Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] was to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its Working Paper No. 22 , the Canadian Law Reform Commission stated that one of its objectives was to ‘ direct attention away from rape as a sexual offence and towards the right of every person to be free from physical assault . ’ |
| 2 | Shame about Batty not being picked for England … after all one of his reasons was to further his England career … |
| 3 | Haig won his point , although the scale of his attacks was to be reduced . |
| 4 | Gould still intended to do a lot of collecting on the Yarrundi-side of the Liverpool Range , but the main focus of his efforts was to be across the mountains , on the remote plains around the Namoi and Mokai rivers , an area of the interior that few settlers had yet penetrated . |
| 5 | Buchheim , professor at Dorpat in the 1860s , is said to have rated the botanical characteristics of drug-containing plants as no more important to medicine than the case in which a surgeon carried his scalpels was to surgery . |
| 6 | Then he went erm into the Navy for a short time and for some unknown reason he managed to get out of the Navy and came as Mr 's Personal Assistant and erm one of his jobs was to erm get these pe children sorted out and I used to write no end of letters for him to erm places like erm Ilford and Wanstead and mainly the northern suburbs of London erm about certain children who had been attending central schools which were something , which were something that erm East Suffolk could n't offer and erm trying to decide whether they ought to go to grammar school or one of the area schools as they we then were |