Example sentences of "of [noun sg] was [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What he needed of course was to compare the present Bill with the nineteen sixty four Act as amended by various statutes . |
| 2 | Mary of course was to get the largest amount — twenty . |
| 3 | But the idea of course was to bring the electrical , mechanical and the technicians to redesign the little bits that were |
| 4 | But many biologists took it for granted that the main purpose of evolutionism was to elucidate the precise course of life 's development from its earliest origins . |
| 5 | On the whole , the Labour Party took the old radical view that the task of Parliament was to enact the legislation foreshadowed or promised in the party 's election manifesto . |
| 6 | The French Navy passed the problem to the DGSE who at first suggested that the simplest course of action was to tow the Rainbow Warrior out to the test area . |
| 7 | In Berlin it was agreed that with the depression eating away at Danzig 's own tax revenues , the city 's only possible course of action was to devalue the Danzig gulden by 57.5 per cent to achieve parity with the zloty . |
| 8 | Trist also believed that the primary task of management was to relate the organisation to its environment . |
| 9 | One type of error was to complete the sentence by referring to an effect instead of a cause , for example : 5 *That man fell off his bicycle , because he broke his leg . |
| 10 | The most common way of grouping was to sort the children by ability ( as informally rated by the teacher ) and to make the groups as homogeneous as possible . |
| 11 | Following Morris ( 1939 ) , however , Wimsatt argued that one of the distinguishing characteristics of poetry was to exploit the ‘ iconic or directly imitative ’ powers of language ( Wimsatt 1958 : 1 15 ) . |
| 12 | Clearly it would be difficult to justify a dual system of justice if it led to certain types of people being more easily convicted , for the whole concept of the rule of law was to tip the balance of power away from the accusing state to the accused individual because it was rightly felt a too one-sided contest without such protection . |
| 13 | The effect of video-pop was to shift the balance between pop 's aural and visual elements ( and to favour genres , like teeny bop , in which visuals have always been crucial — hence the ‘ second British invasion ’ of the American charts and the success of groups like Duran Duran and Wham ! ) ; and to raise questions about the construction of pop sexuality . |
| 14 | To come to power in conditions of war was to expose the new regime to the maximum pressures of the world system . |
| 15 | The predominant interest of much of the historical work , especially the early work , on household composition , was to examine one of the key elements in the idea of a golden age of family support — that in the past it was common for members of the extended family actually to live together , and that a major effect of industrialization was to shrink the household , typically to the nuclear family unit . |
| 16 | The question of the date of everyone 's arrival at the gates of the heavenly city was , of course , crucial , and the main contribution of Hailey to the formulation of policy was to keep the question open . |
| 17 | The mode of attack was to approach the ground around 2:55 when it would be most busy and not look out of the ordinary . |
| 18 | Henry of Almain was to take the profits of the forests and castle for himself , subject only to the duty of maintaining the castle . |
| 19 | Running from army officers to shopkeepers , from the poderosos ( the ‘ powerful ones ’ ) of rural towns to the cotton magnates of Barcelona , this inchoate conglomerate of the middle sections of society was to dominate the political life of the nineteenth century . |
| 20 | The task of the sociology of science was to study the social context that permitted science to proceed according to the norms of this ethos . |
| 21 | The sociology of science was to articulate the ‘ ethos of science ’ ( Merton 1957 : 552–61 ) that guaranteed the exclusion of non-theoretical factors in the practice of science . |
| 22 | The main effect of liberalisation was to sharpen the edge of peasant discontent . |
| 23 | The effect of evacuation was to flood the dark places with light and bring home to the national consciousness that the ‘ submerged tenth ’ described by Charles Booth still exists in our towns like a hidden sore , poor , dirty and crude in its habits , an intolerable and degrading burden to decent people forced by poverty to neighbour with it . |
| 24 | The purpose in defining these three classes of organization was to consider the question ( Anthony , 1978 , p. 165 ) : ‘ How , if at all , would business organizations be distinguished from other organizations for the purposes of developing accounting concepts ? ’ |
| 25 | One of the chief effects of enclosure was to reduce the number of yeoman farmers and to increase the number of landless workers . |
| 26 | Indeed , the first effect of enclosure was to reduce the number of trees in thinly wooded country , for the new fences — hundreds of miles of them — required vast quantities of oak , elm , and ash saplings for posts and rails . |
| 27 | Because the money lenders were usually Brahmis , the effect of colonialism was to strengthen the caste system and place it firmly on a class basis . |
| 28 | On the other hand it was the submission of Mr. Collins for Wickes that the function of the undertaking in damages required of the council by the Court of Appeal was to protect the right of Wickes which flowed from the direct effect of article 30 , in the event of the European Court of Justice holding , on the reference to it of the Stoke-on-Trent case [ 1991 ] Ch. 48 , that section 47 of the Shops Act 1950 was invalid because it was inconsistent with article 30 . |
| 29 | In the 1880s Glasgow 's Victorian prosperity was approaching its peak , and the noon-tide of Empire was to witness the arrival of electricity , the cable subway and the electric trams , photography , St Andrew 's halls , the Great Exhibition of 1888 , 1901 , and on into the new century , hospitals , bridges , effort and endeavour . |