Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The war was all but over , although bitter fighting was to rumble on in the islands for many decades . |
| 2 | The only other alternative was to go back to the cottage , as well he 'd known . |
| 3 | As for the rest of NATO , the cause of world peace , not to say sanity , would be served if these countries were to look back to the decision of 1979 and to admit , even to themselves , that they were wrong . |
| 4 | But the siege was to drag on into the summer of 1098 before the fortress finally capitulated and Rodrigo was able to enter in triumph and order Mass to be sung in one of the main squares . |
| 5 | As a youngster in the 1950s my greatest delight was to run on to the pitch at Murrayfield after the full-time whistle , pat my heroes on the back and not wash my hands for a week , much to the disgust of my mother . |
| 6 | The plan was to go down to the south coast and camp . |
| 7 | Lisa 's instant reaction was to back out of the door again . |
| 8 | Charlie 's only reaction was to stare out of the window because he was n't quite sure what else to do . |
| 9 | His favourite relaxation was to toddle down to the quay and join the Royal Navy patrol boat for a day out . |
| 10 | His job was to go out into the bush to take samples and he found it the most unspoilt area on Earth he has ever been to , areas the size of Wales in which no white man has ever set foot . |
| 11 | Coleman 's job was to get out on the streets and talk to people , to come back with a feel for what the bombing had achieved . |
| 12 | The fastest way to talk to Grosvenor Square was to get back to the third floor . |
| 13 | Her first move was to go round to the various teachers who taught the senior class and borrow from them a number of text-books , books on algebra , geometry , French , English Literature and the like . |
| 14 | Mr. Gow : While recognising the undoubted right of all members of the General Synod to deeply held views for or against the policies of the present Government , would it be helpful if my right Hon. Friend were to point out to the General Synod that its reputation would be enhanced if its members , when in Synod , devoted more time to matters spiritual than to matter political ? |
| 15 | The government 's response to mounting criticism was to crack down on the principal advocates of reform . |
| 16 | The Fiction was his last attempt at personal writing in 1914 before he decided , by whatever hidden processes , that the best solution to his apparent obsession with introspection and self-analysis was to cross over into the world of poetry , with its quite different but equally stringent laws and regulations . |
| 17 | eh , the same number on four lines , but if were want to go out four people were to phone in at the one time |
| 18 | In terms of short-term economic measures , the main thrust of government policy was to drain off from the economy excess money which was fuelling inflation , contributing to constant shortages and frustrating efforts at economic control . |
| 19 | The way in which that topic was to explode on to the stage in the twentieth century is anticipated in the frontal attack launched on Hegel 's system by the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard . |
| 20 | Three weeks later , on the day I became Prime Minister , my first impulse was to sit down in the study which had been Harold 's and write him a letter of appreciation and grateful thanks . |
| 21 | His first priority was to climb on to the rim of the sink and peer through the upper left-hand corner of the kitchen window . |
| 22 | ‘ One piece of advice was to think back on the big innings I have played and think about the positive parts of those innings — picking out the pieces I really enjoyed . |
| 23 | But uncle was to creep down in the night and abuse the little girl he was giving shelter to . |
| 24 | As he saw it , the job of the Church was to get on with the task of proclaiming the gospel and ministering the sacraments . |
| 25 | If one of these groups were to go over to the other side — as the army did in Romania — the balance of forces would be altered . |
| 26 | Naval vessels were also contributed by Belgium and Italy ( which both on Aug. 21 confirmed that minesweepers sent initially to the eastern Mediterranean were to proceed on to the Gulf ) ; Greece announced on Aug. 20 that a frigate would join the naval forces in the Gulf , and Spain made a similar announcement the following day . |
| 27 | If Englishmen in America were to push on to the west , it was fairly predictable that there would be clashes with the thinly scattered Indian population , and it was quite certain that if they went far enough either west or north they would meet the French . |
| 28 | Our mission was to take back from the Boche those few miles of battered ground that we 'd bought with half a million lives in those Battles of the Somme , two years before . |
| 29 | Her great ability was to get through to the outcasts of society — the drunks , the crazed , the depressed . |
| 30 | WAC 's most elaborate ruse to date was to turn up at the Republican convention in Houston and install batch after batch of 20-by-60-foot high feminist slogans ( designed by Anderson , Kruger et al ) which greeted Bush 's nearest and dearest as they exited from the convention . |