Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In September , Marshall admitted that the CEGB was partly to blame for acidification of Scandinavia . |
| 2 | He was happily surprised to find that the cottage did indeed live up to Coleridge 's estimate of it , possessing ‘ every thing that heart could desire ’ , including a small flower garden and a climbing rose which Coleridge was soon to commemorate in verse . |
| 3 | Alice Cox was later to swear on oath that , for the three years she had known Laura , she was only visited by one man other than Charles . |
| 4 | Iran was also to co-operate on oil exploration and refining with Turkmenistan , whose offshore oil extraction in the Caspian sea was suffering disruption because of shortages of hitherto centrally supplied materials . |
| 5 | While this exchange was going on , Rodrigo had allowed certain of his men to desert to the other side , taking with them the story that El Cid was about to escape by night through one of the passes . |
| 6 | Sadly this was not the case , and Ashley was later to die at home in South Africa . |
| 7 | Chris was about to go into action . |