Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The two were in Ralph 's team and were never to split up . |
| 32 | World War II had a disastrous effect and tonnages were never to rise again to the levels of earlier years . |
| 33 | The second , uncompleted part of Bouvard et Pécuchet was to consist mainly of ‘ La Copie ’ , an enormous dossier of oddities , idiocies and self-condemning quotations , which the two clerks were solemnly to copy out for their own edification , and which Flaubert would reproduce with a more sardonic intent . |
| 34 | For most of the period from 1912 to 1945 Rhee lived in the United States where he was eventually to build up support from American friends , who assisted in financing his activities . |
| 35 | A second operational factor was eventually to prove even more critical for nuclear economics . |
| 36 | I 'd quite like a rest now , and I would if there was somewhere to lie down , but I do n't want to get dirty . |
| 37 | I hoped there was somewhere to sit down , it was nearly half-past eleven and I was worn out and hot and sticky with all this wandering . |
| 38 | But this was all to come later . |
| 39 | One said : ‘ It might not be a bad idea if it was all to come out . |
| 40 | She hoped then that perhaps it was all to end here — that the act would be something separate . |
| 41 | Of course , that does not always happen because the judge is entitled to draw a reasonable inference from the evidence that one party was entirely to blame even though he can not decide on the basis of the evidence exactly how an accident happened . |
| 42 | I had read enough to know that the way the Bristol Cancer Help Centre promulgated was a considerable challenge , although how hard a challenge I was only to appreciate later . |
| 43 | When , not long before his execution , he passed comment on the mass-murder of the Nazi camps , it was only to point out that there were problems in supply and control during the last days of the Third Reich . |
| 44 | The political centre suffered a series of heart attacks from 1905 onwards , of which the body of society as a whole was only to become fully aware after 1928 . |
| 45 | She was soon to give up her own acting career — which she never took seriously — to — spoil him ? |
| 46 | I never thought I was soon to see just how miserable the peoples of the earth can make life for themselves . |
| 47 | I was soon to take up my first teaching post in a Secondary School and he had called to ask if I were able to make use of a potter 's wheel which he could provide for the new Art room . |
| 48 | The leader of this band was that dashing Earl of Bothwell who had shown signs of becoming Mary 's latest favourite , and who was soon to show even higher ambitions . |
| 49 | Then , with perfect timing , another element entered my life that was soon to prove so important . |
| 50 | Once again a single victory had given the English king the illusion of conquest in Scotland , but , like his grandfather Edward I , he was soon to discover how little support there really was in Scotland for his settlement . |
| 51 | I was soon to find out . |
| 52 | He was soon to find out . |
| 53 | Having never seen a swing bridge before I wondered how the boats were going to get under it but I was soon to find out . |
| 54 | Charles was soon to find out what Lothar 's words were worth . |
| 55 | The infant was at once created Prince of Wales , to indicate that in Jacobite eyes he was the real heir to the throne of England , and the Young Pretender was soon to become universally known as Bonnie Prince Charlie . |
| 56 | If this list of opponents to the film makes impressive reading , then it was soon to become even more so . |
| 57 | This is a feature of Cubist painting that was soon to become very apparent . |
| 58 | It was this implied indictment that was soon to bring so much wrath down on his head . |
| 59 | ‘ The Ancient Mariner ’ was finally to reach more than twice that length , but even in its early form had clearly developed beyond its original purpose as a magazine ballad . |
| 60 | Like a number of other mission or Church papers then and since , Pwani na Bara leavened its religious content with a generous amount of secular news ( its first edition contained articles on the Kaiser 's birthday , the Nyamwezi Chief Mirambo and zeppelins ) but the missionary press was nevertheless to remain very small . |