Example sentences of "was [to-vb] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim was to frighten Place into acting hastily . |
| 2 | Clearly , if a communist revolution was to take place in a country like Russia , the historical stage marked by capitalism would in great part have been skipped . |
| 3 | Though the conference was to take place at the State Department , the council is a purely private body , the brainchild of Johnson Smick International , a firm of Washington consultants . |
| 4 | The theme of the walk — which was to take place through the streets of St James 's — was ‘ royal London ’ . |
| 5 | A day or two before the crime was to take place , the Apparition of Our Lady shone forth , changing bitterness to religious awe and causing the Ribbonmen publicly to repent . |
| 6 | On January 18 , 1961 , those two principles were agreed at a meeting at the Ministry of Labour four days before an all-out strike was to take place . |
| 7 | The filming was to take place at the National Theatre under the eye of the distinguished director Mr Hugh Hudson . |
| 8 | Charles stated that he did not know what was to take place , and would not have entered St Peter 's basilica if he had known . |
| 9 | For more than ten years Victoria fell into a state of decrepitude and assumed a ghost like appearance , and it was not until 1986 that final demolition was to take place to make way for an extension to the Victoria Hotel . |
| 10 | The text of the work had to be submitted to Vienna for approval and by 24 August it had still not arrived for Mozart to set ( the wedding was to take place in October ) . |
| 11 | The event was to take place on 21 December , St Thomas 's Day . |
| 12 | Duncan briefed us on what was to take place and we staggered backwards into the harbour , barking like seals and standing on each others fins . |
| 13 | To illustrate the point , he describes an incident recorded in a chronicle of Hainault concerning a judicial duel that was to take place at dawn . |
| 14 | If the walk was to take place , it could not be seriously delayed . |
| 15 | The competition was to take place in August and , although she was for ever panicking about what they still could n't do , she tended to overlook how far they had come from first beginnings . |
| 16 | The embarkation was to take place in the harbour and roads of Cherbourg in 200 oyster ketches known as chasse-mapées . |
| 17 | The Sheikh 's car pulled up outside the hotel where his meeting was to take place . |
| 18 | He had felt greatly excited as he and his father got up at 5am to travel by bus and train from their home in Heywood , Lancashire to Ben Rhydding near Ilkley where the meeting was to take place . |
| 19 | She told me that the trial of the young man was to take place the following month and that she was , of course , the only witness . |
| 20 | The children , in their foster homes in mainland Scotland , were not notified that the hearing was to take place . |
| 21 | She had entered the world in the January of what would prove to be a notorious year down in Stepney : a series of brutal murders was to take place on Ratcliff Highway , a major road which ran to the south of Well Close Square and right past St George 's church itself . |
| 22 | If the birth of her child was to take place in London as had been arranged , then presumably for some weeks beforehand she would have to remain in the Harley Street flat , kicking her heels or at least suffering the kicks inside her , which she had greatly come to resent . |
| 23 | This was to take place in the headquarters ship , HMS Calliope in the dockyard . |
| 24 | Mansfield thought out her stories first , made brief notes to remind herself of the details , of the change that was to take place , and then wrote . |
| 25 | The event was to take place in the Music Room , which is a large round building quite separate from the main school and connected by three covered walkways . |
| 26 | The Germans , halted at Ypres , now adopted a defensive stance in the west while trying to reach a victorious conclusion in the east , where much of the military activity of 1915 was to take place . |
| 27 | A similar sea change in corporate thinking was to take place , much later , in Britain . |
| 28 | Even more drastic intervention was to take place in China ; its roots went back to the control of the Chinese government 's revenue by foreign supervision of the Customs from 1858 onwards . |
| 29 | Feigen was then asked by Hildenbrand on behalf of the museum to lend the painting for two months while the purchase ( at a price of $725,000 ) was being negotiated and pending a meeting of the museum board , which apparently was to take place on 21 October last . |
| 30 | Quite remarkably , within the space of a few months , the industry reshaped and refashioned itself in advance of 27 October 1986 , the day on which the deregulation of commissions was to take place . |