Example sentences of "[was/were] to take [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything about this little scene related to the Ocean with which I had become so enraptured : if ever the peoples of the Pacific were to take over the running of the world , I fancied , it would start with people such as these , using such things in a place like this . |
| 2 | As vesting day , 1 April 1948 , approached , the shape of the organisations which were to take over the industry , and the men who were going to lead them at national and regional level were known . |
| 3 | This transformation provided the skeleton for the Christianity which was to take over the Germanic world , to mould it and modify it in turn . |
| 4 | Nixon 's strategy , in other words , was to take over the bureaucracy while , at the same time , he would take on the congress . |
| 5 | He was made justiciar and chamberlain of both north and south Wales and was to take over the offices of constable and steward of royal lands in Wales as they fell vacant . |
| 6 | Kuntze was to take over the company 's chairmanship from Jurgen Hippenstiel-Imhausen , who resigned in March and who on May 10 became the first person to be arrested over the affair . |
| 7 | Under an agreement signed by Gqozo and South African Foreign Minister Roelof " Pik " Botha , the South African government was to take over the key ministries of economic affairs , finance and justice and a fourth ministry concerned with agriculture , public works and transport . |
| 8 | He was made justiciar and chamberlain of both north and south Wales and was to take over the offices of constable and steward of royal lands in Wales as they fell vacant . |
| 9 | For an annual sum of £100 he was to take on the care , culture and management of the Garden for a term of seven years from Michaelmas , to keep in repair the stove , greenhouse and other buildings and utensils contained in them , to make a catalogue of the plants and , an additional commercial perquisite , to be allowed to sell surplus fruit and plants for his own benefit . |
| 10 | Having cowed the trade unions , we can see that the next step was to take on the local authorities and the poor . |
| 11 | All this achieved was to take on the even more serious problems of behaviourism itself . |
| 12 | It was from these regions that Catalan industry was to draw its cheap labour , while the wild valleys of the Pyrenees were an enclosed world with a tradition of brigandage and family feuds ; here Carlism was to take on the violence and cruelty of the local society . |
| 13 | If anyone was to take on the role of the state police it would be the Metropolitan Police Force who have got experts and if say something happened in Manchester like an I R A bombers left some bombs in Manchester , experts from the Metropolitan Police would go to Manchester to help out , they 're what 's known as the Anti-Terrorist Squad |
| 14 | One of the biggest was to take on the identity of a businessman and travel behind the Iron Curtain . |
| 15 | You see , under the old law when a married man without a family his brother was to take on the widow and raise up a family in the name and in the memory of his brother . |
| 16 | In the midst of these , in 1926 , there arrived in India the man who was to take up the challenge Gandhi had thrown down to the Englishman 's belief in his god-given aptitude for rule — the sixteenth viceroy , Lord Irwin . |
| 17 | On July 12 , he named as Matthei 's successor Gen. Ramón Vega , who was to take up the post on July 31 . |