Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women and children were to report at the school in the morning to make arrangements for the care and education of the evacuees . |
| 2 | Sadly their honeymoon was a short one as Killigrew had , so , he sorrowfully informed his new bride , to hasten to Exeter , where he was to sit on the bench in the City 's courts . |
| 3 | The job , which involved surveying three wells for tubing change-out , was doubly challenging since the only way to reach the plant was to drive along the beach in a four-wheel drive vehicle . |
| 4 | She had been so certain she 'd known all there was to know about the man in her arms — but she had n't . |
| 5 | And now Vincent could realise another of his dreams , which was to draw from the nude in heated premises . |
| 6 | My very first act — since one has to begin somewhere — was to decide upon the form in which I would report to you . |
| 7 | The project , therefore , was to return to the enlightenment in the wake of fascism , to excise the forms of instrumental rationality that had produced this self-defeating and , ironically , irrational dialectical structure of domination , and to redefine reason and the forms of identity thinking that had defined the individual simply as an indistinguishable element in the collective . |
| 8 | Headhunters were also more likely to offer a dynamic rather than a static solution , Gozzard suggested : they would be looking for what was to happen to the company in the future , not just today , and the role of the successful candidate in effecting change . |
| 9 | In instances where the corpse was to travel to the grave in just a winding-sheet , either palled on the bier or via the parish coffin , one does wonder whether there was an unwritten code that the sheet chosen be one of the best from the linen cupboard , or if the sheet upon which the person died sufficed . |
| 10 | When 26-year-old Tim Haller , from Horncastle , Lincs , bought a double-decker bus in 1988 , his great ambition was to travel around the world in it . |
| 11 | If the condition of the rural clergy was as bad as the book claimed , who was to speak for the government in the provinces ? |