Example sentences of "was [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The race was successfully held the following day , but with no major success for the British team and indeed that state of affairs was to continue at the world cups before Christmas , at Val d'Isere and Val Gardena , with the exception of my brother Graham 's reasonable 32nd place at Val d'Isere , just two seconds down on the winner . |
| 2 | To discover how cost-effective it was to sustain at home people who were judged likely to have been in an institution had it not been for the project 's services . |
| 3 | I was glad to accept the honour not so much for myself but for the cutter service as a whole when it was confirmed that I was to attend at Buckingham Palace the following summer . |
| 4 | It was to be the last triumph Chapman was to see at Elland Road , for in the summer of 1916 he took a managerial job at a munitions factory at Barnbow , near Leeds . |
| 5 | Judge then my feelings when the first face I was to see at Jo'burg airport was the self-same Second Secretary , delighted that he had again been honoured with an important secret mission . |
| 6 | Her auntie was in , but I was to go at any time for the telephone … |
| 7 | During the many years it was to remain at Scampton R5868 was maintained and also given the occasional coat of paint . |
| 8 | On the other hand , Peter was responsible for the introduction of a punitive practice which was to remain at the centre of the tsarist criminal code and of the Siberian penal system until well into the twentieth century . |
| 9 | Provost Gibson McDonald , of Kyle and Carrick District Council , said he was very pleased that Digital was to remain at Ayr . |
| 10 | If the base rate was to remain at 6 per cent , there would be an annual interest benefit of more than £5 million per annum . |
| 11 | The Committee for the Preservation of Morals was to meet at the house of Mrs Murphy , the wife of the Mayor . |
| 12 | But my real ambition was to appear at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre , which I did eventually . ’ |
| 13 | The Belfry was cold and wet , which gave us a taste of what was to come at Lytham . |
| 14 | It would have come , if it was to come at all , only if a well co-ordinated , centrally directed campaign of strikes , carried out by an immensely disciplined and united workforce , and backed by enough money to support the strikers for as long as necessary , could have been made to prevail against the resolute and more readily co-ordinated opposition of masters who stood to lose everything if the strikers won . |
| 15 | The revolution would have come , if it was to come at all , only if the demand for industrial democracy through the agency of Industrial Co-operation , could have prompted such a comprehensive tide of sympathetic opinion as had carried parliamentary reform over the barriers of stubborn opposition . |
| 16 | No : the revolution would have come , if it was to come at all , only if the resources available to the forces for change , the unions , had been enough to enable them to seize and hold the means of production , and if they had had the will to employ those resources ; not as a thief in the night but in a scene of anarchy and dreadful confusion of which the French Revolution would have given but a faint anticipation . |
| 17 | Their fun , courtesy of the Conservative Party , was to come at a later stage . |
| 18 | By the time morning came he was convinced he had been wide awake the whole night , though by that time he had remembered with the utmost clarity that the whole performance had taken place not in a television studio at all but in an enormous public lavatory , with Sir William and Lady Paice among the large crowd around the coffee table , and that his final humiliation was to discover at the end of the programme that he had been sitting on one of the lavatory seats throughout , with his trousers down around his ankles . |
| 19 | perhaps , he thought as he followed Maisie down the front path , it was that he knew them only as fathers , as people whose primary function was to stand at the edge of swimming pools , dank gymnasia or football fields , their collective manhoods bruised by nurture , blurring with age and helpless love . |
| 20 | The Liverpool keeper 's one big mistake was to flap at a Wallace cross , allowing Cantona to head into a empty net and give Leeds a 4-2 advantage with a couple of minutes left . |
| 21 | Many see the Basquiat retrospective as a referendum on the Whitney Museum 's curatorial standards , but just a month before the show was to open at the Whitney , a New York weekly reported that the museum had sought to fire Richard Marshall , the show 's curator , who had spent years preparing the project with Gerard Basquiat and the Robert Miller Gallery . |
| 22 | At the end of the fourth week the players moved to Edinburgh where The Confidential Clerk was to open at the Lyceum on 25 August . |
| 23 | School was to open at 9am , and the Summer holidays now extended to six weeks . |
| 24 | The new musical was to open at the Palace Theatre , Manchester , for three weeks , before moving to the Theatre Royal , Drury Lane , in London 's West End . |
| 25 | The songs , pulled direct from the John Peel and Dave Jensen sessions , were added to the last two singles and B-sides scattered , with perfect pacing , across a 16-track LP which was to retail at no more than £3.99 ( providing the retailers kept the faith which , largely , they did ) . |
| 26 | Extracts from the Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer of the Ministry of Health were sent in a circular to the Committee ; each area was to aim at providing as effective and complete a service as was practicable . |
| 27 | Later Lisa was to wonder at the power of the sensations that swept in on her and possessed her at that moment . |
| 28 | I was to serve at St Michael 's church , Kemmendine , a suburb of Rangoon , where there was a parish church , a teachers ' training school and a blind school . |
| 29 | According to the proposals , GNP was to grow at 6 per cent per annum , with emphasis on the development of agriculture , energy , transportation and telecommunications . |
| 30 | All they could do was to look at her but no one could read Rose 's face and they turned back to their books . |