Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zak and Emil arrived together at that point , Emil ready to set the tables for lunch , Zak in theatrical exasperation demanding to know if the actors were to put on the next scene before the meal as originally planned , and if not , when ? |
| 2 | The finances were in the hands of one of our most scrupulous colleagues , but not even her careful accounting could alter the fact that if we were to survive beyond the first month we would need to raise some money . |
| 3 | They were to act as the first stage in settling disputes , and there would be " no stoppage of work until any difference or dispute had been referred to them or if necessary to the District or National Board as circumstances may require " . |
| 4 | This growth was to continue into the 20th century ( Table 3.1 ) . |
| 5 | It was n't only the bride , but the bride 's family she was to meet for the first time . |
| 6 | Andy Murdoch 's fine penalty save from Mark Hateley was a bitter pill for the home support to swallow but worse was to come in the 65th minute . |
| 7 | That was bad enough ; but worse yet was to come in the third stage . |
| 8 | As Sir John Fortescue was to write in the second half of the fifteenth century , ‘ a King 's war is a legal trial by battle [ when ] he seeks the right he can not obtain by peaceful means ’ . |
| 9 | As in 1766 , the crown surrendered its chosen servant to the only forces it was to respect in the nineteenth century — the mob and the army officers . |
| 10 | But at the same time , a reverse movement was taking place which was to accelerate in the last decades of the century — the flight from the city centres to the suburbs . |
| 11 | In this context , the major challenge for Marxism became how to explain Marxism 's ‘ detour ’ from itself , a question on which Sartre 's project was to founder in the second volume of the Critique of Dialectical Reason . |
| 12 | Er because appreciate when you introduce something new that 's costing a lot of money it can grow out of all proportion if you 're not careful and it 's much harder to take it away than it was to introduce in the first place . |
| 13 | Of all the things that sprung out at me on the paper in this report that we could actually do something about was to slot in a fifth round about the five o'clock crunch time and taken them out the market but I |
| 14 | As Christine de Pisan was to show in the first quarter of the century , the use of artillery for defensive purposes was now regarded as necessary and normal . |
| 15 | My first real task was to prepare for the next meeting of the Accidents Investigation Division of ICAO in Montreal . |