Example sentences of "[was/were] always to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside in The Cheese Market at the corner of Castle Street and Blue Boar Row , traders who paid no tolls were always to be found on the same spot each Market Day . |
| 2 | Another factor was the legendary cautiousness of Franco , for whom slow progress and sure gains were always to be preferred to unnecessary risks . |
| 3 | Throughout the 1930s Hollywood was to make films condemning various abuses and malpractices in the American system and there were always to be films which clung to the conventions of the city film as they had emerged in the early part of the decade . |
| 4 | This argument could be regarded as a rebuttable presumption , but then the inexorable logic of the theory breaks down ; it could not be said that legal rules were always to be determined by the ordinary courts . |
| 5 | If there were games to be played or work to be done or stories to be read it was always to Rachel that she would turn ; Rachel who went out and came in when she said she would and said ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ , not from whim or temper , but with authority . |
| 6 | From then on , the idea of motion was always to the forefront of his mind and central to his philosophy . |
| 7 | Drawing was always to be a liberation for him . |
| 8 | At first they never went round The Courts ; the route was always to the outskirts and to where houses had gardens , small or large . |
| 9 | What he was to do next was always to be a serious problem for Burton . |
| 10 | The Mayor of Bedford for the time being was always to be an additional director and at the time of the meeting the Mayor was John Wing , who had been sworn in on 29th September 1793 , and served for one year , after which he remained as one of the aldermen . |
| 11 | His diminutive figure was always to be seen during battles with the opposition , and for this reason he gained exceptionally early admission to the Rowdies as a kind of unofficial mascot . |
| 12 | In future , it was always to be the same . |
| 13 | It seems likely that as small children they stayed in the relative security of England while Henry spent most of his time abroad , immersed in what was always to be the central concern of his life , governing his continental dominions . |
| 14 | Your father , Dermot told us a lot of course — I 'm sure your mother would have been none too pleased , if she knew , but his first loyalty was always to the cause . |
| 15 | Though Masonry was always to be an element in the liberal forces — particularly in later non-socialist brands of Republicanism — it was never again , as it was from 1815 to 1820 , its chief framework ; even then it was not so much a system of belief as the only clandestine organization available for conspiracy . |
| 16 | Making your fortune while you were asleep , just by getting into debt to own the roof over your head , was always to good to be true . |
| 17 | Gimson 's view of life — which was always to be that of the ‘ idealist individualist ’ — was formed more by the mood and the standards of that crowded , argumentative , intellectually zealous , middle-class , provincial household than by his formal education . |
| 18 | There he worked on the unfashionable inorganic chemistry ; his science was always to be on the boundary of physics and chemistry . |
| 19 | On the other hand when the Goigama made money payments in return for services or labour it was always to people who were right outside the system such as shopkeepers or Tamil labourers hired on a casual basis . |
| 20 | That 's what the country was it was always to be remembered feat a giant killing match of all time . |
| 21 | And it was always to , ye , you know , you ask a commercial artist what sort of lead time , that 's another , another er another word that you might come across , because again , you do n't want them to speak our jargon but we can speak there 's . |