Example sentences of "was now [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His solution was now to spend his way out of the recession by a massive expansion of public works programmes , and by the summer of 1939 the crisis was over — although there were still over 9 million unemployed . |
| 2 | Convinced that the dynasty was lost , she felt that her duty was now to do everything in her power to save the country . |
| 3 | Referring to the English essayists , he says : ‘ A sentence was written to have only one meaning ’ : and the writer 's ‘ task was now to create autonomous text to write in such a manner that the sentence was an adequate , explicit representation of the meaning , relying on no implicit premises or personal interpretations ’ ( 1977 , p. 268 ) . |
| 4 | All of this was in the hours ahead , for I was now to live through one of the toughest three days and nights I ever experienced . |
| 5 | They set up house in No. 93 , which was now to let . |
| 6 | The politburo was also retained , rather than being replaced by a party presidium , although in keeping with the proposals for the latter body the politburo was now to include the leaders of the parties in the 15 republics . |
| 7 | During the ensuing correspondence attempts were made on behalf of the applicant to obtain a much larger postponement whilst he sought to obtain legal aid for representation at the interview , but the Director of the Serious Fraud Office did not agree , and on 24 June she caused a further notice to be served , identical to the first , save that the interview was now to take place on 26 June , and the ‘ person under investigation ’ was identified as the applicant alone . |
| 8 | His son was now to take charge and lead the opposition to Lij Yasu . |
| 9 | Policy was now to allow the moran to form manyattas ‘ and then to exercise control over them , and to use up their surplus energy in making them work ’ , the theory being that if the moran were in manyattas , at least the administration knew where they were . |
| 10 | Britain was now to receive the most advanced submarine-launched missile system ; there was thus no continuing strategic need for a British effort in space . |
| 11 | Wilson had sown the wind ; he was now to reap the whirlwind . |
| 12 | MacArthur 's major objective was now to recover the Philippines . |
| 13 | If every inhabitant was now to become a citizen and without the former property qualification , empire provided a vicarious property qualification for the Master Race . |
| 14 | Before his conversion in 1756 , Smart 's life had been very different from what it was now to become . |
| 15 | A trade union was now to become , in the Webbs ' first definition ‘ a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment ’ , a definition later altered so as to refer to ‘ working lives ’ rather than ‘ employment ’ . |
| 16 | Because I had been understudying Constance Donovan I was now to play Lydia , the second lead . |
| 17 | The two belligerents having accepted this text in principle , Perez de Cuellar 's task , involving a bout of shuttle diplomacy , was now to pin them down to an actual cease-fire on the ground . |
| 18 | Measures adopted included the creation of the post of Prime Minister ; in addition the political bureau was now to consist of 400 members and would be a deliberative rather than an executive body ; the executive role would be assumed by an 80-member central committee ; and the party would henceforth have an elected secretary-general . |
| 19 | All this her friend Florence Ames was now to have . |
| 20 | Heavy and hoping , Lee moved through air inland towards the building she was now to walk away from . |
| 21 | At the time , Farrow shared an agent with Peter Yates , who was now to direct it . |
| 22 | Having read again a book he had admired when studying at Edinburgh , a book much concerned with precisely such comparisons and contrasts — his grandfather Brasmus Darwin 's Zoönomia ( 1794–6 ) — he was soon taking its title for the opening heading of his Notebook B , where he was now to pursue his own inquiry into ‘ the laws of life ’ . |