Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , my Lord Mayor , Labour were not to know in the early eighties how popular the Tenants Right to Buy would be . |
| 2 | Such a strategy would have to be very carefully designed , however , if it were not to result in a huge explosion of word hypotheses . |
| 3 | They were not to learn of the German reaction for some nine months , when the commandos again visited the Lofoten Islands , but the world heard for the first time of British commandos that night in German broadcasts : ‘ Light naval forces destroyed several fishing boats and landed commandos in the Norwegian skerries where they took prisoner some Germans and Norwegians . ’ |
| 4 | The economic provisions of NEP were soon to act as a slow salve on the material well-being of the peasantry , but even before NEP had begun all political bridges between the centre and a free-thinking periphery had been burnt with the establishment of a one-party system and the elimination of any traces of local independence in the party hierarchy . |
| 5 | In effect , everything flowed to and from the House of Commons : the civil servants were held responsible to the Commons through their ministers ; the Cabinet was collectively responsible to the Commons ; the monarch only acted on the advice of ministers responsible to the Commons ; and the Lords were always to defer to the legislative views of the Commons . |
| 6 | Hundreds of secret programs that had been built up by the CIA over the years , including data sensitive enough to topple the heads of half a dozen European governments if they were ever to fall into the wrong hands . |
| 7 | The 1900s were also to see for the first time deaf women beginning to acquire their own identity through achievement by their own talent although not one as yet played any prominent part in deaf organisations which remained the preserve of the deaf male . |
| 8 | He had been dreaming that he and his friend Aidan Lynch were on Death Row in some American prison and they were about to die in the electric chair . |
| 9 | The were about to select from the sweet trolley when , at a nod from his mother , the proprietor dimmed the houselights and a young waitress brought in a surprise birthday cake , the reflection from the candles throwing her face into warm relief . |
| 10 | The beginning of the decade saw storm clouds gathering over Europe with displays of militarism and aggressiveness which were ultimately to lead to the Great War of 1914–18 when millions of soldiers died in the mud-filled trenches of Flanders and experienced other horrors such as Gallipoli . |
| 11 | But outside the Nazi Movement , the objective function of the ‘ Führer myth ’ was rather to integrate into the Third Reich , through association with the far more popular and attractive aspects of Nazi rule symbolized by Hitler , the mass of ‘ ordinary ’ and ‘ non-organized ’ Germans for whom the ‘ Jewish Question ’ retained only a relatively low level of importance . |
| 12 | On 19 December 1946 the leader of the indigenous forces in Vietnam , Ho Chi Minh , initiated the rising against French colonial occupation , which was eventually to lead to the bloodiest and politically most crucial local war this century . |
| 13 | But his response was merely to press for a greater supply of British goods to those colonies to reduce their sterling balances . |
| 14 | This was all to change on a pleasant spring day in 1947 . |
| 15 | The illusion was only to precipitate into a historical fact — the proletariat 's birth and growth — history 's total meaning , to believe that history itself organized its own recovery , that the proletariat 's power would be its own suppression , the negation of the negation . |
| 16 | Due recognition was soon to come to the industrious doctor : in 1716 George I created him a baronet , an honour as yet conferred on only one other physician . |
| 17 | Waugh might have agreed even with the complaint about surface faults , which he was shortly to concede in a new preface and expunge by revision . |
| 18 | The grammar school boy did n't have Neville 's sophistication , Greer 's polemic talents , or Widgery 's politics , but he had a grasp of the new generation picking up the paper , and , as he was conclusively to demonstrate in the 1970s , he had a great talent for making money , a loyalty to his friends — and talent for paying bills , eventually . |
| 19 | The ‘ Golden Age ’ of English agriculture was over ; after the 1860s it entered a period of decline from which it was not to recover until the Second World War . |
| 20 | Almost the only significance of Trotskyism in the 1930s was that a tenuous tradition was established which was not to materialize as a significant political influence until the 1960s . |
| 21 | Kim Il Sung was not to emerge as a major personality until after 1945 . |
| 22 | It was clear that the lines were drawn and that the two countries would have to compromise or find allies if the conference was not to degenerate into a complete fiasco . |
| 23 | This was a figure of actual spending that a department was not to overshoot in the coming year whatever happened to prices or the wages and salaries of its employees in the interim . |
| 24 | This would give him eighteen months ' salary as compensation for loss of office , and his pension was not to begin until the eighteen month period had elapsed . |
| 25 | Her true instinct was always to work behind the usual social frameworks : family , connections , position , conventions , those established forms that can be used like weapons when they are mastered . |
| 26 | ‘ Her true instinct was always to work behind the usual social frameworks : family , connections , position , conventions , those established forms that can be used like weapons when they are mastered . |
| 27 | This unexpected success was more to do with the low turn-out of bondholders at the meeting rather than any change of attitude . |
| 28 | Disraeli was later to talk of the Two Nations , the Rich and the Poor , who could exist side by side in the same country with no knowledge of each other 's way of life . |
| 29 | Young was later to go through an Engels-like change of heart , though it was clear that he was sceptical from the start ( see his contribution to Taylor , Walton and Young , 1975 ) . |
| 30 | A bill to oblige developers to include a proportion of low-income housing in any application to build office blocks or housing complexes was also to go before the National Assembly in April . |