Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [to-vb] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the coming months and years the question of castles was to remain in the forefront of everyone 's mind . |
| 2 | Somewhat ironically , given the role bankers were to play in the conspiracy theory , she was the daughter of a director of Barclay 's Bank . |
| 3 | Throughout the 1970s all of these elements were to feature in the Council 's attempts to find the appropriate balances under its Charter , and to handle the increasingly complex range of subjects and institutions . |
| 4 | Only the highest or the most favoured guests were to live in the tent city , and so , inevitably , the fighting between socialites to ensure places there was fierce . |
| 5 | Morel 's even-handed appeal to ‘ artisans ’ and ‘ industrialists , quickly gave way to the belief that ‘ if any radical changes were to come in the system of intercourse between states … the driving force must come from the organisations of labour . ’ |
| 6 | Instead both firms were to compete in the market against one another and against foreign competition . |
| 7 | If you knew what the lecturer controlling your studies was to do in the way of arranging these in a particular order , you could make a skeleton in linear form , one heading following another and falling into a hierarchy of importance . |
| 8 | In the example given , if prices were to fall in the discount market , and the yield rise , then the process of arbitrage would ensure new rates in the parallel market , should market participants not immediately adjust prices ( which in fact they will ) . |
| 9 | The older children were to sit in the back half of the hall which was filled with rows of chairs . |