Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] was [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the Government 's aims in moving from supplementary benefit to income support was to simplify the system . |
| 2 | The purpose of the final case study was to test the viability of the package as a whole , and all the main partners were represented in the team that addressed the selected problem situation . |
| 3 | The first step in processing the typesetting tape was to find the mapping between the typesetting codes and the special characters . |
| 4 | The main objective of the Serious Defect Signal Aid trial was to identify the organisational problems of developing and integrating expert systems with a secondary objective of producing a demonstrator to persuade higher management to fund AI more extensively . |
| 5 | [ T ] he purpose of the United States base was to monitor the movements of Soviet submarines ; in the event of hostilities breaking out , the base would be the subject of a nuclear strike , with resulting devastation in the area , including to the property of the applicant , her friends and neighbours . |
| 6 | In the 1967 Paper , investment appraisal was to follow the net present value method , with a test discount rate ( TDR ) set first at 8 per cent , later at 10 per cent . |
| 7 | Statements of this kind were essential if the Schools Council was to receive the support from schools that was needed if the project was to flower . |
| 8 | Over the years a favourite quiz question was to name the scrum-halves who played with Jack Kyle . |
| 9 | The purpose of the Youth Opportunities Scheme was to prepare the less qualified for employment . |
| 10 | An important part of the argument is that the competitive effect of these expanding sectors in the district labour market was to raise the wages of agricultural labour . |
| 11 | From that date a National Labour Unity Committee was to organize the campaign within the Labour Party , while the Communists and the ILP would carry on separate agitations on their own . |
| 12 | In May of 1948 , the Zamzams crossed the Palestine border into Lebanon at Naqqoura — where the Palestinian writer Kalafani was to describe the misery of the refugees — and rented a house in Tyre for 12 Palestinian pounds a month . |
| 13 | He says one escape plan was to inject the wood with dry rot so the castle would fall down . |
| 14 | It seems that the appellants were considerably in debt to the mortgagees and the purpose of that second charge was to secure the debt . |
| 15 | The solution to the complexities of the system and the growing complexity of case law adjudication was to abolish the notion of additional allowances completely , replacing them with loans from a limited budget and no right to independent appeal . |
| 16 | While the intention of the 1977 Cambridge Accountability Seminar was to clarify the conceptual background to the accountability movement , the participants were swift to recognise its inevitability and admissibility , in one form or another . |
| 17 | As far as Marenches was concerned , the most important thing for a Western intelligence agency was to stop the spread of Communism . |
| 18 | As a guard against corruption , a permanent auditing system was to monitor the workings of the executive branch of government . |
| 19 | In 1929 , two years after Nizan entry to the party , the Wall Street Crash was to signal the seriousness of the impending economic disaster . |
| 20 | The effect of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act and the Economic Recovery Tax Act was to move the United States in new directions in economic policy ; fundamental change of a sort that had not been seen for half a century . |
| 21 | Winans was aware that Journal policy was to keep the contents of the column secret prior to publication and that the contents of the column were regarded as the Journal 's confidential information . |
| 22 | The major project referred to in last years report was to improve the organisation and performance of the Governments Health Service transport . |
| 23 | She also found herself naturally in tune with Laura 's taste and , although her job specification was to oversee the entire design structure for clothes , Laura advised her that she ‘ had been brought in as a flanker to Moira ’ . |
| 24 | The reaction of local farmers to this disruption of their normal farming activity was to wait the situation out , as they expected a high price for their lands . |
| 25 | Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalism system was to debauch the currency … |
| 26 | SCOTVEC Updates 23 and 26 , on the Quality Framework , stated that one of the intentions of the Quality Development Programme was to harmonise the criteria for quality assurance of SCOTVEC awards wherever possible . |
| 27 | THE aim of the Bradford study was to assess the significance of cultural factors among victims . |
| 28 | Palmer 's opening move was to oppose the introduction of a General Tax Ordinance for Nigeria , and , with the support of the Residents , to propose a return to the 1906 Native Revenue Ordinance , which stated that the tax paid in the Northern Provinces was levied by the native authorities with the approval but not at the direction of the governor . |
| 29 | Even even , okay , even if we the the reason that we need the output rate was to find the length of this bar . |
| 30 | Morel s objective was to win the Labour Party for a policy of radically revising the Versailles Treaty . |