Example sentences of "[conj] were [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was taken for granted that education was beneficial to those who received it , and that its universal provision was one of the great social improvements that were to mark the end of the war . |
| 2 | Its voluntaristic side , influenced as it was by the ideas of G. H. Mead , had more affinity with the analyses of the acquisition of motives , techniques , and so on , that were to characterise the ‘ symbolic interactionist revolution ’ of the 1960s . |
| 3 | In fact , the Germans detonated only one of the British Army 's mines before the massive explosions that were to herald the attack . |
| 4 | Tyson 's past had come back eerily to haunt him — this time not in street violence but in the way Desiree Washington , a competitor in the Miss America Pageant accused him of the crimes that were to see the world heavyweight champion 's status reduced to that of a common criminal . |
| 5 | They were positively received in the parliaments of the six states that were to take the initiative in integration in the following decade . |
| 6 | The latest Microprocessor Report says the cancelled Motorola Inc 68050 , a minor upgrade of the 68040 , fell prey to a resource battle with two next-generation implementations that were to follow the 68050 : the LP040 , a low-cost , low-power re-implementation of the 68040 in 0.5 micron technology due to sample in late 1993 , and ‘ Q ’ , a fully static modular , superscalar , superpipelined part that borrows from the 88110 and will probably come out as the 68060 . |
| 7 | However , some of the problems that were to haunt the postwar aviation industry had already begun to appear . |
| 8 | Thomas Tait in the lead , closely followed by Jack Coia , Basil Spence , T. Waller Marwick , A. D. Bryce , and other members of the team , the architects picked their way through the mud and piles of bricks that were to become the Empire Exhibition . |
| 9 | When South America and Australia broke away to begin their long periods of isolation from the rest of the world , they each carried their own cargo of dinosaurs , and also of the less-prominent animals that were to become the ancestors of modern mammals . |
| 10 | More specifically it was in southern California , Reagan 's home territory , that political issues began to surface that were to play a major part in national politics in the years that followed . |
| 11 | I saw some of the places that were to play an important part in the later dramas of my life : the great Clerecia church where I was to be sitting one momentous morning , and beside it the lovely Casa de las Conchas , its walls decorated with rows of carved scallop shells — seven rows adorn the upper storeys . |
| 12 | While there he received one of the fateful telegrams that were to dot the history of the underground : ‘ Phone Hoppy ’ it said . |
| 13 | The more detailed proposals were forthcoming in 1972 , and were to initiate the consultation process over ‘ partnership in validation ’ . |
| 14 | On the Saturday evening they were having a social and were to watch a striptease . |
| 15 | Essex and Norfolk were obvious and attractive areas for development beyond the more urbanised counties and were to become the main foci of his activity until the outbreak of the war in 1939 and throughout its duration , although not in the way he envisaged in 1936 . |
| 16 | The political and ideological ferment of the interwar period , when the ideological and cultural were fused , created the historical conditions in which intellectuals , writers and artists were no longer distanced from the social process and were to play a significant role in national and international events . |
| 17 | However Crete was invaded the day before the arrival of 800X at Malta , where they were now to remain , attached to 830 Squadron , and were to play the role of night intruders , attacking airfields in Sicily with 20 lb. bombs . |
| 18 | If were to drink a litre of sea water , we would actually lose an extra third of a litre of water from our bodies in trying to get rid of the salt , and also run the risk of severe damage to the kidneys . |
| 19 | Western traders allowed into Japan were to be restricted to foreign settlements and other prescribed areas , but were to have the benefits of extraterritoriality , i.e. they were not to be subject to the laws of Japan , but any misdemeanour or problem ( including those that concerned Japanese ) was to be dealt with by a court presided over by the consul of the country of the national concerned . |