Example sentences of "was [prep] [be] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henceforth it was to be seen from time to time on route 16/18 . |
| 2 | The President of the self-proclaimed " Republic of Kosovo " , Ibrahim Rugova [ for election see p. 38919 ] , held talks in Geneva with Owen and Vance on Sept. 16 , during which he reiterated his fundamental position that Kosovo was to be treated as part of the former Yugoslavia , and not as a province of Serbia . |
| 3 | Japan 's money policy had to tighten sharply , if the yen were not to collapse and if inflation was to be kept under control . |
| 4 | Iceland 's commissioner Gudmundur Eriksson stated that he would advise his government against continuing membership of the organization ; the Norwegian position was to be kept under review . |
| 5 | Accordingly , policies were re-written and strategies revised , firstly , to reflect the changes needed if Labour was to be kept at bay , and , secondly , to accommodate the non-Labour supporters of the old Liberal Party within the modern Conservative party . |
| 6 | And all thanks I got was to be sacked at end of summer — though only for a few months , that is , 'cos of the revolution . |
| 7 | On Jan. 16 , the central government informed the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir , Farooq Abdullah — whose National Congress ( Farooq ) party was allied to the formerly ruling Congress ( I ) — that Gen. ( retd ) K. V. Krishna Rao was to be replaced as state Governor . |
| 8 | Two years after Gundovald 's death , it was discovered that the dux Rauching was plotting with the followers of Chlothar II to assassinate Childebert ; he was then to take control of Theudebert , the king 's elder son , and of Champagne ; two other men , Ursio and Berthefred , were to seize Theuderic and the rest of Childebert 's kingdom ; Brunhild was to be ousted from power . |
| 9 | The money was to be invested at interest within two years of Whitbread 's death . |
| 10 | They were bought , along with other items of equipment , for a new tourist line which was to be constructed on part of the former 4ft.0ins. gauge Padarm Railway . |
| 11 | Reaffirmed their decision of 3rd November that the decision on this issue should be left to a free vote , preferably on the Report stage of the Bill in the House of Commons ; and agreed that Ministers who dissented from the advice which was to be tendered in accordance with Conclusion above should be free , if they so desired , to vote for the abolition of the death penalty , though they should refrain from expressing in debate views contrary to that advice ; … |
| 12 | The opening of the congress coincided with reports that Henri Emmanuelli , the president of the National Assembly ( lower house of parliament ) since January 1992 [ see p. 38736 ] and PS treasurer from July 1988 to January 1992 , was to be indicted on corruption charges . |
| 13 | Witty , ambitious and idealistic , his ambition was to be elected to Parliament , his dream to become Prime Minister . |
| 14 | In view of the strength of the case against Copernicus , it might well be asked just what there was to be said in favour of the Copernican theory in 1543 . |
| 15 | During the seven-year period 1642 to 1649 , parliament also designated the last Wednesday of each month as a solemn day of ‘ fasting and humiliation ’ , which was to be observed by abstinence from food and drink and attendance at a day-long round of religious exercises aimed at producing both personal and national reformation . |
| 16 | For example , market attractiveness was to be captured by factors such as long-run and short-run growth rates and the stage of the product life-cycle , whereas competitive strength was to be assessed by market share ( both absolute and relative ) relative product quality and breadth of product line , relative costs , and so on ( for more details see McNamee , 1985 ) . |
| 17 | Some heads of department involved other staff in producing their self-appraisal reports , either through discussing what was to be written at department meetings and/or asking members of the department to write parts of it . |
| 18 | These were now reduced to 56 million , of which only 22 million was to be cut from unemployment benefits . |
| 19 | The reform programme was to be presented for approval to the party 's third congress , due in July 1990 . |
| 20 | These latter worked on route 7 to Uxbridge and a few weeks before that route was to be converted to trolleybus operation , they were each fitted out with plough carriers and the necessary switch gear for conduit operation , so that they could make their own way under power to whichever depôt they were sent . |
| 21 | As the paper was to be printed on contract presses with pages faxed across electronically , its editorial offices could in theory be based anywhere . |
| 22 | It was announced on Jan. 18 , 1990 , that the Iowa , together with its sister ship the New Jersey , was to be withdrawn from service after repairs had been completed [ see also p. 37178 ] . |
| 23 | Although the early ‘ fire ’ of the Red Clydesiders lost much of its impetus in Westminster as the years went by , it was Maxton 's fellow social crusader David Kirkwood who was responsible for the announcement by Neville Chamberlain , then dealing with bits of paper as Chancellor of the Exchequer , that work was to be resumed on hull 534 in Clydebank . |
| 24 | It was clear that if the gravitational theory was to be applied in practice to planetary motion , the programme would need to develop from this idealized model to more realistic ones . |
| 25 | One former teacher , Virginia Doyle who was to be discovered in retirement in Sherwood Forest , Toronto , remembered him as a clowning , cunning boy who was good enough to get high marks without apparently doing a lick of work . |
| 26 | In February 1991 he had moved from Palermo to Rome in order to become director-general of penal affairs in the Justice Ministry , and it had been widely expected that he might head a new judicial body which was to be created as part of a fresh anti-Mafia drive . |
| 27 | Greater reliance was to be placed on market forces in the determination of interest rates , although the Bank would still aim to keep " very short term " interest rates within an unpublished " band " . |
| 28 | This was to be achieved through fascination with base material ( excrement , big toes , freaks , anything that highminded principles and good taste decreed lowly ) ; through an obsessional interest in ritual and religiosity , a pagan celebration of the moment rather than investment in a scheme of forward planning and providence , a pagan worship of the icon-in-all-its-materiality rather than of the Essence . |
| 29 | In Andalusia little was to be gained by resistance at a time when French power looked invincibly stable : the intellectuals of Seville went over en bloc and acceptance of the inevitable became active collaboration in those groups where hatred of Godoy 's ‘ tyranny ’ had been combined with a qualified admiration for the French Revolution and enthusiastic regalism . |
| 30 | A paper was to be prepared for publication with the particulars of treatment and the results . |