Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] [pron] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1338 the northern clergy were to instruct their parishioners about the crucial need for , and inescapable burdens of , defence against the Scots , so that the ‘ pious exhortations ’ of the priests might induce support for a united struggle against the enemies of the realm . |
| 2 | As it was , some 50,000 soldiers were to lose their lives during the next few months in fruitless attacks on Chunuk Bair . |
| 3 | I was too young to remember him , but later at intervals a number of remarkable men , among them Arnold Hodson , Hugh Dodds and Arthur Bentinck , served on my father 's staff and were to remain our friends over the years . |
| 4 | We all met at a pre-luncheon reception and then adjourned to the dining hall to sample the culinary delights which were to space our classes for the next five days ; four classes with dancing after dinner was the order of the day , all meticulously time-tabled . |
| 5 | If the bonnie banks of Scotland were to open their accounts to the world , there would be a run on the pound and some of the country 's most famous clubs would collapse with embarrassment . |
| 6 | Members of the Darlington Association on Disability expressed concern about how members were to reach their headquarters at the Friends ' Meeting House in Skinnergate . |
| 7 | In the minds of those who gave positive thought to it , the Commonwealth was to be an organization to which no one who was unwilling need apply , and in which those who had joined were to reach their decisions on the basis of consensus : the goal to be pursued was an uncoerced acknowledgement of Britain as the senior partner in a world-wide enterprise ; the position to be sought was the supremely equivocal but potentially supreme satisfying one of primus inter pares . |
| 8 | The only words they exchanged during the engagements were to discuss which side of the car they were going to step out of . |
| 9 | If only Mr Brooke were to stick his head above the parapet he would soon realise that fact . |
| 10 | Following his nature , and before his sixteenth birthday , Edward Thomas had somehow combined a love of nature and of literature , twin aspects of realized contemplation that were to characterize his life as a writer of prose and verse . |
| 11 | In the early years of the fifth century the Roman province of Belgica , west of the Rhine frontier , was invaded by the Germanic-speaking Franks , the people who were to give their name to the country in which they settled . |
| 12 | But since humans are communicators by nature , a special distance-making language was essential if the mandarins were to maintain their power over the peasants . |
| 13 | Very few of those who were initially hostile to Eugénie were to change their opinion in the next 18 years , and in the case of some , only death ended an enduring aversion to the Empress . |
| 14 | We were to spend our honeymoon in a rather dingy hotel at Glenfarg in Perthshire . |
| 15 | The clay tile and its descendant , the plastic pipe , were to take their place alongside the plough and the axe as among the major agents in the settlement of England . |
| 16 | They were to owe their appointment to the trade union 's and the owner 's representatives on the board ; and , if they could not agree , to the binding decision of an independent commission . |
| 17 | His research work at the university 's petroleum warfare department led indirectly to him joining Esso , and within weeks he was faced with one of the many challenges that were to punctuate his rise to the top of the industry . |
| 18 | Both characteristics were to distinguish his rule over the next forty years . |
| 19 | The foresters of fee were to bring their rolls before the Council , and were ‘ to be there in person , to propound the King 's claim ’ . |
| 20 | But there will , of course , be no chance of that happening unless Britain were to show its enthusiasm for the project from the outset . ’ |
| 21 | Their lot was to nuzzle their way across the sea bottom , sucking up mud and refuse through their simple circular mouths , filtering out the edible particles and expelling the rest through the slits on either side of their throats . |
| 22 | The intention was to continue his career in the USA , and he was shipped to California , where , trained by Tommy Woodcock , his first target was the Agua Caliente Handicap , originally billed as the world 's richest horse race and run just over the Mexican border in Tanforan , out of reach of California 's restrictive betting legislation . |
| 23 | I slept badly and had a dream that was to confirm my fears about the ghost . |
| 24 | The nineteenth century was to see its status as the language of diplomacy grow still further as it became even more a symbol of some underlying European unity which , however vague , was genuinely felt to exist by most of those who decided the continent 's destinies . |
| 25 | In September 1692 he produced a Whiggish Jacobite tract in which he rehearsed all the traditional charges against William ( adding to the list the recent massacre at Glencoe ) , and argued that " If it was to preserve our Liberties from the insults of King James , we placed the Prince upon the Throne , we have certainly either mistaken the Disease or the Cure " . |
| 26 | In spite of the predatory aunt , Shamley Green was to remain his home until the end of the war : he would engage in his ordinary business in London , and continue with his own writing in Surrey . |
| 27 | The planning movement of the 1930s was to find its apotheosis in the conduct of the war and the plans for post-war reconstruction in almost every field from social security to new town development . |
| 28 | he played once more before the Lord 's show-piece and was called six times for throwing in the Hampshire match , but the selectors decided to risk him again in the second Test , where he was to meet his fate at the most famous ground in cricket . |
| 29 | In Harrogate I was to meet my editor for a pep talk . |
| 30 | Methodism had clearly not yet achieved the success that was to come its way during the nineteenth century . |