Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] [vb pp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well if he were to have complained about the church bells he would have had my sympathy , but I I think he 's got my sympathy anyway . |
| 2 | When government stock issues had been taken up predominantly by the triad , there had been little need for anything much in the way of a " market " ; but the change in the structure of debt ownership led inevitably to the emergence of broking and jobbing practices which were to become institutionalised into the Stock Exchange . |
| 3 | In the wake of the battle , things were very dangerous for Peden and his supporters ; the Dragoons had become even more ruthless and what were to become known as The Killing Times had begun . |
| 4 | Teachers and their pupils commented on the initial drafts of the tests which were then revised in preparation for wider scale trials in schools which were to become associated with the project in its second phase from September 1984 . |
| 5 | Indeed General de Gaulle , the French leader after 1958 , insisted that the policy must be introduced if France was to remain committed to the Community . |
| 6 | An army spokesman announced on Jan. 3 that the military had foiled a further coup plot , supposedly hatched jointly by the rightist Reform the Armed Forces Movement ( RAM ) and the leftist New People 's Army ( NPA ) , which was to have opened with the bombing of the Basa air base in Pampanga . |
| 7 | Well now , in the forest , besides the old man and his grandsons , there lived a tribe of goblins , hairy little creatures known as vookodlaks , whose greatest wish it was to get rid of the sun and live in darkness . |
| 8 | They remind me a little of Georges Bataille 's pre-war secret cult , Acephale , whose goal was to get rid of the head — starting with the moral guardian in one 's own head , the super-ego , then moving on to all the other ‘ heads ’ ( the father , the State , the Law , God ) . |
| 9 | I remind the Minister that , when the National Bus Company subsidiaries were sold off to the private sector , the first thing that the private company did in many instances was to get rid of the management because of its dissatisfaction with it . |
| 10 | The whole point of those reforms was to get rid of the food mountains . |
| 11 | No , it was to get rid of the Health Service . |
| 12 | Even ‘ getting away from it all ’ was to become absorbed into the logic of the third stage in the development of Braverman 's universal market , in which : ‘ a product cycle ’ invents new products and services , some of which become indispensable as the conditions of modern life change to destroy alternatives ’ . |
| 13 | It was because of this close association with the butchers and cattle drovers , that the Rottweiler was to become known as the metzgerhunt , or butcher 's dog . |