Example sentences of "was [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having cost the University of Bristol a lot of money over the previous months , I thought I ought to try to put something back , so I got myself sponsored : part of the money was to go to the Arthritis and Rheumatism Council , and half to the newly-formed Bristol University Arthritis Research Group . |
| 2 | You got so that the first thing you did every day was to go into the kitchen and say good morning to it . |
| 3 | Perhaps the Gaskells behaved like outsiders but the community was there , ready and open to them ; all they had to do was to slip into the place that was offered . |
| 4 | Worse was to come with the news that the gentleman had brought no valet , his usual man having fallen ill . |
| 5 | He was also proud to announce that the Barnes Wallis Collection was to come to the Museum and would make a major exhibition . |
| 6 | Its immediate economic aim was to work for the reduction and eventual elimination of tariffs on most industrial goods among its members . |
| 7 | By the time she was ten years old the nearest she came to having a bath was to stand on the bathmat and sponge herself down . |
| 8 | All the tug could do then was to stand by the tow until the gale abated . |
| 9 | All he could do for the moment was to stand in the doorway and look about him . |
| 10 | Her most popular trick was to jump in the air and land on her stupid head — using my rucksack as a landing pad ! |
| 11 | Richard Walter Jenkins Junior was to dine with the Duke and Duchess of Windsor , yet keep the common touch , be courted by Presidents and praised by the greatest Prime Minister of the century . |
| 12 | An easy evening awaited him ; both he and Daalny were excused all service , for Rémy was to dine with the abbot and the earl , the first fruits of his campaign in search of place and status . |
| 13 | The rest of their food was in the forest , their plan was to feed on the forest as they went . |
| 14 | so , if I was to walk into the place that was selling these |
| 15 | Indeed the ex-editor of Classical Music contacted the publisher to ask why they had reverted to Times as the body copy typeface , he had changed it from Times to ITC Clearface , and was duly surprised to find that the reason was to do with the fact that the title was being produced on a desktop publishing system . |
| 16 | I think a lot of it was to do with the fact that I 'd never driven in the dark before . |
| 17 | What I used to do with a youngster was to knock at the door and his mother would say , ‘ Oh , God , what have you done ? ’ |
| 18 | My own personal statement was to refrain from the practice and to convey my anti feelings in print whenever possible ( see my book Modern Rock and Ice Climbing , chapter 7 — Ethics ) . |
| 19 | It was ridiculous to have let the tank get so low but they had had an argument only three days earlier on whose turn it was to call at the garage and pay for the petrol . |
| 20 | According to the Act , three conditions had to be met if the Board was to pay for the repair and stabilization of the building . |
| 21 | And all he had to do was to stay in the sun and turn up on the lot when a suitable — or unsuitable ( he was used to taking the rough with the smooth ) — script came up . |
| 22 | Murray 's brief was to travel throughout the country and to assess whether it was possible to construct a consensus around Meech Lake which was acceptable to all of the country 's provinces . |