Example sentences of "[pron] was [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ First , may I say how glad I was to see the honourable gentleman in the Government lobby last night , ’ Lang said . |
| 2 | But if I was to ask the same question throughout industry today the answer would be very different . |
| 3 | He himself would put the fear of God into the professors of Königsberg and Breslau ; I was to do the same thing in Danzig . |
| 4 | It was the perfect moment to arrive in the city where I was to spend the next year . |
| 5 | When I got home , a week later , wobbling about on crutches , I was to confront the grinding realities of being involved in a car crash . |
| 6 | I was to travel the seventeen kilometres to Parma every day in a tram which was hauled by a steam engine . |
| 7 | Paralleling the Commission was the Council of Ministers , the organ of the national governments , which was to carry the main burden of coordinating policies . |
| 8 | The fortunes of the Trelawney family , which was to include the famed bishop , and the Bullers , to include Sir Redvers Buller of Boer War fame , stemmed largely from the downfall of the Winslade family , long holders of the manor of Tregarrick . |
| 9 | Further changes were requested , one of which was to include the Scottish Crown in the four corners of the carpet , reflecting the one used on the ceiling of the Throne Room . |
| 10 | They see the war as an unequal contest between a 30-nation coalition and a lone Arab country , the purpose of which was to destroy the only Arab state capable of standing up to Israel . |
| 11 | It formed the basis for the development of plant-level bargaining in the big factories , which was to characterize the Italian economy throughout the seventies . |
| 12 | From the mid-'70s to the mid-'80s it was increasing inequality which was to dominate the changing geography of manufacturing , and indeed of employment more generally . |
| 13 | By the 1840s the Bank of Prussia — which was to become the central bank for the expanding joint-stock and credit banking system — had been established with capital of over 11 million thalers . |
| 14 | The legislation which was to become the Criminal Justice Act 1967 , a long statute of 106 Sections and seven schedules , was the most comprehensive since the 1948 Act . |
| 15 | At Wood 's request , he also substantially revised the RIC manual , first issued in 1866 , and produced his own The Irish Constable 's Guide , which was to become the Irish policeman 's Bible . |
| 16 | For Adam Smith in 1776 , laying down the philosophical system which was to become the ideological underpinning of the market economy , they were the greatest obstruction placed on the movement of labour for they affected even common labour , while the regulations of guilds and corporations restricted the movement only of artisans . |
| 17 | Presumably that is why Philip chose precisely that moment to raise again the spectre which was to haunt the Old King 's last years . |
| 18 | The marriage , and the recruitment and endowment of the two Rhinelanders , had the same purpose : Charles wanted to strengthen his general position in the part of Francia which was to constitute the northeastern sector of his kingdom . |
| 19 | By now he was of an age to make his own decisions , the first of which was to marry the English girl to whom he had been engaged for two years . |
| 20 | He followed this with his first official act , which was to reduce the annual salary of the president from $225,000 to $175,000 . |
| 21 | However , it was to be the Elsden 's second import which was to have the most effect on the breed . |
| 22 | Though the right wing had lost much of its political leverage in the Cortes , their opposition found voice in growing street violence and eventually a military uprising which was to start the civil war . |
| 23 | That year the twenty-five-year-old Cocteau was working on the book of Parade , Diaghilev 's controversial new ballet which was to express the new spirit in the arts , with music by Satie and Cubist costumes and sets by Picasso . |
| 24 | Arrese got together a study-group of hard-line Falangists , whose mission was to draft four documents : a new version of the Party Statutes , which had last been revised seventeen years earlier , in August 1939 ; a law of the Fundamental Principles of the State , which was to encapsulate the basic tenets of Francoism ; a law of the Movement , which was to give legal form to the distinction between " the Party " , FET y de las JONS , as a clearly delimited group of political activists , and " the Movement " , which encompassed all those who actively or passively subscribed to the values which inspired Francoism ; and an Organizational Law of the Government , which was to lay down ground-rules for the legislative and executive powers of the government . |
| 25 | France was an ally of the US and it was as such that she was to receive the greater part of the half a billion dollars in military assistance for the Far East which had been appropriated by Congress . |
| 26 | Although there were six central government departments concerned in one way or another with inner cities , the Prime Minister made it plain that she was to spearhead the inner city campaign and in 1987 , to demonstrate the seriousness of the government 's intent , a cabinet committee on the inner cities was established with Mrs Thatcher as its chairperson . |
| 27 | She was n't going to let Miguel know how anxious she was to choose the right thing to wear — fashionable yet not forward , pretty but not overdressed . |
| 28 | It seemed just possible that we might meet in Menton , where she went as judge for the Katherine Mansfield Prize — an inappropriate meeting-place , for we both greatly disliked ‘ K.M. ’ She was to inspire the admirable story ‘ Sisters ’ in Elizabeth 's next collection — the story of a cosy , bourgeoise , widowed ex-mayoress in a provincial town being embarrassed by questions about her famous , disreputable sister . |
| 29 | Her name would probably appear in the newspaper twice within two days , since she was to deliver the main report to the Morals Committee ; and that should really impress both friends and enemies . |
| 30 | She was to have the same dream intermittently for the rest of her life . |