufacturing assets were sold within the farm feed business as they were to provide the storage , grinding and blending capacity for the manufacture of pet foods . |
| 12 | Campaigns to involve the Liberal Party in an electoral agreement with the Labour and Communist Parties were less significant , though they were to provide the ultimate form of the " People 's Front " . |
| 13 | Lord Blake 's now revised 1968 Ford Lectures provide an introduction to the late nineteenth and twentieth century party , but their aim was to provide a sketch , not a comprehensive study . |
| 14 | In the black winter of early 1947 , something else happened which was to provide a general justification for the next forty years of dredging and river clearance . |
| 15 | The original intention was to provide a critical accompaniment to government promises of action on the inner cities made at the beginning of this Parliament . |
| 16 | Finally , the project was to provide a cost-effective service . |
| 17 | The idea was to provide a large proportion of the teacher 's training on the job . |
| 18 | The goal for the formal system of education was to provide a system from pre-school through to adult education which would give everyone access . |
| 19 | Lehninger reverts to the aims of the first edition , which was to provide a text suitable for American students ; British students should begin first-year biochemistry with a better understanding of chemistry . |
| 20 | The design objective was to provide a knowledge based testing and diagnostic support facility that would present information and advice in a familiar but more efficient manner . |
| 21 | The aim was to provide a facility for professional women to meet on a regular basis , exchange ideas and experiences and discuss topics of mutual interest . |
| 22 | The aim of the new Flight gallery was to provide a more cohesive view of the advances in aviation and to make the whole presentation more accessible to the public . |
| 23 | His aim was to provide a core of competent battle wizards so that the Empire would never again have to fight a battle without the aid of wizards . |
| 24 | Williamson , through his mainly autobiographical work , was to provide a panorama of views on the impact of the war on ordinary working people and the lower middle classes , and through the hero of The Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight , Phillip Maddison , was to show how the experience could lead to support for fascism ; Mosley was to appear as Sir Hereward Birkin and the BUF as the Imperial Socialist party in the later volumes of the epic . |
| 25 | But if Mosley 's practical search for radical economic policies was to provide a meaningful response to solve the problems of inter-war Britain , both Chesterton and Williamson survived by developing the higher metaphysical values derived from aesthetic appreciation of literature . |
| 26 | Its aim was to provide a convivial meeting place where the enlightened could help formulate a programme to teach the uninitiated the nature of the enemy which was undermining the country . |
| 27 | If the intent was to provide a lengthy editorial and a persuasive argument for abandoning the Unix System , it was a credible effort . |
| 28 | My brief was to provide a large painting of London with the Thames and the Richard Rogers Lloyd 's building somewhere in view , to fit a space that was large , long and thin in one of the client 's boardrooms at the Royal Mint . |
| 29 | The aim of the Norman exchequer rolls was to provide a complete record of the debts and revenues due from each administrative unit of the duchy . |
| 30 | It was the latter that was to provide a respite as the Prussians paused in their advance to loot . |