Example sentences of "this [was/were] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was to gather under the very roof of Darlington Hall the most influential of the gentlemen whose support had been won with a view to conducting an ‘ unofficial ’ international conference — a conference that would discuss the means by which the harshest terms of the Versailles treaty could be revised . |
| 2 | However he assured her that she could control the pain and all she had to do to achieve this was to look at a certain corner of the ward ceiling and the pain would go . |
| 3 | All this was to change in a few explosive years of expansion in the mid-twelfth century , shortly before Richard 's birth . |
| 4 | Its emphasis on careful measurement and exact analysis of the events mediated by receptors was to be justified by the key role this was to play in the subsequent development of novel drugs for the treatment of , for example , angina and hypertension . |
| 5 | This was to result in an overall increase of fifty beds . |
| 6 | This was to come from a temporary one-year 7.5 per cent income and corporation tax surcharge from July 1 , 1991 , a 25 pfennig tax increase per litre of ordinary grade petrol ( plus similar increases in taxes on diesel , heating oil and gas ) and tax increases on tobacco and insurance premiums . |
| 7 | This was to get across the important difference between a living enemy , which itself is subject to evolutionary change , and an inanimate non-malevolent condition such as the weather , which is subject to change , but not systematic , evolutionary change . |