Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And after Haley came Presley , Little Richard , and Fats Domino , laying a freeway through popular culture that outraged left and right alike , and down which successive generations of youth were to drive for the next three decades . |
| 2 | A hundred years were to pass before the next Roman invasion and this time they came to stay . |
| 3 | But it has also been argued that the basic features of positivism applied to all causal theories of crime , whether biological ( as in the case of the founding fathers ) , psychological or sociological , that were to appear over the next half century or more ( Jeffery , 1960 ; Matza , 1964 ) . |
| 4 | This level of trade was to continue throughout the next fifteen years with the exception of 1927 the year of the general strike when only 2.7 million tons was handled . |
| 5 | Messiaen began composing at the age of seven , entering the Paris Conservatoire four years later where he was to remain for the next 11 years , winning four premiers prix including that for composition in 1930 . |
| 6 | Such was my father 's introduction to Abyssinia where , except for three periods of leave , he was to remain for the next ten years . |
| 7 | Philip of France had sent a force of Brabançons to help his brother-in-law , the opening shot in a campaign which he was to wage for the next thirty years . |
| 8 | In the upheaval that was to come during the next 12 months , only the ECSC seemed to have avoided the scrapheap . |
| 9 | A few observers had already commented on the effectiveness of coaching for tests , a factor which was to lead to the first serious public disquiet over tests as measurement of innate , unalterable and asocial ability — although such comments were not yet thoroughly substantiated . |
| 10 | When it reappeared in December , Index had taken over the printing — and Gutenberg 's technology was to rule for the next 12 years . |
| 11 | By around 1700 grave-clothes changed , probably as a result of the influence of the soft-goods trade in ready-made items , and adopted a form which was to last for the next seventy-five years . |
| 12 | What emerged over the first half of the century was a financial system which , if limited by comparison with what was to develop over the next two centuries , was capable of mobilising substantial funds and of providing most of the essential services needed by a diversifying economy growing both in output and in sophistication . |
| 13 | Broadly speaking the interest of the State in vocational guidance , registration and placement , and after-care , marks the beginning of its concern with wage-earning youth , which was to develop over the next twenty years with the formation of the Juvenile Organizations Committee in 1916 , the various measures to ameliorate juvenile unemployment between the wars , and the inauguration in 1939 of The ‘ Youth Service ’ , each of which was a response to economic and social pressures , and all of which refined and extended the image of youth . |
| 14 | We were told that even if inward migration was to stop for the next ten years , 45,000 new houses would still be needed to cater for the predicted natural growth of 49,000 people , plus the trend towards smaller households . |
| 15 | In September Leslie 's 5th Brigade found itself part of the 4th Indian Division , and it was with this famous fighting force that he was to spend about the next nine months . |
| 16 | Its theme of ‘ the disintegration of African social life ’ pointed to a concept of applied anthropology — ‘ a dynamic science of man in the service of Africa ’ — which Smith was to advocate over the next two decades . |
| 17 | In the light of what was to happen in the next few years , defeat by just 2–0 may be seen as something of a triumph , especially in view of the two traumas that occurred . |