Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] [pron] [noun pl] [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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | I slept badly and had a dream that was to confirm my fears about the ghost . |
| 9 | 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 " . |
| 10 | Not that she was destined to get any practice at such a mega-speed , since Downes , at least for the first half of the interview , was to enunciate his words with the slow deliberation of a stupefied zombie . |
| 11 | Those of the first two Edwards were fought against enemies whose common aim was to rid their countries of the English aggressor , but whose methods of doing so differed . |
| 12 | The committee was to submit its proposals to a 260-member consultative assembly responsible for drafting by the end of the year the new constitution which was expected to be presented for approval in a national referendum . |
| 13 | Sylvia realised it was to fill their bladders for the games to come . |
| 14 | The objective of the study was to determine which aspects of the UK government 's implementation of the Less Favoured Areas Directive are responsible for the agriculture/nature conservation conflict and to recommend changes aimed at retaining a predominantly agricultural land use in the uplands without further loss and degradation of its unique nature conservation interest . |
| 15 | Ian was very upset by his father 's intransigent attitude but he knew what he wanted to do and that was to pursue his studies by every means possible , although by now doubts were beginning to cloud his mind . |
| 16 | There was public and media speculation that the real purpose of the ANC 's letter was to rally its supporters in the townships , and to fend off criticism that it attached more importance to pressing on with constitutional negotiations with the government than to defending its own people . |
| 17 | One of his earliest escapades there was to take his students to the Leaning Tower and drop weights from it , thereby disproving one of Aristotle 's dicta on motion . |
| 18 | The ultimate aim was to return their orangs to the wild . |