Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Motion pictures were to develop into the great mass entertainment of the twentieth century but they had first been shown in the cities of the late nineteenth century and both as an industry and as a social activity they were never to lose characteristics that had been determined at their birth . |
| 2 | It was on the last day of 1988 that he began the experiments whose data were to appear in the published paper . |
| 3 | The lower clergy were to pay at the reduced rate of the 1254 valuation , but , far more significantly , the tax was to be collected , supervised and delivered to the king by the clergy themselves — a procedure thereafter tenaciously preserved by Winchelsey and his successors . |
| 4 | If voices were to end at the same time as their canonic function ended they would fall out one by one , as in a round . |
| 5 | Did Benjamin carry secret orders from his uncle that Selkirk and Ruthven were to die for the common good ? |
| 6 | On July 23 the Foreign Ministry confirmed the terms it considered acceptable for an " allied multinational force " to be based in south-eastern Turkey : the force was to come under the joint command of Turkish and US commanders ; its ground element would be based at the US/NATO airfield at Incirlik and its air element at Silopi , with some facilities available at Batman in south-east Turkey ; any intervention against Iraq would need Turkish government approval ; and initial Turkish permission for the presence of the force would expire on Sept. 30 . |
| 7 | It was several years , however , before social anthropology was to emerge as a distinct discipline , separate from other branches of anthropology , and to receive that accolade to which all subjects aspire — a secure place on university curricula . |
| 8 | Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig 's plan for the British attack in Flanders was to break through the German line from the Ypres salient and then encircle the German right flank resting on the North Sea coast . |
| 9 | But my real ambition was to appear at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre , which I did eventually . ’ |
| 10 | All my brothers rode in point-to-points and Dermot rode his own horse in the National Hunt Cup at Cheltenham : his ambition was to ride in the Grand National . |
| 11 | As in the earlier books , the bravura set-piece dominates , and the most memorable concerns the crates in which the Portuguese have packed up their belongings , and which were eventually shipped out of Africa — Kapuscinski was to stumble on a few of them in Portugal , sunk , as it were , in the sand . |
| 12 | The latter managed to sense the way the wind was to blow during the Eighties by anticipating the various forms of emerging Neo-Expressionism . |
| 13 | The Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry on Jan. 9 announced that the Czechoslovak side was to press for a complete withdrawal before the end of 1990 of the estimated 75,000 Soviet troops stationed in the country since the entry of Warsaw Pact forces in 1968 . |
| 14 | Carlie was to stay at the foster home ‘ until the home situation stabilises ’ . |
| 15 | The plan was to return to the same group of airfields , on the assumption that the garrisons would hardly expect them back quite so soon . |
| 16 | His first public act was to preach in the biggest white church in this segregated city . |
| 17 | The household 's final act was to arrange for the immediate disposal of the viscera which , like the body , were almost certainly placed in a lead box within a velvet-upholstered outer case . |
| 18 | For disappointing though the Act was to prove to the great and unpropertied majority whose aspirations had been absorbed into the emotional dynamic needed to sustain the political will to secure its passage through Parliament , nevertheless it had shown that the Constitution could be changed constitutionally . |
| 19 | We were told that even if inward migration was to stop for the next ten years , 45,000 new houses would still be needed to cater for the predicted natural growth of 49,000 people , plus the trend towards smaller households . |
| 20 | Christopher was to embark on a painful programme of physiotherapy . |
| 21 | But her own feet , her veins , her weight , and her rheumatism were troubles to be ignored on this day and night when her darling girl was to shine in a proper setting . |
| 22 | The purpose of my question was to extract from the right hon. Gentleman what he thought was meant not by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department but the new clause . |
| 23 | Elsewhere in Asia , stations were to emerge as the prime symbols of European power only at the end of the century . |
| 24 | If costs were to alter by the following proportions : |
| 25 | The legend of El Cid began there , but nearly a thousand years were to pass before the true story of his life and deeds began to be known . |
| 26 | A hundred years were to pass before the next Roman invasion and this time they came to stay . |
| 27 | But it was agreed on all sides , and most importantly by Graham Watson himself , that his instructions were that the fee was to go to a charitable organisation flying relief into Biafra . |
| 28 | So Changez 's new job was to sit on a three-legged stool behind the vegetable section and watch for shop-lifters . |
| 29 | Stella 's main job was to sit in the prompt corner with the book . |
| 30 | That job was to last for the following eleven years . |