Example sentences of "[noun] was [adv] to have " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Home Secretary announced the additional numbers for police forces throughout England and Wales , I was shocked to find that Gwent merited only one extra officer and was astounded to find that the South Wales police force was not to have a single extra officer , especially as the chief constable has undertaken a major review to ensure the best use of available manpower , a process which must continue . |
| 2 | From childhood onwards he was a dedicated if uncritical student of Irish language and literature : his view of Ireland past , present , and future was always to have mystical overtones . |
| 3 | The research programme was thus to have a broad base to provide broadly applicable results . |
| 4 | Hornby on the occasion rebuked Brixton for not looking properly at the CNAA 's regulations — and the College was subsequently to have its proposals approved . |
| 5 | In the Baigneuse the far side of the figure is pulled round into the picture plane so that the body becomes unnaturally broad ; and the pentimenti show that the figure was originally to have been even squatter and broader . |
| 6 | For Malta however an event of much lesser magnitude was soon to have an effect infinitely greater on the immediate concern of the defenders . |
| 7 | When one prisoner who had been there six months found his wife was about to have a baby , he was taken by the turnkey to the room of a shabby man dressed in a torn and darned rough-weather sea jacket who had once been a surgeon on a passenger ship but was now ‘ a ghastly medical scarecrow ’ , Dr Haggage . |
| 8 | A BANNED driver took a chance and used a van to rush to hospital when he heard his wife was about to have twins . |
| 9 | His father was later to have another son by a second marriage . |
| 10 | Plainly , Sybil was about to have her horizons widened . |
| 11 | The volume was originally to have been illustrated by Stanfield ; after his withdrawal from fear of anti-Catholic bias in the book , Samuel Palmer was commissioned , and provided 4 vignettes engraved on wood . |
| 12 | All this her friend Florence Ames was now to have . |
| 13 | MI6 's mistake was not to have a convincing cover story ready as soon as Crabb failed to return . |
| 14 | I could not believe that I 'd been so stupid , or that such a simple mistake was about to have such dire consequences . |
| 15 | Vidor was always to have a special affection for this film but later film historians have had many reservations . |
| 16 | Victory over the disintegrating Manchu dynasty was perhaps to have been expected ; victory over Imperial Russia was quite sensational . |
| 17 | Paine 's successor was originally to have been Mr. W.H. Hardie , who had joined the staff in 1934 . |
| 18 | Her only comfort was not to have Miss Beard in her room , to be able to suffer in solitude . |
| 19 | Scientists have been warning for at least 30 years that humankind 's pollution of the atmosphere was about to have serious effect . |
| 20 | A Scottish woman whose son was about to have an operation had a dream the night before it was due . |