Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [pron] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her two sons had watched the scene from a distance and were soon to report it to the authorities . |
| 2 | But he was already leading her to the stairs . |
| 3 | She was always demanding something to the extent that she completely upset the ward routine and had the nursing staff , much as they tried to sympathize with her , at the end of their tethers . |
| 4 | Anne tried to get up , pulling on a coat , but Nina was still pinning her to the floor . |
| 5 | Great though improvements in European agriculture had been and were to be , it was industry which gave Europe world leadership , as it was later to give it to the United States . |
| 6 | It was an example that , in rather different circumstances , was later to commend itself to the Capetians . |
| 7 | On the other hand , while Franco was selling strategic minerals to Hitler , he was also selling them to the Allies , precisely because he did not want Spain to become the economic satellite of Germany . |
| 8 | Richard , Agnes 's younger son , was to find the Justice of the Forests south of Trent twelve ‘ free and law-worthy men ’ who would guarantee that he would well and faithfully keep the said bailiwick on Agnes 's behalf : the Forest Justice was then to admit him to the custody in Agnes 's place . |
| 9 | The first type was silently saying something to the second type . |