Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In July , McGovern , supported by Campbell Stephen , had openly stated the necessity of such a return if the ILP were to continue as a significant organization . |
| 2 | But just when it seemed that the former were to disappear up a one-club road to exclusive excellence , along came Newport and beat them to mark the first real return on all the investment at Rodney Parade . |
| 3 | If it were to come to a physical fight with Nutty McTavish he doubted if he would win , for she was a formidable thirteen-year-old with a fighting spirit unmatched by any of her male counterparts in the class . |
| 4 | Beneath the outward appearance of self-assurance and scholarly success , deep-seated psychological tensions were being set up in Nizan 's personality , tensions exacerbated by changes in Nizan 's family and educational situation , tensions that were to lead to a personal crisis . |
| 5 | These raised marine deposits focus attention on the problems that might occur if climatic change were to lead to a global rise in sea level . |
| 6 | If the weight of the assessment detail were to lead to an understandable desire for simplification , there is another awful danger awaiting the child . |
| 7 | By the end of 1944 Morgenthau seemed persuaded that the task would be eased if Britain were to serve as a junior partner in pursuit of these objectives . |
| 8 | Its main aims were to press for a new constitution based on a formal state treaty and to slow the moves towards a market economy . |
| 9 | It is precisely this sort of arrangement — ‘ rooms had been taken there because they were to start by an early train on that line in the morning ’ — that leads to a fraught dinner party for Clara Amedroz and the two rivals for her hand at the Great Northern Hotel , King 's Cross , in Anthony Trollope 's The Belton Estate ( 1865 ) . |
| 10 | In Campbell and Palmer v Crest Homes ( Wessex ) Ltd ( 1989 ) unreported , Chancery Division , 13 November , the plaintiff vendors agreed to sell some development land to the defendant purchasers at the price the property might reasonably be expected to fetch on the open market at the relevant date on a sale by a willing vendor to a willing purchaser ; if the parties failed to agree the price within four weeks they were to refer to an independent surveyor to determine the price . |
| 11 | MCC were to reel under a similar onslaught on the matter of South Africa . |
| 12 | If we were to move to an earnings-linked set-up , we should have to make changes accordingly . |
| 13 | Suppose we were to begin with a crude distinction of ‘ social nature ’ and ‘ social culture ’ , in which the latter were conceived in its narrow sense as representation rather than in the broad sense as symbol . |
| 14 | Meanwhile Eddie Stratton was to enthuse about a quick stroll around the centre of Oxford before it got too dark , and an invitation to accompany him was accepted by Mrs Brown , a woman with whom he 'd become friendly on the tour , and who probably felt a little flattered to be asked . |
| 15 | It was n't immediately evident from some camps whether the idea was to continue in a serious vein of rugby competition or subject themselves to the physical demands of the concentrated social calendar . |
| 16 | From these deathly origins Nizan 's life span was to proceed in an anguished spiral . |
| 17 | He was to go to a certain address on a certain day — the following day — at a certain hour . |
| 18 | But it was agreed on all sides , and most importantly by Graham Watson himself , that his instructions were that the fee was to go to a charitable organisation flying relief into Biafra . |
| 19 | So Changez 's new job was to sit on a three-legged stool behind the vegetable section and watch for shop-lifters . |
| 20 | The decision was to retire to a private island and bar , give the mike to Mike Rafter and leave the rest to changing-room adrenalin . |
| 21 | At the heart of most of Krieger 's work lies the foursquare , Lutheran-hymn-like strophic melody as in his earliest known song ( which was to appear in a revised form , ‘ Nun sich der Tag geendet hat ’ , in the Neue Arien ) : |
| 22 | In the last game when we lost two players in the same position the last thing I wanted was to come to a quick decision with my brain still buzzing after a training session . |
| 23 | The Company 's management evidently came to the conclusion that the only effective way to avoid the expense of lifting the rails , was to come to a speedy agreement with the L.C.C . |
| 24 | It was to come from an unexpected quarter : the environmentalists . |
| 25 | What I did n't want was to work for a large organisation . |
| 26 | The Committee 's solution was to persist with a separate offence of infanticide . |
| 27 | These functionally convenient but artificial demarcation lines have made the timetable easier to handle and have provided security for teachers who knew that for a single or double period their task was to concentrate on a specific subject . |
| 28 | Despite an early passion for natural history ( he had used his mother 's linen cupboard as a combined zoo and museum ) his first impulse was to train as a civil engineer , hoping thereby for opportunities to travel . |
| 29 | Foreign assistance was planned to increase by 13 per cent to ECU4,100 million , and research spending was to increase by a similar percentage to ECU2,800 million . |
| 30 | As Winston Churchill was to write on a different occasion , ‘ at first the steps were wide and shallow , covered with a carpet , but in the end the very stones crumbled under their feet . ’ |