Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | as smokers but coming on to th the real point of the experiment was n't to look at fitness , and was n't just to set up a stop smoking project , but what I wanted to look at was whether people gain weight or not . |
| 2 | Emancipation was not to arrive without conflict and growing recognition of that truth stimulated a more radical strain in antislavery which took the form of the demand for immediate emancipation . |
| 3 | An increased ceiling was also to apply in respect of rebates for the community charge ( poll tax ) which was being introduced in England and Wales from April 1 , 1990 , to replace domestic rates [ see below ] . |
| 4 | He had a new studio , a real home was about to swing into life , and , most wonderful of all , he had a studio with a cradle and a baby 's pot in it . |
| 5 | In England the custom was still to rely on pew rents and on subscriptions being paid directly to the chapel . |
| 6 | Friends , he would have said , agree because they already agree , not because they persuade one another , and the achievement of the group was less to instruct in virtue or in doctrine than to reassure themselves , and others , that religion and modern literature can live together , and that there were those on earth — a previous few — of sympathetic piety and like mind . |
| 7 | The Guidelines issued by SCOTVEC to panel members explained that the main purpose of a validation event was not to scrutinise in detail the documentation but rather to use the information provided to enable an informed discussion about the proposal to take place . |
| 8 | The new king was then to appoint as bishop his old friend , the priest Riculf , whose namesake was to become archdeacon : Leudast was to become a dux . |
| 9 | Her father was about to leave for work , by the time she had showered and dressed . |
| 10 | The officers of the Hei-Ho were all Japanese ; their role was mainly to operate as labour battalions . |
| 11 | As Derrida ( 1978b , p. 234 ) noted , Artaudian theatre was not to refer to life or represent life but instead to be life . |
| 12 | I looked at the paper , and realised that a new comedy show was about to start on Channel 4 . |