Example sentences of "was [to-vb] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lily Firth , Lily Greene the actress , née Lily Greenwood of Leeds , was to holiday not in the South of France or Austria or Switzerland , but in deepest , darkest , furthest Rumania … |
| 2 | The sides were set , and national positions determined , in a debate that was to continue well into the future . |
| 3 | She was barely aware of other tourists as the sound of their feet rang out on the cobbled streets , and over the following hours Fabia was deep in everything there was to see apart from the castle and the National Gallery with its collection of old and new European art . |
| 4 | ‘ Mouse ’ was to go on to a succession of schools — at all of which he was unhappy — and to Oxford , where he was run over by a train under circumstances which strongly suggested suicide . |
| 5 | ‘ His advice was to go immediately to a Casualty unit at a local hospital . |
| 6 | With the collapse of the Maudling negotiations , Britain 's next act was to go ahead with the formation of a European Free Trade Association ( EFTA ) , along with Austria , Denmark , Norway , Portugal , Sweden and Switzerland . |
| 7 | If Maud and Enid thought she was mad and would n't help her , then no one would and the only course of action was to go ahead with the kidnapping plan . |
| 8 | The very first week we ever tried it ( just after the sports hall had been built ) , the instruction was to go straight to the sports hall when the bell rang for the start of school . |
| 9 | Brian , alone of us all , knew how difficult it was to go through with a hunger strike . |
| 10 | She decided that her best hope was to go up to the belvedere and see if she could find any indication at all that someone else had been involved in Gebrec 's death . |
| 11 | The biggest crime of all was to go round to the front of house or into the street in ‘ full slap ’ , as stage make-up was called . |
| 12 | The plan was to go down to the south coast and camp . |
| 13 | He was to go down to the Supersight factory for some practice with Harley and was then to go with him to a couple of the Continental tournaments . ’ |
| 14 | The only other alternative was to go back to the cottage , as well he 'd known . |
| 15 | His job was to go out into the bush to take samples and he found it the most unspoilt area on Earth he has ever been to , areas the size of Wales in which no white man has ever set foot . |
| 16 | And one of the reporters came out and er he asked me he 's heard that our decision was to go out for a strike you see . |
| 17 | One of the things he was NEVER NEVER allowed to do , the most exciting of them all , was to go out through the garden gate all by himself and explore the world beyond . |
| 18 | During more than 20 years in the food machinery business , I was a frequent traveller to the USA , and one of the fringe benefits for me was to go along to the tool department of the local Sears Roebuck store . |
| 19 | The only way to deal with him was to fall back on the technique that had always served her best . |
| 20 | Three weeks later , on the day I became Prime Minister , my first impulse was to sit down in the study which had been Harold 's and write him a letter of appreciation and grateful thanks . |
| 21 | Her initial action on reaching her room , however , was to sit down by the telephone and to try and concentrate her attention on what she should do now . |
| 22 | In terms of short-term economic measures , the main thrust of government policy was to drain off from the economy excess money which was fuelling inflation , contributing to constant shortages and frustrating efforts at economic control . |
| 23 | He wrote her a brief note merely saying he had had to go home owing to illness and had found , on his return , that he was to report forthwith to the War Office . |
| 24 | It was frightening , how easy it was to slip back into the past . |
| 25 | But uncle was to creep down in the night and abuse the little girl he was giving shelter to . |
| 26 | The contribution was to come jointly from the employee , the employer and the state . |
| 27 | I used to get a pretty good idea of what was to come just from the way they shook hands with a grown-up . |
| 28 | His brief was to come up with a recipe for a high-growth food with cost ( within reason ) no object . |
| 29 | The late arrival had necessitated her getting out of bed and throwing on a voluminous dressing-robe in order to prepare suitable accommodation — on a night such as this , moreover , when all a body wanted was to curl up under the quilt and hide from the horrors outside . |
| 30 | The situation was to deteriorate further in the space of an hour when first Bernhard Langer and then Seve Ballesteros lost out to Chip Beck and Paul Azinger respectively . |