Example sentences of "was [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evidently an ex-LNER man was drafted into the Motive Power Department at Glasgow and his answer to a Pacific shortage at Polmadie was to arrange for the transfer of the engines we had noted , plus 60159 Bonnie Dundee , which appeared shortly after the sightings reported above . |
| 2 | Suppressing the Poles had taken less than a year , but the pacification of Muslims in the mountainous region between the Black Sea and the Caspian was to continue beyond the end of the reign . |
| 3 | In 1910 she returned to London and began her work in biochemistry , which was to continue for the rest of her life . |
| 4 | For three hundred years the persecution of witchcraft was to continue until the advent of our modern scientific world . |
| 5 | The idea was to plan for an increase in Berlin 's population to 1.5 million . |
| 6 | Among their achievements was to agree upon the size of a standard English foot . |
| 7 | His first choice was to remain leader on his own terms , his second to go , and his third , last , and unacceptable one was to cling to the position on the terms of others . |
| 8 | A map issued in November 1933 , showed the trolleybus routes that the Board was to include in a Bill to be put before Parliament . |
| 9 | If democratic unity inside the movement was impossible , the only course was to appeal to the democracy of the borough ( SE 19 January 18 ) . |
| 10 | He was later to become suspicious of Maine 's motives , however , as he was to see in the glorification of contract a subtle justification of the legal institutions of capitalism , and he was to seen in Maine 's insistence on the primacy of the monogamous family an attempt to prove that this institution was beyond historical change . |
| 11 | He said it was to go with the wagon to Ramsey , and we put it in among the logs , well wedged in . |
| 12 | A few days before Michael came home , our daughter-in-law Pippa came to stay for a few days , bringing Emily , who was to go to a boarding-school in Yorkshire . |
| 13 | As he was washing , she told him that he was to go to the market for a pig . |
| 14 | He was barely eighteen , he was to go on a tour of the fabled cities of England ; he was to be thrown in with chorus girls , drink with vagabonds of the stage , have the money for floozies and low bars , time to read and time to talk and be praised for doing this stage work which was not work at all . |
| 15 | And all they wanted it to do was to go around the corner to Marygate for the winter and then we s got the same in the spring to bring it back , but by that time the python was a lot bigger . |
| 16 | It was appropriate warm-up garb , as the Run Barbados Marathon was to go from the point of this historical settlement ( established 1627 ) to Sam Lord 's Castle , built with the profits from a wrecker 's booty . |
| 17 | At the same time they would also wish to distance themselves from the connotations of full employment with which Friedman was to invest to the concept of the natural unemployment rate ( see next section ) . |
| 18 | Sadly their honeymoon was a short one as Killigrew had , so , he sorrowfully informed his new bride , to hasten to Exeter , where he was to sit on the bench in the City 's courts . |
| 19 | The main concern of their administration was to profit from the monopoly over cinnamon , the principal export commodity . |
| 20 | The job , which involved surveying three wells for tubing change-out , was doubly challenging since the only way to reach the plant was to drive along the beach in a four-wheel drive vehicle . |
| 21 | If the Ruritanian tributary was to flow into the country of junior fiction , it could only be in a narrower channel . |
| 22 | Payment of the annuity was continued by the king 's successor , Richard II , whose favour he was to enjoy for the rest of his life . |
| 23 | Showmanship was to remain as the hallmark of the movies . |
| 24 | On the other hand , Peter was responsible for the introduction of a punitive practice which was to remain at the centre of the tsarist criminal code and of the Siberian penal system until well into the twentieth century . |
| 25 | In the coming months and years the question of castles was to remain in the forefront of everyone 's mind . |
| 26 | Educated at Sir George Monoux Grammar School and Sidney Sussex College , Cambridge , he was to remain in the college for the rest of his life . |
| 27 | This was to compensate for the lack of imported fruit and vegetables . |
| 28 | Work on drafting a Directive specific to the mountain areas of the Community had already begun but one of the British government 's objectives during entry negotiations was to provide for a continuation of the special assistance hill and upland farms had hitherto enjoyed in the UK . |
| 29 | Some graves have been found showing that bowls of food were buried with the body — this was to provide for the journey to the Underworld , which many people believed was made by a dead person 's spirit . |
| 30 | The Committee for the Preservation of Morals was to meet at the house of Mrs Murphy , the wife of the Mayor . |