Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of this period the political groupings which were to carry out the great changes of the next century in Britain , though very far from having assumed their late-Victorian form , were slowly evolving . |
| 2 | Then came the two incidents that were to echo down the long ages of Elf history and set the stage for the great dramas that were to follow . |
| 3 | This time we were to follow up the three months with a twelve-week season at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven , Connecticut . |
| 4 | It was the random collisions melding the rocky substances , plus turbulent accretions , that were to make up the inner planets . |
| 5 | His intention was to pick up the 18,000 troops assembled in the area behind Quiberon known as the Morbihan and transport them to Scotland , as the first stage of the great invasion plan . |
| 6 | One of the fields had been ploughed and our job was to weed out the wiry roots and tufts of grass that the wooden ploughshare had failed to dislodge so that the field could be smoothed out ready for flooding . |
| 7 | Reich thought that a third possibility was to live out the genital impulses with a partner , and that this was the healthiest outcome , for then people functioned well in work and social life as well as being physically healthier . |
| 8 | Under an agreement signed by Gqozo and South African Foreign Minister Roelof " Pik " Botha , the South African government was to take over the key ministries of economic affairs , finance and justice and a fourth ministry concerned with agriculture , public works and transport . |
| 9 | Having cowed the trade unions , we can see that the next step was to take on the local authorities and the poor . |
| 10 | He had a sneaking suspicion Philpott had members of staff whose sole function was to dig up the personal indiscretions of those people who could be beneficial to UNACO , then use them as a form of blackmail to get what he wanted . |