Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | They were eventually to settle more or less permanently in a pleasant apartment in the Kastanienallee — ‘ Chestnut Avenue ’ . |
| 2 | ’ The provision of the men who were eventually to take over responsibility for the management of an enterprise was regarded as a matter of making sure that enough young men entered business at the foot of the ladder , ’ wrote Falk of the old days . |
| 3 | The Hungarians and Belgians broke away from the Italians and the two British crews dropped back and were being closely tailed by Folkesson/Skoldbek at Chertsey although the Swedish crew were only to get as far as Shepperton before blowing up . |
| 4 | According to the survey , if 22 000 electronics engineers were suddenly to appear overnight , they would all get jobs in British industry . |
| 5 | Theudebert and Theuderic , however , were soon to fall out , largely , according to Fredegar , at the instigation of their grandmother Brunhild . |
| 6 | Let me see , there would be Mary and Ellen , two older daughters who were soon to move away , and then Neddy , Sidney , George , Dick , Sepp , and eventually Geoffrey . |
| 7 | Despite its imperfections , which were soon to become well ventilated by the circumstances of individual cases coming before the courts , there were two outcomes which could not be ignored . |
| 8 | They were soon to become very much worse . |
| 9 | Yet , as it happened , he was registering well above par that evening , for three of the four ideas he had formulated were finally to prove wholly correct . |
| 10 | I could see , moreover , that if I were quickly to go outside and conceal my person behind the large rhododendron bush beside the path , it would not be long before Mr Cardinal came by . |
| 11 | As Charles II 's reign progressed , they were gradually to give up their earlier hopes of remodelling the established church into a closer conformity to European Protestantism , and to lend their support instead to the nonconformist struggle for the right to worship outside its boundaries . |
| 12 | This was the last walking holiday the two brothers were ever to take together . |
| 13 | Dara had handled her with humiliating ease , and no doubt could continue to do so if their paths were ever to cross again . |
| 14 | If Harry were ever to know how she felt , he would never again be able to show the same natural affection , albeit of a brotherly nature , which was all she had of his heart . |
| 15 | No-one of my generation set out to be a war correspondent , at least not in Europe , because we supposed that previous generations had disposed of all that and that war in Europe , if it were ever to occur again , would be the kind of war that would leave no-one alive to write about it . |
| 16 | Rain saw they were still to go on pretending Foucard and Denis understood no English . |
| 17 | The last three West Indian wickets were also to fall cheaply , but before that the batsmen had done rather better ; Greenidge and Haynes posted another century partnership and Lloyd and Gomes both reached the nineties . |
| 18 | Greene told the inquiry , which was spread over three races , that his instructions were also to sit in behind and monitor Vaguely Artistic . |
| 19 | The ‘ great windy parlour ’ at the front of the building was soon to become for Coleridge a place in which he felt more at home than in his own tiny cottage , and it was there that he and Poole were later to spend long sociable hours with the Wordsworths , Charles Lamb , Hazlitt and others . |
| 20 | The poor , as Catholic conservatives were later to point out , were disinherited by liberal legislation . |
| 21 | Both men were later to look back on their partnership with great affection , and their views on organisation ( culled from the trade union and civil service worlds ) coincided remarkably . |
| 22 | When new and still unorthodox , Hess 's concept fired the imaginations of a number of the earth scientists who were later to get together on Cyprus . |
| 23 | Although the Greeks were later to picture both Zeus and Poseidon wielding a double-axe representing a thunderbolt , the weapon was earlier held only by Rhea . |
| 24 | His robot companions were now to operate well away from him across a fairly large room and at key moments in the drama when there was an anticipatory silence from everyone else , he found he had the personal ‘ power ’ , and with some verbal style ( and a high degree of repressed excitement as he discovered he could be publicly effective ) he presented himself as an efficient robot controller . |
| 25 | ‘ I thought we were here to learn not to criticize , ’ she said sternly . |
| 26 | She almost wished Oliver were there to see how it should be done . |
| 27 | The substance of building surveying has not changed appreciably over the years and while certain aspects of the more academic subjects of economics and law have been latterly introduced , they were there to prop up the whole discipline rather than to provide invaluable information . |
| 28 | There was an orchestra playing during the meal and any fears that they were there to drown out any potential marital disputes were soon dispelled . |
| 29 | If all the seats were taken , then my only options were either to go outside , or kneel , as though in prayer . |
| 30 | As the frontiers of empire contracted over the next half-century , the dispossessed loyalists were either to leave home and livelihood for the safety of the mother country or else endeavour to seek pardon and accommodation with their new masters . |