Example sentences of "[noun pl] was [to-vb] [prep] 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 | Another one of his tricks was to lurk behind the counter at the Turk 's Head so customers would think there was no one there , and then , when they were thinking of leaving or helping themselves to the jam doughnuts , he 'd leap on to a wooden box to bring his large dome head just above the level of the counter and say , ‘ Can I help you ? ’ in a very loud voice . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The race was successfully held the following day , but with no major success for the British team and indeed that state of affairs was to continue at the world cups before Christmas , at Val d'Isere and Val Gardena , with the exception of my brother Graham 's reasonable 32nd place at Val d'Isere , just two seconds down on the winner . |
| 5 | One way of raising loans was to go to the market , paying interest at the high rates then demanded . |
| 6 | In the battle to save West Sedgemoor and the Derwent Ings in the 1970s and 1980s , the large number of small landowners was to militate against the efficiency with which large-scale drainage schemes could be organized . |
| 7 | The Committee for the Preservation of Morals was to meet at the house of Mrs Murphy , the wife of the Mayor . |
| 8 | Among their achievements was to agree upon the size of a standard English foot . |
| 9 | Such an unwieldy force consisting of some 200 men was to travel to the target area in 40 jeeps accompanied by another 40 3-ton lorries carrying supplies . |
| 10 | The solution adopted in both cases was to look to the transaction the parties to which typically carried on business in different States and to ignore the transaction which in the typical case was domestic . |
| 11 | One of America 's first reactions was to talk of the need the Gulf states would have for ‘ additional security ’ . |