Example sentences of "[was/were] to set [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The restriction was upheld by the Privy Council which rejected the argument that Deacons were only entitled to protect such part of their goodwill as would be threatened by Bridge if he were to set up in practice on his own account , ie that part of the firm 's goodwill as attached to the particular department in which he had worked . |
| 2 | ‘ I had little hope of re-employment , and so it seemed to me that the only thing to do was to set up in business , ’ he explains . |
| 3 | He was to set out with the three French patrols , drive the hundred-odd miles to the Gabes Gap and pass through it as quickly as possible to create confusion in the enemy rear areas . |
| 4 | After my four days Ken was to set off on his own curtailed family holiday . |
| 5 | A MOTHER has condemned thieves who stole the wheels off the family car just before her cancer victim daughter was to set off for a hospital check up . |