Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her last words were to ask for her Swan costume to be put ready . |
| 2 | Even more prophetic words were to follow : |
| 3 | Probably written in the winter of 1857 , those two words were to propel him into prominence and , ultimately , the White House as newspapers across the country broadcast his speech ( est. $300,000–500,000 ; £196,000–327,000 ) . |
| 4 | So ended the formal history of the Angevin dominions — Henry III and his successors were to retain only their south-western French lands de jure and de facto , held as fiefs of the French crown in liege homage , a form of tenure which normally implied feudal service . |
| 5 | It is significant , and ironic , that their twentieth-century successors were to define them as an ‘ intellectual aristocracy ’ . |
| 6 | The barons of Normandy and Poitou were not innately unfavourable towards a Plantagenet lord and , as their successors were to discover after 1337 , a choice of allegiance could be a very useful weapon in the course of disputes with the Capetian monarchy . |
| 7 | Both characteristics were to distinguish his rule over the next forty years . |
| 8 | Any punter would be delighted to place a bet on the understanding that if his horse were to lose he would be able to transfer his stake to another horse in the next race — in STV terms , to another candidate in the next count — and perhaps even to another and yet another until at last he had backed a winner . |
| 9 | Whatever the reason , three of the strongest members of the U.S. side were to find water off the tee at the last . |
| 10 | This Marx and Engels were to attempt to do in more detail in their subsequent works . |
| 11 | These considerations were to bear heavily upon the drive after the war to improve the housing of rural workers by , for the first time , explicitly introducing the criterion of housing need rather than an ability to pay the rent . |
| 12 | The effects of this delegation were to give confidence to the Polytechnic 's internal processes of review and validation and to create a body of case law about their achievement in time for the revalidation of the Course in 1984–85 . |
| 13 | The seven schools were to manage their own finances , all items were delegated except school meals , premises maintenance , school transport and loan charges . |
| 14 | If other schools were to follow , the viability of courses at the town 's sixth form and technology colleges could be threatened . |
| 15 | The devaluation of the inti for the month of October was restricted to 6 per cent overall ; exporters were to receive 10 per cent of the value of their exports in foreign currency and 45 per cent in freely redeemable US dollar certificates , while the remaining 45 per cent would be paid in intis at the single exchange market rate ; import restrictions were eased ; to protect the silver sector against the continuing slump in prices since 1989 on the world market , the Central Reserve Bank was to buy silver at 5 per cent over the current market price ; fuel prices would rise by only 5 per cent in October , and public utility rates by less than the percentage rise in salaries , which themselves would be increased in accordance with inflation . |
| 16 | In effect the people working in the industry were to take it over and to run it as an industrial co-operative , organised nationally . |
| 17 | As readers were to discover , The Golden Gate turned out to be a beguiling work , an accessible and witty story of modern Californians . |
| 18 | These changes introduced by 12 year-old children are precisely the type of text feature which Marshall and Glock found to be essential if poor readers were to learn all they could from a passage . |
| 19 | These grievances were to find expression in the strike wave that occurred once economic conditions improved . |
| 20 | In the intervening period 73,600 Royal Navy personnel , about 30,000 merchant seamen , and almost 6,000 members of RAF Coastal Command were to lose their lives , as did more than 29,000 crewmen from German submarines . |
| 21 | The calves were to feed then , and the milk put through the separator to take the cream off . |
| 22 | James Arbuthnot , of Wanstead and Woodford , argues that if the Labour-run Association of London Authorities and the Tory-run London Boroughs Association were to merge , they could provide the ‘ voice for London ’ its voters still apparently hanker after . |
| 23 | If the sole intention of the Association were to secure civil rights for Ulster Catholics while accepting and loyally supporting the constitution of the Ulster state … why has it admitted to its counsels and membership , as it undoubtedly has , a number of men from an organisation pledged to the destruction of that state ? |
| 24 | In some instances local authorities have approached housing associations suggesting that the problem might be remedied if an association were to buy the properties and convert them into assured tenancies or into shared ownership . |
| 25 | Like tonight , Parents ' Evening , when they had assembled at his behest in the Staff Common Room overlooking the school driveway to watch out for arriving parents and usher them through to the headmaster 's sitting-room , where the first part of the festivities were to take place . |
| 26 | The Treaty did not envisage carrying the process of economic integration to the stage of a monetary union national currencies were to remain . |
| 27 | The structure of corporate governance thus provides its own sort of poison-pill defence : if a bid were to succeed , all sorts of costs would be incurred because of harm to relationships . |
| 28 | If the Inland Revenue were to assess this payment , is there any other way I could cover my staff 's lunch expenses without making them liable for tax ? |
| 29 | Measures aimed at increasing non-oil revenue were to include " selective " tax increases . |
| 30 | The figures if the Revenue were to succeed in a Furniss v Dawson attack may , of course , be considerable . |