Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toraja warriors had to die in their own " Rante " , or village circle , if their souls were successfully to return to the stars . |
| 2 | The next year brought the first indications of the troubles which were eventually to lead to the Goldsmiths ' abandonment of the School a decade later . |
| 3 | Lost to a rich Jewish family who were eventually to die in the concentration camps after Hitler had promised to return the estate to his father for duties performed . |
| 4 | His methods however were mostly to do with the syntax and vocabulary and sounds and had little to do with what the languages meant . |
| 5 | Even if a wife were expressly to agree to sexual intercourse on demand , such a promise would not in English law be contractually binding upon her . |
| 6 | Anyway , six thousand into a standard P E P , now er P E Ps are erm er an instrument which were basically to do with shares , originally and the shares were invested in U K companies , and er the real dividend value of a sh the share , the , the shares have a dividend , and the real value of a P E P is the dividend yield . |
| 7 | Whether they were together to start with or whether they were separate . |
| 8 | During his youth , Barbarossa saw a rapid increase in the number of monasteries , considerable development of learning , scientific and intellectual skills , and the beginning of cathedral schools , which were soon to blossom into universities . |
| 9 | Gaston VII of Béarn thus cast himself in the role of his daughter 's protector against the territorial ambitions of Edward 's seneschal , which were soon to lead to Grilly 's dismissal from his post . |
| 10 | The economic provisions of NEP were soon to act as a slow salve on the material well-being of the peasantry , but even before NEP had begun all political bridges between the centre and a free-thinking periphery had been burnt with the establishment of a one-party system and the elimination of any traces of local independence in the party hierarchy . |
| 11 | The Lerskys were soon to return to Palestine . |
| 12 | However , their fortunes were soon to enter on that switchback which took them first to a golden age , and then through impoverishment to extinction as they became first the beneficiaries of factory-produced yarn , and then the victims of their own expansion in numbers and , ultimately , of the power loom . |
| 13 | But that would seem a trifle if a request for something like $150 billion of western aid were soon to appear on the G7 's table . |
| 14 | Round the corner was Dixon 's Blazes , a blast furnace , and the Workers ' Circle , where dreams of socialist emancipation were debated — dreams which were soon to fade for Glasser . |
| 15 | Legislators and enforcers were largely to blame for not providing a proper frame-work of controls . ’ |
| 16 | These anxieties were shortly to lead to his mental collapse . |
| 17 | His presence was transient , but other ‘ Black Robes ’ were shortly to follow in his footsteps . |
| 18 | In effect , everything flowed to and from the House of Commons : the civil servants were held responsible to the Commons through their ministers ; the Cabinet was collectively responsible to the Commons ; the monarch only acted on the advice of ministers responsible to the Commons ; and the Lords were always to defer to the legislative views of the Commons . |
| 19 | Hundreds of secret programs that had been built up by the CIA over the years , including data sensitive enough to topple the heads of half a dozen European governments if they were ever to fall into the wrong hands . |
| 20 | We tried very hard to underline the importance of these paintings , so that if they were ever to come on the market the government would be conditioned to their importance . |
| 21 | Her problems were more to do with the self confidence which had characterised her from such an early age . |
| 22 | Nationalism , yes , but not narrow : what Burke meant by ‘ the little platoon ’ , and a modern writer in small being beautiful , for the greater the overall unit ( and the Common Market was then looming ) , the greater the necessity for autonomy within that unit , if those being governed were still to feel in touch with those governing . |
| 23 | Looking back , I find one point interesting : the chief actors in the drama , Baldwin and the Duke of Windsor , were both to fall in public esteem , and the reputation of neither seems likely to recover . |
| 24 | The magazine Der Spiegel recently published the results of an opinion poll revealing that 14 per cent of Germans still think Jews were partly to blame for what happened to them in the second world war , 36 per cent believe Jews ‘ have too much influence ’ , and more than 50 per cent believe it is time for Germany to forget the past and move on . |
| 25 | One 's blood ran cold when German politicians , rather than condemning such violence outright , instead found it more expedient to talk of clamping down on immigration — as though immigrants themselves were partly to blame for being beaten up and firebombed . |
| 26 | NEARLY one German in three believes the Nazi era had its good points and that Jews were partly to blame for their own persecution , according to a new poll . |
| 27 | The 1900s were also to see for the first time deaf women beginning to acquire their own identity through achievement by their own talent although not one as yet played any prominent part in deaf organisations which remained the preserve of the deaf male . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , 17th Corps ( General August von Mackensen ) and his 1st Reserve Corps ( General Otto von Below ) were also to withdraw from the Gumbinnen area and march southward to take up station on 20th Corps ' left . |
| 29 | Two other areas of the market were also to succumb to ‘ intervention ’ . |
| 30 | Scientists were unsure however whether they were also to blame for severe fogs reported in parts of Malaysia , Singapore , the Philippines and Thailand . |