Example sentences of "was [adv] to " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | S Group was led by Group Captain Donald Bennett , who we heard was a most formidable gentleman from ‘ down under ’ and who was mostly to be found at Group Headquarters , Huntingdon or at Wyton RAF Station , a few miles away . |
| 2 | Building societies , for the finance of house building or purchase , grew rapidly and by the end of the century attracted many small investors , but their appeal was rather to tradesmen and the lower-middle class than to manual workers . |
| 3 | One of the corpses was that of a local youth , the other that of an English girl , Gail Benson , who had come to the West Indies as the slavish lover of an American Negro , Hakim Jamal , ‘ God ’ to his friends , who was eventually to be shot dead in Boston . |
| 4 | Shiksas were to promise an escape from Jewish America , as the promised land of Israel was eventually to be evoked as doing for Henry Zuckerman . |
| 5 | Mr Biffen , who was later to become Leader of the Commons and Lord President of the Council , and was eventually to be sacked by You-Know-Who for wholly ideological reasons , was marched back to the hotel to cover himself . |
| 6 | But normally either the land was eventually to be divided equally between the children or , more typically where land was scarcer , the land itself would go to a single son and provision be made for the other children in cash — very often advanced earlier in life , on marriage or to set up in a trade . |
| 7 | Each of the great oases of Central Asia was eventually to be graced with powerfully squat four-square stone-built stations , perfectly symbolizing the implacable toughness of Russian power . |
| 8 | Of those influences incomparably the most important was the spread of nationalism ; it is ironic that this European idea was eventually to be the most powerful force undermining Europe 's colonial supremacy . |
| 9 | The respect afforded him in England had partly to do with the manner in which he had taken on the mantle of English culture ; in the absence of any figure with equivalent influence , he was eventually to be invested with an almost shamanistic authority . |
| 10 | The Life of Johnson makes plain how Boswell had been staking out the ground since their early acquaintance , making notes immediately after each meeting of what he himself was eventually to ‘ consider the peculiar value ’ of the Life , ‘ that is , the quantity it contains of Johnson 's conversation ’ . |
| 11 | The basis of future regional policy and its instruments was eventually to be found in the Thompson Report ( 1973 ) on the regional problems of the enlarged EC , which reaffirmed the view that in the long term , monetary union was not possible without an effective regional policy . |
| 12 | I hoped they were not to be disappointed by the rest of their tour and wondered whether that residue of egalitarianism which their culture had instilled in them , for all its dreadfulness , might not in time lead them to question whether unification was wholly to their advantage . |
| 13 | The stratified approach to Urban Programme funding , with in essence a fourfold division of councils — Partnerships , Programme Authorities , Other Designated Districts and traditional Urban Programme councils — was effectively to be abandoned . |
| 14 | The position of the casualty was still uncertain , but she had reported that she was somewhere to the west of Burtonport so the lifeboat set course to the NW at full speed , adjusting as necessary for the large swell , and calling the casualty on the VHF radio . |
| 15 | Rain perched on a folded piece of carpet which was presumably to be her seat . |
| 16 | He was rarely to be seen , unless attending to other people 's affairs , without a volume of some sort , generally of Plato or one of the Greek tragedians . |
| 17 | An ensign , however , might find the next step a little harder , while command of a company was rarely to be had without the ability to purchase the commission of a holder of a captaincy or very strong political interest to secure the place in an expanding army in a new battalion . |
| 18 | One chronicler noted with surprise that Count Baldwin of Hainault loved his wife alone and observed that such behaviour was rarely to be found in a man . |
| 19 | Lane had his own small office but was rarely to be found in it . |
| 20 | As post-war critics of both social and economic policy were to indicate , strategic planning with clear long-term goals and the machinery to implement them was rarely to be found . |
| 21 | Terry and Middleton have become one of the country 's most reliable opening partnerships , so it was something of a surprise when , in the 19th over , Middleton was leg-before to Hooper for 27 with 68 on the board . |
| 22 | Zimbabwe 's second innings began badly when Grant Flower was leg-before to Manoj Prabhakar 's fourth delivery with only two runs on the board . |
| 23 | It was so to Martin Luther when he was tempted to despair of his spiritual state : ‘ Baptizatus sum ’ he recalled with joy . |
| 24 | remember going in and seeing this film and , it just it did n't it was so to my mind , and you know thinking back now , my memory of it was of a sort of very dark and dreary |
| 25 | However , I imagined that the praise I received that night was merely to be a preview of the steaming sauna of appreciation that I 'd receive after the first night . |
| 26 | These do not seem like promising beginnings : English was merely to be an extra accomplishment for young middle-class women — a ‘ convenient sort of non-subject to palm off on the ladies ’ as Eagleton puts it ; and a substitute for a classical education for the discontented working classes . |
| 27 | Production was henceforth to be concentrated on a steady output of ‘ marketable product ’ , which meant basically low-budget comedies from the likes of Will Hay and the Crazy Gang . |
| 28 | At the Forest Eyre in January the judges deprived Robert of his wardenship , which was henceforth to be at the disposal of the Crown . |
| 29 | On May 27 , 1989 , the government announced that the name of the country , which had been changed in October 1988 from the Socialist Republic of Myanma to the Union of Myanma , was henceforth to be rendered in its vernacular form of Myanma Naingngan ( Union of Myanma ) for all official purposes [ see p. 36867 , where the date is wrongly given as June 18 ] . |
| 30 | The President was henceforth to be elected by direct , universal , secret suffrage for a five-year term , for a maximum of only two consecutive terms . |